Contemporary art finally has a label. Charles Saatchi’s second show on the subject confirms his tag on the new generation of Brits. Financial Times
Month: September 1999
ELLIOTT CARTER WAITED 90 YEARS –
– to write his first opera. Despite last week’s standing ovation at the Berlin premiere, one critic wonders why he bothered at all. – Financial Times
Once around the block
Lots of new music, lots of performances, but what happens after the opera or symphony premiere? The second-performance problem. – The New York Times
ONTARIO GOVERNMENT REPORT
recommends taxing violent entertainment and using the money for victims of violent crime. CBC
TV TALK SHOWS ARE A SCUZZY BUSINESS
Not so scuzzy as trying to make them, though. Here’s an inside account of the inner turmoils of a TV talk show. Salon
Colorful TV
The networks have conceded there aren’t enough minority roles in their programming – they’re writing some in. New York Times
PREVIOUSLY: Threat of a network boycott by a coalition of Latino groups has broadcasters scrambling to compile lists of their Hispanic talent. Okay, they’re using short pieces of paper, but “we’re trying” they say.
Dallas Morning News 9/12/99
TRIVIALIZATION OF ART
At the end of the 20th Century we’ve made the word meaningless complains Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion.
A Soweto Dance Company Is Taking Traditional Dance Big-Time
Gumboots does for the dance of turn-of-the-century South African miners what Riverdance did for the Irish jig or the Chippendales did for baby oil and bow ties. – The Times (UK)
A conversation with Jasper Johns –
– as his first big show since the 1996 MOMA retrospective opens in San Francisco. San Francisco Chronicle
WHEN HE DIED, PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPER JOHN MERRIAM –
– left a Tiffany mosaic installed at the Curtis Center as part of his $119 million estate. No one will pay what the estate is demanding, so his estate wants to remove and sell it, setting off the biggest Philadelphia preservation crisis in years. – Philadelphia Inquirer