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Author: ArtsJournal2
New U.K. Prize Honors Sharp-Tongued Reviewers
For real: It’s the Hatchet Job of the Year Award — and the critic who wins gets a year’s supply of potted shrimp.
Exactly How DID Damien Hirst Get To Be A Big Deal?
Jerry Saltz: “Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.”
Heirs To Musical Royalty Make The Decisions (Before Copyright Expires)
“Few recent Broadway seasons have had as much estate-driven handiwork as this one, a reflection of the rising entrepreneurship of heirs and the affection of audiences for song standards. Heirs are increasingly hands-on in trying to wrest moneymaking shows out of their ancestral trunks.”
Arts Funding Gone Big, And Big (Community) Picture, In Connecticut
“The Connecticut Office of the Arts will consolidate four of its local arts funding programs into one initiative; double total funding to $3.1 million; hand out fewer but larger grants; and focus on recipients’ place-making.”
Will The Internet Destroy Serendipity, And With It, Science?
“If you are searching for something, you can find it online, and quickly. But a side-effect of this awesome efficiency may be a shrinking, rather than an expansion, of our horizons, because we are less likely to come across things we are not in quest of.”
Moore On Those Oscars Documentary Changes (He Thinks They’re Great)
“The process will be more transparent and more democratic than it’s been in two decades,” said [Michael] Moore, who was a driving force behind the changes. “The idea is to get this thing fixed.”
Miguel Terekhov, 83, Ballets Russes Dancer And Dance Professor
Terekhov danced with the Ballets Russes in the 1940s and 1950s and co-founded the University of Oklahoma School of Dance.
Are We, Or Are We Not, Going To Hell In A Population Explosion Handbasket?
Remember predictions of population pressure and world collapse, most clearly laid out in the book The Limits of Growth? The model’s still around – and things don’t look that good for later in the 21st century.
Better Parking Lots, And Lives, Through Design
“Beyond greener designs and the occasional celebrity-architect garage, we need to think more about these lots as public spaces, as part of the infrastructure of our streets and sidewalks, places for various activities that may change and evolve, because not all good architecture is permanent.”