Monday, June 15, 2020
Buyers demand discounts of as much as 30% on new works and 50% on the secondary market, according to art dealers. Temporary reprieve, including government rescue loans or rent reductions, wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMMarc Spiegler: “Fortunately, the Amazon art world won’t come to pass. For one thing, artworks are unique, and thus not so easily commodified. They have no utility value, no truly provabl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMWith the cost of tickets ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars, calling for ticket donations is a strategy many performing arts organizations are using to stay afloat amid coro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMO’Connor is now as canonical as Faulkner and Welty. More than a great writer, she’s a cultural figure: a funny lady in a straw hat, puttering among peacocks, on crutches she likened to �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMNavaretta was not an artist herself, nor a gallery owner, but she was a quiet force on the art scene in New York and beyond. In the early 1970s she was immersed in various efforts by women t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMGeorge Balanchine rightly said that watching dance on TV was like reading about a murder in a newspaper—a poor approximation of the terror of the real event. And, for all its offerings, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMDespite current rules limiting bars and clubs from opening to the public, the live comedy club Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side held an invite-only show for professional comics on Wednesda…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMThe five protesters were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum with the artwork. They were detained for questioning, and the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMThe takeover would have created North America’s largest chain of movie theaters to better compete with AMC Entertainment. It would have added 165 cinemas to Cineworld’s existing 786 site…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“Social isolation has given me the clear stretch of time that Descartes says is required to do philosophy. Teaching has been cancelled or moved online; birthday parties have been abandoned…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“We’re not going to be able to create this perfect simulacra of running around getting drinks with friends and having conversations in line.” But, watching films with hundreds of other…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMOver the past week, some fans said that they had decided to simply walk away from the world that spans seven books, eight movies and an ever-expanding franchise. Others said that they were t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMThe kind of music you listen to while running matters when it comes to synchronisation. Runners who put on their earphones when they exercise tend to synchronise their pace to what they’re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMIn an email sent to managers and performers reported by Music Business Worldwide, BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch said the label was “mindful of the shameful treatment of black artists”, and woul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMSunday, June 14, 2020
Over the past few months, with live performances canceled or on hold, dance artists have been mobilizing on multiple fronts to transform flawed and outdated systems. The Dance Artists’ Nat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PMThe dealer, who operated galleries in London and Miami, has been the subject of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Major Theft Task Force/Art Crime Team in New…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThe currency of fame has always been deeply unstable. But, with movie theatres and live venues closed and the devices in our pockets quickly becoming our primary media machines, it can feel …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“The south supposedly lost the civil war. There is an overused cliche which suggests that the winners write history. Is this true? If it is, then why do all these relics of the losing side…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMEven in Europe, which has a reputation for generous governmental arts subsidies, midsize ensembles have found it difficult to support their musicians. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMKain claims she never imagined herself becoming the National Ballet’s artistic director. In this she is in a minority of one. After hanging up her pointe shoes in the fall of 1998 Kain acc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMAttracting visitors was not the problem Emilie Gordenker thought she’d be facing when she became director of one of Amsterdam’s most popular museums in February. A profile in the Dutch n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThe episode in question — originally broadcast in 1975 and called The Germans — is renowned for featuring John Cleese’s deeply awkward and rude hotel owner demanding that his staff “…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“It’s not a festival in the same way a live festival is, since the conditions are completely different, our ability to present work in so many of the ways we normally do is nonexistent, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMSymphony President Alan Valentine said patrons donated $300,000 worth of tickets since the pandemic hit. But officials anticipate an $8 million loss from the shutdown, leaving the organizati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“I’m very convinced that people after this are more hungry for intellectual and artistic inspiration than before. So the wrong approach, I think, is to do a populist approach to the arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMHow many of the people who authored those statements actually visited the Black Lives Matter website before posting is unknown. What is known, however, is that the stirrings of support state…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMPopulism is not just a bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing politics. There is a theoretical tradition that seeks to justify strongman rule, an ideological school of demagoguery, one might call…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMListening on transistor radios and Walkmans, many Dubliners who had long been intimidated by the book found that they not only understood it but enjoyed it and recognised themselves in it. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMThe app, founded in 2007, is credited with playing a central role in opening up higher education to the public. Institutions such as Stanford University; the University of California, Berkel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“Police shootings? I can’t imagine what special insight a museum director brings to the subject. But if you’re going to talk about them, at least say something smart.” – National R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMAs the famously passionate fans of the Harry Potter franchise rise up to express raging disappointment at the bigotry espoused by its creator, and the surprisingly passionate fans of Live P.…
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