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San Antonio Business Journal (06/13/08)
Donna J. Tuttle
“A sculptor. A filmmaker. A composer. All three are nationally renowned, in the midst of producing and creating new art ... and live and work right here in San Antonio. Like many local artists, Donna Dobberfuhl, Ya' Ke Smith and Michael Patrick Twomey are better known outside of Texas boundaries for their award-winning creations. And like many small-business owners, these three are so busy sculpting, filming and composing that there's little time for strategic business planning and networking with other local artists. They live in that all-consuming art bubble.”
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SAN ANTONIO
The Current (07/02/08)
Jennifer Herrera
“Southtown residents fear the ghost of the old St. Mary’s Strip”
San Antonio Express-News (06/29/08)
Dan R. Goddard
“Summertime. Time in a bottle. Maybe next time. Time after time. Does anybody really know what time it is? Time of your life. In the nick of time. There are plenty of clichés about time, but how San Antonio artists deal with time intrigues curator David Rubin.”
The Current (06/25/08)
Elaine Wolff
“But we’re all on the same team in the end, say artists (and we’re moving it to March!) In the relentless heat and sun of a textbook San Antonio summer, a mirage appears, the shimmering image of a four-year-old debate reflected in pools of sweat: Maybe it’s time to move Contemporary Art Month to another month — any month that, following the old wives’ tale about oysters, has the letter “r” in it.”
San Antonio Business Journal (06/13/08)
Donna J. Tuttle
“A sculptor. A filmmaker. A composer. All three are nationally renowned, in the midst of producing and creating new art ... and live and work right here in San Antonio. Like many local artists, Donna Dobberfuhl, Ya' Ke Smith and Michael Patrick Twomey are better known outside of Texas boundaries for their award-winning creations. And like many small-business owners, these three are so busy sculpting, filming and composing that there's little time for strategic business planning and networking with other local artists. They live in that all-consuming art bubble.”
06/09/08
Steve Bennett
In a poem titled “The Vigil,” Palmer Hall notes that “Easter seduces us ... to celebrate a kind of birth after death.” This was the spirit that hovered over a literary benefit for Our Lady of the Lake University's English department, held Sunday afternoon in the historic chapel of the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Hall, a poet who is library director at OLLU's “sister school,” St. Mary's University, was one of more than 30 writers who read affirming works for a crowd of around 200 in the wake of the May 6 fire that devastated the historic Main Building at OLLU.
Texas Public Radio News (06/02/08)
David Martin Davies
“Less than a month after Bexar County voters approved using the visitors tax to build a San Antonio performing arts center, conceptual sketches of the center are unveiled to the public.”
San Antonio Express-News (06/02/08)
Colin McDonald
“With her violin tucked under her chin, Nancy Zhou nodded to Ken-David Masur, the resident conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, and began to play. She did not smile, but instead swayed slightly into the music of Nicolo Paganini, with Masur and the orchestra following her lead.”
San Antonio Express-News (05/31/08)
Robert Rivard
“A modernist building, bathed in natural light, seemingly embraces the surrounding landscape even as it energizes the visitor. Low and discreet in profile, yet it is about to elevate an entire city.”
San Antonio Express-News (05/31/08)
Dan R. Goddard
“Rene Paul Barilleaux has been the chief curator and curator of art after 1945 for the McNay Art Museum since August 2005. He came to San Antonio from the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, where he served as deputy director of programs and chief curator.”
Glasstire (June 2008)
Bill Davenport
“Artpace San Antonio has announced the recipients of it's 2008 travel grants for San Antonio artists.”
Local artists and writers contribute to pivotal tome
San Antonio Current (05/21/08)
Jennifer Herrera
“There are essentials every new resident of San Antonio should receive: a map of the city, a VIA bus schedule, a comprehensive H-E-B directory, a guide to identifying authentic margaritas. When the Current plays Welcome Wagon, we’ll also include Art at our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers + Artists, a definitive collection of local writers’ and artists’ work published just after Fiesta by Trinity University Press.”
