“Under the USSR regime, Moscow put particular effort into developing dance in the area, through the non-negotiable funding of a national dance school. In time, Kyrgyzstan became the best dance training center in Central Asia, forming many dancers who went on to have international careers.” Things changed after the Soviet collapse …
The *Other* Tate Gallery Reopens After £20 Million Refurbishment
The Tate St. Ives, in an artists’ colony/resort town on the coast of Cornwall, has doubled its exhibition space and made room for a semi-permanent exhibition to accompany the temporary shows it concentrated on previously.
The Great Theatre Of “Killing” The NEA
“Ironically, Trump is cutting the arts because it’s great theater. It’s such an easy target: low-hanging fruit that’s also high visibility. The artists know how to put up a fuss that’ll get noticed, and he’ll look like a hero to that supposed rust-and-Bible-belt antiart constituency. A statement will have been made about what America does and doesn’t value. If it doesn’t actually happen—if the NEA survives—it won’t matter. Trump’s base will have already seen the show.”
This Neighborhood Is Helping Artists Buy Vacant Homes For Cheap
“In Indianapolis, one block in the Garfield Park neighborhood south of the city’s downtown is experimenting with a different model. An arts nonprofit worked with other partners to buy and renovate vacant houses and is now offering to co-own them with artists. Artists will pay half the cost–one $80,000 home, for example, will sell for around $40,000.”
Did Russian Hackers Plant A Fake Adult Coloring Book On Amazon?
“Publishers believe that Russian individuals are behind the creation of an fake book parodying a self-styled manual for resisting US president Donald Trump and other populist leaders, with the author, historian Timothy Snyder, claiming the listing to be the latest attack in a series of efforts by Russians to undermine his work.”
What Will Brexit Mean For Culture?
“A combination of shock, motivation and fears for the future can be … felt throughout the country’s cultural institutions. The insecurity is also an economic one. The cultural industry, which includes film, the art trade and the TV industry, contributes 84.1 billion pounds (97 billion euros) to the British economy.”
Getty Gets Massive Trove Of Frank Gehry Archives
“The content of the contribution, which was part purchase and part gift, is massive: about 1,000 sketches, more than 120,000 working drawings, more than 100,000 slides, 168 working models, 112 presentation models and hundreds of boxes of office records, personal papers and correspondence.”
Is This Really A Surprise?
“A report from the Motion Picture Association of America found that the number of African-Americans who go to the movies frequently (at least once a month) hit its highest mark in 2016 with 5.6 million, up nearly two million from 2015.”
William Powell, 66, Author Of ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’
The author of the “diagram- and recipe-filled manifesto that is believed to have been used as a source in heinous acts of violence since its publication in 1971” (as William Sandomir puts it here) actually died last July, though word didn’t make it to the media until a documentary about him was released in theaters last week.
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The Mesmerizing Art of Ran Hwang
New York City is home to thousands of working artists, including many good ones who rarely receive the publicity they deserve – even when they have galleries and have had museum exhibitions. So I was pleased to … read more
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This Year’s List: The Most-Visited Art Exhibitions In 2016
Christo had the most-visited art event. And in New York, “the Whitney Museum of American Art, which moved to its new Renzo Piano-designed home in downtown Manhattan in 2015, has put an end to the city’s traditional duopoly of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Whitney hosted five of the ten most-attended exhibitions in New York in 2016.”