He “was a permanent fixture of the London art world for five decades, though permanence was hardly the most distinctive attribute of so peripatetic a character, whose diverse career encompassed teaching, writing, publishing and dealing, as well as the directorship of one of the capital’s leading public galleries [Whitechapel].”
Tag: 12.21.09
Faculty Rebellion At Cincinnati Conservatory
“Douglas Knehans, dean of the University of Cincinnati’s acclaimed College-Conservatory of Music, is under fire from the college’s professors to the point that he could be replaced.” A letter from faculty to the university’s provost says, “No dean can function without the trust and respect of his faculty, and Douglas Knehans has neither.”
Kristin Scott Thomas Gets ‘Really Worried About Things’
“I think it’s my stage of life, isn’t it? Is it middle age? I’m just worried about people. I have a kind of Rolodex of worries. ‘Which one shall we have today?’ It’s my nature. But then I worry about that too. It upsets me. … That’s something that I’ve had to really fight with, is not being able to trust people, because they keep dying,”
As Fresno Museum Ails, Exhibitor Pulls Chagall Show
“Officials at the [Fresno Metropolitan Museum] have said financial problems could force the museum to close as early as next month, prompting the exhibitor of ‘Marc Chagall: The Early Etchings’ to unexpectedly pull the show Sunday.” The exhibitor “said the Met still owes him nearly $10,000 … and he was worried that the artwork would be locked up in a failed museum.”
Campaign To Save Vancouver’s Oldest Theatre Abandoned
“The Pantages Theatre Arts Society (PTAS) has officially pulled the plug on its fight to preserve and restore the theatre. … The group says their decision is the result of the city’s failure to approve a restoration plan by developer and owner Marc Williams, with whom they had been working.”
Why Our Siblings Drive Us Crazy At The Holidays (And Other Times)
“It seems like such a trivial reason for murder. When God belittled Cain’s gift to him of produce from his own garden, then praised his brother Abel for offering a sheep, Cain snapped. But as you get ready to gather with your family and unwrap presents, the Bible’s first homicide starts to make sense.” Among evolutionary behaviorists studying the complicated sibling dynamic, the “prevailing theory is that it all comes down to math.”
‘Nerd’ And ‘Geek’: Words Too Harmful To Use?
“David Anderegg, a professor of psychology at Bennington College, says that merely mentioning terms like nerd or geek serves to perpetuate the stereotype. The words are damaging, much like racial epithets, he says, and should be avoided.” Never mind that he’s the author of “Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them.”
Arts Squatters To Landlords: We Make Properties Safer
A cultural organization called the Oubliette pays no rent on its home, a Mayfair mansion, which the group entered “on Sunday 6 December without the permission or knowledge of the owners. … But they are not squatting, they say.” And they have a goal: “To persuade the rich to lend their empty properties to the Oubliette to use for exhibitions, concerts and plays.”
Warhol Foundation Funds Watts Towers House-Rehab Bid
The $125,000 grant “creates the unlikely, face-to-face juxtaposition of Andy Warhol … with Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant artisan whose single-handed creation of the hundred-foot-high, ornately sculpted and decorated Watts Towers over more than 30 years established him as one of art history’s ultimate do-it-yourselfers.”
Signature’s Gehry-Designed Home Looks Closer To Reality
“The Signature Theater Company is to announce on Tuesday that it has raised $41 million of the $60 million goal for its new theater on West 42nd Street, designed by Frank Gehry and developed by the Related Companies.”