“You also have to ask yourself as an artist, ‘What would be more appealing … to have made the Mona Lisa painting itself or have made the merchandising possibilities – putting a postcard on everyone’s walls all over the world? Both are brilliant, but in a way I would probably prefer the postcards – just to get my art out there.”
Tag: 12.10.11
Those We E-Mail The Most, We Know The Least: Study
“Email has also profoundly influenced the kinds of people we interact with. … [We] exchange the highest volume of email with those people we know the least. Perhaps it’s a new colleague, or a friend of a friend, or a total stranger writing out of the blue: Email makes these exchanges possible.”
Watch Those Sponsors, Or Watch Your Artists Defect
In the wake of two poets withdrawing from the T.S. Eliot prize thanks to what they considered a skeezy corporate sponsor, Observer books editor William Skidelsky and novelist Geoff Dyer debate the value of ideals to the starving (or perhaps not particularly prosperous) artist.
At Last, A (Small, Weak) Ray Of Light For Nonprofit Theatre
Things may be looking up, at least a little, at least for some nonprofit theatres, finds the Theatre Communications Group – at least if one doesn’t look too hard at the cash flow problem.
What We Lost When Movies Turned To The Talkies
“Silent cinema is much more than film without words. … At its best, it has more in common with attending a séance than going to the multiplex.”
Comic Books Love Tibet! (And The Rubin Shows Us How Much)
The number of “characters from the comic world who have been in Tibet is really quite surprising; there’s Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Lara Croft, Dr. Strange, Bugs Bunny.” A new show at New York’s Rubin Museum explores the trend.
Making The Cityscape Colorful, One Whimsy At A Time
Where did yarn-bombing come from? Magda Sayeg knows. And her work has gone from guerrilla to corporate – complete with wrapping a Prius, not quite Christo and Jeanne-Claude style, in yarn.
Nosedive In Entertainment Spending
The talk of woe in the arts – as in, where’s all the discretionary spending going, anyway – has numbers to back it up: spending on all entertainment has dropped 7 percent since 2009.