Architect Inigo Jones’s design for the Cockpit Theatre would be used for the playhouse and education centre on the site of an Elizabethan-era theatre – England’s only freestanding, purpose-built playhouse outside London at the time – in the Merseyside town of Prescot.
Tag: 12.14.15
It’s Good To Be Confused – Sometimes
“One possibility is that confusion is not itself beneficial, but rather a marker that an important cognitive process has taken place: The learner has appreciated some inconsistency or deficit in her prior beliefs. But another possibility is that confusion is itself a step toward learning – an experience that motivates the learner to reconcile an inconsistency or remedy some deficit”
How Peggy Guggenheim Reinvented The Visual Art World
“At a time when the international art world could fit in a teacup and resistance to contemporary art for sale was unimaginable by today’s orgiastic standards, the works alone weren’t enough to haul in an audience. What did was her flair for the absurd and show(wo)manship in a courageous, radical effort to make art more accessible. In doing so, she creatively destroyed the nascent gallery world before it could even stand on its feet.”
Has Pop Music’s Love Affair With Selling Music Through Social Media Fizzled?
“The process of buying followers and spambots were the first signs that something was deeply wrong with relying on social media.”
If Critics Want Non-Profits To Act More Like Business, Then…
“The frustrating reality is that we are judged as businesses without given the rights and resources to fully operate as businesses. If funders and donors and society want us to be like businesses, then fine, but we also need the following…”
Here Are 10 Lies – Is Each Of Them Justifiable?
Gerald Dworkin: “I am not arguing for the view that lying is morally neutral. I accept the fact that there ought to be a strong presumption in favor of honesty. But it is a presumption that not only can be, but ought to be, overridden in many more cases than we assume.”
The Famous Actress Who (Unwittingly) Supplied The Nonsense Words In A Great Children’s Book
“When you are 8, one of the best parts of reading The BFG has to be the delightfully nonsensical words peppered throughout the story. The reader learns that one must not gobblefunk with words, for example, and how a few gollops of frobscottle is really all you need to feel hopscotchy again if you’ve been feeling sad. But the origin story behind the giant’s odd vocabulary is more serious and a little sadder than you might expect.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.14.15
Art Spaces as Places for Community Engagement
Over the course of our time together in the National Arts Strategies, Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture, a key point that emerged again and again was the disconnect between arts organizations and the wider, urgent questions being asked across society. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-13
A Q&A on the Beauty Class with Students from the SAIC
Recently, I received an email from a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, preparing for a seminar on Arts Organizations in Society. She asked if I would be willing to Skype into the seminar to answer a few questions about the beauty class … read more
AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-12-14
What To Put On the Wall, Along With the Art
The perennially quotidian but important issue of museum labels has cropped up into several conversations I’ve had lately. That put me, for the most part, in mind of some quotes from an artist, none other than that conceptual artist and sometime prankster John Baldessari. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-12-13
A New Christmas Classic?
New Christmas songs of quality are rare. Musician, composer, producer and lead sheet maven Don Sickler suggests that he has found one. The song began life with a title that hardly suggested Christmas. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-12-13
Sotheby’s to Cut Some 80 Positions; Charles Moffett, Its Former Executive VP, Dies
In an amendment filed today to its Nov. 13 8-K filing with the SEC, financially challenged Sotheby’s revealed that its planned staff buyouts will result in a net headcount reduction of about 80 staffers. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-12-14
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Pandora Is Nervously Awaiting A Federal Ruling On Webcasting Royalties
“On-demand services like Spotify, which let people choose exactly which songs to hear, must negotiate directly with the music industry to license the music they play. But Internet radio companies like Pandora — which let people listen to ‘stations’ tailored to their tastes, but do not let them pick specific songs — often use a statutory licensing system under federal copyright law, with rates set by the copyright board.”
The Woman Who Helped Nureyev Defect Speaks About It After 50 Years
“‘I said to him, ‘You see these two men, French police, you have to go to them,’ ‘ says Ms Saint in a program to be aired by the BBC. ‘It’s like in a ballet. He jumped. The French policemen took him, and then there was a fight between one of the policemen and one of the bodyguards. The French policeman said to the Russian: ‘Don’t touch me’, screaming ‘Vous etes en France ici.’ ‘”