Barbara Ras, Riley Robinson, and Nan Cuba show off their pride and joy.
San Antonio Current (05/21/08)
Jennifer Herrera
Selecting the best writers and artists to feature in a first-of-its-kind book couldn’t be that difficult, right? When Gemini Ink founder Nan Cuba (who was one of my instructors at Our Lady of the Lake University) and Trinity University Press Director Barbara Ras met for lunch in the summer of 2003, their chit-chat led to talk of putting together a book featuring local writers and artists. No comparable documentation of the local scene had been published, and given the diverse and ever-expanding array of local talent, it was a formidable task. What seems obvious on the page was a few years in the making.
San Antonio Express-News (05/20/08)
Jim Beal Jr.
San Antonio Express-News (05/20/08)
Deborah Martin
“Carol Gulley — a sweet-faced woman who bears a strong resemblance to her mom, former San Antonio Mayor Lila Cockrell — oversees AccessAbility. The program, which was in the pilot phase at Winston last semester, aims to bring a hands-on theater experience to youngsters facing all sorts of challenges, including learning and physical disabilities.”
San Antonio Express-News (05/20/08)
Creighton A. Welch
“The Pearl Brewery has hired Paul Beard, managing director of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, to be the managing director of the former brewery turned mixed-use development. Beard also will serve as an informal senior adviser for the city's new performing arts center.”
San Antonio Express-News (05/13/08)
Steve Bennett
“That sense of family as a force of nature infuses a unique book just published by the increasingly vibrant Trinity University Press. “Art at Our Doorstep” ($50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback) explores two of the strongest strata of San Antonio's artistic community: the writers and the visual artists.”
TEXAS
Tyler Morning Telegraph (07/03/08)
“Texas artist Jack Cowan was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award and Texas Parks & Wildlife Commissioner John Parker of Lufkin was presented with the 2008 Man of the Year Award at Recreational Fishing Alliance’s (RFA) annual Texas banquet recently in Clear Lake.”
The Current (06/25/08)
Elaine Wolff
“Contemporary Art Month isn’t the only art fest in the state trying to go all-pro. The Texas Biennial, founded in 2005 in Austin by a loose collective of independent galleries and artists, announced earlier this year that it is significantly changing its focus and selection criteria for next year’s show. Most dramatically, the Biennial is ditching the multiple group shows format in favor of four curated solo exhibitions starring artists from North, East, South, and West, and two group shows — all of them judged by one eye, that of Art in America Corresponding Editor Michael Duncan.”
The Dallas Morning News (06/15/08)
Ed Housewright
“Plano Mayor Pat Evans looks at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with envy. Supporters have donated $300 million to build the downtown center, scheduled to open next year. Meanwhile, $7 million has trickled in from donors for a less-ambitious Collin County arts hall.”
Austin American Statesman (06/12/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
“According to “Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005” a 150-page new report released today the recently released from the National Endowment for the Arts, Austin ranks number 20 out of the top 50 metropolitan areas nationally when it comes to percentage of the local workforce that are artists.”
Austin American Statesman (06/06/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
“Plan envisions public-private efforts to steer cultural development in next decade. The move would align city spending and policy, increase focus and efficiency, and reduce administrative costs, the plan says. The plan points to Dallas' Office of Cultural Affairs and the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs as models.”
Austin American Statesman (06/04/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
“Dozens and dozens of Austin artists and arts managers, professionals and advocates are expected to flock to City Hall Thursday at 2 p.m. when the CreateAustin Cultural Master Plan is formally presented to the City Council.”
Austin American Statesman (06/04/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
“First Night Austin has hired a new executive director, the non-profit arts presenter’s board of directors announced Wednesday.”
Glasstire (June 2008)
Bill Davenport
“Art Binational 2008 -- Binacional de Arte, The first cross-border cooperative exhibition between the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte in Juárez opens on june 12 in El paso, ans June 13 at the Museo de Arte in Juárez.”
