“In terms of the narratives found in its art, it is easy to see how the city fails to grab much attention. With its tiny apartments and relatively stable economic environment, creative statements by Hong Kong artists tend to be more intimate, more personal and intrinsically different from those of the mainland, where the scale is vast and the problems are huge.”
Tag: 12.18.07
How Do You Refresh Support For The Arts?
“When 200 out of England’s 990 publicly funded arts organisations lose their public funding, the natural reflex is to cry foul.The real question is how best the Arts Council’s portfolio of support for the arts can be bravely refreshed, as it should be, without inflicting unacceptably arbitrary or destructive decisions on organisations or communities.”
Winning Ratings With Quality Journalism
A small public radio station in Sacramento has soared in the ratings by offering quality journalism. “Right now in radio, (an NPR affiliate) is the only place where you have the freedom and ability to do great journalism, to really stretch yourself as a radio journalist. That’s not a slam against people in commercial radio, it’s just the environment that’s there.”
Inside The Picasso Lawsuit
“The lawsuit is many things to many people: a footnote to the Picasso story, a historic art-world spat, and the latest example of museums joining forces to win legal confirmation that they own disputed works. But because of the vast research performed by the museums to establish the provenance of the paintings, it is also a privileged and ornately detailed glimpse into the lives of an aristocratic Prussian-Jewish family at the moment of its demise.”