In L.A., officials don’t think they have the right to clean graffiti off the city’s famous murals –Â and that’s just the tip of the confusion iceberg where visual arts copyright law is concerned. Why all the dithering?
Author: ArtsJournal2
Sporting A New Artistic Director, Brooklyn Phil Roams The Borough
The Brooklyn Philharmonic all but disappeared for a couple of years. And that, says new artistic director Alan Pierson, is fantastic. “The institution had time to really wipe the slate clean and reconsider everything, and then come out again with something new, without the burden of attachment to something old.”
Let The Market Decide What Art Projects Are Worth Funding
“If you are working in the arts professionally – that is, being paid or expecting to be paid for what you do or create, is it really so scandalous to try to create something that will generate enough revenue to pay for itself?”
Celebration Over The Sale Of Hated Public Artwork
How’d that public sculpture work out in Portland, Maine? Ask Shawn McCarthy. “Oh, God, it was all we could see,” McCarthy said. “In one way it was a conversation piece, but the conversation just was never positive.”
Chick-Lit May Be Dead, But Should We Dance On Its Grave?
“By buying into ‘chick-lit’ we are buying into the notion – perpetuated by publishers – that, as women, we require a different genre of fiction. That is harmful, not just because it’s patronising, but because it undermines the work of the author too.”
Paperbacks May Be Losing Ground, But Some Hardbacks Surge
“If this is the valley of destruction, then many publishers can begin to glimpse distant sunlit uplands. People haven’t stopped reading fiction or non-fiction, or paying for what they read. On the contrary, via both Kindle and printed page, they’re reading as much as ever.”
LA’s A Sprawling Puzzle. Guess What? That Was The Plan
“This is a significant and in some ways counterintuitive set of propositions about how Los Angeles grew. Instead of following the usual logic that the American suburb was created by people fleeing something – usually the overcrowded, overpriced, crime-ridden city – Hise argues that at least in Southern California suburban growth was driven by people drawn to something, primarily jobs.”
A Century Later, Germany Sends Skulls Home To Namibia
“Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.”
Your Kid *Could* Have Created That – 13,000 Years Ago
At the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in France, archaeologists have discovered children’s marks alongside prehistoric paintings –Â and they claim that the most prolific was a 5-year-old girl.
Bullets And Marriages: Touring L.A. With A Performance Artist
With Pacific Standard Time bringing more attention to the city, the artist tells KPCC exactly what was important about places like the F Space, where in 1974 Chris Burden took a bullet in the service of art.