Houston Chronicle (05/09/08)
SHANNON BUGGS
“The revolution will not be televised because the revolution is live and direct on the Internet. A paraphrase of Gil Scott-Heron's classic spoken-word anthem describes Patricia Martin's message to community arts and business leaders. Martin, a cultural marketing consultant based in Chicago, is documenting a "cultural metamorphosis" that is part of "the disruption that occurs when the dominant civilization loses its relevance and another rises to replace it."
Austin American Statesman (05/08/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
“Signaling its further organizational growth, Austin Shakespeare today announced that Alex Alford has been appointed as the first managing director in the company’s 23-year history.”
NATIONAL
The Art Newspaper (07/01/08)
Martin Bailey
“Specialists warn that museums in the US and Europe will now have to re-examine their own sculptures.”
The Globe and Mail (06/30/08)
Simon Houpt
“New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't the touchy-feely sort. He's a tightly wound efficiency expert, a gear head who became a billionaire 10 times over by selling a computer system that helped rich people become richer. Three years ago, when he hosted a news conference at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's colossal saffron-curtain installation in Central Park known as The Gates, he acknowledged the artistic worth of the project but preferred to focus on how much money it would bring the city. Which is why it was so delightful to hear him last week, during an overflowing news conference at the South Street Seaport to officially open The New York City Waterfalls, the city's largest public-art project since The Gates, speaking about the transformative aspects of art and calling for greater art appreciation among the public.”
The New York Times (06/29/08)
Fred Kaplan
“HALF a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the State Department. Let the world experience what he called “real Americana”: send out jazz bands instead.”
Courier-Journal (06/29/08)
Andrew Adler
“Reading accounts of how the Cedar Rapids Symphony is coping with flooding that ravaged the Iowa city barely two weeks ago, I couldn't help pondering the precarious boundaries between culture and catastrophe.”
The New York Times (06/29/08)
Kathryn Shattuck
“Young faces at such events are of course not unusual. Arts institutions have been cultivating people in their 20s and 30s for years as a way of shoring up future donors. But Ms. Arison and Ms. Coyne are not merely passing through, writing a check and dressing up for a night in order to rub the right shoulders. They are among a small and privileged group who hope, and are being groomed, to do much more: to take over the family business, so to speak — that business being arts patronage.”
Chicago Tribune (06/19/08)
Charles Storch
"No shortage of foundations, cultural organizations, community groups, educators and working artists have striven to provide Chicago's public schoolchildren access to quality arts education. But the efforts have lacked coordination and a common strategy, claims a report released Wednesday. . . . [The Rand Corp. think tank] looked at communitywide 'countermovements' to revitalize arts education here and in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles County, New York City and Northern California's Alameda County. The study favored no one approach. It found achievements in all six cities to be 'fragile' and vulnerable to policy and funding whims. The New York-based Wallace Foundation commissioned the report."
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (06/19/08)
Emily le Coz
“Five museums each in Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas were selected to participate in a national pilot program of the organization Heritage Preservation to protect their collections against disaster. "As part of the project, a team of experts will visit each museum to evaluate its risks and develop an emergency plan in case of fire, earthquakes, tornados and other disasters. They'll also involve local emergency experts to help devise the plan, and show the group how to implement it. The program stems from a three-year-old survey revealing that most museums don't have emergency plans."
New York Times (06/24/08)
Carol Vogel
“After two years of flux, the Dia Art Foundation said on Monday that it had hired a prominent contemporary-art curator, Philippe Vergne, deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as its director.”
NPR, All Things Considered (06/24/08)
“Michele Norris talks to Stefanie Kohn, curator for the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, which was surrounded by 15 feet of water at the flood's peak. Kohn tells Norris about the care volunteers are taking to clean and preserve soaked artifacts.”
