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pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 04:57 PM

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Around the World:

1. CUNO’S FIRST YEAR: James Cuno has made an impact in his first year running the Chicago Art Institute. "He has been at the institute just over a year, which once was thought too little time for any head of a major art museum to make felt his or her presence. But recent thinking in the profession has tended toward making changes rapidly during the first year, while a director enjoys the strongest trustee support, and that's the way a number of former institute curators proceeded in directorships elsewhere, with mixed results." Chicago Tribune 10/23/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...eisurearts-hed

2. TAINTED NON-PROFITS AREN’T FORGIVEN: "A new report suggests that most ordinary donors to charities have long memories about scandals at tax-exempt organizations but little awareness of high-level policy debates on the need for more government regulation of such groups... It claims that such donors wrote off a particular charity once it became tainted in their minds, whether by scandal or poor performance. Yet problems at a particular organization did not necessarily translate into cynicism about all charities." Chicago Tribune 10/27/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...isuretempo-hed

3. DRURY LANE SUFFERS FROM MISTAKES: It was only eight months ago that Chicago's new $9 million Drury Lane Theatre at the Watertower Place opened in a blaze of publicity. Now the theatre is quitting making original theatre, admitting its mistakes and failure. "It's an astonishingly rapid turnaround and indicative of eight months on Chicago's Magnificent Mile that have not gone well at all. There are no current plans for the theater to produce its own shows again." Chicago Tribune 10/16/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...eisurearts-hed

4. TURNER PRIZE HOPEFULS: This year's Turner Prize finalists are announced. "The early favorite to win the prize is painter Gillian Carnegie, who creates unsettling versions of traditional styles like still life and landscapes. The other nominees are Darren Almond, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling, who all produce installations. The winner will be announced on 5 December." BBC 10/17/05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4348626.stm

5. THEATRE’S YOUTH MOVEMENT: "Bringing in new audiences has become an increasing concern for theater companies with aging subscribers. Not only is the coveted 18- to 35-year-old demographic not subscribing, they aren't even a substantial slice of the single-ticket buying pie. In response, companies are developing clever methods of channeling attention toward their theaters - things like student rush, which offers tickets for reduced rates right before a show. Other theaters are taking more proactive steps, like the College Ambassador Program." Christian Science Monitor 10/14/05
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1014/p11s02-almp.html

6. MUSEUMS SELLING, EXPERTS CRINGING: A number of American arts institutions are selling off some of their art. "The scale of such selling - by institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - is renewing debate. 'History will make a fool of these museums. It always happens. Often the things that are sold are based on inherited prejudices that will be overturned in the future'." The New York Times 10/26/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/ar...gn/26muse.html

7. THE MODERN ACCORDING TO PERL: Jed Perl has a new book out about art in New York between the 1940s and 70s. "Through the book's pages pour artists, critics, dealers, museum curators, museum-goers and the views Perl has intently constructed of them, drawing on archival materials, interviews and the old books and art catalogs he's collected over the years. Most important, perhaps, are his own responses to art, people and institutions. The book â€” its full title is "New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century" â€” is essentially a book of ideas, a critic's analytical meditation on how and why he thinks cultural history evolved as it did." Los Angeles Times 10/16/05
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedi...ll=cl-calendar

8. GETTY’S MUNITZ TRIES TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT: Getty president Barry Munitz sits down to address the controversies swirling around the institution - the Italian artifacts case, morale, his salary and the infamous Porsche. Are staff jumping ship? "There hasn't been a massive outflow. There hasn't even been a major outflow of people. The museum director resigned and one other person who was her closest partner and colleague went at the same time. Not a single person left the museum in the year since she left. Everybody stayed. We went from a search (for a new curator) and hired the No. 1 candidate on everybody's list, Michael Brand." Los Angeles Daily News 10/24/05
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3142264

9. TATE BUYS TIME: The Tate has paid £20,000 for a piece of performance art that consists of members of the public asking one another for the time. David Lamelas' work Time "questions the environment of the museum and static objects". A photograph of a past performance was *******d in the price. BBC 10/21/05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4363734.stm

10. A RICH DANCE COMPANY: A Sam Walton heir puts up tens of millions to start a dance company. The dancers get decent salaries, a new studio and a full season in which to work. So why is the company's morale low? The New York Times 10/23/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/ar...ce/22ceda.html

pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 05:33 PM

also i found this

Sculptor Rachel Whiteread has been commissioned to create the latest artwork to fill the Tate Modern gallery's giant turbine hall.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4315579.stm

that link has this really cool picture of the anish kapoor sculpture that was in the space a while ago

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...poorpa_203.jpg

he's the guy who did Chicago's Cloudgate aka "the bean"

Who's been to the Tate Modern? I think it's the greatest museum and the huge turbine hall is wonderful.

Nimrod's Son · 11-01-2005, 05:34 PM

We need a "No one care" smiley

pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
We need a "No one care" smiley

I asked before and someone do indeed care.

