Category: issues

“Inexperience and a lack of dialogue are exacerbated by our culture’s collective failure to bestow any overt value on the critical conversation. Where are the MFA programs for critics? Where are the review workshops, or writing groups?”

What “a concept space” means, maybe only Paul Allen knows. But it looks like he’s cut off his dedicated arts and culture center before even launching it. I feel bad for the staffers. And dumb for hoping for better.

“Nearly 3,000 cases were reported between May and October, with the Rugby World Cup, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift particular targets, said Action Fraud. On average, customers who bought fake tickets lost £444 per transaction.”

“In San Francisco, a call last week for the dismissal of the executive director of the African American Art and Culture Complex has created a firestorm, adding a public relations challenge to already-existing tensions around mission and finances.”

“Last week it was reported that Southwark council had rejected plans to turn a multi-story parking garage, currently home to exhibition space Bold Tendencies and Frank’s Rooftop Bar, into 800 affordable artists’ studios. Instead the council opted for a collaboration between a Mayfair-based developer and Carl Turner Architects; the gang behind the much criticized ‘Pop: Brixton’ hellscape. Focusing on ‘multi-use event spaces, pop-up retail, and cafe/bars’ the scheme will target ‘ambitious young professionals’ and offer a mere 50 artists’ studios.”

“While he is not widely known in Saudi Arabia or abroad, Mr. Fayadh has been an active member of Saudi Arabia’s small contemporary art scene, and his colleagues describe him as a passionate curator who has sought to link Saudi artists to the rest of the world.”

“Because the competition for a place among the country’s well-off is so vicious.”

Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin said that at least 4 million euros, or about $4.3 million, have been allocated toward a “solidarity fund.”