“Over the course of Schneemann’s multifarious 60-year career, her art came to form the bedrock of radical traditions like performance art and body art, even while she insisted on identifying herself all the while with a traditional label. ‘I’m a painter,’ she said in 1993. ‘I’m still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.'” – ARTnews
Author: Matthew Westphal
Daniel Hope To Depart Savannah Music Festival
The star violinist, who runs the chamber music program and is the biggest name among the festival’s associate artistic directors, will step down after this year’s festival, which begins in three weeks and runs through April 13. – Savannah Morning News
Fiction Translated Into English Is Selling Better Than Ever In UK
“According to research commissioned by the Man Booker International (MBI) prize from Nielsen Book, overall sales of translated fiction in the UK were up last year by 5.5%, with more than 2.6m books sold, worth £20.7m – the highest level since Nielsen began to track sales in 2001.” – The Guardian
In US, Demand For Foreign Literature In Translation Grows, But Number Of Translated Books Published Declines
As one publisher put it, “Translated literature has found recent mainstream success partly because books coverage, like Congress, is catching up to the changing culture of America.” Yet for two years running, the number of translations published here has fallen. – Publishers Weekly
After A #MeToo Scandal, Africa’s Big New Museum Of Contemporary Art Names A New Director
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened in Cape Town in September of 2017 but had a turbulent first year, the biggest event of which was the ousting of its founding executive director and chief curator, Marc Coetzee, over “professional conduct” issues. His successor is Koyo Kouoh, a Cameroon-born curator who founded a contemporary artist support organization in Dakar called the RAW Material Company. – The Art Newspaper
A ‘Restrained Homage To Over-The-Top Art’: The Museum Of The International Baroque
Justin Davidson: “There’s a certain slyly subversive quality to the displays of manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, foods, scientific instruments, silverware, home furnishings, and scenes of Monteverdi opera and Shakespeare performed in Spanish. Here [in Puebla, Mexico], a formerly colonized people have placed the colonists’ culture on display, as if to acknowledge with a hint of surprise that Europe such an advanced civilization in the 17th and 18th century.” – New York Magazine
Global Engagement
I began pondering issues related to community engagement almost 30 years ago. What has become clear to me is that the economic pressures faced by institutions presenting Eurocentric art forms are, throughout the world, forcing greater attention on spreading the reach of those arts. Community engagement is, to my mind, the best available means of doing so. – Doug Borwick
Breach of Trust? Rothko Gave SFMOMA Its Soon-to-Be-Auctioned Painting at the Museum’s Request
Dear SFMOMA and Sotheby’s: Have you no shame?
It’s bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It’s much worse when that owner is the artist himself. How will future potential donors regard such caprices? – Lee Rosenbaum
The Most Important Job On The Internet Right Now Is Comment Moderator (And It’s Awful Work)
“It’s where free speech, community interests, censorship, harassment, spam, and overt criminality all butt up against each other. It has to account for a wide variety of always-evolving cultural norms and acceptable behaviors. As someone who has done the job, I can tell you that it can be a grim and disturbing task. And yet the big tech platforms seem to place little value on it: The pay is poor, workers are often contractors, and it’s frequently described as something that’s best left to the machines.” – BuzzFeed
Leaders Of Europe’s First Pro Orchestra For Non-White Musicians Talk About Diversity And Inclusion In Classical Music
WQXR editor-in-chief Jacqui Cheng interviews Chi-chi Nwanoku, one of London’s leading double bassists and founder of the Chineke! Orchestra, and Chineke! bassoonist Linton Stephens. – WQXR (New York City)