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...fact, BEMF’s popular concert series, an annual string of eight to twelve concerts, draws over 6,000 audience members, and the biennial festival and exhibition has more than 12,500 participants and thousands of fans. This year, the first concert of the season sold out more than a week in advance...
...budget for a biennial festival is about $2.5 million. The opera is just about $1 million, about $950,000,” she says. “About half of your budget is made up of ticket sales…so just imagine the amount of money that needs to be raised, and 90% of that will be from individual giving.” Still, Fay says the results are often pleasantly surprising...
...Kelly Gellatly, one of the show's dozen curators, "2004" chimes with the recent Whitney Biennial she saw in New York City. "No longer can you separate pop culture and high art," she says. You can try all you like at "2004," but it won't get you any closer to working out if Brisbane painter Paul Wrigley's airbrushed Ashton, 2003-4, is smiling with or at the cult of celebrity. As Gold Coast artist Scott Redford likes to say (when not videotaping bikini-clad models sawing surfboards in half in a Palazzo Versace hotel suite...
...turned "McSweeney's" issue 13 into a work of extraordinary depth and beauty. It culminates his efforts at moving the public's idea of comic books from consumable juvenilia to museum-worthy artworks that still retain their puerile edge. (Ware's work has appeared in both the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.) This will be the standard that future books must meet...
...Cecily Brown's inclusion in this year's Biennial proof that she has survived her own hype? Ever since she arrived in Manhattan 10 years ago from her native London, Brown, 34, has been a perennial rising star. For a while she was also something of an art babe, with spreads in Vogue and Vanity Fair that dwelt as much on her looks as her brushwork. And like any good postfeminist, she took her bows and played to that image, working in a palette heavy on girly pinks and occasionally signing her canvases "Cecily." You know, like Cher...