“The politics isn’t in the science itself — science is raw data, as close to the truth as you can get. The funding is about how we are interpreting that knowledge to further an agenda”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Dismantling Of A (Formerly Very Good) British Education
‘Oh, wowww!’ she cried, ecstasy lifting her voice above the wind whipping off the marshes. ‘New brutalism! Rarely seen any so pure. First pressing. Cold pressing. Purrrfect!’
The Cult Of Jeff Koons Must Die
“Koons is alert to a tendency on the part of the art audience to submit—to submit to something (to anything) that exerts a certain discomfiting power. This is the S&M of the contemporary art world, with the audience angling for an opportunity to grovel at the feet of the superstar.”
One Problem For The Locked-Out Atlanta Symphony Musicians: Size
“You can’t (cut) this orchestra any further. Either you try to maintain it and grow it back in the direction from where we came, or it’s over — it’s not the same orchestra any more.”
In Los Angeles, The Art World Tilts To The East
“Today, for new or newly relocating galleries, both commercial and nonprofit, it’s industrial warehouses — with plenty of parking — south of the 10 Freeway and east of the L.A. River.”
Is It OK To Censor Art When It Hearkens To A Deeply Racist Past?
The Barbican Centre’s planned ‘Exhibit B’ “invites liberals to feel the ‘discomfort’ of their colonial history while fawning over the naked and prostrate black body.”
Want To Engage People With An Unknown Attraction? Make It A Game
“The beauty of play is that it can take so many forms. So the river becomes this 51-mile-long blank grey canvas for the collective imagination of a city, of many cities.”
Without This Man, You Likely Wouldn’t Know A Damn Thing About Rock ‘n’ Roll
“Cosimo Matassa, whose used-record business in New Orleans led him to sell new records, which led him to open a tiny studio that helped jump-start rock ’n’ roll by recording early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, died on Thursday in New Orleans. He was 88.”
So Hollywood’s Not Actually LGBT-Friendly, Actors Say
“While 53% of lesbian and gay actors were ‘out’ to all or most of their fellow actors, the report found that only 36% had revealed to agents they were gay, and only 13% had told industry executives.”
Ian McEwan Used To Be Out To Shock, But Now He’s A Novelist Of Compassion – What Happened?
“One can’t go on writing in his mid-60s as though he is 19 years old,” says the author of Atonement and The Children Act.