“The reality is that it’s kind of a tougher economic time, and we do have to worry about living after graduation. I don’t want to be doing what I love and be homeless.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
British Artist Who Asks Audience To Beatbox Wins Venice’s Golden Lion
“Naming him as the best artist in the Encyclopedic Palace show in the central pavilion of the 55th international art biennale, the jury praised Sehgal ‘for the excellence and innovation that his practice has brought opening the field of artistic disciplines.'”
Jazz In A Concert Hall? Bad Plan
“I see the whole concert hall paradigm as a way to lease entitlement to a leisure class. Like the restaurant, where diners can pay a nominal to exorbitant fee for being served a repast as if they were royalty, concert goers get an ersatz Esterházy experience where they time share the services of their own orchestra that will give them the same sense of disassociation from the hard work experienced by the rest of humanity.”
What’s Up With This ‘French Harry Potter’ Thing?
The six-volume self-published children’s book series sold thousands of copies in France, where publishers didn’t think it was intellectual enough for teens. Then the teens started a letter-writing campaign.
Detroit Isn’t The First Museum (Or City) In Economic Crisis To Consider Selling Its Art
“When museums aren’t free-standing institutions, as is the case in Detroit, the larger entities that control them sometimes can’t help but see dollar signs. The van Goghs are just hanging there, waiting to be put up for auction.”
An Opera About Walt Disney That Isn’t Disneyfied
“What we see is not the finished images, but a little boy dressing piglets up in clothes. It’s a slightly weird, more David Lynch than Disney bit of America.”
‘Gatsby’ Defies Critics: That’s Boring, But Its Success Also Defied Predictions
“BoxOffice.com at one point projected very soft opening-weekend sales of about $24 million. Early on, several studios were so worried about the movie’s multiplex prospects that they passed on making it. Oops.”
Art Detective: Auction Houses, Buyers Aren’t Really Trying Not To Deal In Stolen Work
“Marinello stopped short of suggesting that the buyers had not wanted to know about doubts over an artwork’s legality: ‘Perhaps it’s the excitement of getting a good deal.'”
Egyptian Lawmaker Calls Ballet Immoral, Infuriates Dancers
“Council member Gamal Hamed, of the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, said ballet dancing promotes ‘indecency’ in society. ‘[Ballet] is the art of nudity, spreading immorality and obscenity among people,’ Hamed said.”
Eine Deutsche HuffPo?
The Huffington Post is opening up shop in Germany. How, exactly, is *that* going to work?