This morning the NEA announced four new recipients of the prize: pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, composer-arranger-bandleader Maria Schneider, critic and novelist Stanley Crouch, and singer-songwriter and pianist Bob Dorough.
Author: Douglas McLennan
London’s National Gallery Buys Its First Painting By A Woman In 27 Years
Of 2,300 works in the London gallery’s collections, it now owns a grand total of 21 by women. It last acquired an artwork by a female artist in 1991, when it was presented with five pieces by Paula Rego.
Why Are Documentaries Doing So Well At The Box Office This Summer?
Is this just a flash-in-the-pan fad during a stressful summer, or the sign of a real shift in audience taste? The first studio that dares take a documentary wide will find out, but I’d wager it’s the latter.
Bankruptcy Judge Approves $21 Million Reduction On Sale Of Weinstein Company
The company was originally supposed to sell for $310 million under a pact the court approved in May. But in another twist in the long saga, the companies sparred over payment of the studio’s outstanding contracts, threatening to capsize the deal.
The Digital Age Will Inevitably End. So What’s Next?
Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. Still, if you look closely, you can already see the contours of its inevitable descent into the mundane. We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation in which different technologies, such as genomics, materials science, and robotics, rise to the fore.
Supreme Court’s Interstate Sales Tax Ruling Will Impact Galleries And Art Sales
“The Wayfair decision looks like a sales tax game-changer for many New York galleries,” attorney and art law expert Thomas C. Danziger told artnet News. “Until now, most New York dealers who delivered works of art to out-of-state buyers didn’t even have to think about sales tax, much less go through the exercise of computing and collecting tax from the buyer based on the delivery location.“
Wattpad Has Built A Thriving Fiction Community. Now It’s Become A Go-To For Hollywood
It’s a nurturing, highly interactive community where its core 13- to 35-year-old readership spends around 20 billion combined minutes per month consuming and critiquing user-generated stories, in genres such as sci-fi, young-adult fiction, poetry, and horror, but also fanciful fanfic with titles like 50 Shades of Drake and Harry Styles Dirty Imagines. For Hollywood development executives, however, Wattpad has come to serve an altogether different purpose. Since launching its dedicated entertainment division Wattpad Studios two years ago, the self-publishing platform has evolved into a one-stop shop for fresh IP: an influential incubator for original storytelling with a decidedly Gen Y bent.
We Increasingly Depend On Bayesian Probability Logic. So Why Was It Dismissed For So Long?
For most of the two and a half centuries since the Reverend Thomas Bayes first made his pioneering contributions to probability theory, his ideas were side-lined. The high priests of statistical thinking condemned them as dangerously subjective and Bayesian theorists were regarded as little better than cranks. It is only over the past couple of decades that the tide has turned.
How To Make Sense Of Coincidences?
Today, nearly all scientists say that coincidences are just that: coincidences – void of greater meaning. Yet, they’re something we all experience, and with a frequency that is uniform across age, sex, country, job, even education level. Those who believe that they’ve had a ‘meaningful coincidence’ in their lives experience a collision of events so remarkable and unlikely that they chose to ascribe a form of grander meaning to the occurrence, via fate or divinity or existential importance.
Today’s AJBlogs Highlights 07.10.18
- Wanna Direct the National Gallery of Art? (Job Description Below) When Earl (Rusty) Powell IIIannounced his intention to retire in early 2019 from the directorship of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, I wrote that our country’s “two preeminent [art] institutions could … read more
- Where Culture Meets Community “What do you mean by the word community?” is a question I’m often asked when talking about the Creative Community Fellows program. And rightfully so. The term community is so over-used that it has become … read more
- Weinstein’s Rehab Reading “Harvey Weinstein entered New York State Supreme Court yesterday clutching a copy of A Talent for Trouble. Was Weinstein looking for someone to teach him about being a mensch?” — Leon Freilich He walked … read more
- Axel, Lutz, Salchow — whodunnit at Garsington Opera? It’s not very often that you hear and seen an opera in which you worry about (or care) whodunnit. Even Nicol Muhly’s (I thought splendid) Marnie, which had its world première in London … read more