A nasty split among the founders of Pilobolus has upset “a collaborative dance company founded on utopian principles in the spirit of the 1960’s. The dispute has split current and former trustees and company members. But it is also connected to the sticky business of deciding who controls the rights to a piece of choreography.”
Tag: 07.24.06
Questions About Selling Museum Art
“Decisions to sell objects from museum collections must not be subject to the subjective judgments or personal preferences of individual curators, however knowledgeable and well-intentioned they may be. The governing presumption should be: What enters the public domain stays in the public domain, except for works that are clearly inferior in quality or condition. The public has paid for them, after all, through the tax deductions given to the donors of money or of art.”
Stones Are Top-Drawing Band In First Half Of 2006
The Rolling Stones made the most money of any band touring in the first half of 2006. “The veteran group made $147.3m (£79.7m) from 45 concerts on their A Bigger Bang tour in the US and elsewhere. Irish band U2 made $73m (£39.4m) over the same period, while veteran rockers Bon Jovi made more than $65m (£35m).”
How Do You Tell A Real Pollock?
Jackson “Pollock at his peak burned his past conditioning and present turmoil, his very identity and character as a man, and he burned them clean. There’s nobody to recognize. That’s why it can be hard at first sight to tell a true Pollock from a fake. He prepared us to believe that absolutely anything was possible for him. What determines authenticity for me is a hardly scientific, no doubt fallible intuition of a raging need that found respite only in art.”
Raving Mad – UK Raves Return
The legal club scene in the UK is limited so illegal raves are returning. “First signs of the rebirth of the outdoor rave came last year, but partygoers now appear to be more emboldened to challenge laws brought in 12 years ago by the Conservative government to crush a scene that epitomised the dance and drug culture of the early 90s.”
Book TV Would Be Big
Jerome Weeks thinks books could be big on TV. “Here’s my pitch: a book (or arts) program with news reports, stories from the field and irreverent opinions. Think of it as The Daily Show on books. In fact, Jon Stewart already interviews authors a great deal, so it’s not such a stretch to move the emphasis from politics to books. Do I really think this’ll fly on cable? Or even on satellite radio? Well, Dan Rather tells me that Mark Cuban’s hiring. HDNet can sure use some fresh programming.”
Lebrecht: South Bank’s Anti-Art Move
London’s South Bank has offered work to a pair of talented English composers that will keep them away from composing, writes Norman Lebrecht. “In the prime of life and apparent good health, the pair ought to be at the height of their fertility yet such is the English aptitude for seducing artists away from art – and the concomitant avidness of English artists to accept state honours and financial honoraria – that no-one, not even their loyal publisher, would aver that Oliver Knussen or George Benjamin has come within a nautical mile of fulfilling a truly remarkable potential.”