New York Times (06/24/08)
Patricia Cohen
“Tina Ramirez, the founder of Ballet Hispanico, announced Monday that she was hanging up her shoes after 38 years as artistic director. “I am planning to continue as a roving ambassador and spokesperson for the company and school and to carry forward my work as an advocate for dance education,” she said in a news release. Ms. Ramirez, above right, was awarded the National Medal of Arts for in 2005 for her work over the years.”
AP (06/22/06)
Jason Dearen
“Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on summer tours. For months, the 23-year-old singer-guitarist had been budgeting money and booking show dates for Something Fierce's third tour — but skyrocketing gas prices have put the brakes on those plans.”
NPR - All Things Considered (06/18/08)
Margot Adler
“New York City has always been a mecca for creative people, but with the average cost to buy an apartment $1 million, artists could well be an endangered species. A recent study of 213 visual artists aged 62 and older found that the average income of these artists was $30,000 a year.”
New York Times (06/18/08)
“Cyd Charisse, the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 86.”
Los Angeles Times (06/17/08)
Nicky Loomis
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture.
The Kansas City Star (06/16/08)
Robert Trussell
“It was a great night for regional theater at the 2008 Tony Awards, the annual extravaganza designed to celebrate the art and promote the business of Broadway.
Worcester Telegram (06/16/08)
Clive McFarlane
"This June, the state is throwing the spotlight on an integral but sometimes neglected segment of its economy, the creative side — visual and performing arts, film, digital media, design, advertising, architecture and tourism. During the month, administration officials say they will hold roundtables with 'businesses, nonprofit leaders, local cultural economic development partners, and creative individuals about ways the state can continue to create the conditions for growth in the creative sector”
Variety (06/13/08)
Gordon Cox
“The weaker dollar is a double-edged sword for New York legit. On one hand, overseas visitors are flocking to the U.S. for bargain-priced shopping sprees -- and tourists love to see a Broadway show. And many Americans forgoing European vacations to stay within the States also are coming to New York and sampling its theater.”
Buffalo Business First (06/11/08)
James Fink
"The doors to the Artspace project in downtown Buffalo have been open for several months, but Wednesday marked 'Artspace Day' to commemorate the $17 million project, which has been many years in the making." Support from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had pushed along its development. "Clinton envisioned the project having the same impact on Buffalo that similar developments did in such areas as New York's Tribeca neighborhood."
NEA Press Release (06/12/08)
“Today, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the release of Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005, the first nationwide look at artists’ demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century.”
Salt Lake Tribune (06/10/08)
David Burger
Although "[e]very branch of the arts and entertainment tree - movie theaters, theme parks, music venues and others - has withered from economic woes," perhaps "stay-cationers" will boost summer ticket sales. "Just as Americans flocked to movie theaters and dance clubs during recessions and wartimes in the past, local entertainment officials hope to see ticket sales increase as local customers stay closer to home."
Variety (06/10/08)
Pamela McClintock
“The Metropolitan Opera's live high-def theatrical transmissions -- seen worldwide by more than 920,000 people during the 2007-08 season -- are creating new fans and sparking renewed interest among existing opera fans.”
The Columbus Dispatch (06/09/08)
“The Ohio Arts Council is cutting seven positions from its staff of 35 and reducing unpaid grants by 7.7 percent to offset a $2.5 million, or 10 percent, reduction in state funding.”
Business Wire (06/06/08)
"Looking beyond the institution’s artistic value in Boston and the Berkshires, external researchers examined the orchestra’s tangential roles as an employer, a market for goods and services, and a tourist attraction to determine the institution’s impact on such divergent areas as local hotels and restaurants, regional real-estate markets, and the state’s burgeoning creative economy."
Entrepreneur.com (06/04/08)
Laura Tiffany
Laura Tiffany explores "a new crop of artist-turned-entrepreneurs who forgo the gallery system by starting their own businesses. These artists create products--prints, T-shirts, stationery--to sell online, at craft and art fairs, and wholesale to boutiques. They might hook up with a manufacturer and put out a line of limited art toys, or license their designs to other companies. They may even sell some work via galleries--but it's not like they're waiting around to be discovered. They're branding themselves and creating a DIY revolution."
