“He was best known for large-scale outdoor works that often involved simple if rather extravagant ideas or gestures: a SoHo loft filled with two feet of earth, for example, or a solid brass rod two inches in diameter and one kilometer long driven into the ground in Kassel, Germany.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How A Long, Writerly Tradition Came To An End
“The contest was a lovely tradition that was stuttering, staggering. No one could know yet that all magazines would eventually be threatened by a technology that in innocent 1979 we couldn’t even begin to imagine … or that the tower in which we 14 sat, thrilled, privileged to be there, would be destroyed by the time we had waded into middle age.”
Violinist Dies In A Pit Fall At The Bolshoi
“The death of Viktor Sedov, 65, is the latest bad news in a mounting string of tragedies involving the historic theater that have led to chatter about a supposed ‘Curse of the Bolshoi.'”
The Beginning Of The End Of Bully TV Stations?
As CBS battles Time Warner and threatens blackouts for 3 million customers in New York, start-up streaming service Aereo may step into the ring.
Art: Good For The Economy (Or, How The UK Arts Budget Wasn’t A Disaster)
“State funding of the arts [could] be viewed as a form of ‘venture capital,’ encouraging investment in the British brand: The value of the artistic sector could be ‘leveraged’ to deliver economic growth.”
Dancing At Lincoln Center – Or At Least Its Side Windows, Fountain, And Plaza
Mark Dendy: “We’ve discarded a lot of our rituals as a culture. We don’t have this kind of meaningful thing anymore, where everyone comes down to the watering hole in the morning and dances for the strength and courage to keep on going.”
What’s Minimalist Living Like? Find Out At Donald Judd’s Manhattan Home
“Overall the effect is like Judd’s sculptures — sparse, deliberate, rectilinear and non-organic.”
No, Really, How Bad IS Spotify For Music?
“Spotify is selling a lie. In this post-Napster world, the pressure is on for new independent artists to have their music sit alongside massive acts – but we’re not getting anything back.”
Take One Rave Producer And One Choreographer; Partner Them Up; Add Ambition …
“This aesthetic, the creators explain, acts as a blank slate, an erasing mechanism through which the personality of each dancer emerges. Physical traits disappear, and what’s left is just a family of open hearts undoing themselves.”
The Summer Music Festival Has Exploded, But How (& Why)?
“You have to be disturbed to put on an event like this.”