What Will Art, And The Art World, Look Like In 2039?
"Devon Van Houten Maldonado asks artists and curators to imagine the changes and trends that will influence the art world in the next two decades." " BBC
"Devon Van Houten Maldonado asks artists and curators to imagine the changes and trends that will influence the art world in the next two decades." " BBC
Emily Yahr: "After all, we're in an era where television is more fractured than ever. Big TV events are increasingly rare, and it's refreshing to have one topic to discuss around the virtual…
In 2014, in a parking lot following a solo recital, the Milwaukee Symphony's concertmaster got zaped with a Taser and had his violin ripped from his hands. (The culprit, it turned out, was a…
"The Modern Library will launch a new trade paperback series, Modern Library Torchbearers, this May. The series, the publisher said, will 'honor a more inclusive vision of classic books' by …
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film" " including one produced by Netflix or Amazon " "can be…
Kathy LeMay: "The problem with [the complaints] is this: they do not help fundraisers unlock donor giving. … Imagine if after giving to help a family in need, articles were written about y…
"Pascal Quoirin, a specialist who restored the Notre Dame organ in 2017, … said 'after two hours spent examining the instrumental part, I did not notice any damage that could have been cau…
The primary beneficiary of Bloch's largesse has been Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: he spent three years as its board chairman, he and his wife are the name donors on the museum'…
Last week a court of appeals in Paris handed septuagenarian U.S. businessman Gary Snell a suspended prison sentence of one year and Parisian art dealer Robert Crouzet a four-month suspended …
The Story of Yanxi Palace and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace smashed viewing records for the streaming services that showed them. Then the journal Theory Weekly (a title only a Communist bu…
Well, she's pretty sure she found herself " more specifically, an essay she wrote about herself and her twin sister " but the novel's author differs. And the author of another book claims sh…
I have spoken with staff members of presenting organizations interested in community engagement who lament the fact that they are not in a position to select specific works themselves; they …
When an ambitious new cultural institution chooses its architect six years before appointing an artistic director/CEO, you know its priorities are upside-down and backwards. " Lee Rosenbaum
Charity Tillemann-Dick, a coloratura soprano who suffered from pulmonary hypertension and who resumed her singing career after undergoing a double lung transplant, died this morning. " Terry…
In 2019, the Bernstein-Robbins ballet about three sailors on shore leave looks rather like "a case study in rape culture," writes Lea Marshall, who took a group of undergraduate dance studen…
Yes, they tried it once, back in 1977. And not on Saturday night at 11:30, but on Sunday evening at 8:30. "Vulture recently spoke to many of those involved, including Lorne Michaels, Randy N…
A reporter talks with a logistics expert at DHL who's worked with touring orchestras for 15 years about everything it takes to pull a successful tour off. " WQXR (New York City)
"Greek tragedy survives today as words on a page, but ancient performances were distinguished as much for music and dance as for speeches and dialogue. … The musical dimension of ancient t…
"There is no clear correlation between a company's social media campaigns and how many seats they fill in the theater. That doesn't mean social media isn't, of course, vital. … 'Campaigns …
The donors, usually businesspeople, who keep saying that are "thinking of giving as analogous to investing when it isn't, which leads to related mistakes like utilizing the wrong metrics [to…
"For every multi-millionaire dollar Robert Rauschenberg estate, there are thousands of lesser-known talents whose families have to confront the tough decisions about what to do with hundreds…
"We are lingering in a moment in which there is a fashion, or even a giddiness, for spending large sums of money on theatrical experiences that explore the foundations and promises of Americ…
The good news: "When an expanded Buffalo Albright-Knox-Gundlach Museum opens in 2021, visitors will see their own reflections in a kaleidoscopic network of mirrored glass suspended over the …
"After the dismissal of Daniele Gatti as Music Director of the Amsterdam based Concertgebouw Orchestra, following allegations of sexual harassment, both parties had 'constructive consultatio…
"On Tuesday morning, the estate and family of Tolkien issued a terse statement in which they announced their 'wish to make clear that they did not approve of, authorise or participate in the…