NEA Reveals The Real Targets For Art Museum
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-12
Statistical Shenanigans: AAMD Plays the Numbers on Admission Fees (so does Indianapolis Museum)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-12
Justifying the Strange Artist
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-01-12
Monday Recommendation: Jimmy Greene
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-12
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Author: Matthew Westphal
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.08.15
Whitney’s New Collection Database: The Good And The Requested
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-08
News Flash: Graham W.J. Beal, Detroit Institute of Arts’ Director, To Retire (“Quite a Ride”)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-08
What I do
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-01-08
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L.A. Phil Moves Toward Unifying U.S. Sistema-Style Programs
“To better unify the disparate El Sistema education programs across the United States, the Los Angeles Philharmonic is embarking on a new initiative with four other organizations to create a national platform for youth orchestras.”
John Luther Adams Wins $50K William Schuman Award
“The Columbia University School of the Arts has announced that John Luther Adams is the newest recipient of the William Schuman Award, a major recognition given periodically over the past three decades. Named for its first recipient, the award, in the form of a direct, unrestricted grant of $50,000, is one of the largest given to an American composer.”
Florida Grand Opera May Pull Out Of Fort Lauderdale
“Florida Grand Opera is considering exiting from the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next season, a move that would leave Fort Lauderdale without professional opera performances for the first time in the quarter-century since the center opened.”
Finally, Good News From Atlanta Symphony: $1.25M For Salaries
“The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s push to rebuild its ranks, a major issue in the stormy nine-week player lockout that delayed the 70th anniversary season, has received a boost in the form of a $1.25 million Musicians’ Endowment Fund pledge.”
In Praise Of Book Publishing’s Gatekeepers
Daniel Menaker: “In my judgment, there are between 20 and 30 editors and publishers in New York who – along with experienced and discriminating publicists, marketers, and sales reps – have over the decades regularly and successfully combined art and commerce and, in the process, have supported and promulgated art. They are in fact the main curators of our life of letters. They have somehow survived the grinding – tectonic – friction between creativity and business and made a go of both. They are cultural heroes, actually.”
Belarusian Publisher On Trial For Publishing Images Of Police Brutality
“Ihar Lohvinau is charged” – nominally – “with selling books from his bookshop in Minsk without the obligatory state registration, and faces a heavy fine and the closure of a store described by the International Publishers Association as ‘a vital hub for the country’s fragile literary community’.”
Renzo Piano Wants To Fix Italy’s Blighted Suburbs
As soon as the architect became a member of the Italian Senate, “he handed over the office, along with his government salary, to six much younger architects and asked them to come up with ways to improve the periferie – the often run-down neighborhoods that ring Rome and Italy’s other major cities.”
Sotheby’s And Christie’s Go Back To Guaranteeing Minimum Prices
“[The two auction houses] all but gave up guarantees in late 2008, after the effects of the financial crisis spilled into the art market. … That auction house guarantees have come roaring back, despite the risks, is a reflection of the largely hidden turmoil in the art market.”