In the book Design and Crime, Hal Foster wrote that Gehry’s spaces “trump” the post-war art they were intended to hold, using its scale “as a pretext to inflate the contemporary museum into a gigantic spectacle-space that can swallow any art, let alone any viewer, whole”. - The Art Newspaper
For his generation of critics, reviews were not a freelance assignment but a beat, as regular as a sports columnist, whom such critics often resembled. Reporting what was on view was the first obligation. Verbs needed to be strong. Prepositions should not end paragraphs. Nouns were your friend. - American Theatre
According to an analysis performed by one of our authors, total direct revenue for the largest 123 news-focused public radio licensees has grown steadily, from roughly $678 million in FY2009 to just under $1 billion in FY2020. - Current
Beatrix Ruf told The Art Newspaper that the Hartwig Art Foundation's museum will "change the shape of contemporary art not just for the city, but the Netherlands too". - The Art Newspaper
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born from existential angst, as urgent responses to the prevailing horrors of their era. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, released in 1922, so with the BBC. - BBC
"It's not stage fright exactly. But I'm not comfortable like I used to be. And it's far easier to do telly and films. They throw money at you for very little, and you get to do it until you do it right." - The Guardian
The latest Orchestra Repertoire Report shows a 638% increase in music by women at our symphony halls in the past six years. The numbers for women composers of color — which started at next to nothing — is up a whopping 1425%. - NPR
The idea and hope behind Ulitsa Sezam, which debuted in 1996, five years after the USSR came apart, was to help its young audience learn the values of a free-market, democratic society. The translation from American to Russian culture and mindset, however, was far from smooth. - Smithsonian Magazine
"Once ubiquitous in Hong Kong, the signs ... have been steadily removed in the last few decades. The recent dismantling of some of the largest remaining ones, however, is rekindling interest in the local art form." - Bloomberg CityLab
The more important factor in the dwindling of the Academy Awards viewership is that the Academy has been hurting itself by doing its job: honoring the best movies each year. “Best” is famously a matter of taste, but most observers would agree that it doesn’t mean “most successful financially.” - The Daily Beast
She's made her career as a classical violinist, but the EIF includes dance, theatre, and popular music as well. "'Well, classical music does count for a pretty large percentage of the offering,' she counters, before saying that she's been deluged with offers of help in the other areas." - The Guardian
At first, Mr. Powell says, the artistic mischief was a joke, a test of whether anyone would notice and a strike against the ubiquitous prints he saw at hotel chains. Now, it is part of his brand and his business. - The Wall Street Journal
Dance Data Project's latest report says that in "ballet and classically inspired companies" the vast majority of the repertoire was created by male choreographers, but that the ratio has changed from nearly ¾-¼ to more like ⅔-⅓ — with near parity for mixed bills of new works. - Dance Data Project
A leading expert on museum security answers questions about which artworks are and aren't protected by glass (and why), the tensions between protecting the art and letting the public see it, and what he wishes the demonstrators would understand. - The Atlantic