Hey man, check out the other side of that sculpture!

http://www.t-melt.com/images/marsyas/100_0097_r1.jpg

http://www.elnidodelescorpion.com/N3...yas-kapoor.jpg

When I was there for the summer, this piece by Louise Bourgeois was up. It was called "mother" and it was a big spider with eggs on its stomach.

http://www.elnidodelescorpion.com/N3...-Bourgeois.jpg

Mayfuck · 11-01-2005, 07:59 PM

I really wanna see the Tate Modern.

Hm. ArtReview magazine came out with the (quite subjective) 100 most powerful people in the art world. Damien Hirst ranked #1 -_-

DeadSwan · 11-01-2005, 09:28 PM

thank you, liz

btw-fra angelico at the met!

i'm so stoked!

here in san francisco we're getting some
cornelia parker and wang du. plus miranda july's doing an artist-in-residency and giving lectures, and i'm sure to go to at least one.

p.s.-i really like rachel whiteread

pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mayfuck
I really wanna see the Tate Modern.

Hm. ArtReview magazine came out with the (quite subjective) 100 most powerful people in the art world. Damien Hirst ranked #1 -_-

Wow, if he's #1 then I'm TOTALLY out of touch. It's interesting how you can be into something and know quite a bit about it but almost nothing about it in another sense.

pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeadSwan
thank you, liz

btw-fra angelico at the met!

i'm so stoked!

here in san francisco we're getting some
cornelia parker and wang du. plus miranda july's doing an artist-in-residency and giving lectures, and i'm sure to go to at least one.

p.s.-i really like rachel whiteread

wow, cool. fra angelico's noli me tangare is one of my favorite paintings.

yeah, i like rachel whiteread, too. i need to check out a big book of her work to see some of the very much lesser known stuff.

I only know those other artists very little or not at all. I'll check them out online.n

DeadSwan · 11-01-2005, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pink_ribbon_scars

wow, cool. fra angelico's noli me tangare is one of my favorite paintings.

yeah, i like rachel whiteread, too. i need to check out a big book of her work to see some of the very much lesser known stuff.

I only know those other artists very little or not at all. I'll check them out online.n

sharing is a wonderful thing

pink_ribbon_scars · 11-01-2005, 09:45 PM

it is. yay for netphoria.

all hail king pakula and his information sharing network.

dean moriaty · 11-02-2005, 02:18 PM

tate modern's amazing. the turbine hall space is mindblowing.

i went when it had just opened i think. in the turbine hall were these two huge metal towers that had little holes and mirrors in and on them. you climbed up the outside of the towers and went down through the middle of them. it was really cool but i can't remember who made or designed them

when i was up near the top of the building i looked out of the window down into the turbine hall and got vertigo and went dizzy, it's really high up!

alisonmonster · 11-02-2005, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mayfuck
I really wanna see the Tate Modern.

Hm. ArtReview magazine came out with the (quite subjective) 100 most powerful people in the art world. Damien Hirst ranked #1 -_-

i think Damien Hearst is a hack and he's fooled everyone into thinking he's more interesting than he is.In my opinion anyway. Its funny that his promoter got into a fight with Hirst and sold his collection for somthing like 13 mil.
The market is so flooded and pieces are going for such extravagant prices...its insane.Its so damn expensive and the turnover for new talent is so fast. i dunno, art is becoming so marketed- even though i want artsits to do well, somewhere down the line its going to cap off somewhere and some of these people that are trendy now- their work won't even be a footnote in history. *end rant*

