“Two and a half years after bursting into life in a historic, former fruit packing plant, the Claremont Museum of Art is on death’s door, the victim of a financial shortfall. … The museum’s five full-time employees, including director William Moreno, have been laid off and the shop closed.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Coetzee Hat Trick Is A Maybe, His Presence A Definite No
“JM Coetzee will not be ruining his reputation as one of the world’s most reclusive writers by turning up to the Booker prize ceremony” on Tuesday. “Of course, Coetzee may be doing the world a favour. It is said that he smiles rarely and can sit through a dinner party without saying a word.”
Delays Leave ‘Digital Black Hole’ In Britain’s Major Libraries
“Digital literature, online scientific research and internet journalism that should have been saved in the nation’s main libraries over the past five years may have been lost because ministers have failed to give them the legal power to copy and archive websites.”
Tracey Emin Bound For France Over UK Tax Rate?
“Tracey Emin, who already has a home across the Channel, said in an interview that she was ‘very seriously considering leaving Britain’, adding: ‘I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50% … I reckon it would mean me paying about 65p in every pound with tax, National Insurance and so on.'”
David Hockney’s iPhone Is His Sketch Pad
“Over the past six months, Hockney has fashioned literally hundreds, probably over a thousand,” images with the Brushes iPhone app, “often sending out four or five a day to a group of about a dozen friends, and not really caring what happens to them after that. (He assumes the friends pass them along through the digital ether.)”
Now That Dance Has The Spotlight, Let’s Take It Seriously
The expanding reputations of British dancers and choreographers and the uptick in dance study and amateur participation are laudable developments. But the notion of dance as a vocation “has been exploited for too long, and it’s a grim fact that even the lucky few who make it to the top still earn very little.”
RSC’s Boyd: Live Theatre Trumps Filmed Every Time
“Michael Boyd, the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, today struck a rare note of discord amid [the] new orthodoxy” that reveres live theatre broadcasts, saying that broadcasts of the National Theatre’s Phèdre were “a cool experience … not in a million years better than being in the theatre.”
Tate Modern Removes Nude Child Photo Of Brooke Shields
“A display due to go on show to the public at Tate Modern tomorrow has been withdrawn after a warning from Scotland Yard that the naked image of actor Brooke Shields aged 10 and heavily made up could break obscenity laws.”
Damien Hirst Trades Dead Animals For Blank Canvas
“The artist has told the BBC there will be no more large-scale installation pieces, including his signature pickled animals and medicine cabinets. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Hirst says he is now solely painting by hand.”
The Polanski Schism: Why Are Hollywood, Nation At Odds?
“How can Hollywood (where it’s almost impossible to find anyone publicly condemning Polanski) and almost everyone else see the same story in an opposite light? Is it proof that the movie business is amoral, or just that it believes that Polanski has suffered in his personal and professional life and paid his debt to society?”