“The winner of 14 Grammy Awards — including one in the early 1980s for producer of the year — Ramone was known for forging close creative relationships with artists and for the sumptuous sounds of his work, which typified an era of lavish recording budgets.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The End Of NY’s Living Room Theatre
Living Room Theatre’s Judith Malina: “I’m in the theater because I’m a revolutionary and I want to make a revolution. I want to make the beautiful non-violent, anarchist revolution.”
Put A Bully On It (Or At Least In The Title Somewhere)
‘The intention is service, to help the teachers and librarians who are looking for resources,” one marketer said. “At the same time it is definitely an opportunity for us to gather sales because it is such a hot topic.”
Tilda Swinton At MoMA? Oh, Yawn
“The piece as it has been presented does invite snickering. Conceptual art has been around long enough that even non-experts will now recognize certain tropes or motifs. Sitting in a glass box in an art gallery is one of them.”
Next Up At Netflix: The Wachowskis (And Another Genre)
“Netflix has done political thriller (‘House of Cards’), horror (the upcoming ‘Hemlock Grove’) and comedy (the upcoming resurrection of ‘Arrested Development’), so it makes sense that science fiction is next on its development slate.”
Poetry Magazine Editor Wins Needed Funds By Writing, Yes, A Poem
“I’ve never even won a raffle. I don’t go in for competitions – the only other time I did was decades back, when I got runner-up,” she said. “But I’m really down on my finances – I edit Agenda, and was really struggling, and thought this was probably better than a gamble on the horses.”
Fund Libraries’ E-Book Lending Programs, Or The Libraries Will Die
In the UK, “a review of ebook lending in libraries commissioned by the government has found that libraries risk becoming irrelevant if they do not start lending digital books.”
Drawing All Of The Buildings In New York
“Maybe it’s not necessary to do every single brownstone in Park Slope or every single building in Alphabet City. But they’re not all exactly the same. That’s what I love about brownstones. You look at them closely, and the cornices are different, or maybe the way the steps come up to the doors is different. That’s what makes drawing different from Instagram.”
NY Mayoral Candidate Doesn’t Regret Attempt To Censor Art
“Lhota threatened the museum’s financing from the city, raised the specter of evicting it from its home in Prospect Heights and declared that, when assessing what art should be displayed to the public, the sensibility that really mattered to him was that of his 8-year-old daughter, Kathryn.”
How Is China Dealing WIth A Waning Interest In Ideology?
Red tourism, of course: “The idea is for Chinese people to have fun with their political party, to enjoy themselves in the great amusement park of Communism. They’re invited to feast on braised pork, Mao’s favorite dish, in the leader’s birthplace of Shaoshan.”