Moving Michael Heizer’s 340-ton “Levitated Mass” to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art means “a trip that will take the boulder through the heart of one of the most congested urban centers in the country: nine nights at six miles an hour, through 120 miles of roads, highways, bridges, overpasses, overhead wires, alarmingly low-hanging traffic lights and sharp turns.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Roger Williams, 87, Pianist to the Presidents
Williams topped the Billboard charts in the 1950s with everything from “Autumn Leaves” to “Lara’s Theme,” and he played for many a president, including a 12-hour marathon when he and Jimmy Carter both turned 80.
As China Rises, The Art Market Morphs
“Bill Ruprecht, Sotheby’s chief executive, said the Chinese are spending about $4 billion a year on Chinese paintings world-wide. That’s more than Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales last year of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art combined.”
Retiring, But Only To Form His Own Dance Company
New York City Ballet principal Charles Askegard takes his final bows with the company — but already has plans for his new venture, the aptly named Ballet Next.
With Refurbished Orsay, Paris Makes Impressionists Feel At Home
White walls and sunlight don’t work for Impressionist paintings, and the Musée D’Orsay’s newly refurbished Impressionist wing makes a good case for a deeply different approach.
Mahler’s Spectacular, Grand, Tragic, Overworked Life
John Adams: “For all its professional, emotional and physical crises, Mahler’s life was exemplary for an artist who, no matter how loud the outside world might pound on the walls of his concentration, vigilantly maintained an unobstructed direct line to his creative self, keeping it uncorrupted and unblocked to the end.”
Fans Still Potterless, At Least In The E-Universe
Despite the site’s 1 million users, the site set up to launch J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series as e-books isn’t quite ready for prime time.
Painting By App, With David Hockney
“Using the iPad in much the same way as he used to employ a pad of paper, Hockney recently exclaimed in an interview, ‘Van Gogh would have loved it!”
Peer Around The Next Corner – Moving Beyond “Travel Porn”
“High-end travel is as much a part of neocolonialism as rubber plantations.” How to change that? Ditch the guides, and walk.
Sylvia Robinson, 75, “Mother of Hip-Hop”
“She achieved her greatest renown for her decision in 1979 to record the nascent art form known as rapping, which had developed at clubs and dance parties in New York City in the 1970s. She was the mastermind behind the Sugarhill Gang’s ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ the first hip-hop single to become a commercial hit.”