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Archives for December 5, 2013

Think TV Is Fading Away Because Young People Have Abandoned It? Don’t Be So Sure

MEDIA Posted: December 5, 2013 11:54 pm

Teens watch more TV than we – or they – may think.

MEDIA Published: 12.05.13, The Atlantic

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How Cats Infect Our Brains (And Maybe Make Them Better)

IDEAS Posted: December 5, 2013 11:41 pm

Some of the side effects may be pretty great, but (as they said in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), “it is technically brain damage.”

IDEAS Published: 12.05.13, The Atlantic

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What’ll Be The Real Problem For Amazon’s Delivery Drones? Angry Birds

WORDS Posted: December 5, 2013 11:28 pm

And these predators are not drones.

WORDS Published: 12.05.13, The Atlantic

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How The Letter “E” Died (Yeah, Really)

WORDS Posted: December 5, 2013 12:07 pm

“Long considered one of the most influential letters in the Roman alphabet, at the turn of the century E had originally been heralded as the signal letter in the digital world. But in recent years, the letter had suffered a series of debilitating setbacks that closely correlated with the rise of online applications. It died May 20, 2013.”

WORDS Published: 12.05.13, Wired

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Is This The Golden Age Of Shakespeare?

THEATRE Posted: December 5, 2013 11:51 am

“It is a heck of a lot of activity for a man who has been dead since 1616 and was once consigned to dusty textbooks – and it is a trend that I am not sure anyone would have predicted even in the Nineties when Shakespeare was performed regularly and well, but without generating the same enthusiasm.”

THEATRE Published: 12.05.13, The Telegraph (UK)

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How Did The UK Become Such A Major Movie Production Center?

MEDIA Posted: December 5, 2013 11:47 am

“Britain already had a world-class franchise, in the shape of the James Bond films – but they tend to only come along every three or four few years, whereas there were eight Potter movies in the space of a decade – which meant virtually continuous employment for literally thousands of film workers in this country.”

MEDIA Published: 12.05.13, The Telegraph (UK)

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This Is How Music Works On Our Brains

MUSIC Posted: December 5, 2013 10:58 am

“Something else that’s really interesting about how our emotions are affected by music is that there are two kind of emotions related to music: perceived emotions and felt emotions.”

MUSIC Published: 11.20.13, Buffer

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Report: Here’s How Much Of The Economy America’s Creative Industries Generate

ISSUES Posted: December 5, 2013 10:49 am

“Creative industries led by Hollywood account for about $504 billion, or at least 3.2 percent of U.S. goods and services, the government said in its first official measure of how the arts and culture affect the economy.”

ISSUES Published: 12.05.13, Yahoo! (AP)

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Minnesota Orchestra Claims It’s Living Up To Conditions Of Its Hall Lease

MUSIC Posted: December 5, 2013 10:42 am

“Several independent sources have called on the city to find the association in breach and to retake control of the hall, which Minneapolis owns by virtue of sponsoring a $14 million state bonding request for a recently completed renovation.”

MUSIC Published: 12.05.13, The Star-Tribune (Mpls)

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UK Fringe Theatres Say Union Is Trying To Scare Them

THEATRE Posted: December 5, 2013 10:34 am

Fringe theatre practitioners have claimed Equity is scaremongering about the potential legal consequences of shows operating on a profit-share basis.

THEATRE Published: 12.05.13, Theatre

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Director For The 2015 Venice Biennale Named

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 9:20 am

In a statement, the biennial’s president, Paolo Baratta, referred to Okwui Enwezor’s knowledge of the “complex phenomenon of globalisation”. The curator of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Enwezor has organised biennials from Seville to South Korea and the major travelling survey of post-war African art “The Short Century” (2001-02).

VISUAL Published: 12.05.13, The Art Newspaper

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Does Anyone Care About America’s Historic Houses?

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 9:18 am

“The investment in physical infrastructure may not correlate with income potential. Just because they are historic structures that should be saved doesn’t mean they should all be historic house museums.”

VISUAL Published: 12.05.13, The Art Newspaper

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Is It Or Isn’t It A Leonardo?

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 9:10 am

“The drawing of Isabella in the Louvre, on which the painting is clearly based, was done some time between late 1499 and March of 1500, when Leonardo was a guest at her court in Mantua. According to the newspaper, carbon dating of the painting conducted at the University of Arizona confirms that it was executed sometime between 1460 and 1650, placing it in a corresponding timeframe.”

VISUAL Published: 12.05.13, ARTnews

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Baltimore Museum: Judge – That Renoir Is Ours!

