February 2010
Alvin Ailey's legacy has been kept, and expanded →
For 20 years, Judith Jamison has not just tended the flame, but fueled the dance company in ways that make it burn more brightly. Judith Jamison can recall vividly the April 1989 lunch in St….
Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong's... →
The two artists’ camps are in conflict over comparisons between the new Burdeny exhibition and a previous one by Leong. It seems like something out of a Charlie Kaufman film.
At the Hammer, Luisa Lambri makes herself at home →
Architecture is a favorite subject for the Italian photographer, who approaches the houses subjectively. ‘I am photographing myself being there,’ she says. “Los Angeles is maybe my favorite place…
Eva Besnyö Zeeland toen Photography →
Eva Besnyo: Zeeland Toen. Amsterdam: Drukkerij Mart, 1990. [Text by Jacqueline Louwerse; published in Dutch; paperback, 60 pages, 23 cm., 35/40]
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Participate | Glow
Glow invites artists who are residents of Los Angeles to submit project proposals. Up to fifteen artists will be selected by a panel of arts professionals with funding…
Street culture New York Ari Marcopoulos... →
This spring Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents an exhibition by the Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, Ari Marcopoulos. Marcopoulos (b. 1957, Amsterdam) set…
Ernst Beyeler, Top Dealer of Modern Art, Dies at... →
Mr. Beyeler, one of the world’s foremost dealers of modern art, established a jewel-like small museum, the Fondation Beyeler, to display his private collection of important works.
Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art:... →
A new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven charts, with simple instruments, a period of radical transformation in architecture.
At the Whitney, Busting Out Quietly →
Unlike a lot of evening-hours events in New York, the biennial party has traditionally provided an unlikely mash-up.
Museum attendance up, income down, survey says →
Most of the nation’s museums reported better attendance during 2009, but that didn’t necessarily salvage the bottom line, says the American Assn. of Museums.
Golden Orb Spider Farm →
In the years to come, might the best employers encourage women to work longer by offering them the means to unlimited fertility in the form of a golden orb spider farm from which to…
Dance review: 'Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and the... →
Set to 13 Joni Mitchell songs, the 90-minute opus was all dressed up. But how did it go?
Friday Fun: First Winner Named in "Beyond the... →
Production company “Runner Runner” has been named the first winner in Canon and Vimeo’s seven-chapter “The Story Beyond the Still” video contest.
Runner Runner, a Minneapolis-based…
Neil Patrick Harris to direct 'Rent' at the... →
The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star will helm the fully-staged production, working with Tim Weil who served as musical supervisor on the Broadway version.
AO On Site – New York: Thomas Ruff ‘Zycles and... →
“zycles 3075″ (2009), part of the new show of Thomas Ruff’s works at David Zwirner Gallery.
The David Zwirner Gallery is currently showing Thomas Ruff’s sixth solo exhibition at…
For A Growing Number Of Playwrights, TV Pays The... →
“In a tight economy, playwrights have emerged as key writers for episodes that feature only one or two locations—a cost-saving device known as a ‘bottle episode.’ These episodes have become…
US Museum Visits Were Up In 2009 (But There's A... →
“[B]igger crowds didn’t necessarily mean a financial windfall for museums. About half reported a decline in total revenue in 2009, according to the survey” by the American Association of Museums….
US Rep. To NBC Exec: Why The Lily-White... →
“In a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee on the proposed $30-billion marriage between cable giant Comcast and NBC Universal, [Rep. Maxine] Waters used her time to question [NBC Universal…
The Touring Musician: Avoiding Jet Lag And Other... →
German violinist Christian Tetzlaff “says he needs only six hours of sleep, doesn’t suffer from too many traveler’s bugs and hasn’t canceled a concert because of illness in 15 years. A bigger…
Digital Music Sales Rise, But Market Seems To Be... →
“Last year saw a 21% drop in the number of people in the U.S. buying music — both digital and physical — compared with 2007, according to figures released Thursday by NPD Group, a market research…
Watch Nat Geo’s Joel Sartore Wipe A Turtle’s Butt →
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has just
published Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species. The result of Sartore’s
multi-year study of America’s vanishing…
Alamy Revenues Down in 2009, But Prices Stabilize →
Alamy’s 2009 revenues were down 27 percent in 2009, compared to 2008 (measured in dollars), and revenues for the last quarter of the year were down 12 percent, compared to the same period in 2008,…
William Eggleston to Judge CDS/Honickman First... →
Photographer William Eggleston has been selected to judge the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition.
