“Art Basel may not have instantly made Miami into a global art hub, as some predicted when it first landed on Florida’s shores in 2002, but the fair has been steadily driving year-round museum attendance and arts patronage.”
Tag: 12.08.13
Detroit To Arts Foundations: Bail Us Out Or We’ll Sell The Art!
“The Detroit Institute of Arts has joined behind-the-scenes federally mediated talks to shield the museum from creditors in Detroit’s bankruptcy and bolster at-risk municipal pensions.”
For Some Reason, This Is The First Time Anyone Has Mounted A Show About Turner And The Sea
“His grander salon paintings are embarrassing in their attempt to emulate his idol Claude Lorrain, but they were always striving to portray in paint the emotions he felt in gazing at a storm-swept sea or a tumbling mountain waterfall or a Venetian lagoon at twilight.”
Basically, Nothing Separates A PG-13 From An R
“Our findings raise serious concerns about the effectiveness of the MPAA rating system.”
Almodovar Tackles Spanish Government (Again)
“The 64-year-old filmmaker called it ‘deaf and insensitive’ to the country’s problems and railed against its ‘awful cultural policy.’ Spanish state funding to the arts, including film, has been drastically reduced in recent years.”
How Did A Furniture Factory In Wisconsin Turn Out So Many Classic Records?
“Their very cheapness and interest in getting stuff out as quickly as possible ended up unwittingly providing this platform with this incredible breadth to it — just in the diversity of sounds that were captured.”
Years After 9/11, The Flea Theatre Finds A Permanent Home
“The smallest of its spaces, at 44 seats, will be called the Siggy in [Sigourney] Weaver’s honor.”
When TV Gets Boring, Is It Time For A Musical Episode … Or Not?
“For shows that don’t normally have music … and achieve a certain longevity, the musical episode is something of a television tradition. These episodes no doubt give the cast a way to shake off the doldrums, and they tend to make a big impression on fans.”
Upworthy Style Headlines Have Colonized Our News Feeds. Why?
“If you want to understand why the Upworthy style is suddenly everywhere, you start with a program that controls what millions of people see and read everyday–and which very few people understand.”
It’s Wrong And Flat-Out Stupid To Loot The DIA
“The whole point of a bankruptcy is to solve deep and structural problems in the economic organization of a major city – not to strip-mine everything from the Bellinis at the museum to the baboons at the Detroit Zoo for however much one-time cash you can squeeze out of them.”