A symposium on art in digital media concluded Saturday with a roundtable of critics, historians and artists at the Berkeley Art Museum. While the internet may have buzz, here – just miles from the i-epicenter of Silicon Valley – the symposium’s 15 panelists almost threatened to outnumber their audience. And though David Ross, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, likened the artistic impact of the internet to that of the advent of photography, the panel could hardly even agree on how to define internet art. – San Francisco Chronicle
Month: February 2000
ARTIST RESALE RIGHTS
British opponents of an EU plan to give artists a cut on the resale of their work say the plan will gut the English market and drive art-sellers to Switzerland or New York where the tax won’t be collected. Is that any reason not to let artists share in profits on their work? – The Telegraph (UK)
STEP IN STEP
A wave of lawsuits against Christie’s and Sotheby’s for price fixing amidst a pattern of seemingly lockstep behavior. – New York Times
LONDON TO GET –
– new mid-size 1,100-seat concert hall. – BBC Music Magazine
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS IN EXILE
Think of American ex-pat writers in Paris and you think Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller. But Paris has also been a hospitable refuge for black American writers looking for a place to work. – Philadelphia Inquirer
THE “NEW YORKER’S” SOUTH OF THE BORDER BALLOT BOX
Mexican workers are reportedly paid sweatshop wages to count New Yorker’s literary contest votes – The Nation
“MAGNOLIA” —
— wins top prize at Berlin Film Festival. – CBC 02/21/00
SLIPPING THROUGH THE CRACKS
There are too many films being made. And even those which are highly touted by critics at film festivals often don’t get distributed or seen by general audiences. Now a New York entrepreneur has an idea to help the forgotten best. – New York Daily News 02/21/00
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
On Broadway, not much these days, where comedies have dried up. Where have all the laffs gone? To TV, mostly. But let’s also blame the Zeitgeist. – Philadelphia Inquirer
OLD ACTORS NEVER DIE…
Young people bring enthusiasm, older people bring experience. More and more older Americans are performing in “senior theaters.” – San Francisco Examiner