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 8:34 am

“In effect, the motion asks federal Judge Leonie M. Brinkema to determine that the 1879 oil painting “Paysage Bords de Seine” belongs to the Baltimore museum and not to the 51-year-old Virginia woman who says she bought it at a flea market in 2009 for $7 as part of a box of odds and ends.”

VISUAL Published: 12.04.13, Baltimore Sun

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Detroit Leaders Scramble To Save Art Before Politicians Plunder It

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 8:26 am

“Some of the city’s most powerful leaders are working furiously to fashion a grand bargain in which nonprofit foundations would put up $500 million to spin off the Detroit Institute of Arts from the city, and that money would be used to reduce pension cuts and help rebuild city services.”

VISUAL Published: 12.05.13, Detroit Free Press

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Amazon Says That A Quarter Of Its Top 100 Books Are From Indie Publishers

WORDS Posted: December 5, 2013 8:19 am

“As many as a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers, according to data revealed at a trade presentation by the retailer.”

WORDS Published: 12.04.13, The Guardian (UK)

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“Alarming” Study Shows Just How Few Silent Films Have Survived

MEDIA Posted: December 5, 2013 8:17 am

“A new study unveiled by The Library of Congress notes that a scant 14 percent of the feature films produced and distributed in the U.S. from 1912-29 exist in their original 35mm format.”

MEDIA Published: 12.04.13, The Hollywood Reporter

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Norman Rockwell’s Family Furious Over Deborah Solomon’s Biography

PEOPLE Posted: December 5, 2013 8:16 am

The man depicted in Solomon’s new book “lived a far darker life” than the scenes he painted, “fraught with anxiety, depression, and loneliness. He was a twice-divorced, thrice-married repressed homosexual who gravitated toward men and boys.” It’s that last bit that has the Rockwells so upset.

PEOPLE Published: 12.04.13, Christian Science Monitor

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Egyptian Museum’s Antiquities And Staff Alike Suffer From Country’s Instability

VISUAL Posted: December 5, 2013 8:14 am

“The century-old home of Egypt’s mummies and King Tutankhamun’s treasures is trying to make the best out of the worst times of political turmoil. But the Egyptian Museum is taking a hammering on multiple levels, from riots on its doorstep to funding so meager it can’t keep up paper clip supplies for its staff.”

VISUAL Published: 12.04.13, Yahoo! (AP)

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St. Petersburg’s First International Winter Theatre Festival Faces Russia’s Chaotic Politics

ISSUES Posted: December 5, 2013 8:12 am

“Strange days when a production of Death in Venice provokes an uproar, then ends in a theatre being defaced.”

ISSUES Published: 12.04.13, The Guardian (UK)

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The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly En Anglais: Paris My Fair Lady Is A Hit, Even In English

THEATRE Posted: December 5, 2013 8:10 am

Director Jean-Luc Choplin: “How do you translate ‘the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain’? I mean, you can come up with something in French but it doesn’t have the same clarity or sonority. … And it’s such an important part of the play.”

THEATRE Published: 12.04.13, The Guardian (UK)

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Roy Orbison’s Final Interview, For The 25th Anniversary Of His Death

PEOPLE Posted: December 5, 2013 8:08 am

“You set out to whip the world. And then when you get beat up a little bit … In my case, you say, ‘Father, I’m gonna let you have it. I’ve done what I can do.’ You turn your will over to God.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.04.13, The Guardian (UK)

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Sam Shepard On Why He Writes

PEOPLE Posted: December 5, 2013 8:07 am

“I couldn’t do anything else but drive a tractor. I felt like this is the only thing I had. … I don’t do it to get a message across. I’m writing just because there are certain kinds of raw material. The material may be very strange, but it takes shape in the course of writing. Whether that has a message or not is not my concern.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.03.13, The Observer (UK)

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Silicon Valley’s “Permissionless Innovation” Is Oppressive, Hypocritical, And Ultimately Dangerous

ISSUES Posted: December 5, 2013 8:05 am

“The bigger fight here is that if they can do this with our songs, with our lyrics, then they can do it with your Instagram photos, they can do it with your Facebook profile, they can do it with anything you put on your Web page without your permission. That’s what permissionless innovation is.”

ISSUES Published: 12.03.13, Salon

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$80M MPAA Piracy Settlement Shuts Down File-Sharing Service

MEDIA Posted: December 5, 2013 8:04 am

“Hotfile’s file-sharing service went offline just hours after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the website to shut down unless it implemented copyright-filtering technologies to prevent piracy. The court also awarded MPAA $80 million in damages.”

MEDIA Published: 12.04.13, Variety

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