A look at surviving evidence – not least the handprints in some cave paintings – suggests that we had been making some unwarranted assumptions.
Category: issues
What About The Money We Lose While You’re Fixing Our Home? Sydney Opera House’s Resident Companies Ask Government
“Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet have lashed out at the [New South Wales state] government for failing to provide any compensation for the arts companies being shut out of the Sydney Opera House while it undergoes renovations in 2017.”
So Brexit Won’t Affect British Arts Projects With European Funding, Eh?
“Organisations that were told before the referendum that a Brexit vote would have no impact on their funding applications are now experiencing delays.”
Are “Middle Class Rules” Holding Back The Arts?
“Forgive my generalisations and my bluntness, but there’s sometimes a deadness that comes when middle-class people run stuff. They get the content right, the ideas, the themes, the politics. But they haven’t a clue about how to embrace things.”
Go Ahead And Take Petrodollars, UK Museums, Says Official Association
“In response to claims by Art Not Oil that BP influenced museum programming, the committee said it is ‘common practice’ for a museum to maintain a dialogue with a sponsor about the planning and content of an exhibition.”
The Complex Debate Over A Celebrated Black Director And All He Brings With Him
“Parker seemed like a significant new presence in both the film and activism worlds. Unfortunately, the promise of both him and his movie appears now to be too good to be true.”
A Moscow Gallery Has Some Work From The Crimea, And Ukraine Is Far From Happy
“The dispute over the artist’s works has further darkened relations between Russia and Ukraine, paralleling a sharp rise in tensions over Russia’s military buildup on the peninsula.”
When Hollywood Loses Control Of Its Own Narrative
“That’s part of what Searchlight was betting on: the simple allure of an auteur and his singular artistic vision to usher a film to greatness. They simply failed to fully research, contemplate, or understand the implications of that alignment.”
Organic Cultural Spaces Versus The Top-Down Kind
“We have many spaces that are organized from the top down, that are well-renovated and secure, and that people don’t use. We call those places the hospitals of culture. What interests us is a new model of collective creativity, not just working away in our own corners but making something together.”
Smacked Back Into Place: Pop Music And Musicians After 9/11
As the 15th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Scott Timberg talks with scholar Mark Anthony Neal about the taboos that sprung up in the wake of the events (and the ensuing wars) and what happened to the artists who tried to challenge those taboos.