“In the late eighties and the early nineties, theatre was almost the only form of entertainment. But with the coming of DSTV, cheap music festivals and TV soaps, theatre’s audience has been cut almost half way. ‘You cannot put a new production when the turn up is poor, it is costly’.”
Tag: 12.13.07
GGlobes: Cable Dominates This Year’s Best TV
The lesson of this year’s Golden Globe nominations? Cable TV has beetter shows. Broadcast networks scored only one-third of the 60 television nominations announced Thursday.
Artist Brings India’s Poop To London
“An artist is inviting Londoners to come face-to-face with the wretched labor of one of India’s lowest castes — by filling an art gallery with 21 big blocks of human excrement.”
Just Because You Can eBay A Painting, Should You?
“In our post-everything world, collectors at the highest financial reaches of contemporary art are alleged to buy from digital images sent them, without seeing the actual artworks.” But really, can you buy real art without actually looking at it in person?
US Book Sales Up For Fourth Consecutive Month
Bookstore sales increased for the fourth consecutive month in October, rising 8.0%, to $1.10 billion.
Damien Hirst Gives Four Iconic Works To Tate Museum
Damien Hirst, the “second-most- expensive living artist at auction”, has given London’s Tate museum four of his trademark artworks, including pickled cows and a canvas of dead flies.
Since When Did Famous Writers’ Archives Get So Valuable?
“Well-known writers everywhere must chortle at the modern willingness to fork out for their assorted scribbles. Only in recent times have authors managed to extract such huge sums in their lifetimes.”
Is Today’s Interactivity Leading To Rowdy Theatre Audiences?
“Kids actively participate in our society and our culture to a previously unprecedented degree, whether as critics, artists and video producers on their blogs and Bebo pages, or as casting directors voting for Lee Mead on Any Dream Will Do.”
Matthew Collings: Just How Should An Art Critic Behave?
“How should an art critic talk on TV? What is striking about the press response so far to the series (which looks at art as a barometer of changing social values) is the concern with my way of expressing myself. It is too ordinary. The reviewers are baffled that I am not more bizarre, as if it’s difficult to tell if something significant is being said if you say it so it can be understood.”
Artist Louis Leroy
“Louis LeRoy, executive director of the Yuma Fine Arts Association since 2002, died early Monday morning at Yuma Regional Medical Center, ending the career of a man whose life and love were entwined in art.”