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Ten Important Things Happened At Art Basel Miami Beach This Year

From the debut of one museum and reinvention of another, to the new prominence of certain artists and dealers, to the triumph of dance, to the night when supposedly superficial Miamians found their outrage …

How To Move Contemporary Art Beyond The 0.1 Percent To The “Creative Class”

Sure, the market for new visual art is booming among the super-rich. Marion Maneker argues that art can become vitally important to the wider public – well, educated urbanites – the way high-quality food has, and in more or less the same way.

Letting The Audience Set The Ticket Price – After The Show

That’s just what one venue in England is doing for the first half of next year: free entry for all theatre, spoken-word and dance performances, with each audience member deciding after the show is over what it was worth. How will they make this work?

L.A. Philharmonic Gets Surprise $20 Million Gift

David C. Bohnett, founder of GeoCities (remember GeoCities?), intends half of the amount to fund efforts to spread classical music through technology.

A Major New Museum In South Florida, And They’re Funding It All Themselves

Norman and Irma Braman promise that, for the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, “not one cent of taxpayer dollars are going into the construction, or the acquisition of properties for the sculpture garden, or anything.” And they will not put their name on it, either.

Jane Freilicher, 90, New York School Artist Who Dared To Paint Landscapes

“She was not widely known by the general public, but her consistent, steady experimentation earned her intense acclaim throughout her life, particularly from contemporary critics and poets, many of whom were her close friends. In 1958, the poet James Schuyler termed her ‘a poet’s painter who may yet become the public’s painter” – an apt description for her entire career.”

Today’s Most Revolutionary Documentaries Are Being Made By A Group You’ve Never Heard Of

“[They] come not from a brand-name auteur or even some up-and-coming, Sundance-anointed visionary. Rather, they come from a place called the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, which sounds more like somewhere an ophthalmologist might send you than a source of great filmmaking.”

Michael C. Hall on Being Hedwig

“You get [from audience members] the stand-offish, I’m-not-gay-don’t-look-at-me-that-way vibe; you get the I’m-not-gay-but-I’m-kind-of-feeling-funny-in-a-way-that-I’m-not-entirely-uncomfortable-with vibe; you get the I’m-gay-and-I-entirely-approve-of-your-behavior vibe … And I think it’s compelling for a woman to see a man behave as a woman, and it might be liberating for her to watch a man jump off of hoods of cars in platform heels.”

Oronyms Lead To Mondegreens (How We Mis-Hear Song Lyrics)

Maria Konnikova explains the processes by which some people come to think Queen did a song called “Bohemian Rap City” and children wonder why Olive the other reindeer was mean to Rudolph.

Author: Matthew Westphal