Delaware Art Museum’s Deaccession Debacle: The Impotence of AAMD
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“The new wrinkle comes with the chance to do shows in a nightclub setting, where cult shows and rock musicals play more effectively and where a few hundred — not a few thousand — seats need to be filled.”
“Ms. Opolais, who said that she would normally be resting her voice after a night singing ‘Butterfly,’ found herself singing her second Puccini opera, and playing out her second Puccini death scene, on the stage of the Met within the space of 18 hours. While she had sung the role of Mimi at the Vienna State Opera and elsewhere, she had never done it at the Met.”
“We want to encourage more young women to pick up the camera so we have greater diversity in what we’re watching. Girls lack confidence to pick up a camera because they think they need to be technical but a director is just someone who has a story to tell and can tell it clearly.”
“We’re hoping this puts American art on the minds of every single American on their way to school or work and becomes part of the daily conversation.”
“Purists will continue to resist the trend, maintaining that projections can never replace flesh-and-blood performers, but less discerning concertgoers may still give this new advent the support it needs.”
Julian Oliver: “Whether my work is placed in a gallery and intended as art is of little interest to me, but what I’ve found is that it doesn’t matter whether I call it art. Others will do it for me, so I may as well take advantage of what those spaces have to offer.”
Tom Finkelpearl “served under Mayor David Dinkins and Mayor Rudy Giuliani as director of New York City’s Percent for Art program, which supports artwork in city-funded construction projects. Later, as deputy director of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, he helped broker the merger of P.S.1 and the Museum of Modern Art.”
“Developers, neighbors, city-planners and Burqueños are eyeing the property, imagining what those 18 buildings can house, what opportunities they present—and who will benefit.”
“You might refer to an e-reader as being neat, but there is no way anyone is going to call it beautiful. … You are not going to caress it in the same way you would a fine binding, or even admire the cover artwork.”
