Category: issues

A woman claiming to be the great niece of Konrad Kujau, author of the mother of all forgeries, the “Hitler Diaries,” has been convicted of selling forged versions of paintings made by Kujau in his later years, themselves copies of famous masterpieces.

“Some new Google features designed to predict what you’re typing before you’ve finished it are lately inspiring creative flashes across the Web – and not just among the people who make a living promoting these high-tech innovations.”

“Daley’s cultural pronouncements are rarely adorned with Shakespearean eloquence. But it’s hard to think of another American government official who has stepped out so far, and so often, in support of the arts as the lynchpin of a vibrant, modern city.”

“You know, as an entrepreneur, and I hate calling myself an entrepreneur” – here our digression begins – “you don’t do it for the money at all, really you don’t; you’re doing it because you get caught up in an idea and you want that idea to work.” The ultimate achievement, according to Waterstone, is to see your vision realised, often against the odds: almost all entrepreneurs, he thinks, are fighting against received wisdom.

“Like other big-time Washington arts awards (think the Twain Prize and the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song), it’s not just whom a selection committee wants to honor, it’s also who’s available.”

Art critic Brian Sewell “says it is time to kill off the Arts Council and replace it with Dragons Den-style funding bids, organised through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. He says this would allow smaller groups to have as much chance of funding as the “rich and powerful” larger institutions”

“For decades, the city under his administration treated the local popular music scene – and by extension the artists, businesses and fans who make it go – as a second-class citizen.”

“Box office receipts for the event, which ran from August 13 to September 5, were at £2.67 million – a 3% increase on 2009’s figures. … The higher box office was, in large part, thanks to an increase in top price tickets.”

Jonathan Mills: “I think it would be a real pity if, in the current climate, one went for a simplistic response to a quite complex set of equations – to say that comedy does well and suddenly all the emphasis is going to be on comic acts.”

Lyn Gardner argues that current British immigration rules that refuse visas to artists from non-EU countries are “causing damage to the UK’s reputation as a country that is open to engagement with international artists.”