“There should be a kind of discovery of the unexpected here [New York]. After all, this city is the most cosmopolitan of American cities and should be able to attract and display emerging talent. Otherwise, we lose creative artists to countries that are able to fund the arts more generously, and with each loss the inner life of our city is poorer. Just like a person, a city without an artistic life is a pretty dismal thing.”
Tag: 01.19.03
Art In Groups
Art made by teams is popular again. “The collective impulse has never died out in American art; and now it is surfacing again, for the most part outside New York. In cities like Milwaukee, Providence, R. I., St. Louis and Philadelphia, as well as several in Canada, an old countercultural model, often much changed, is being revived, in some cases by artists barely out of their teens. Many of the new art collectives are virtual: they reside on the Internet, that intrinsically collective medium. They are fluid in size, and members may not even know the identity of other members.”
UK Music Licenses Rile Musicians
The British government says it is trying to simplify the process for allowing live music to be played in pubs. So why are musicians and club owners fighting the idea and saying it will result in fewer places where live music can be heard?
Opera Companies Go Back To The Tried And True
In response to a tighter economy, more and more opera companies are turing away from adventurous fare and returning to audience favorites. “You have to consider what the public wants, because they have every opportunity to choose not to go. This isn’t a court theater – this is populist entertainment. We’re trying to appeal to a broad general public.”