Probably not, say critics of the Library of Wales series, which costs the Welsh government 50,000 pounds a year. (The Library of Wales people disagree.)
Author: ArtsJournal2
Big Studios Are Greedy For Oscars And Working The Room(s) To Get ‘Em
“After watching indie films like The Hurt Locker and Slumdog Millionaire claim Hollywood’s top honors for the last five years, the major studios are campaigning with a ferocity that could make one of them a winner on Feb. 24, Academy Awards night.”
A Museum Staff Exodus Causes Some Questions
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has not yet opened, but there has already been an exodus of employees, amid allegations of indecision and political interference on the part of management and the board of trustees.”
A Symphony of Tape Decks (Remember Cassettes?)
“With a few people pacing around the gallery, you get tape players sounding off from all sides — an immersive symphony of a near-extinct technology.”
Does Money Change Your Brain?
Probably. If you’ve got that other winning Powerball ticket, you need to read this.
Stop It With The ‘New’ Christmas Music, We Beg Of You
Sufjian Stevens’ new Christmas music collection, “supports the contrarian notion that all meaningful holiday music already has been written, recorded and re-recorded.”
Retrieving Copy Of Leonardo Painting A Victory For Italy’s Art Police
“The painting – on a small wooden panel measuring 115x86cm (45x34in) – was last seen in public 73 years ago on the eve of World War II, when it was shown at a Leonardo exhibition in Milan. Then it disappeared.”
An Austin Cultural Institution Takes A (Possibly Permanent) Break
The art magazine . . . might be good “strove to place Texas’ art scene into a larger national and international context, publishing earnest, academically-oriented reviews, interviews, essays and artist projects.”
Gray Foy, Artist, Bon Vivant, ‘Fixture of New York Cultural Life,’ 90
“For decades, Mr. Foy was a quiet if supremely capable avatar of the city’s gracious, aesthetically minded, boldface-named social milieu, a latter-day Gilded Age that flourished in New York in the years before the Stonewall uprising and for some time after, of which Truman Capote was perhaps the best-known embodiment.”
OMG Is Only Text-Speak If You Think Winston Churchill Texted
A 1917 letter to Churchill: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis – O.M.G. (Oh! My God!).”