Sting, Mark Knopfler, and others from northeast England: “The ‘blanket and pre-emptory’ cuts could result in ‘generations of young people denied access to the opportunities we were given and, without the council’s support, the arts will simply become a pursuit for the most wealthy.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
One More Time: Why The Nobel Committee Made A Terrible Choice
“Mo’s comments were still unforgivable because behind his stance on censorship lies a commitment to collective cultural amnesia. Beyond the perpetual balancing act of state collaboration that China’s artists play, Mo’s position betrays a suffocating sickness in China’s literary scene.”
Paperwork’s History: Riveting (And LIfe-Saving)
“The unofficial hero of Mr. Kafka’s book is Charles Hippolyte Labussière, a French government clerk who in 1794 purportedly saved hundreds of people from the guillotine by dissolving the relevant paperwork in Paris’s public baths (or, as one version of the story has it, eating it).”
Audience Participation In The Tate Modern’s Kraftwerk Ticket Cock-Up
“I imagine they were delighted to be distracted from trying to fix the problem by a thousand querulous messages arriving every minute. Did we really think that through, Twitter?”
How to Build A Reality TV Empire
Thom Beers’s work “is the reason that viewers who have never worked a day away from an Aeron chair may know the dimensions and weight of a crab pot or the freezing point of synthetic transmission fluid.”
Whose History Will This Museum Tell?
“Competing visions for the renovation of the history exhibits at Canada’s most visited museum pit conservatives who favour political history of the kings-and-battles variety against liberals who prefer the museum’s past emphasis on social and multicultural history, but want a lot more of it.”
The Woman Who Orchestrated Random Penguin
Liz Mohn, the power behind media giant Bertelsmann and the merger of Random House with Penguin: “The planned combination will give authors from all genres even more publishing options for the success of their books.”
The Kind Of Theatre Audiences Truly Get Into
“The audience gets as perilously close to the action as the company’s insurance providers will presumably allow – which, in this brave new world of pure-performance theatre, is very close indeed.”
Best Place To Learn Haitian Dance?
Brooklyn, of course.
Yayoi Kusama Also Leaves The Gagosian
Damien Hirst isn’t the only dot-making artist leaving the gallery.