“The outrage [at Kapoor] was based on a slew of misconceptions: one, that Kapoor had exclusive rights to the material, period – he doesn’t, only to one version of it and only in the field of art – two, that it’s a pigment – it isn’t – and three, that the material was ready to be used, which Kapoor himself has raised doubts about.” And now it’s not even the blackest black anymore.
Tag: 12.08.16
Six Tips For Arts Crowdfunding
It’s getting to be an ever more important method for raising money, and nonprofit funding consultants Peter Baeck and Sam Mitchell offer half a dozen points for development folks to keep in mind as they plan a campaign.
‘They Fold Their Bodies Like Origami’ – Flexing, Brooklyn’s Latest Form Of Street Dance
“Reggie Gray stood in the wings at BRIC House ballroom in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, one recent Sunday evening and watched, along with a full audience, as waves of dancers took the stage to do battle. Their moves were at turns staggering contortions and graceful glides, sweeping artistry and fleeting chronicles of everyday life.”
Is Benjamin Millepied About To Dance Onstage For The Last Time?
The L.A. Times buries the lede in a story about a collaboration between Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project and Rufus Wainwright: “Both men, too, are at a crossroads between their present and past. Millepied said this performance will likely be his last time dancing.”
Emma Rice Says Gender Parity In Theatre Shouldn’t Be Hard At All (Of Course, She Said That Before The Globe Let Her Go Early)
The British director says the most American of slogans: “Just do it! You don’t need to agonize about how or why. … It doesn’t need to be a big deal. I think it was Geena Davis who said, ‘How do you get more women in films? Cross out the cast list and make half the names women.'”
Congress Makes A Law Banning Online Ticket Bots – Will It Help?
But let’s get serious here: The secondary market for tickets is worth something like $8 billion, so what do the scalpers care about a little bill banning their bots?
Claim: Small Presses Are Doing The Heavy Lifting In the Publishing Business
“Are big publishers unwilling to take risks any more? Increasingly, ‘risky’ authors, those who’ve been rejected over and over again by traditional publishers or dozens of agents, are being picked up by small presses whose modus operandi is to take risks on literature that is exciting, innovative, or that they deem important either stylistically or politically. Then the big publishers swoop in and profit from the hard work and risk-taking of the small presses.”
Why It Took Scorsese Three Decades To Make ‘Silence’
In a story that begins with the director’s near-death from drugs and asthma in 1978, Stephen Galloway follows the project through legal troubles (complicated), money troubles (recurring), and weather troubles (terrifying) – with the happy ending of a screening for Pope Francis and 200 teary-eyed Jesuits.
Eight Misconceptions About Raising Money For The Arts In The UK
In the UK there’s a perception that US-style fundraising won’t work there. But as government and corporate funding for the arts gets scarcer, trying to get private philanthropists to give more is getting energy. Here are eight myths about fundraising in the UK.
How Your Brain Deciphers A Pun
The interaction between the right and left hemispheres “enables us to ‘get’ the joke because puns, as a form of word play, complete humor’s basic formula: expectation plus incongruity equals laughter.”