“Tinterow had a distinguished 29-year tenure at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he had been chairman of the department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art since 2008.” He succeeds the late Peter Marzio, who over 30 years “developed the MFAH into one of the nation’s most respected – and richest – museums.”
Tag: 10.02.11
Music In The Museum. Why?
“What is the goal of music museums? There are, of course, musical instrument museums, designed to preserve specific collections of objects. But “music” is a more abstract concept.”
Southern California’s First Great Modern Painter (You Probably Don’t Know Of Him)
Christopher Knight on John McLaughlin: “He was mostly self-taught, but [his] unprecedented work marks the beginning of great postwar art in Los Angeles. … [His] paintings are pure, clean abstractions. Forget fractured space, tortured figures and portentous gloom.”
Placido Domingo Protests Review In Letter To Washington Post
“For the first time in my life, I am sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper, because your music critic Anne Midgette has crossed the line between reasonably objective criticism and what appears to be open animosity.”
Maurice Sendak’s Authorly Credo
“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
Perseus Rolls Out A New Self-Publishing Book Option
“The service arrives as authors are increasingly looking for ways to circumvent the traditional publishing model, take advantage of the infinite shelf space of the e-book world and release their own work. That’s especially the case for reviving out-of-print books whose rights have reverted back to the author.”
How New Galleries Are Transforming New York’s Art Scene
Though one gallery owner may show an artist whose work now sells for $25,000 or more and another may show unknown artists whose work still goes largely unnoticed by big-name collectors or established critics, both are part of a new generation of New York gallerists who are slowly transforming the city’s art scene.
Former Detroit Science Center Head Says He Was Fired, Didn’t Quit
“Kevin Prihod said the firing was prompted by his refusal to close Design & Exhibits, the Science Center’s $4.5 million subsidiary business in Ferndale that builds exhibits and has been the primary symbol of the entrepreneurial business model that Prihod had championed for the center.”
Rise Of The Super-Achievers
“Do we have some anomalous cohort here? Achievement freaks on a scale we haven’t seen before? Has our hysterically competitive, education-obsessed society finally outdone itself in its tireless efforts to produce winners whose abilities are literally off the charts? And if so, what convergence of historical, social and economic forces has been responsible for the emergence of this new type?”
Sporting A New Artistic Director, Brooklyn Phil Roams The Borough
The Brooklyn Philharmonic all but disappeared for a couple of years. And that, says new artistic director Alan Pierson, is fantastic. “The institution had time to really wipe the slate clean and reconsider everything, and then come out again with something new, without the burden of attachment to something old.”