Ballet almost never makes it to the big screen these days. So the dance known as “Baby Baryshnikov” is happy for the new dance-centric “Center Stage.” – Boston Herald
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YOU GONNA FUND PORNOGRAPHY?
Jane Alexander’s new memoir recalls the battles over arts funding while she was chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. – Washington Post
WHEN MARY SUED SALLE
In January New York art dealer Mary Boone signed David Salle to her stable. Now she’s suing him for $1 million. Evidently “Boone promised to advance Salle $500,000, in return for which he would consign work worth at least $850,000 to her gallery. She’d pay all the promotional costs, and they’d split the sales, 60-40 in his favor.” Boone says Salle failed to deliver on the promised work. – New York Daily News
FUNDING DYNAMO
Vivian Duffield – Britain’s best and most flamboyant fundraiser for the arts shares some of her secrets (and the news that she will soon be leaving her job). – The Telegraph (UK)
NEW YORK TO ARCHITECTURE – DROP DEAD
The new zoning rule overhaul put forward by NY mayor Rudy Giuliani amounts to a direct attack on the creativity of architects. Just how far can a government go with restrictions on building design before it violates constitutional principles? – New York Times
NEW CITY ARTS ENDOWMENT
At the end of a nine-day arts festival, city leaders in Charleston announce that the city will create a $5 million arts endowment. – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
INVENTING A PHENOMENON
It’s “Sound of Music” meets “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and it’s the hottest new thing in high camp at the movies in London. Audiences are massing to sing along with the Von Trapps and dress up for the parts. Meet the man who invented a phenomenon. – Los Angeles Times
ART BY ANY OTHER NAME
Why must the cards labeling works of art be so vacuous? “Now, though, even the most venerable institutions have succumbed to the pull of populism: exhibitions have been dumbed down. And for this, I blame the curators and the catalogues and wall labels they provide. It is not the artists chosen that are at fault but rather the commentaries on them and quality of information supplied in the galleries.” – The Telegraph (UK)
THE BREAK BETWEEN ARCHITECTS AND THE REAL WORLD
Los Angeles is booming. But architects aren’t smiling. “The reason is that once again the profession’s creative elite has been relegated to the sidelines, designing scattered landmark residences while the majority of new housing remains in the hands of corporate developers. The break between the worlds of first-rate architecture and conventional home building – never close in the first place – is now a chasm.” – Los Angeles Times
NEW IRISH ARCHITECTURE
Ireland didn’t produce much in the way of decent architecture in the 1980s. Most of the large civic projects were roads and bridges. “Disengaged from the infrastructural process, architects felt envious and threatened. One prominent architect nominated for an award remarked that he would hate his building to be ‘beaten by a runway’ at Dublin airport.” Now some new signs of life. – The Sunday Times (UK)