“I can see absolutely no reason why every arts organisation in this country cannot raise philanthropic funds,” Ed Vaizey told a House of Commons committee. “I think that too many arts organisations think, ‘well, we live in an area where rich people don’t live, so they’re not going to back the arts’. I think that is pathetic, frankly.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Now There’s An MTV For Book Trailers
“BookReels, a dedicated interactive website that allows publishers and authors to post multimedia visuals ranging from animated book covers to trailers, is now available for readers as a unique way to preview and browse books.”
Amazon Is Fighting With Yet Another Big Supplier: Warner Home Video
“The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features, including The Lego Movie, 300: Rise of an Empire, Winter’s Tale and Transcendence, are finding it impossible to do so.”
Putting ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ To Work
“Augusto Boal, Brazilian artist and activist, developed the performance methodology in the 1960s based on his theory that performance could empower the underclass. ‘Theatre is a form of knowledge,’ he claimed. ‘It should and can also be a means of transforming society.'” Lance Richardson watches that methodology put into practice with transgender youth in New York.
How I Set Out To Prove That Vermeer Used A Camera (By Meticulously Reconstructing ‘The Music Lesson’)
“Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography?”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.11.14
What if Music Streaming Collapses?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-06-11
Beaux Arts on Botox: The Frick Collection’s Planned Expansion
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-06-11
Making the old new (3)
More on ornamentation — returning to the way musicians once ornamented and otherwise changed the music they performed — as a way of making old classical music sound contemporary.
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-06-11
VMFA Poached For Another Top Job
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-11
Hail visionary Charles Gayle (from The Wire, 1994)
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-06-11
Develop Allies
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-06-11
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos: A gentleman and an artist
AJBlog: Condemned to Music | Published 2014-06-11
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Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, 80
The beloved maestro, who said just last year, “I will continue until I drop. If I die on stage, so much the better,” had announced only last week that he was ill with cancer and was retiring.
Scanning Books For Searchable Database Is Not Copyright Violation, Finds U.S. Court
“The creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying it also is permissible to distribute the books in alternative forms to people with reading disabilities.”
Florida School Cancels Summer Reading Program Rather Than Include Cory Doctorow’s ‘Little Brother’
“The principal’s complaints included that Little Brother endorsed hacker culture and questioned authority, according to Doctorow” – who proceeded to have the book sent directly to students and to make it available for free download.
What Does Soccer Mean Today?
“My first question, then, was how soccer affects the life of a country. My second was how the life of a country affects its soccer.” (Yes, even ArtsJournal will glom onto the World Cup.)