“The aim of the great state-sponsored museums is to represent a state and that is neither a good nor innocent aim. … It is imperative that museums become smaller, more orientated towards the individual and more economical. This is the only way that they can ever tell stories on a human scale. The great museums invite us to forget our humanity and to accept the state and its human masses. This is why there are millions, outside the West, who are frightened by museums. This is why museums are associated with governments.”
Month: July 2016
60 Students Sue University Of Sydney Over Planned Art School Merger
“Up to 60 students are pursuing the University of Sydney for ‘deceptive conduct- after it announced plans to merge its Sydney College of the Arts with the faculty of art and design at cross-town rival the University of [New South Wales].”
Marie Chouinard Named Director Of Dance At Venice Biennale
“The Quebec City-born artist has been involved with the Biennale since it first launched a dance section in 1999, participating in the initial edition and invited back several times over the years.”
Leon Botstein Accepts New Position At Grafenegg Festival
“Austria’s Grafenegg Festival, now approaching its tenth year as a destination summer event, with preliminary events beginning July 16, has appointed Leon Botstein as artistic director of the Grafenegg Campus and Academy, effective in 2018. The position is a new one, not to be confused with artistic director of the festival itself; that is Rudolf Buchbinder, in the job since the event’s beginnings in 2007.”
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Will We Still Need Dancers In The Age Of Robots?
“I cling to the slim hope that some human labor will always be necessary. Somebody will have to program the prima ballerina to dance. But choreography will be taught at schools like MIT. Humans will still be needed to build and repair the prima ballerina robots, unless other robots are built for the purpose of building and repairing prima ballerina robots. But even then, humans will still be needed to build and repair the robots that are built for the purpose of building and repairing prima ballerina robots, unless other robots are built for the purpose of building and repairing those robots. But even then, humans will still be needed to build and repair those robots. Right?”
The Academy Of Motion Pictures Promised To Diversify This Year. In One Fell Swoop…
“According to a new Times analysis, with the 2016 class of invitees the academy has, in a single stroke, gone 52% of the way toward its goal of doubling the number of nonwhites in its ranks. When it comes to boosting the numbers of women, though, the academy is lagging slightly behind pace; the new class brings the academy roughly a fifth of the way toward its 2020 benchmark.”
Artists Reimagine A Better Version Of LA’s Iconic (But Worn-Out) Freeways
“The first step is to start seeing our infrastructural networks not merely as single-use conduits of one kind or another — to carry cars, storm water or consumer goods — but as platforms for a new kind of urbanism, holding housing or making room for innovative ideas about energy or water.”
Most Of The Traditional Measures Of TV Success Have Melted. But The Emmy Endures
“Over the last decade, television has both taken flight and blown itself up. In the new landscape, where the armies of cable networks, streaming platforms and video-on-demand services have trampled all the old mileposts, an Emmy is the last traditional, tangible mark of success.”
What In The World Has Happened To Chuck Close?
“After 30 years of splitting his time between the tony enclaves of Manhattan and Bridgehampton, he has recently set about leaving much of his old life behind: filing for divorce from his wife, Leslie, after 43 years of marriage, disappearing for the winter to live virtually alone in a new apartment on Miami Beach and retreating from his summer friends to the crowded isolation of Long Beach. Even when Close ventures into the city for a gallery opening these days, he will often turn up in some outlandish costume, in fabrics printed with giant starfish and sunflowers, with lipstick smeared across his face and billowing, extravagant scarves.”