“2012 was notable for the continuing strength of the market for postwar and contemporary art, with a bias towards the “blue-chip” end. Impressionist and modern art, once the bedrock of the market, is being edged out by contemporary.”
Tag: 12.28.12
How Artists Are Making Money Online
“The internet is transforming art — the art industry — just the way it has with music and publishing.”
Is Regulating Exotic Dance A Threat To Free Speech?
“In a democracy, dancers have the right to express any ideas, including sexual ones. Sexuality is in the mind of the beholder and can be read into any dance, especially given that the human body is the instrument of both dance and sex. Now exotic dance is under attack. What dance might be next?”
Oscar Voters Say New Voting Procedures Are A Problem
“Voting to determine this year’s Oscar nominees began Dec. 17, but with less than one week remaining until Oscar nomination ballots are due, some members have complained that snags in the Academy’s complicated new electronic voting procedures are preventing them from successfully casting their votes before the Jan. 3 deadline.”
Biggest 2012 Pop Music Trend? Change
“The most reliable movement in pop this year was the basic mistrust of the old model.”
Why People Aren’t Using Their TV’s To Go Online
“The report finds fewer than 15 percent of smart-TV owners are listening to music, surfing the internet or shopping on their TVs.”
The Fading Art Of Handwriting
“In a British survey carried out in June, it was discovered that the average time since an adult wrote anything at all by hand was 41 days.”
Musicians Versus Airlines
“Since 9/11, and with it the advent of Transportation Security Administration agents, and then the Great Recession — which caused airlines to cut corners and withhold services as well as niceties — musicians traveling with oversized string instruments have stood among the most aggrieved fliers.”
Here It Is: High Culture Is Different From Low Culture. Here’s Why
“It is continually said that your culture or cultures are just as good as anyone else’s, and that there is no difference between high and low. But this is wrong.”
New Year Bringing Movement (If Not Progress) In Twin Cities Orchestra Lockouts
“Representatives of management and locked-out musicians will meet face to face next week at the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In Minneapolis, these would be the first official talks since musicians were locked out Oct. 1 in a dispute over pay cuts and work rules. At the SPCO, musicians were locked out Oct. 21, but contract talks continued into early November.”