New York Times (06/04/08)
Randy Kennedy
After a year and half of deliberations, the directors of the country’s largest art museums will announce new guidelines on Wednesday for how their institutions should collect antiquities, a volatile issue that has led in recent years to international cultural skirmishes and several highly publicized art restitution cases.
Boston Globe (06/03/08)
Robert Gavin
“In Massachusetts, Governor Patrick's administration has launched "an initiative to expand so-called creative industries in the state, appointing a first-in-the-nation 'creative economy' director to help expand a diverse sector that ranges from individual artists to cultural institutions to video game makers. The appointment of Jason S. Schupbach of Boston illustrates the growing role creative sectors play in economic policy as states compete for jobs, companies, and skilled workers. Beyond the direct employment provided by museums, art galleries, and design and other creative firms, the vitality of the local arts and cultural scene is increasingly viewed by development specialists as key to attracting knowledge workers expected to drive 21st century economies."
Los Angeles Times (06/02/08)
Matea Gold and Richard Verrier
“IS THIS city poised to take a bite out of Hollywood's bread and butter? A dramatically expanded state tax credit for film and television productions has made New York a more appealing shooting locale than ever, bringing a wave of projects into the city this summer. Barring an actors strike, local soundstages expect to have more demand than they can fill in the coming months.”
The Art Newspaper (05/29/08)
Jason Edward Kaufman
"The Bank of America, the second largest bank in the US, has announced plans to lend pre-packaged exhibitions to US museums free of charge. The bank’s collection, one of the largest held by an American corporation, includes thousands of works. . . . In the last two years the bank has also become a major sponsor of exhibitions, including the travelling shows 'Americans in Paris', 'Matisse: Painter as Sculptor', 'Turner', 'Frida Kahlo', and 'El Greco to Velázquez' at the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and other institutions."
The Village Voice (05/20/08)
Michael Feingold
People in the far north call it "icebreak": the moment just before springtime when frozen rivers start to flow again. The theater knows its aesthetic equivalent, though a freeze in one genre or another can last a dozen springs. For nearly a decade, New York's musical theater has seemed to be frozen in an eerie holding pattern. This year, the ice broke. And suddenly, it's spring.
Richard Lacayo
Time Online (05/20/08)
“Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation will issue its annual list of 11 sites around the U.S. that it considers to be the ones most threatened by development, neglect or whatever other forces devour the past. Their hope is that by calling attention to places in jeopardy they can mobilize people to protect them. Which means: over to you. Here's the 2008 list and how the Trust describes each choice:”
Business Wire (5/20/08)
"The Monterey County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Nancy Kotowski, announced today that the Monterey County Office of Education has launched the California Arts Advocacy Toolkit, a resource available for all California schools to advocate, rebuild and teach arts in education. . . . The California Arts Advocacy Toolkit is a vehicle for all schools statewide [as well as advocates and other leaders] to advocate for a comprehensive and standards-based arts education in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts for California students in kindergarten through high school."
WUSF 89.7 (5/19/08)
Despite a $16 million deficit, Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio says she "plans to continue the $3 million in city support" to the "21 non-profit organizations that the city historically subsidizes," including the Florida Orchestra. Iorio says, "The arts are a very important component just like fire and police and code and clean city and parks and recreation." The arts and culture are a big part "of what makes Tampa the great city that it is."
Associated Press (05/19/08)
When he created Ground Zero's master plan, architect Daniel Libeskind added a performing arts center to bring life to a site devastated by terrorism. More than 100 arts institutions applied for a spot on the 16 acres. Four were chosen. That was four years ago. Since then, three out of the four groups that were to have anchored the new performance space have moved on, and the center's prospects appear to be fading.
