Selling art online was one promise of the internet. But it’s never really caught on. Now an artist in Washington State is offering art to be digitally printed for prices beginning at about $25. It’s not schlock but the kind of art you might find in reasonable galleries. Artists receive 75 percent of a sale, with the remaining 25 percent going to maintain and expand the site…
Tag: 01.11.05
Springer Protests Surprise BBC
The tens of thousands of complaints to the BBC over the airing of Jerry Springer, The Opera, has surprised programmers. “We were certainly struck by the scale of the protest, and the e-mails as well as letters and phone calls, but obviously viewers and listeners have an absolute right to make their voices heard. The BBC surprised by the scale of the campaign.”
California Arts Council Gets New Director
The California Arts Council has a new director. Muriel Johnson, is a recently retired chairwoman of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, where she helped direct a budget of about $1.5 billion. She takes over an agency whose budget was slashed last year from $18 million to aboput $1 million.
Sontag Would Have Hated The Reviews Of Her Death
Carlin Romano is apalled by many of the things written about Susan Sontag after her death. Why all the false cliches? “If Sontag had lived for another decade, the esteem in which many international critics held her might have won her the Nobel Prize for literature. Why, then, should the cliché persist that she remained primarily a critic? Might it be that “appreciation writers” — praising her for always thinking for herself — couldn’t do so themselves? That “appreciators” who celebrated her indefatigable reading couldn’t be troubled to read her fiction and enter a judgment of their own? That American media, only attentive to intellectuals when they bark out something outré, insisted on reducing her to a highbrow sound-bite babe?”
SF Opera Narrows Director Search
David Gockley, the visionary longtime general director of the Houston Grand Opera, has emerged recently as a leading candidate to take over the reins of the San Francisco Opera…
Student Appeals Barnes Move Decision
A Barnes Foundation art student is appealing a ruling last month that permits the Barnes to relocate to downtown Philadelphia. “I don’t want the art to be relocated away from where it is suppose to be. I was disappointd in the court’s decision and felt the evidence did not support the decision.”
Why Pet Projects Poop Out
Why are so many directors’ favorite projects failures as movies? “The failure of so many pet projects is more than fluky coincidence. Such films have their own set of problems. Over the years, endless script revisions can drain the life and energy from a movie, which then staggers into the world as if emerging from decades in a dark attic, as withered and creaky as Miss Havisham. And the filmmaker’s passion is often so blinding that he forgets to explain to the rest of us why Alexander was so great or Bobby Darin was such an idol in the Spacey household.”
MoMA’s Art For The Hard-of-Seeing
The Museum of Modern Art now offers audio description tours for the visual-impaired. “The regular tour takes about two-and-a-half hours, with 75 stops, and is available in six languages. What’s new here is a multiplicity of voices, including some from the past read by actors. Also, instead of hearing from one curator, visitors now hear from many, with additional perspective from conservators and artists, including Chuck Close, Marcel Duchamp and Lorna Simpson.”