“Rock-star looks aside, Marden eschews cool. In an age where so much painting is purely about itself, he remains entranced by the landscape, light and colour of the world around him.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
You Can Crowd-Source, And Crowd-Fund, The Next Movie You See
“Tugg [is] a new service that combines crowd-funding, like Kickstarter, with the build-your-own-entertainment model of video-on-demand – but in a movie theater. With relationships with movie theaters all across the country and a library of more than 400 feature-length films, including new independent films, classic Hollywood and foreign movies, dramas, documentaries, and genre pictures, Tugg allows film lovers or people with a common interest in a particular subject matter to create a screening at a local theater at a time and date of their choosing.”
Painting Of Canada’s Prime Minister Au Naturel Doesn’t Go Over Well Online
A nude Stephen Harper reclining like the Rokeby Venus or Olympia? OK, it’s art – but Twitter doesn’t deal with it well.
More On The E-Word For Composers
That is, entrepreneurship. Why? “Most composition programs are built along the business model of South Park‘s underpants gnomes [collect underpants + ? = profit].”
Booker Winner (And Booker Snub-ee) Alan Hollinghurst Doesn’t Worry About Prizes Because Hello, He’s Busy Writing
“‘The Booker made me a lot of money. I didn’t realise that all over the world, people will read a book just because it won the Booker prize.’ A delicious pause. ‘Not something I would do myself… But then one goes into some quite other, private region to produce a book.’ He gives me a knowing look. ‘I think the Booker can drive people quite mad. That’s why it’s good to be detached from it.'”
Protest On The Red Carpet At Cannes’ Single-Gendered Year
“Five women from La Barbe donned fake, different colored beards and stood in the torrential rain at the premiere of Michael Haneke’s Amour. They carried signs that said, ‘Marveilleux,’ ‘Merci!!!’ ‘Splendide,’ ‘Incredible!’ and ‘Le Barbe.'”
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, A Man Who Could Even Intimidate Benjamin Britten
“Britten to Fischer-Dieskau, 1961: ‘Please forgive me writing to such a busy man as yourself — you can be sure that if I did not feel very strongly I should not be troubling you! … I am writing what I think will be one of my most important works. It is a full-scale Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra … Peter Pears has agreed to sing the tenor part, and with great temerity I am asking you whether you would sing the baritone.'”
A Photography Gift That Boosts Boston’s Museum Of Fine Art
“The donation includes the entire photographic estate of Charles Sheeler – 2,500 photographs – and the same number of photographs by Edward Weston. Complementing these are 500 photographs by Ansel Adams, and 100 each by Imogen Cunningham and Brett Weston, Edward’s son.”
Memorizing The Notes And Playing Blind (Literally) In Egypt
“The women in Cairo’s Egyptian Blind Girls Chamber Orchestra first learn the songs by reading sheet music in braille. Since it is impossible to read braille and play an instrument at the same time, the musicians must memorize every note of every song. Pacing is also critical because the musicians cannot see the conductor. He merely claps three times to start each song.”
Author Neil Gaiman Gives Graduation Speech; Millions (Well, Thousands – Online, Anyway) Swoon
“‘The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you: your voice, your mind, your story, your vision,’ the British-born, Minneapolis-based novelist and screenwriter told the 526 newly minted graduates. ‘So write and draw and dance and play as only you can. … Leave the world more interesting for your being here.'”