“The announcement of a shortlist of six new works competing to be the next two sculptures to occupy the plinth in the square’s northwest corner offers an opportunity to reflect on how these works get chosen.”
Tag: 09.24.13
Do We Need Literary Characters to Be Likable?
“Likability in fictional characters is a complicated matter, but it isn’t exclusively the concern of philistines and dolts.”
The Candidates To Next Occupy Trafalgar’s Fourth Plinth
“Six pieces of art have been unveiled in London, one of which will be chosen to replace the blue cockerel currently displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.”
100 Works Of Art That Define Our Age?
“A new art book is boldly going where no other a few other art books have gone before, daring to highlight 100 works of art that have defined the late 20th and early 21st century art world.”
And The 2013 MacArthur Fellows Are –
The arts figures receiving this year’s $625,000 genius grants include choreographers Alexei Ratmansky and Kyle Abraham, authors Karen Russell and Donald Antrim, pianists Jeremy Denk and Vijay Iyer, playwright Tarell McCraney, and photo and video artist Carrie Mae Weems.
An Arts Center Where Corporate Funders Are Side-By-Side With Their Sponsees
“Now Matadero [in Madrid] is evolving into a cultural laboratory, where a new arts financing strategy is being tested. Companies and institutions are providing financial support to supplement dwindling government arts subsidies, but with a twist: they don’t just send checks, they move in.”
Actors In Anti-War Play Arrested At Belfast Airport For Carrying Live Bullets
Four cast members of an Irish-Bosnian co-production of The Conquest of Happiness “were detained … on Monday evening after the bullets, which were sewn into the lining of a jacket worn by one of the actors on set, were discovered by a scanner.”
Movie, Music Industries Produce Anti-Piracy Lessons Aimed At Children
“It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others’ ideas always requires permission. The overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits.”
Met Opera Opens Season As Protestors Speak Up
The outburst in the opera house capped an evening of picketing outside it, as opera patrons in black tie and ball gowns were met with chanting protesters and a 50-foot rainbow banner that said “Support Russian Gays!”
Four Prominent Artists Who Quit MoCA Board In Protest Last Year Will Help Choose Museum’s New Director
“MOCA confirmed Monday that John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha are all on its 14-member search committee.”