What is the role of disability arts in the nation’s cultural life?
Tag: 12.11.07
Why Amazon’s Kindle Is So Lacking
The Kindle is a “$400 handheld ebook reader that Amazon shipped recently, to vast, ringing indifference. The device is cute enough – in a clumsy, overpriced, generation-one kind of way – but the early adopter community recoiled in horror at the terms of service and anti-copying technology that infected it.”
Jeff Koons In Versailles
“The 52-year-old Koons, the world’s priciest living artist, will exhibit 12 to 15 works that may include “Split-Rocker,” which is owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault.”
NBC Refunds Ad Money After Dismal Ratings
“Fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels, the first time a network has taken such a step in years, media buyers said.”
Irish Artists Disappointed With New Arts Budget
The Irish Arts Council has been given a 3% increase in its annual grant, bringing its state funding for next year to €82 million – a real-terms cut and well short of the €100 million it had been seeking.
London Street Artist Arrested And Beaten
“Arrested and charged with criminal damage in front of a crowd of horrified tourists, he ended up being punched and dragged across a police cell. The story illustrates what little space is left for spontaneity, or even the gentlest subversion, on our streets.”
A Dance Explanation For Mike Huckabee’s Rise In The Polls
The presidential candidate “moves” well. He has “the subtle body language that conveys warmth, strength, energy, whatever it is that makes people think they like and trust you.” Or so two university professors who study movement believe.
DC’s National Gallery Looking To Expand
“The NGA has engaged in talks to acquire the Federal Trade Commission building, which is located directly across Constitution Avenue from the NGA’s John Russell Pope-designed West Building.”
Basel Miami Fair Ends With Boost In Attendance
Some 43,000 people attended. “The 200 galleries from 30 countries were selected from 850 applicants — the most the fair has received since it launched in December 2002. Art works by more than 2,000 artists were exhibited for sale inside the Convention Center and in shipping containers retrofitted for gallery space in Collins Park.”
Sydney Dance Company Reinvents
“It’s been an unimaginable year for SDC: dire financial troubles, plummeting morale, changes at the top, then the shocking death in August of its young artistic director-designate, Tanja Liedtke.” But a new season promises to erase the memories of all that…