The UK has set up a research council to study the “cultural and creative industries.” “With an annual budget of £75m the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is still a minnow among the other six research councils that dispense funding to scientists and social scientists – the Medical Research Council, for example, gives out more than £400m a year.”
Tag: 04.01.05
A Dance Grows In Brooklyn
“The real estate market has been devastating to many Manhattan dance organizations. From January 1999 to January 2001, at least nine dance studios in Manhattan closed or moved. Others have vanished since. Dance in Brooklyn, meanwhile, has experienced steady growth. New performance spaces, both formal and informal, are flourishing. The borough teems with dancers, and rehearsal space can be found for the shockingly low price of $5 an hour.”
Bill T. Jones Takes Stock
“Gray and bespectacled, hobbling from knee surgery, Jones is still one of the most dashingly charismatic figures in the dance world. But he admits that 20 years of developing new works while trying to maintain a repertory in a competitive marketplace have been exhausting. As he settles into the next decade of artistic life, he is taking stock and looking for new avenues of expression. He is toying with the idea of augmenting the company with actors, singers, and laypeople from the community.”
Chinese Request For Art Import Ban Provokes Debate
“Chinese officials have asked the State Department to impose the restrictions, on a wide range of artifacts from the prehistoric period through the early 20th century, because they believe that demand in the United States for Chinese antiquities has helped fuel a sharp increase in looting of archaeological sites and even thefts from museums over the last several years. The request has sparked an impassioned debate in the Asian-art world, in which many prominent archaeologists, preservationists and scholars have lined up to support the Chinese government, while many antiquities dealers and museum officials argue that the changes would be unfair, ineffective in stopping looting and devastating for the art market and for museums.”
Poet Robert Creeley, 78
Creeley wrote, edited or was a major contributor to more than 60 books, including fiction, essays and drama. He belonged to a group of poets – beginning with Modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and continuing through the Beats and the Black Mountain poets like Charles Olson – who tried to escape from what they considered the academic style of American poetry, with its European influences and strict rhyme and metric schemes.
Will Muti Quit Music Over La Scala?
Conductor Riccardo Muti is said to be so depressed by the debacle he’s involved in at La Scala theatre that “he may give up music altogether, his wife was quoted as saying yesterday. Cristina Mazzavillani told an interviewer: ‘I really don’t know if he still has the will to work’.”
Banksy – Using Art Against Curators
Banksy’s recent caper hanging paintings in four New York museums has those museums worried about security. But “what makes Banksy’s exploits effective as attention-getters, however, is the degree to which he uses the tools of the curators against them. His paintings had ornate frames and the plaques that accompanied them mimicked those found in galleries. ‘He’s using their language, their style of presentation’.”