Murder and mayhem are central themes throughout art history, from Titian’s “Flaying of Marsyas” and countless depictions of St. Sebastian riddled with arrows to Leon Golub’s paintings of death squads. However, gory board games are uncommon, if they have ever existed at all.
Tag: 01.25.08
US Congress Takes A Cold Look At College Endowments
“Tuition has gone up, college presidents’ salaries have gone up, and endowments continue to go up and up. We need to start seeing tuition relief for families go up just as fast. It’s fair to ask whether a college kid should have to wash dishes in the dining hall to pay his tuition when his college has a billion dollars in the bank.”
Man Sues Blue Man Group Over Stunt
A theatre-goer is suing because he says the Blue Men forced a camera down his throat during a show and damaged his esophagus. Blue Men counter that the stunt is an illusion; the camera footage is a video and the camera never goes in the mouth.
Former PNB Dancers Start Their Own Company
Julie Tobiason and Timothy Lynch, are both former members of Pacific Northwest Ballet, as are several of the company members. All of the dancers are classically trained, but their backgrounds are diverse. They’ve created a new dance company – Seattle Dance Project…
Chicago Sun-Times Cuts Its TV Critic
“Sun-Times TV critic Doug Elfman heard he was safe from the layoffs before he left work Wednesday, got a call a few hours later to tell him he was a goner, then came in Thursday to have his picture taken, as scheduled. The new photo will run with his column for his remaining week or so in the paper.”
Canadian Publishing, Music, TV And Film Industries Argue For Copyright Protection
“Jacqueline Hushion of the publishers’ council and Alan Willaert from the U.S. musicians’ federation said Canadian musicians and authors have had difficulty negotiating marketing rights outside Canada because the government can’t guarantee appropriate rights for foreign artists whose work is published and distributed in Canada.”
Out From The Vaults – Great Art Should Be Displayed
“Sooner or later the professional museum fatwa that treats these places as private curatorial archives and denies their governors freedom to trade collections must crumble. The crude chauvinism that says that a work of art must be ‘saved for the nation’, even if then buried by the nation, is the most arrogant of imperial leftovers. Art should be displayed.”
Are Crime Novels Easier To Write Than “Serious” Books?
Why is plot-driven popular fiction considered lesser than “serious” literature? “This is a strange time for the claim to be made, because the boundaries between the two sides of fiction – which we can loosely call literary and populist, although all of the terminology used in these debates tends to be pejorative – is visibly breaking down.”
Curator Philip Conisbee, 62
A curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Conisbee organized some of that museum’s most popular exhibitions.
Bruce Nauman To Represent US At Venice Biennale
“Nauman, 66, who lives in New Mexico, was chosen by the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions, a group of arts professionals organized by the National Endowment for the Arts to advise the State Department.”