Sound art – is it art? Is it music? “Sound art is moving into the mainstream. In Britain, it can be heard in our most celebrated buildings and, as most sound artists started off as musicians, it is making a noise in the music arena, too.”
Tag: 06.16.05
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Investigates Republican Lobbyist Fees
“Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining $15,000 in payments to two Republican lobbyists last year that were not disclosed to the corporation’s board.”
A Biennale For Adults
Michael Kimmelman likes this year’s Venice Biennale. “Reactions to biennales are always Rashomon-like. That the current festival is generally regarded as pensive and a bit risk-averse is partly a response to the previous biennale, a fiasco that would make nearly anything else seem prudent and sober. Call this the first fairly adult biennale in memory.”
Dungeons And Dragons Artist Dies
David Sutherland, an artist whose work appeared in various Dungeons and Dragons rule books, has died. He was 56 years old.
The Zen Of Tut Economics
With the opening here on Thursday of “Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” – a two-year, four-city American tour with the stated goals of mass appeal and mass profits – many feared this more recent curse, of abject commercialism, would rise again. Yet unless vast sums are lost, this is one time when the curse may have lost its power.”
“Little Black Sambo” Returns To Japan
Seventeen years after it was removed from bookshops for its racist content, the children’s story Little Black Sambo has made a comeback in Japan…
Singer Sells Career On eBay
“A London-based pop singer is raising funds to kick-start his career by selling shares in himself on internet auction site eBay. In just three days, Shayan has raised £9,000 from buyers in London, New York and Toronto.”
Pop Culture? Sure… But Is It Art?
“Cultural institutions across the United States are drawing crowds as they open exhibits featuring the likes of “The Lord of the Rings,” Princess Diana, and “Star Wars.” But some wonder, as they stroll among the characters, costumes, and movie memorabilia, how is this museum material?”
Goya Recovered
A Goya painting has been recovered in Montenegro. “The oil painting, Count Ugolino, had been lifted from a gallery in Turin, northern Italy, in December 2001. Goya’s work – which evokes a gory episode from Dante’s Inferno – was retrieved during a raid on a flat near the Montenegrin capital of Pogdorica.”
Germany Remembers WWII In Its Art
It seems like there’s a memorial to war or the Holocaust on most streets in Berlin. “The Germans are correct in asserting that no other country has ever taken such a monumental (pun intended) step toward memorializing its own crimes. That’s just not what national memorials generally do. But Berlin is a city in which almost every street evokes complex historical events; Germany is a country rich with sites of its tragic past.”