Why Doesn’t Being A Good Writer Equal Being A Good Public Speaker?
Often, it’s an inverse relationship, as anyone who has gone to too many readings can tell you. – LitHub Source link
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London’s Social Scene Lights Up for Frieze’s VIPs and Wannabe-VIPs
Art is secondary to partying for more people than you might think at Frieze London—as at any major art fair. Anyone who is—or wants to be—a hot ticket rocks up on the VIP days to see art and to be seen seeing art, before hobnobbing at the evening’s gallery dinners, parties, and after-parties. The scene, like Art…
A Montana Wheat Field—Planted as Conceptual Art—Becomes Community Sustenance
While wheat fields are a common sight in Montana, this past year a new type of wheat field took root in the city of Bozeman, one that was agricultural—and also an artwork. Though not wholly dissimilar from a standard crop, the stretches of Bobcat (a variety of hard red winter wheat) were part of a…
Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — On the eve of World War II, Nazis in Austria seized a pastel by renowned impressionist artist Claude Monet, selling it off and sparking a family’s decadeslong search that culminated Wednesday in New Orleans. At an FBI field office, agents lifted a blue veil covering the Monet pastel and presented Adalbert…
Audience Report: Gongs and Goodbyes as the Rubin Museum Shuts Its Doors
In a statement, the Rubin said it opposes the trafficking of stolen or looted cultural items, has not knowingly acquired looted objects and remains committed to conducting provenance research of its entire collection, which could result in repatriation. Qiuyuhong Lu, a former intern at the Rubin and part of the Himalayan diaspora, visited the museum…