“There is a quotation from Proust: ‘To release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which prepare the way of love there must be … the risk of an impossibility’. I think that passion for a lost book, often like love for a person, arises from the impossibility of reading it.”
Tag: 02.05.18
Auction Houses Should Take Some Of The Blame For University Art Sell-offs
“In previous academic deaccessions, alumni, the public and art professionals piled their ire upon university presidents and trustees. It seems to me that the auction houses are equally culpable. They are training their sights on financially pressed colleges and museums as part of their business development strategies. This is art-world ambulance chasing.”
One Man’s Ode To The Typewriter
“When I first became interested in vintage typewriters, collecting them was not a popular hobby. Finding another typewriter collector was almost as difficult as finding the actual machines. But over the past few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in mechanical typewriters—a renaissance of sorts. An object that had been deemed useless after the emergence of computers and relegated to the junk pile is now being celebrated.”
Board Members Quit, Creative Scotland In “Crisis” After Re-Apportioning Funding
Describing the funder as “a family at war with many of those it seeks to serve,” Ruth Wishart, who joined the inaugural board over seven years ago, said board members had not been given sufficient time to make decisions and that she no longer wanted to back the funder’s “flawed” choices.
Quentin Tarantino Responds To Uma Thurman’s Charges
“I am guilty, for putting her in that car, but not the way that people are saying I am guilty of it,” Tarantino told me. “It’s the biggest regret of my life, getting her to do that stunt. There are certain things I can’t get too far into the weeds on, but I will any questions you have about it.”
Virtual Reality Can Be Compelling (Try It, You’ll See). But Whether It Survives As A Medium Is A Challenge
Looking back, every successful medium has either “killed” a predecessor (in the manner that television displaced radio in the home, or that streaming video is chipping away at cable) or “colonized” time and attention that was unused or used for something else. However, that was somewhat easier when people actually had free time. Today, we live in a media environment where billions of dollars are spent fighting for the time spent “waiting at the bus stop.”
Inside The Audition That Lets Dancers Try Out For Ten Ballet Companies At Once
“‘Our main goal is really to help dancers,’ says David Makhateli, a former principal with The Royal Ballet who launched the Grand Audition with his wife, dancer Daria Makhateli. With 10 artistic directors from a wide range of countries present, a dancer who might not fit one company’s requirements has many more opportunities to be noticed. … Most [participating] companies are based in Europe, but American directors have also taken part in past editions.”
Rich Guy Buys Picasso Painting, Renames It After His Nightclub
Richard Caring reportedly spent somewhere between £20 million and £30 million last year to buy The Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom. Picasso evidently did not give the painting a title himself – so Caring decided to rename it “Annabel”, after a nightspot he owns in London’s Mayfair district. As one might expect, art historians are aghast.
Eli Manning And Odell Beckham Jr. Are The Real Dance Champions Of The Super Bowl
So pronounces no less an authority than Dance Magazine about the two New York Giants players about the commercial in which they recreated the famous duet from Dirty Dancing. “And yes,” writes Courtney Escoyne, “they did The Lift.”
Broadway’s Smallest Theater Is Reopening, This Time As A Nonprofit
“The theater was so small, it was named the Little Theater. That was 106 years ago, and since then it has been reincarnated many times – renamed, repurposed, rehabilitated. Now known as the Helen Hayes Theater, … the 589-seat playhouse has a new mission: … to present work by living American playwrights, a form of counterprogramming at a time when Broadway is dominated by musicals, revivals and British imports.”