“A walk through the museum shakes visitors out of the passive mode, making them participants rather than viewers as it leads them through rooms of literal and figurative darkness into open, well-lit spaces. The experience is a reminder that the complexity of memory — how it can nourish our identity or encumber us, trap us in the past and paralyze us, or provide tools for our futures — rarely gets discussed as a crucial component of social harmony and well-being.”
Art At 200 MPH: Exhibitions On High-Speed Trains
Japan sets up an actual art gallery in one of its shikansen bullet trains, while France’s SNCF has partnered with the Musée d’Orsay and 3M to project images of Impressionist landscapes on the ceilings of select train cars.
Tiny Tuscan Town Spends Decades Battling Over A Piero Della Francesca Fresco
“For decades, [Piero’s Madonna del Parto] has been entangled in the type of distinctly Italian bureaucratic standoff that can bend time as well as logic. The contested issue is how and where the fresco should be displayed. The Roman Catholic Church is involved. So is the Ministry of Culture. There has been litigation. There have been government committees. There have been TV specials.”
Vail International Dance Festival To Get New York Outpost
“Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC, with shows November 3–6, will feature many Vail regulars, including American Ballet Theatre’s Isabella Boylston (the festival’s artist in residence for 2016) and Herman Cornejo; New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns, Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck; [and] tapper extraordinaire Michelle Dorrance.”
So Confusing: Japanese Artist Convicted Of Obscenity For Sharing Data For Her Art But Not For The Art Itself
“According to the AP, a court ruled yesterday that Igarashi, who goes by “Rokudenashiko” (“good-for-nothing girl”), is guilty of obscenity for sharing the data but not for exhibiting her physical objects since they qualify as art under Japanese law.”
A Lost Mayan City Discovered By Teen? Probably Not
“The square in the CSA’s satellite images is probably an abandoned field, and another spot may be a small dry lake or clearing in the jungle, says archaeologist Ivan Šprajc. Moreover, experts are skeptical of the claim that the Maya built their cities according to constellations. They did indeed have constellations, but there is no complete canonical list of them, so the theory is hard to test.”
Actors Theatre Of Louisville Gets A New Director
Kevin Moore replaces Jennifer Bielstein who stepped down in March 2016 after 10 years at Actors Theatre to take the position of Managing Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cellists – They’re A Bunch Of Damn Troublemakers
“Indeed, if any instrumentalist was going to be involved in a wild international money-laundering scheme, it was probably going to be a cellist. The instrument has a long history of association with rowdy activists, sultry libertines, genre iconoclasts, and all manner of rebellious spirits.”
Artist François Morellet Dead At 90
“Industrially-produced neon tubes served as Morellet’s material of choice for six decades, but his sculptures and light installations have only gained commercial and international recognition relatively recently.”
Behind The Scenes At Liam Scarlett’s Controversial New Ballet Of ‘Frankenstein’
“In the rehearsal room, ominous props clutter the floor’s perimeter: an alarmingly incomplete cadaver lies on a table; Georgian-era surgical equipment is strewn here and there; the odd body part sits pickled in a jar.”
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“Contemporary Confidence” Game: Brett Gorvy Tells How Christie’s Got it Done
The headline for my last post was: Christie’s Gets It Done. At the press preview for last night’s confidence-restoring contemporary sale, Brett Gorvy, Christie’s chairman of Post-War and Contemporary art, told me how he had … read more
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3D Printing Is About To Change The Art World (Or Is It?)
“It can do anything, but should it? There’s a lot of hype about this in the commercial sector, but this isn’t about a Star Trek notion of art — push a button, and the machine craps out a sculpture for you. Not at all. We’re asking questions about the nature of the medium — what does it mean to make a printed piece, or make one by hand? What’s the difference?”
Dark Cloud Hangs Over Opening Of This Year’s Cannes Festival
With France remaining under the state of emergency that began after the November Paris attacks, the city of Cannes has hired a top Israeli consultant to beef up security, but people are still worried. “I’d be happy,” Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard told the Hollywood Reporter, “to see dogs roaming the lobby of the Carlton.”
$7.25 Million Settlement For Worker Who Fell Through Glass Ceiling At Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum
“On Nov. 26, 2012, [Phani] Guthula, then 27 and working as an engineer for ICF International, was inspecting lighting fixtures in the museum when he fell. The suit contends that the Art Museum, which administers the Rodin Museum, and its security company, AlliedBarton Security Services, failed to protect him from harm when he stepped onto the unprotected glass floor.”