“Not a single person on the board of trustees has links to Bradford, or indeed the wider region. We cannot have decisions about our city and our region being made by the ‘great and the good’ in London.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Making Comics More Real, Or At Least More 21st Century
“The world of comics in 2016 resembles the music business in 1977-1980, when agile indie labels such as Rough Trade and Factory outmanoeuvred the major record companies and the majors were forced to respond.”
The Joy Of A Terrible But Experimental Book From A Successful Author
“Even as my unease and disappointment increased with each passage like this, I began to feel a strangely pleasurable tingling. There was no escaping the fact that I was reading a bad book by a very fine writer, but it occurred to me that this was actually a good thing.”
Picasso’s Daughter Says She Did *Not* Sell Disputed Sculpture To Two Different Owners
“Maya Widmaier Picasso, who is the artist’s daughter with his French mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, issued a statement through her lawyer Thaddeus Stauber on Friday saying she sold a 1931 plaster bust of her mother, ‘Bust of a Woman,’ to a New York dealer, Larry Gagosian, in May. The dealer subsequently sold it to Mr. Black for roughly $106 million, a record-high price for any Picasso sculpture.”
When Symphony Musicians Retire
“I’m happy to be able to watch all the Steelers games on Sunday because I don’t have to work. They had a good season, in spite of everything.”
The Year Carol Channing Starred In The First Super Bowl Half-Time Show
“Channing wasn’t the center of attention. The show was mostly built around the Southern University marching band performing a tribute to Mardi Gras. And the highlight was not Channing or the band, but a bizarre re-enactment of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, waged by actors dressed in period costume firing cannons and pretending to fall dead on the turf.”
Why Is A Major Portland Museum Closing And Being Absorbed Into A College?
“Mills considers everything that has happened as the result of the museum’s original 2007 move into the Pearl District from its home on Southwest Corbett. That move wasn’t just geographic; it changed the culture of the museum (which had been known as Contemporary Crafts Gallery) as it raised its visibility and quality of exhibitions. And it was far more expensive. ‘I don’t think they ever recovered,’ Mills said.”
Directors Guild Awards Muddy The Oscar Waters Even More
“The Producers Guild of America gave its top prize to The Big Short and the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble went to Spotlight. But the DGA Award now gives a boost to The Revenant, the tale of a 19th century fur trading fighting for his life.”
This Article Will Make You Question Everything About The Oscars, And The Sanity Of Those Who Want To Win One
“This year, with so many races up for grabs, the party circuit is wildly competitive – especially when you factor in that a huge chunk of a studio’s promotion budget used to be spent on buying ads in daily print trade papers. Now that Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are weeklies and online, that excess coinage is repurposed into flying talent to events.”
Redefining ‘Gallery’ For 2016
“When it opens in mid-March, there will be no other commercial gallery like it in Los Angeles, New York or, for that matter, the rest of the Americas.”