Archive for March, 2010
Quote of the Day
“…it turns out that visual humdrum is no drawback to success.”
Arts Funding Lags Behind Market Growth
ARTINFO, has produced a tidy little report about how three cities hit hard by the recession, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., are finding new ways to keep their art institutions afloat.
Los Angeles is proposing the repurposing of fees charged to government-funded construction and usually used toward new acquisitons, to support staffing for it’s 25 arts centers.
Detroit is leveraging social media to attract a younger audience; is it telling that the eggheaded DIA is also “reinstalling its collection in 2007 with simpler labels and more interactive elements?”
While Washington, D.C. seems to be seeing a slight resurgence in giving, it has also experienced an increase in cost due to inflation: it estimates that it will need to raise $3 million more than it did last year in a struggling game of catch up.
$uperman vs Batman
Coming to, Superman fought back and once again trounced his rival, popping him upside the record sales with a beefy $1.5 million…
How to Talk About Art: Say “appropriate”
In other words, they can talk about it.
Big Art Taps Technology
Factum Arte studios, have also been used to collaborate with just about every big name in 3-D art installation and sculpture in the contemporary art world, including: Marc Quin, Anish Kapoor, Urs Fischer, Jeff Wall, and Louise Bourgeois.