Forbes (5/16/08)
Mitch Landrieu
Louisiana's Lt. Governor, Mitch Landrieu, writes about the Cultural Economy Initiative he launched in 2003. "The Cultural Economy Initiative encourages the organic growth of the cultural economy as a viable industry. The initiative has produced several programs including, arts in education legislation, cultural product districts, historic preservation grants, the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation and the World Cultural Economic Forum."
The New York Times (05/14/08)
Michael Kimmelman
“Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.”
The New York Times (05/14/08)
Alastair MaCaulay
“Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg’s talent — always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions —prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late ’50s and early ’60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater.”
Los Angeles Times (05/14/08)
Anne-Marie O'Connor
“James Wood, chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, met with staff Tuesday to discuss the elimination of 114 jobs and some programs to yield a 25% budget increase in the Getty's core arts programs, a spokesman said.”
The New York Times (05/13/08)
Daniel J. Wakin
“The United States government is honoring opera. The National Endowment for the Arts said on Tuesday that it was establishing yearly Opera Honors awards, and named the first four recipients: James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director; the soprano Leontyne Price; the composer Carlisle Floyd; and Richard Gaddes, the general director of the Santa Fe Opera.”
The Orange County Register (05/12/08)
Richard Chang
“An internationally recognized expert on Asian antiquities has been arrested and indicted on a federal wire fraud charge stemming from an ongoing investigation into the importation of stolen or looted antiquities from Southeast Asia.”
INTERNATIONAL
Variety (07/02/08)
Ed Meza
“'Ocean Flame' to open Summer IFFGermany's coalition government has agreed to up its culture budget by 1.5% to E1.13 billion ($1.8 billion), part of which will go to extending the country's hugely popular $95 million-a-year Federal Film Fund through 2012.”
The Stage News (07/01/08)
Lalayn Baluch
“Culture secretary Andy Burnham has ruled out direct government funding for the country’s flagship arts companies, claiming that such a move would undermine Arts Council England.”
Bloomberg (06/27/08)
Philip Boroff
“A Frenchman living in Florida was charged with attempting to sell a Claude Monet painting and three other artworks stolen at gunpoint last year from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice, France.”
CBC News (06/26/08)
“The more money you make and the more education you have, the more likely you are to go to movies, plays or concerts, says a Statistics Canada study released Thursday. The report also suggests that the type of job a person has influences their choice to attend cultural events.”
The Stage News (06/25/08)
Alistair Smith
“Conservative shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has for the first time outlined what his party’s artistic policies will be if it wins the next general election, in a speech claiming the Tories are now the ‘natural party of the arts’”.
The Guardian (06/24/08)
Lyn Gardner
"The Arts Council is a damaged organisation in terms of its own confidence and its relationship with the outside world," admitted the funding body's newish chief executive Alan Davey. He was speaking at the Independent Theatre Council's conference at the Almeida yesterday and was clearly trying to build some bridges with a sector that has been buffeted by cuts to Grants for the Arts, and recent cuts to revenue clients, which Davey agreed had been ill-handled and communicated.”
The Guardian (06/23/08)
Helena Smith
Extra staff have been dispatched to guard the great cultural gems of Greece as the government in Athens tries to deflect growing criticism of its handling of national treasures. Amid unprecedented protests from tour guides, travel companies and tourists irritated by conditions at prime archaeological sites, the ruling conservatives last week rushed hundreds of additional personnel to staff museums and open-air antiquities.
CBC News (06/22/08)
“Jordan handed over nearly 2,500 stolen ancient artifacts to Iraq in a ceremony in Amman on Sunday.”
Times Online (06/22/08)
Sally Kinnes
“There are many things about which the UK claims to be the envy of the world, but when it comes to choirs, the boast is justified. “It’s one of the things the UK truly excels at,” says the choral conductor Suzi Digby. “More than any other country, we have an amazing amateur tradition. We are the only country with a 1,000-year unbroken tradition of cathedral choir schools. It is one of the things we really do well.”
The Art Newspaper (06/19/08)
Gareth Harris
“Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been selected to design an ambitious new museum of modern art in Calcutta (Kolkata) scheduled to open in 2013. They were chosen from a shortlist which included Frank Gehry (US) and David Adjaye (UK).”