11-01-2005, 04:57 PM	#1
pink_ribbon_scars At the beginning Location: GJ 1214 b Posts: 10,760	Art News use login/pass mcachicago/mcachicago if necessary Around the World: 1. CUNO’S FIRST YEAR: James Cuno has made an impact in his first year running the Chicago Art Institute. "He has been at the institute just over a year, which once was thought too little time for any head of a major art museum to make felt his or her presence. But recent thinking in the profession has tended toward making changes rapidly during the first year, while a director enjoys the strongest trustee support, and that's the way a number of former institute curators proceeded in directorships elsewhere, with mixed results." Chicago Tribune 10/23/05 http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...eisurearts-hed 2. TAINTED NON-PROFITS AREN’T FORGIVEN: "A new report suggests that most ordinary donors to charities have long memories about scandals at tax-exempt organizations but little awareness of high-level policy debates on the need for more government regulation of such groups... It claims that such donors wrote off a particular charity once it became tainted in their minds, whether by scandal or poor performance. Yet problems at a particular organization did not necessarily translate into cynicism about all charities." Chicago Tribune 10/27/05 http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...isuretempo-hed 3. DRURY LANE SUFFERS FROM MISTAKES: It was only eight months ago that Chicago's new $9 million Drury Lane Theatre at the Watertower Place opened in a blaze of publicity. Now the theatre is quitting making original theatre, admitting its mistakes and failure. "It's an astonishingly rapid turnaround and indicative of eight months on Chicago's Magnificent Mile that have not gone well at all. There are no current plans for the theater to produce its own shows again." Chicago Tribune 10/16/05 http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...eisurearts-hed 4. TURNER PRIZE HOPEFULS: This year's Turner Prize finalists are announced. "The early favorite to win the prize is painter Gillian Carnegie, who creates unsettling versions of traditional styles like still life and landscapes. The other nominees are Darren Almond, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling, who all produce installations. The winner will be announced on 5 December." BBC 10/17/05 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4348626.stm 5. THEATRE’S YOUTH MOVEMENT: "Bringing in new audiences has become an increasing concern for theater companies with aging subscribers. Not only is the coveted 18- to 35-year-old demographic not subscribing, they aren't even a substantial slice of the single-ticket buying pie. In response, companies are developing clever methods of channeling attention toward their theaters - things like student rush, which offers tickets for reduced rates right before a show. Other theaters are taking more proactive steps, like the College Ambassador Program." Christian Science Monitor 10/14/05 http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1014/p11s02-almp.html 6. MUSEUMS SELLING, EXPERTS CRINGING: A number of American arts institutions are selling off some of their art. "The scale of such selling - by institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - is renewing debate. 'History will make a fool of these museums. It always happens. Often the things that are sold are based on inherited prejudices that will be overturned in the future'." The New York Times 10/26/05 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/ar...gn/26muse.html 7. THE MODERN ACCORDING TO PERL: Jed Perl has a new book out about art in New York between the 1940s and 70s. "Through the book's pages pour artists, critics, dealers, museum curators, museum-goers and the views Perl has intently constructed of them, drawing on archival materials, interviews and the old books and art catalogs he's collected over the years. Most important, perhaps, are his own responses to art, people and institutions. The book â€” its full title is "New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century" â€” is essentially a book of ideas, a critic's analytical meditation on how and why he thinks cultural history evolved as it did." Los Angeles Times 10/16/05 http://www.calendarlive.com/printedi...ll=cl-calendar 8. GETTY’S MUNITZ TRIES TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT: Getty president Barry Munitz sits down to address the controversies swirling around the institution - the Italian artifacts case, morale, his salary and the infamous Porsche. Are staff jumping ship? "There hasn't been a massive outflow. There hasn't even been a major outflow of people. The museum director resigned and one other person who was her closest partner and colleague went at the same time. Not a single person left the museum in the year since she left. Everybody stayed. We went from a search (for a new curator) and hired the No. 1 candidate on everybody's list, Michael Brand." Los Angeles Daily News 10/24/05 http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3142264 9. TATE BUYS TIME: The Tate has paid £20,000 for a piece of performance art that consists of members of the public asking one another for the time. David Lamelas' work Time "questions the environment of the museum and static objects". A photograph of a past performance was *******d in the price. BBC 10/21/05 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4363734.stm 10. A RICH DANCE COMPANY: A Sam Walton heir puts up tens of millions to start a dance company. The dancers get decent salaries, a new studio and a full season in which to work. So why is the company's morale low? The New York Times 10/23/05 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/ar...ce/22ceda.html

11-01-2005, 05:33 PM	#2
pink_ribbon_scars At the beginning Location: GJ 1214 b Posts: 10,760	also i found this Sculptor Rachel Whiteread has been commissioned to create the latest artwork to fill the Tate Modern gallery's giant turbine hall. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4315579.stm that link has this really cool picture of the anish kapoor sculpture that was in the space a while ago http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...poorpa_203.jpg he's the guy who did Chicago's Cloudgate aka "the bean" Who's been to the Tate Modern? I think it's the greatest museum and the huge turbine hall is wonderful.

11-01-2005, 05:34 PM	#3
Nimrod's Son Master of Karate and Friendship Location: in your butt Posts: 72,943	We need a "No one care" smiley

11-01-2005, 07:59 PM	#5
Mayfuck Banned Location: i'm from japan also hollywood Posts: 57,812	I really wanna see the Tate Modern. Hm. ArtReview magazine came out with the (quite subjective) 100 most powerful people in the art world. Damien Hirst ranked #1 -_-

11-01-2005, 09:28 PM	#6
DeadSwan Socialphobic Location: GAZA STRIP MALL Posts: 10,828	thank you, liz btw-fra angelico at the met! i'm so stoked! here in san francisco we're getting some cornelia parker and wang du. plus miranda july's doing an artist-in-residency and giving lectures, and i'm sure to go to at least one. p.s.-i really like rachel whiteread

11-01-2005, 09:45 PM	#10
pink_ribbon_scars At the beginning Location: GJ 1214 b Posts: 10,760	it is. yay for netphoria. all hail king pakula and his information sharing network.

11-02-2005, 02:18 PM	#11
dean moriaty lion of saloons Location: ^ Posts: 7,370	tate modern's amazing. the turbine hall space is mindblowing. i went when it had just opened i think. in the turbine hall were these two huge metal towers that had little holes and mirrors in and on them. you climbed up the outside of the towers and went down through the middle of them. it was really cool but i can't remember who made or designed them when i was up near the top of the building i looked out of the window down into the turbine hall and got vertigo and went dizzy, it's really high up!