A year ago, as Ireland’s Covid-19 vaccination programme finally began to roll out, the internet was our main way of engaging with the arts. I wrote a column back then arguing that organisations needed to move away from all the free events of the time, which risked devaluing arts performances and setting a longer-term expectation …
Culture shift needed as audiences decline for both real and virtual events Read More »
“Welcome to my partyyyyyy,” a vaguely Eastern European-accented voice drones, as a crowd of reporters, influencers, and hangers-on whip out their phones to capture the magic. “Shut up! I’m a masterpiece. I’m a masterpiece. I am Annaaaaaaa. Am I gorgeous or what? And don’t you worry. The wire money is coming. The wire money is …
I Have Seen the Death of Culture, and It Was Anna Delvey’s Art Show Read More »
Goodbye! JK On a recent wet and bright spring morning, two Seattle Graffiti Rangers parked their truck on the trail winding just below the Jose Rizal Bridge. They hauled out their paint-splattered rollers and their five-gallon buckets, and then they got to work. In front of them, a couple throwies covered a giant wall facing …
Growing up in central Queensland in the 1980s, Ruth Clare didn’t even know a career in the arts was a possibility. Rockhampton was a “beef town”, she says, full of cowboys and miners, where there was nothing to do but drink. Her stay-at-home mum became depressed after her dad, a Vietnam war veteran, left. Even …
This article is an unofficial follow-up to a previous article on a similar theme. The Bitcoin Renaissance is well underway and the art gallery by the same name at Bitcoin 2022 was a prime example. The Bitcoin Renaissance gallery offered a small glimpse into the future of the kind of influence Bitcoin will have on …
In fall 1975, André Leon Talley brought Bobby Grossman to the Factory to meet Andy Warhol. Then an illustration major at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Bobby presented his portfolio to Andy along with the Factory’s formidable power players, including Fred Hughes, Vincent Fremont, and Ronnie Cutrone. “Andy looked through my collages and drawings and …
Revisiting New York’s radical punk and no wave scene of the 70s and 80s Read More »