Complaint says work could lose $3m in value as a result
The Art Newspaper (06/17/08)
Melanie Gerlis
“Swedish entrepreneur and art collector Gerard De Geer has filed a complaint against the authentication committee for the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.”
CBC News (06/17/08)
“Soccer games — namely Euro 2008 matches — are getting in the way of opera performances, the Vienna State Opera charged on Tuesday. The venerable opera house saw its attendance numbers drop to the season's lowest level on Monday, the same day Austria took on Germany in the city's Ernst Happel stadium, the Staatsoper said in a statement.”
Julie Bloom (06/16/08)
Steven McElroy
“New York City Ballet will become the first non-French dance company to perform at the Opera Bastille in September, when the Paris Opera presents the ballet company in the French capital for the first time since 1965.”
Telegraph (06/12/08)
Stephen Adams
“Chris Evans, the BBC Radio Two disc jockey, has accidentally thrown out a piece of artwork by Damien Hirst.”
CBC News (06/10/08)
“Iraqi officials have welcomed back a collection of 11 ancient artifacts stolen from the country's National Museum during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. A set of 11 agate and alabaster seals, which date from between 3,000 B.C. and 2,000 B.C., was returned after having been snatched during the widespread looting at the museum in 2003.”
The Guardian (06/09/08)
Stuart Jeffries
“Saad Eskander, director of Baghdad's national library, wants to 'help Iraqis understand their past and build their future' through education. The former Kurdish fighter tells Stuart Jeffries why culture is the key, why the US must surrender looted papers - and why he refuses to have a bodyguard.”
The Guardian (06/09/08)
Maddy Costa
“If women are excelling in the arts, why - as culture minister Margaret Hodge claims - are so few taking the top jobs?”
The Independent (06/05/08)
Geoffrey Macnab
Geoffrey Macnab asks why the production of so many 'home-grown' movies has drifted overseas.
New York Times (06/04/08)
Michael Kimmelman
“Times have changed, especially in the money-mad art world, which has compelled even prideful Europeans to start trolling for cash. But attitudes, well, they have changed less. And in the performing arts, which lean most heavily on public subsidies, Europeans still maintain a general view that public support is a social covenant and moral obligation. They’re reluctant to become too Americanized. “
The Independent (05/29/08)
Elisa Bray
Foreign musicians are having increased difficulty securing visas to perform in the U.K. For many artists, "it is the changes to UK visa regulations which now require non-EU citizens to provide fingerprints for the new biometric visa that is causing the difficulty."
Escambray (05/21/08)
“A colloquium organized by Casa de las Americas, a seminar about integration of culture and tourism and the screening of the film Crossed Glances, are a few of the events taking place here to celebrate Cultural Diversity Day.”
The Independent (05/18/08)
“Jealous rivals plotted in vain to humiliate Michelangelo. Alistair Fraser uncovers a 500-year-old art world mystery. It was believed that, faced with a work on such a vast scale, Michelangelo was bound to fail and be humiliated Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel has inspired and enthralled millions but none who has craned in admiration of the "divinely inspired" work realises it was born out of base rivalry and petty jealousy.”
The Guardian (05/14/08)
“Stumped by this year's Turner shortlist? Short of something intelligent to say? Let Tate curators and Guardian critics give you the lowdown “
Bloomberg (05/13/08)
Scott Reyburn
“Without too many people noticing, London has got itself a new art district. Dealers are moving into the Fitzrovia area, attracted by its location and trendy image. They say contemporary-art demand is showing no signs of weakening as the U.K. economy slows.”
The Observer (05/11/08)
Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies
“Iraqi singers, actors and artists are fleeing the country after dozens have been killed by Islamic radicals determined to eradicate all culture associated with the West. Cinemas, art galleries, theatres, and concert halls are being destroyed in grenade and mortar attacks in Basra and Baghdad.”
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