When Hepworth Prize for Sculpture winner Helen Marten announced that she would share her prize money with the other four nominees, David Lister writes, “she didn’t question the actual idea of cash awards. I do.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Does Having A Family To Take Care Of Really Interfere With Creative Success?
Siddhartha Deb: “The idea of the great, undomesticated artist is itself, of course, one of the enduring fictions handed down to us by the industrial age. … If domestic responsibilities appear singularly detrimental to artistic practice, it is not because of the repetitive tasks they involve.”
Dana Stevens: “I’ll get back to you on that question as soon as I’m done picking these rainbow sequins up off the floor one by one, then sorting this mountain of discarded clothes into boxes.”
David Hamilton, Long-Controversial Photographer, Dead In Apparent Suicide Following Rape Allegations From Former Child Models
His soft-focus nudes of 12- and 13-year-old girls were for many years at the center of “Is it art or is it porn?” debates. Last week, one of his former subjects, now a radio presenter in France, publicly accused him of raping her and claimed that other former models of his had similar stories.
Maurice Sendak Estate And Rosenbach Museum Settle Lawsuit For Good
The two-year legal struggle over the late author’s collection of rare books, fought between the Philadelphia institution where Sendak had kept those books and his archives and his executors, who wanted them back, is over at last.
Lucinda Childs Is 76, And She Thought She’d Left The Whole Running-A-Dance-Company Thing Behind, But –
“‘I sort of thought, well that was interesting, and it was great, and I had the 30 years in SoHo,’ she said before a rehearsal in Brooklyn last month. ‘I’m sort of moving on.’ That worked for a while.”
Manuscript Of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony Smashes Record For Music Score Sold At Auction
The composer’s handwritten score for the “Resurrection” Symphony comes from the estate of Gilbert Kaplan, the financial publisher who was obsessed with the work and taught himself to conduct it.
Beethoven Manuscript Fails To Sell At Sotheby’s After On-Air Argument Over Its Authenticity
The handwritten score, of an Allegretto in B minor for String Quartet that has no opus number, was expected to fetch £200,000 at auction on Tuesday morning. But an argument the previous evening on BBC Radio 4 between Sotheby’s director of books and manuscripts and a Beethoven scholar at Manchester University threw a big old monkey wrench into the works.
And What’s At The Heart Of The Argument Over Whether Beethoven Penned This Manuscript? Natural Signs
Did Beethoven write his natural signs in this rather odd way? Yes, says Sotheby’s, which wants to sell the score; not in any of his other scores, so this one’s a copy, says a Beethoven scholar, who got into it with a Sotheby’s specialist on the radio and scared off all the buyers. Classic FM called in an expert of its own for a verdict.
After 2½ Years Out Due To Injury, David Hallberg Is Returning To The Stage
Ankle surgery in 2014 has kept him out of commission for quite a while, so he’s giving his repaired foot a test run next month – a long way from the hubs of the world’s dance media. (He told the New York Times he wants to “just step onstage quietly here and see what transpires.”) Of course, now that a Sydney journalist has broken the news, the world’s dance media will probably flock there to watch.
Composer Andrew Norman Wins $100K Grawemeyer Award – And Has Some, Well, Mixed Feelings About It
Sure, he’s deeply honored, no question. But, he says, “sometimes the recognition is actually bad for me. In my head it’s tricky because now there’s yet another layer of expectation.” And there’s this: “Maybe I can use this moment to … call attention to the fact that there are problems. For instance, this award has been given to three women out of its 30-year history. And to me that’s kind of an issue.” (includes audio)