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Tag: 12.22.11
Lacoste Art Prize Canceled After Censorship Controversy
A Swiss art prize worth 25,000 euros (£21,000) has been cancelled amid controversy the organisers censored one of the nominees. Jerusalem-born artist Larissa Sansour claims she was taken off the shortlist for being “too pro-Palestinian”.
The Timelessness Of Paris’ Shakespeare & Co.
“Like much of contemporary Paris, Shakespeare and Co is something of a heritage industry, cheerfully selling an idea of itself to customers eager for a glimpse into the past.”
Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, Becoming A Presenter, Appoints Artistic Director
“No longer merely the fusty home of antiques shows, the armory has recently unveiled art installations, staged dramas, presented operas and concerts and served as an outpost of the Whitney Biennial. Now it has … [named] its first artistic director, Alex Poots, who runs the Manchester International Festival in England.”
Rita Dove Comes Out Swinging At Helen Vendler Review
“The amount of vitriol in Helen Vendler’s review betrays an agenda beyond aesthetics. As a result, she not only loses her grasp on the facts, but her language, admired in the past for its theoretical elegance, snarls and grouses, sidles and roars as it lurches from example to counterexample, misreading intent again and again. Whether propelled by academic outrage or the wild sorrow of someone who feels betrayed by the world she thought she knew–how sad to witness a formidable intelligence ravished in such a clumsy performance.”