“At 63, [she] has been running an art museum in New York longer than anyone except Glenn Lowry at the Museum of Modern Art. … She is one of only two directors in the city who has overseen the construction of a brand-new building. … And she is now in the midst of an $80 million capital campaign to double her museum’s size, a project notable at least so far for its sotto-voce nature, in sharp contrast to the expansion Mr. Lowry is overseeing.
Author: Matthew Westphal
David Lang Creates A Symphony For 1,000 Broken School Instruments
“The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, from flutes with bent keys to trombones missing slides. Some of their fixes are easy, others complex, yet due to funding cuts in the city, the district doesn’t have a budget for either.” But a Temple University professor had an idea for making music with them as-is, using that as a way to raise money to start fixing them.
End Of An Era: Brooklyn Academy Of Music’s Longtime Executive Producer To Retire
“It is time for the next wave to roll in at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: Joseph V. Melillo, who has helped shape the academy’s cutting-edge aesthetic for more than three decades, will announce on Friday that he plans to step down as executive producer at the end of 2018. Mr. Melillo, 70, is the last link to the organization’s impresario and visionary leader, Harvey Lichtenstein.”
Largest-Ever Cash Gift To A UK Museum – And It Comes From An American
Ukrainian-American businessman Len Blavatnik – who funded the $100,000 Warner Music Prize and gave a $25 million naming gift to Carnegie Hall last June after his nemesis stepped down as board chair there – has made a donation of more than £50 million to the Tate Modern, which will name its popular new extension after him.
British Museum Signals It’s Willing To Lend Out Parthenon Marbles – And Doesn’t Get Much Interest
“The British Museum has received only a single request to borrow one of the Parthenon Marbles since the sensational loan of a sculpture to [the Hermitage in] Russia in December 2014 … [which] was the first time that any of the Parthenon Marbles had left the British Museum since arriving in London in 1807.”
How To Build A Better App For An Urban Cultural Tour
Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Melbourne identified five key ingredients.
What Does It Really Take To Be A Broadway Dancer? Watch This
Lauren Wingenroth recommends a video series in which top Broadway gypsies “dance through their resumes.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.04.17
Cost disease in the arts: what does it mean?
Professor William Baumol, one of the greatest living economists, has died at the age of 95. … Readers of artsjournal.com know him best for his conception of cost disease, done jointly with William Bowen. … Let’s expand on that a bit, and ask what it means for arts policy. … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2017-05-04
Defying Trump, Bipartisan Deal Would Boost Funding for NEA and NEH (with strings attached)
The strong efforts of arts-and-humanities advocates appear to have (at least temporarily) overcome the pernicious, fallacious notion that the National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities are preserves of the elite and therefore unworthy of government support. But … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-05-04
Schmooze & Peruse: My Storify on the Frieze Art Fair in New York
I thought I’d give it another try by attending the preview for Frieze Art Fair (to May 7), but I still find that, for me, art fairs are a a good way to network with art-world luminaries but a poor way to view and absorb art. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-05-04
The Way ’13 Reasons Why’ Depicts Teen Suicide Is Downright Dangerous, Say School Counselors
Critics have been very impressed by the Netflix series, as has the Twitterverse (11 million tweets so far). “But the premise of the show … goes against everything we know about suicide, its causes, and means of prevention.” Marissa Martinelli explains the problems and talks to counselors who’ve been dealing with the show’s fallout.
‘A F—Ing Disaster’: Quentin Tarantino Remembers The First Showing Of ‘Reservoir Dogs’
“They didn’t have a scope lens for the projector and it’s a scope movie and I let them show it anyway. … It gets to the final climax and all of the sudden the lights come up. They go back down, and then almost as if on purpose as far as suspense is concerned, right at the height of the movie … all the power goes out. So, [I thought] ‘OK, that’s what it’s like to watch your movie in public.'”