“People who would consider it a bizarre breach of conduct to expect anyone to give them a haircut or a can of soda at no cost will ask you, with a straight face and a clear conscience, whether you wouldn’t be willing to write an essay or draw an illustration for them for nothing.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Antonia Bird, 54, Director Of ‘Priest’ And ‘Mad Love’
“Bird said she enjoyed working with British actors because they ‘arrive on the set and they have an idea of what they want to do in the scene.'”
Banksy: Still In N.Y., & Hates The One World Trade Center A Lot
“That building is a disaster. Well no, disasters are interesting. One World Trade centre is a non-event. It’s vanilla. It looks like something they would build in Canada.”
For Big Investors, Trading Art Can Be Another Tax Dodge
“The best return on a massive art collection comes via charitable donations to museums or foundations. But art is also one of the few assets where one can exchange a work for different works to defer taxes.”
What Does A ‘Chief Digital Officer’ Do For The Metropolitan Museum Of Art?
“You are constantly in storytelling mode. And storytelling is what we do here at the Met. With two million square feet of gallery space and tens of thousands of works on view, at any given time, we can ask, ‘What stories can you tell?’ about each item.”
Lou Reed, 71, Leader Of The Velvet Underground And Rock Legend
“As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn.”
Keeping ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Scarce Has Made It More Valuable
“Because of Watterson’s decision to avoid endless merchandising of his characters, we can only get our Calvin and Hobbes fix by digging out our books. We’re not saturated with Calvin and Hobbes in commercials or on toy shelves or at theme parks and that helps to keep the strip intact.”
Museums Led – And Still Lead – The Way On Adaptive Tech For Patrons With Disabilities
“The Art Institute of Chicago plans to experiment with 3-D printing to reproduce artworks and allow visitors, like those with Alzheimer’s disease, to explore the texture, scale and other sensory elements of objects in ways not otherwise possible.”
Should Architects And Urban Designers Be Playing With Smell As A Material?
“Designers are trained to focus mostly on the visual, but the science of design could significantly expand designers’ sensory palette. Call it medicinal urbanism.”
College Is More And More Expensive. Should *Anyone* Major In Theatre?
“Actors tend to live in fund-sucking cities and work low-paying survival jobs that they can cancel last minute for an audition or a gig.”