Because I can’t think serious thoughts between Christmas and New Year’s, I offer up some art world headlines that somehow didn’t make it into ArtsJournal.com in 2010…
New Research on Artists’ Incomes Reveals Deepening Divide Between Poor and Dirt Poor
Disgraced Literary Magazine Caught Bribing Authors With Pay
MFA Grads, Third-World Dictators Rally for Debt Relief
New $250 Million Performing Arts Center Opens with Student-Directed One-Woman Play
Economic Impact Study Shows Unbelievable Yet Heartwarming Growth in North Pole’s Jollywood Film Industry
Choreographer Presents New Site-Specific Work in Halls of Congress Featuring 535 Community Dancers
Actor’s Equity Demands Shutdown of Julie Taymor’s Waiting for Godot Adaptation Until Better Safety Procedures Are Implemented
Maryland Man Astounded that Seurat Painting is a Bunch of Fucking Dots
Congress Repeals Don’t Art Don’t Tell Policy, Nation’s Artists Now Allowed to Tell What Their Art Means
Yes, I could go on and on. (You’re welcome, Onion News Network.)
Best wishes for a prosperous and productive 2011.
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