“A competition has been launched to develop a musical instrument that can be played, at orchestral level, with one hand.”
Month: January 2013
Tate Modern Sets New Record For Visitors
“A record 5.3 million people visited Tate Modern in London last year, up 9.5% on 2011, the gallery has said.”
Is It Really Possible To Sell Art Online?
“Can a cultural sector that typically relies on exclusivity, personal contact, and (often) opacity make an effective transition to the web?”
Funding For Playwrights To Write Plays In Theatres (What A Concept)
“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has launched a $3.7 million initiative that will fund three-year playwright residencies, putting the selected scribes on staff at theaters around the country, complete with salaries and benefits.”
Poetry Foundation Says Goodbye To Leader (In Verse)
Christian Wiman
Is off to Yale
After a decade
At Poetry
Turkey Lifts Bans On Thousands Of Books
“In July, the parliament adopted a bill stipulating that any decision taken before 2012 to block the sale and distribution of published work would be voided if no court chose to confirm the ruling within six months. The deadline came and went Saturday and no such judicial decisions were recorded.”
Miró On Loan Damaged At Tate Modern
“An important painting by Miró was damaged in 2011 while on loan to Tate Modern, in an incident that went unreported in the media. The work was on loan from the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the cost of repairs and depreciation was £203,000.”
Jasper Johns Remembers Working With Merce Cunningham
“I don’t remember that I watched Walkaround Time rehearsals. I believe that I may have given Merce dimensions of the various ‘boxes’ to help him allow for their presence on the stage.”
Hungary’s Right-Wing Government Cracks Down On Culture
“The current Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has rebranded Fidesz, once a liberal youth party … as a right-wing Christian nationalist organization. … The new constitution ‘recognizes the role of Christianity in preserving nationhood,’ and art that is deemed blasphemous or ‘anti-national’ is now the target of a full-blown campaign of suppression.”
Second City, Chicago Lyric To Follow Up On Opera Experiment
“Following up on Saturday’s sold-out, well-received performance of The Second City Guide to the Opera, the Lyric [Opera of Chicago] announced Tuesday that the show will be reprised with new material for an extended run in June, after the opera company’s season has ended.”