What is it that increases the value of art? Fame, exposure, The right collectors?
Month: March 2006
The Model Music Teacher
What makes a good music teacher? Different approaches will suit different pupils, but the best practitioners are not always the best instructors…
Blair Stands Behind His Culture Minister
Tony Blair says he stands by his culture minister Tessa Jowell in a scandal over an improper payment. “Critics are expected to seize on a number of peculiarities in her statement, notably how she appeared to be unaware of the injection of £350,000 into the household finances for four years despite having made a subsequent joint mortgage application on the same property 18 months later.”
How The Internet Is Transforming Self-Publishing
“Self-publishing enables anyone to upload a book in digital form to a website, which then formats it complete with a cover. It costs anything from £4.50 (single proof of one book) to more than £500 for full personalised involvement of the publishing house at all stages, from starting up to getting a link to Amazon.”
Denver Site Chosen For Clyfford Still Museum
A new museum built to show 90 percent of the output of painter Clyfford Still will be built next to the Denver Art Museum. “This particular four-block area, which is called the Civic Center Cultural Complex, is really Denver’s cultural mecca, so the fact that the Clyfford Still Museum can join those existing august institutions establishes us also as a leading cultural amenity,”
Shakespeare Died Of Cancer?
“William Shakespeare died in pain of a rare form of cancer that deformed his left eye, according to a German academic who claims to have discovered the disease in four genuine portraits of the world’s most famous playwright.”
Writers Simplify For The Mass Market
Best-selling writers in the UK have signed on to write simplified mass-market books. “The books are aimed at people who struggle with reading or have lost the habit of carrying around a good book. But the plots and subject matter have been pitched to appeal to a wider audience. Each book has fewer than 128 pages and language is simple, with short sentences and a limited number of words of three syllables or more.”
Peru To Sue Yale
Peru says it will sue Yale University for the return of artifacts from Machu Picchu. “Yale, which has displayed the antiquities at its Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut, offered to set up parallel collections at Yale and at a new museum to be built in Peru, which the government rejected.”
Italy And China Join Forces On Artifacts
Italy and China are teaming up to fight the illicit artifacts trade. “The agreement sets out a programme of co-operation that will see a task force of Chinese agents travel to Italy to receive specialist training from the unit of Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage.”
Scottish Theatre Faces Closure
Scottish theatres fear they will have to close under a new public arts funding scheme. “For 7:84, which has in the past received around £250,000 a year from the arts council, “core” funding will run out in August. It will be able to apply for funding for individual projects that run from March 2007 onwards, but with no guarantee of getting anything.”