“Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry,” the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday.”
Tag: 09.02.08
Is Opera Finding New Audiences?
“For years now, the nation’s various opera companies have been making strenuous efforts to attract a more diverse audience – with modern interpretations, cheap tickets, outdoorshows, cinematic screenings, “simulcasts” from the New York Met, club nights, cult artists, Damon Albarn’s Monkey, a presence on Facebook and YouTube, and even ticket offers in the Sun. It does seem to be working.” Really?
Artist To Use Convict’s Body As Art Project
A convict on death row in America has agreed to let his body be made into a work of art if his final appeal against execution fails.
The Guggenheim’s Next Director Is…
“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is expected to name as its next director the outgoing director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Richard Armstrong, according to sources close to the search. Mr. Armstrong would replace Thomas Krens, who resigned in February.”
Hispanic Society Prepares To Sell Collection?
The Hispanic Society of America has recalled 38,000 coins from the American Numismatic Society (ANS) which have been on loan for more than half a century–and appears to be preparing to sell them.
A Hirst Glut?
“Did international auction house Sotheby’s bring famed contemporary artist Damien Hirst’s works to India because a ‘mountain’ of unsold works lies in wait in London?” one of India’s leading news agencies asked.
Slave To Harder Work
“This is a stunning moment in economic history: At one time we worked hard so that someday we (or our children) wouldn’t have to. Today, the more we earn, the more we work, since the opportunity cost of not working is all the greater (and since the higher we go, the more relatively deprived we feel).”