New Book, Newly Relevant: “Selling Russia’s Treasures”
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2013-12-16
Just What Are We Celebrating?
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2013-12-15
Breakthrough On Artists’ Resale Rights: Copyright Office Reverses Itself
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2013-12-13
“His job over the years has evolved into that of detective, applying his considerable forensic skills and his vast knowledge of the composer and his times to track down, verify and if possible acquire Beethoven documents and personal effects.”
“The inside story of Paoletti’s career is more remarkable, proving that enduring public architecture at its best depends on a balance of personal strength, technical gumption, steadfast collaboration and a sharp sense of opportunity and tactics.”
“Far from the eyes of holiday travelers, there is an art gallery with an ever-changing, carefully curated selection of remarkable pieces that say a great deal about the United States, security, consumerism and our general frame of mind.”
“By the time everyone else is cramming for final exams and performance juries, composers should have already completed an appropriate amount of music and either have it performed and recorded or at least have created a decent aural mock-up to present to others.”
“One always has to take that into account, that distance from the actual production of the sound. That gives it a slightly dehumanised quality.”
“The wish is that a short book can navigate both print and digital with buoyant grace, where a bigger one might capsize. ‘Somewhere between a long magazine article and a book’ is the sweet spot that many publishers describe.”
In the country where all three Lord of the Rings and all three Hobbits have been (or will soon be) filmed, James Cameron will use Peter Jackson’s workshop, Weta.
“It was Hitchcock, with his penchant for ‘cool blondes, who brought Fontaine to the forefront when he cast her as the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1940), the director’s American debut. Her performance as the new wife of Laurence Olivier in a household haunted by the death of his first wife earned her an Academy Award nomination.”
“Executives say they found a strikingly consistent pattern in the pace at which people binge.”
“He was a phenomenon and, night to night, moment to moment, you might shift your opinion as he zigzagged in the crosswinds of his own turbulent imagination. He coincided with the method, or realism in acting, but he ignored it.”
“Early in her career, [Alice Instone] wrote to Cherie Blair, explaining her mission to give women the painterly attention lavished on men. She was thinking of women of influence – the National Portrait Gallery, she points out, is overcrowded with paintings of famous men.”
Go into Manhattan real estate, of course.
“Ms. Waldman and Mr. Becker transformed the former German Exchange Bank building, a cast-iron landmark in Manhattan, into the Bouwerie Lane Theater, a 140-seat Off Off Broadway stage at the Bowery and Bond Street that kept the Dutch spelling.”
“Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an ‘anti-face.’”
“It was the Penguin 2.1, released in October, that sent spammers to the bitter edge; now they can’t repent fast enough for their spammy sins.”
“Doctors analysing the Ian Fleming novels show James Bond polishes off the equivalent of one and a half bottles of wine every day. They say he is not the man to trust to deactivate a nuclear bomb.”
“While people browsing, say, biographies or science books were happy to do it from their desktops, a disproportionate number of you were looking up the sexy sexy books on mobile. Didn’t want the boss looking over your shoulder, huh?”
“Westminster City Council, in central London, is proposing new measures to protect art galleries in Mayfair from encroaching fashion shops.”
“The mayor hasn’t doubled down on the arts, he’s cut them. He fired at least 175 art or music teachers in his last round of teacher cuts. That’s different than his previous round of cuts, where he closed 50 schools.”
The museum “has endured a tumultuous year that began with eight layoffs from its 41-person staff, two-month staff furloughs and a cutback in its days of operation, to four from six.”
“Now is the perfect time for a real sci-fi show, with the kind of breadth and depth HBO has shown television can achieve.”
“Well-crafted print publications have sprung up in recent years for that audience, designed to be collected – and displayed on coffee tables – as much as read.”
Alexei Ratmansky’s “range is wide, from abstract creations to the restaging of classics. … He displays a remarkable ability to tell stories through dance.”
Now you can: The institution released more than a million images to Flickr for public reuse and remix and … anything you want.
“Situations like this are very complicated. There’s the safety of the work, there’s the protection of the work. You know, how do you sustain a collection? How do you have it support itself as a collection?”
Taylor Swift (she’s a country/pop crossover star, in case you haven’t heard of her) gives the financially struggling orchestra a gift – for her birthday.