“Maybe a more entrepreneurial classical world would be of benefit to everyone and help to attract more people to concerts?”
Author: Douglas McLennan
Atlanta Arts Groups Have Arts Funding Plan For A Raise In The Local Sales Tax
In his February 2 “state of the city” address, Mayor Kasim Reed said that arts funding is critical to Atlanta and that he wants to ensure the money reaches all arts organizations, large and small. “Organizations like the Woodruff Arts Center are thriving, but our small- and medium-sized groups, our young and emerging arts, need additional support,” Reed said. “We need to give back to the creative community that gives so much to our city.”
Do Corporate Sponsors Have A Corrosive Effect On Art?
“Since the times of the Renaissance, when the clergy and rich merchants started to support artists who could immortalise their legacy and whose art could provide atonement for their sins, artists have been feeling uneasy about the relationship between artistic talent and commerce.”
A Limitation Of Artificial Intelligence? The Lack Of A Physical Body
“Algorithms are a long way from being able to think like us. The biggest distinction lies in our evolved biology, and how that biology processes information. Humans are made up of trillions of eukaryotic cells, which first appeared in the fossil record around 2.5 billion years ago. A human cell is a remarkable piece of networked machinery that has about the same number of components as a modern jumbo jet – all of which arose out of a longstanding, embedded encounter with the natural world.”
The Journalists Who Have Actually Lied Or Plagiarized Or Misbehaved
“The surprise isn’t that journalists are hard on journalists who fake it: that’s right and just. The surprise is that the punishment is applied so consistently in a field where the practitioners agree on little else about how they do what they do.”
Deborah Borda Will Leave LA Philharmonic To Head NY Philharmonic
“On the surface, this is a startling coup for New York. In her 17 years as head of the L.A. Phil, Borda has made it the most successful and glamorous orchestra in America and the most progressive major symphony in the world, premiering an unprecedented amount of new music, staging operas and rethinking every aspect of the symphony orchestra for the 21st century.”
Experimental Music And Abstract Art – A Troublesome (Or Artificial?) Pairing
The notion of “abstract music” is a troubled one; music becomes “abstract” mostly by association with art that is so named.
Will The Ambitious Art In American Embassies Program Continue Under Trump Administration?
Virginia Shore, the programme’s acting director, told Town & Country magazine last year that the value of works on loan to the AIE has risen to a half a billion dollars in recent years, up from around $10m under President George W. Bush.
Time To Bring Back Dubbing For Movie Musicals
“Let’s bring back vocal dubbing. If you’re going to hire famous actors to bring some star power to your movies, help them out by letting someone else do the hard part. Back in the movie musical heyday, this practice was fairly common — the late Marni Nixon, for instance, provided the singing voice of everyone from Deborah Kerr to Audrey Hepburn — but those who provided dubbing often went without fair credit. But that’s a black mark against Hollywood, not against dubbing itself.”
Theaster Gates’ Virtuous Circle
“Theaster’s bringing art into a neighborhood where there’s not a lot of resources devoted to those sorts of questions, and he’s bringing labor and craft traditions into the National Gallery. It’s a kind of circular economy. He’s got the whole art world interested in him, and he is pointing everyone’s eyes at issues that he’s concerned with.”