“For nearly five decades, military governments here examined every book, every article, each illustration, photo or poem before printing. It was a crucial exercise for the military, which sought control over nearly every facet of citizens’ lives.” Now, that’s coming to an end.
Author: ArtsJournal2
What The Hell Is California Artist Ed Ruscha Doing In Vienna?
“The marriage between institution and artist is unlikely. Ruscha is famed for his scrupulously laconic hymns to US culture at its most downbeat and vernacular. … The Kunsthistorisches, on the other hand, is a high monument to Old World culture, a cupola-crowned palace built in 1891.”
Wrestling Content, And Meaning, For China And The U.S.
“American movie heroes typically choose greatness, but their path to glory is often sidetracked by failings or doubts as the idol struggles with physical and emotional setbacks. Chinese movie paragons, on the other hand, normally have greatness thrust upon them, are physically and emotionally stable and rarely change over the course of a tale.”
What Does Glenn Gould Mean To Canada?
“The multifaceted Gould is a kind of Rorschach test for Canadians. Would you like to see him as a digital prophet, the forward-looking recording artist and broadcaster who called for a democracy that would elevate the audience to the level of the performer and who predicted our mash-up culture? Or perhaps you prefer the child of WASP Toronto, the control freak who obsessed over the quality of his recordings, partisan of Bach and Schoenberg.”
Discovered: Lord Byron’s First Edition Of Frankenstein, Signed By Mary Shelley
The book, dreamt up (literally) by the 18-year-old Shelley in 1816 and written at a fever pitch during the next two years, was lying at an angle on a top shelf in Lord Byron’s library.
Did Pacific Standard Time Actually Accomplish Anything for L.A.?
“The city did gain some of that hard-to-measure quality known as cultural cachet, with 80% of one group of respondents agreeing ‘somewhat’ or ‘strongly’ that it ‘made me think more highly of L.A. as an arts/cultural destination.'” But museum attendance took a dive.
Making Theatre Special Again
Want people to come to your (rather expensive) show? Start them out with a warm welcome from staff, a clean bar – and soap in the toilets.
Making Software? Please Don’t Try To Build ‘Social’ In
“It is no longer enough for our students to read an article on a web or mobile platform, they must ‘add value’ to the experience by ‘connecting’ with fellow learners. Nobody can ever be alone with their educational content. They need presence awareness tools to let them know which of their fellow classmates are also online, looking at the exact same materials.”
Wally Cleaver, Abstract Artist
Tony Dow (even his name calls to mind the opening of the T.V. show) may be known as the older brother of the Beav, but he’s a serious sculptor now – partly thanks to a history-poor 28-year-old T.V. executive.
Sotheby’s Gets To China First
Beating out Christie’s for an actual presence in China, the art auction house has plans to establish itself inside a new free port in Beijing.