February 2009
ARCO discovery: Carmen Calvo →
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ARCO - Expanded Box →
I’ll have to put a stop soon-ish to this avalanche of posts about ARCO. But there’s still a couple of stories i owe you. On top of the list is a report on Expanded Box, ARCO’s section…
Artlog - Calling Artists For Exhibition on the LES... →
Artlog is hosting a group exhibition (first of two two-week shows) to take place at Gallery Bar in the Lower East Side from March 11-25 (Opening Reception March 11 7pm). The show is curated by…
Go See: Takashi Murakami’s New Paintings at the... →
Bokan Camoulfage Pink (2009) by Takashi Murakami, via The Gagosian Gallery
Currently displayed at the Gagosian’s Davies Street gallery in London are new paintings by Takashi…
Layoffs at Jupiterimages/Getty Images →
From the Vault: Donating your art →
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ARCO - Expanded Box →
I’ll have to put a stop soon-ish to this avalanche of posts about ARCO. But there’s still a couple of stories i owe you. On top of the list is a report on Expanded Box, ARCO’s section…
ARCO discovery: Carmen Calvo →
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Rebecca Campbell looks back →
The L.A.-based artist mines her childhood for ‘Poltergeist,’ an solo show at L.A. Louver, striking a very productive vein. Childhood is a time of joy and of terror, and even as adults we hardly…
Artlog - Calling Artists For Exhibition on the LES... →
Artlog is hosting a group exhibition (first of two two-week shows) to take place at Gallery Bar in the Lower East Side from March 11-25 (Opening Reception March 11 7pm). The show is curated by…
Go See: The Glamour Project group show at Lehmann... →
Lehmann Maupin “The Glamour Project”
In conjunction with Glamour magazine in celebration of its 70th anniversary, Lehmann Maupin gallery has organized a group show of prominent…
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February 27, 2009
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CBC Suggests: Internet Providers (ISPs) Pay To... →
“The best way to promote the production of Canadian content across all delivery platforms, including new-media ones, is to guarantee that the broadcasting system supports the involvement of…
Museums V. The Galleries - A Murky Relationship →
“It’s all too easy to suggest that the cloudy alliances between museums and commercial galleries are fundamentally about money. Money, of course, especially now, plays into everything, but museums…
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Humanities Endangered? →
“In this new era of lengthening unemployment lines and shrinking university endowments, questions about the importance of the humanities in a complex and technologically demanding world have taken on…
Argentinian Museum Withholds Art From German Loan →
“The organizers of the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair have invited the South American country to showcase its artistic heritage. But the custodians of Argentina’s national art collection are unable to…
New Guggenheim Director Makes A New (Old) Case For... →
Richard Armstrong’s vision for the Guggenheim is a return to its mandate after it opened in 1959. “We’ll be assertive,” he says. “We need to expand on the original optimism and taste for the utopian…
Ailing Nevada Opera Gets Money, Will Survive →
“In late January, Nevada Opera officials announced that the 41-year-old company was on the verge of collapse and would close if it didn’t raise $100,000 in just four weeks. Now, the message is more…
Remember When A Million People Downloaded Free... →
The BBC made it happen, and it was a huge success. So why won’t anything like it happen again? Shortly after it happened the BBC Trust made a rule banning such a thing… La Scena Musicale 02/25/09
Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 3 -... →
Provo ‘Happenings’ founder Robert Jasper Grootveld... →
‘Happenings’ founder Grootveld dies Thursday 26 February 2009
Robert Jasper Grootveld, one of the most emblematic figures of the 60s provo (provocation) movement, has died in…
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Doctor Atomic, Not Quite So Much →
John Adams’s opera is having its UK premiere at ENO, and the London critics, like many of their American colleagues, find fault with Peter Sellars’s libretto. Rupert Christiansen puts it most…
Or Worse, CBC May Have To Air (Shudder) More U.S.... →
“Mr. Lacroix said a number of options were on the table which ‘would substantially change the very nature of our service to Canadians.’ The first is more American programming, which would make the…
Asheville Lyric Opera, Bucking Trend, Decides Not... →
“The opera’s board of directors voted unanimously Thursday night to proceed with Rigoletto March 27-28
The company was pinched by a decline in contributions and box office revenue, and needed to…
'Can You Credit All Of The Fuss That Was Made Of A... →
That’s the opening line of the autobiography of Christy Nolan, the prize-winning writer with cerebral palsy who died this week at 43. Francis X. Clines pays tribute, and remembers how Nolan described…
Hirshhorn Finally Gets A Director →
After a search of more than a year, the Smithsonian has chosen Richard Koshalek to be the next director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Koshalek presided over extraordinary growth in…
What The Modern World Owes To Medieval Islam →
Many of us already know that it was the Arabs who preserved - and built on - the scientific knowledge of classical antiquity through Europe’s Dark Ages. “More important than any individual piece of…
Chicago's Newberry Library Cuts Loose Newberry... →
Facing a financial squeeze, the Library will cease funding Chicago’s flagship early music ensemble after this season. But the now-autonomous Consort is landing on its feet, with a new…
Strapped CBC May Need To Sell Assets →
The corporation’s president says that the network, hit hard by an advertising downturn and faced with an unsympathetic Conservative government, may need “to monetize some of our assets.” Such a…
It's Not Just Ballet In Saratoga This Summer →
“Modern dance returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this summer as the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, guided by two of dance’s greatest choreographers, make their…
The Beijing CCTV Fire: Divine Punishment For Bad... →
Many Chinese saw the blaze - which happened on the last day of Lunar New Year celebrations - that destroyed part of the enormous Rem Koolhaas/OMA complex as a bad omen. That towering inferno “might…
What Drives Some Of Us To Suicide? →
“What the statistics do not tell us - and what psychologists most want to know - is exactly which people are most at risk. The vast majority of depressed, hopeless people do not commit suicide, so…
'He Who Would Teach Men To Die, Would Teach Them... →
Well, that’s what Montaigne said, perhaps summing up the point of philosophy. But look at how philosophers die: Socrates (ordered to kill himself), Hypatia (flayed by a mob of angry Christians),…
Supposed Stolen Strad Surfaces At Seashore →
“A violin believed to be a stolen Stradivarius has been found by Romanian police in the city of Constanta on the Black Sea coast.” MSNBC (AP) 02/26/09
Osmo And His Minnesotans Conquer London →
Ivan Hewitt sums up the critical consensus on Tuesday night’s sold-out Minnesota Orchestra concert at the Barbican: “And what a marvellous sound the orchestra makes! [
] Vänskä and the Minnesotans…
American-Style Liberal Arts Colleges Pop Up... →
Most of the world gets its higher education in big public universities or specialized technical or vocational schools. But small liberal arts schools are opening in pockets of Europe, Asia and…
A Kudelka Premiere Buoys Ballet B.C. →
“After the seven-week hiatus of Ballet B.C.’s shutdown due to financial crisis, these performers have been thrown into the fire. And yet you get the distinct feeling they’re rising from the ashes.”…
Review: 'Grand Motel' at Unknown Theater →
Review: 'Bruising for Besos' at Davidson/Valentini... →
Review: "Tartuffe" at Theatre @ Boston Court →
Review: 'A Number' at Rude Guerrilla Theater →
Review: 'The Taming of the Shrew' at Odyssey... →
Go See: Angus Fairhurst Retrospective at Arnolfini... →
Angus Fairhurst’s ‘A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II’ via Sadie Coles HQ
Angus Fairhurst was one of the orignianl “YBA’s” or Young British Artists, whom some feel…
Hammer Museum appoints new curators →
