“A Sturtevant work is as instantly and uncannily recognizable as a Warhol silk-screen, say, or a Johns flag. But, at the same time, each in its own way is a deliberately inexact likeness of its more famous progenitor.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Bad Year For Cannes (Or Just A Normal Year, Writ Large?)
“Disgruntled critics suggest the competition has become a cosy club, where the chosen few are never ejected, merely shuffled to one of the less prestigious selections.”
Top AJ Blog Posts For 05.18.14
The Spirit Must Die So the Letter Can Live
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-05-18
What Does Death of Net Neutrality Mean for Culture? And, Women of Paris
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-16
Where Do You Plan To Travel?
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-05-17
Delaware Deaccession Strategy: Sell Just Two Works?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-19
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Kenneth Clark: Art-World Snob, Savior Of Art, Or Both?
“Above all, perhaps, Clark was a brilliant wordsmith, the most seductive writer on art since Ruskin and Pater, whom he greatly admired. Today, when most art historians write as joylessly as lawyers and accountants, such verve is sorely needed.”
How To Get Diverse Books For Kids On Publishers’ (And Kids’) Radar?
Buy a lot of them, and hand them out: “First Book stepped out with a campaign called Stories for All, where we have guaranteed that we will buy 10,000 copies of the titles we select.”
Should You Start A New Music Ensemble?
“Can you get people other than close friends and colleagues to your concerts with what you’re doing? (Because if these are your usual attendees, you may end up with a sad turnout if they are at a mutual friend’s ensemble’s concert on the same evening.)”
Hollywood Movies Are Destroying Cinema, And Maybe The World
Alejandro Jodorowsky: “Industrial pictures are not art. They are necessary sometimes, like a cigarette. But they kill you.”
Guggenheim Foundation Responds To Family’s Lawsuit
“The foundation accuses Rumney and Hélion of ‘repeatedly contradict[ing] their own position. They insist that no works other than Peggy Guggenheim’s be exhibited in the palazzo or the garden. Yet between 1999 and 2013, they were instrumental in organising 14 exhibitions of works entirely foreign to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.'”
When Your Friends Die All Around You, How Do You Keep Writing?
“‘I am trying to bring together all of the elements of the Iraqi experience,’ Mr. Saadawi said. ‘There are many messages. One of them is that with this war and violence, no one is innocent.'”
When The Composer Is Religious But The Audience Is (Mostly) Secular
“Historical distance has tempered the explicit Lutheran message of Bach’s cantatas or the Roman Catholicism of Palestrina’s Masses. Disregarding the scriptural details of Mr. Pärt’s music, though, might mean ignoring an aspect integral to a living composer, even if he is vague about it.”