If a madonna playing an accordion was too much for the last Adelaide Festival, wait till next year. Australia’s largest festival reinvents. Sydney Morning Herald
Month: October 1999
IF YOU WANT TO GET AN ARTS GRANT
know your terms. A Montreal artist applied for a grant to write a book about the porno company he works for. He didn’t get it. Next time call it erotica.” Toronto Globe and Mail
A DEAL FOR FIVE NEW RUSHDIE books –
– four new novels and a collection of essays. – Publisher’s Weekly
SOUTH AFRICAN is first writer to win Booker Prize for fiction twice
JM Coetzee won for his novel “Disgrace” – previously won in 1983 for “The Life and Times of Michael K.” – BBC
AND: More on Coetzee. London Telegraph
AND: Washington Post account, New York Times report
OF TOURISTS, AUTOMOBILES AND STARBUCKS
A conversation about the art of cities with Richard Rogers, architect of the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s building. Feed
MUSEUMING OUTSIDE NEW YORK & PARIS
Regional museums in France and America join forces to raise their profiles and “prove cultural life lives outside the big cities.” New York Times
WHY HAS THE TURNER PRIZE –
– originally created to celebrate the best of British art, abandoned traditional painting and sculpture in favor of installation art? Financial Times
ALSO: “TWO NAKED MEN JUMP INTO TRACY’S BED”: Two art students did exactly that Sunday at the controversial Turner Prize exhibit at the London’s Tate Gallery. They called their actions art – “We wanted to push her work to further limits, make it more sensational, interesting and significant.” they say.One of them tried to scare the guards by pretending to be a kung fu artist. BBC 10/26/99
PREVIOUSLY: PROTEST: The Turner Prize gallery in London’s Tate Gallery was shut for the day Sunday after two men staged a pillow fight in the Turner Prize exhibition. They jumped onto a bed which was part of a controversial exhibition by young British artist Tracey Emin. BBC 10/24/99
UPLIFTING OR DISGUSTING
Sorting out the values of art in a time when controversy draws more attention than beauty. Chicago Tribune
TICKET SALES FOR BROADWAY’S “RAGTIME” –
= have dived in recent weeks. Owners contemplate closing the show. Toronto Globe and Mail