Word: artisticness
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...That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity, often purely to promote record sales - and yet another cost fronted by the label. Now playing live is becoming increasingly lucrative for the artists, whether the labels get a piece of it or not. "We used to give artists tour support, then recoup it from their record sales," says David Munns, vice chairman of EMI Music. "It was all done in the name of promotion." Things are changing. The Kaiser Chiefs' manager, James Sandom...
DIED. Luis Jimenez, 65, who with his towering fiberglass sculptures of illegal immigrants, fiesta dancers and ruddy cowboys became one of the most important artists to depict Latino culture; after a piece of a 32-ft.-tall sculpture he was crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, N.M. The Chicano artist celebrated working life in energetic pieces like Man on Fire--based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, executed by Spanish colonists for his resistance--which is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum...
...road. LIVE365.COM The world's largest Internet-radio network offers some 300 genres, with everything from psychedelia to barbershop, zydeco to electronica. ACCURADIO.COM Got downtime between meetings? Then relax with this musical cornucopia, which features dozens of channels from Chinese to Celtic. "Sub-channels" meanwhile let you select by artist, niche or genre. OVERXPOSURE.FM This nonstop mix of chill-out and ambient grooves form the perfect soundtrack to a long soak in the bath or a room-service déjeuner à deux. Like a particular tune? You can buy the CD at the click of a mouse. PANDORA.COM This...
...good artists borrow but great artists steal, as the saying goes, then Japanese artist Yoshihiko Wada could be considered one of the best. A painter whose dark, moody canvases could sell for upwards of $15,000, Wada won Japan's prestigious Minister of Education Art Encouragement Prize in March. But a few weeks later, an anonymous tipster alerted government officials that several of his paintings were virtual replicas of works by an Italian artist, Alberto Sughi. When confronted by the media, the 66-year-old Wada claimed his works were an "homage" to Sughi, not theft. Sughi, however...
...With its gorgeous image-making, Vula is a sensual antidote to the geopolitical seriousness of much of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, which opened last week. While the piece hovers between theater and dance, it fits in perfectly with artistic director Charles Merewether's "Zones of Contact" theme, which seeks to introduce audiences to world cultures not often presented in a contemporary-art context. Just as Palestinian artist Raeda Saadeh makes viewers peer through wardrobe doors to see her recreated lounge room, so Vula director Nina Nawalowalo immerses audiences in the Pacific flow...