The competition, sponsored by the Center for Documentary…
How They Made A Synthetic Voice For Roger Ebert →
“To a certain extent, the methodology is fairly straightforward. You take a lot of audio from a speaker. You then cut that up into tiny little pieces. Each piece is a little sound. … In order to…
UK Places Temporary Bar On Export Of $47.6M... →
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the culture minister halted the export “on the grounds that the drawing is of outstanding significance for the study of Raphael’s work.” Purchased at…
Humanities Funding On The Chopping Block In... →
“The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities stands to lose $290,000 in state funding in the next fiscal year and have all remaining support — more than $1 million — withdrawn in 2011, according to…
Altruism: Harder Than It Looks →
A guy who had trouble giving away umbrellas in a rainstorm “was one of a dozen people in San Francisco who had been given $100 by a startup charity that is trying to get strangers to start doing nice…
Fearing Digital Future, Publishing Fails To See... →
“With the earth trembling beneath them, it is no wonder that publishers with one foot in the crumbling past and the other seeking solid ground in an uncertain future hesitate to seize the opportunity…
Nancy Sweezy, Who Rescued Jugtown Pottery, Dies At... →
“Ms. Sweezy begged and borrowed $22,500 to buy the financially staggering Jugtown in 1968. … In 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts designated Ms. Sweezy ‘a national treasure,’ saying that…
Why Do Audiences Hate Modernist Music? Their... →
“Modern [sic] classical music is so widely disliked by audiences because the human brain struggles to find patterns it needs to understand the compositions as music.” The Telegraph (UK) 02/20/10
Salman Rushdie Expects To Write Book About Life... →
“It’s my story, and at some point, it does need to get told,” he said at the opening of an exhibition of his archives at Emory University. “My instinct is that point is getting closer.” Atlanta…
Stolen Descartes Letter Turns Up At Haverford →
“It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among…
Embattled Indian Painter Offered Sanctuary In... →
“Renowned Indian artist MF Husain, under attack from hardline Hindus for his paintings of nude Hindu goddesses, has been offered Qatari nationality.
It is not clear whether he will accept the…
German Cinema Struggles With Its Own 'N-Word'... →
“The big surprise last week during the Berlin Film Festival was a disastrous premiere for a long-awaited feature film, Jud Süß - Rise and Fall
Another film that takes even more outrageous…
US National Medal Of Arts To Dylan, Eastwood,... →
The honorees include singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, actor/director Clint Eastwood, designer/artists Milton Glaser and Maya Lin, singer/dancer/actress Rita Moreno, soprano Jessye Norman,…
West Australian Ballet Says Federal Gov't Is... →
“The West Australian Ballet has accused the Australia Council of thwarting its plans to become a fully fledged company and jeopardising a $1.2 million [Aus] annual grant from the state government,…
Why Wheeldon And Morphoses Didn't Work Out →
“He was raised on ballets with large casts and is used to working with stars. Ballet companies practically worldwide ask him to add works to their repertories
When a person has a lust for…
Morphoses' New Direction: 'Curatorial' Function... →
“Moving quickly to fill the leadership void,” company executive director Lourdes Lopez said that Morphoses “would adopt a ‘curatorial model’ in which the company would invite artists from various…
Does Higher IQ Correlate With Godless Liberalism? →
“More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history….
Nancy Sweezy, Savior of Jugtown Pottery, Dies at... →
Ms. Sweezy revived the tradition of Jugtown pottery in the Piedmont hills of North Carolina.
Theater review: 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' at... →
The Brecht play gets an inventive, emotional staging by British director John Doyle.
Tattoo Removal Technique Used In Art Preservation →
“A laser technique best known for its use to remove unwanted tattoos from the skin is finding a second life in preserving great sculptures, paintings and other works of art
The technique, called…
Art review: 'Changing the Focus: Latin American... →
The artists in the ambitious and engrossing show stretch the conceptual and textual barriers of the art. “Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005” doesn’t pretend to be a…
'What Is The Point Of Dustjackets?' →
“The clue can’t be in the name: on the shelf, the most dust-prone part of a book is the top, which a jacket doesn’t cover.
Decoratively, too, they are a recipe for disappointment.
That, at least,…
As The Past Gets Digitized, Does It Become More... →
Newspaper archives migrate online, and people start demanding changes in old articles about them. Books, old documents and recordings get digitized, but what happens when new software can no longer…
A Suggestion For The Godless: Give Art And Culture... →
Will Self: “That’s right, give it up for Lent: all pictures and drawings, music and books, television, film and radio. Eschew newspapers, and magazines; look not upon the glittery face of the…
Tonight at the… →
Tonight at the Katzen Cream’s on at the Katzen and there’s a talk by the curators tonight, Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:30-9:30pm at the Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW,…
Welcome BACK!! Aperture SNAP Out of Winter Party... →
OK.. We’ve been away from blogging for way too long! MAO is looking forward to getting back into the schwing of this blog again. There’s just Sooo much to bitch about say… But we’ll start with…
How to make the… →
How to make the luge more exciting Nothing can help curling, but I’ve got this great idea for the Olympic committee to make the luge event more exciting: rebuild the courses to be wider so that…
Tax Tips for Artists →
Taxes are due April 15 here in the US and I’m sure you’re well prepared.
So … what are your best tax tips for other artists?
How do you organize your finances so that you’re best…
