“In interviews, mobile owners say they are trying to avoid the confines — and politics — of the gallery system; to help people think about art in different ways; or to reach more communities, especially those with young and old people who tend not to visit art districts.”
Tag: 05.30.14
Creating Scotland In Miniature (Including Rocks And Mud) For Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Macbeth’
“Painter Richard Nutbourne hopped off a flight from England last week and headed straight to the New York’s Park Avenue Armory to check that the nearly two dozen giant artificial stones he had shipped over the ocean had arrived safely.”
San Diego Opera Names New Leader
“Only two weeks after severing ties with former director Ian Campbell and reversing its March vote to his plan and shut down the company, the board of the San Diego Opera has picked a new leader. William Mason, the highly respected former general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is the opera’s new artistic adviser.”
What Those Cheekbones On Angelina Jolie In ‘Maleficent’ Mean
“So why choose to accentuate the zygomatics to transform a former Sexiest Woman in the World into a mystical villainess?” (They were prosthetics, by the way.)
The Newest Thing In Summer Festivals: The Classical Crossover
“One of the knee-jerk settings in collaborations like this is to have the orchestra do the big soupy chords, the sweeping string section. That to me is just window dressing. My intention is to bring an orchestra into contact with electronic music in order to make it do something provocative, aggressive.”
In Detroit, Creditors Demand Entire Art Collection
“The city’s bankruptcy managers have begun trying to place a value on the museum’s entire 66,000-piece collection. That’s quite an escalation from a previous appraisal of only about 1,700 works that the DIA had bought with city funds.”
Hay’s Indie Bookstores Are Dying As The Festival They Made Famous Thrives
“Hay is a market town, and it’s whatever the market will bear. At one time it was sheep, it was butter, it was cheese, it was books. And now maybe Hay is heading for the next thing, which could well be ideas.”
Is Digital Art Coming Of Age?
“Younger collectors don’t find these works intimidating. They relate to them on a generational level. The market is still nascent, but this is a direction contemporary art is going in.”
People Who Write About Technology Are Missing The Biggest Stories
“Even as we see technologies of a year or two ago decline, the tiniest shifts in the cool new thing merit microscopic dissection as though they will affect our great-grandchildren. If only we paid so much attention to climate change.”
The Perennial Question: How Can Musicians Do What They Love – And Still Make Money?
“With wedding music or random cocktail receptions, it is easy to offer rote performances and make an easy buck. But for the concerts that I’m sure most of us NewMusicBox musician fans love to perform—the concerts with music by living composers who have poured their energy and love into writing it—we can’t just phone it in. And we shouldn’t.”