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Archives for February 9, 2014

Michelangelo, Master Artist and Master … Forger?

VISUAL Posted: February 9, 2014 11:15 pm

“Michelangelo was also a skilled forger who made copies of major works before ageing them with smoke and swapping them for the originals.” Wait, what?

VISUAL Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Independent (UK) Published: 02.09.14

How Can Choreographer Paul Taylor Cement His Legacy?

DANCE Posted: February 9, 2014 11:00 pm

“After six decades in which the Paul Taylor Dance Company existed to dance almost nothing but Paul Taylor works, Mr. Taylor said that he wanted to broaden its mission to include presenting past masterworks of modern dance and works of contemporary choreographers in addition to his oeuvre and the dances he plans to continue to create.”

DANCE Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 02.09.14

What’s It Like To Be A Medical Actor?

THEATRE Posted: February 9, 2014 10:45 pm

“You get a script and a paper gown. You get $13.50 an hour. Our scripts are ten to twelve pages long. They outline what’s wrong with us — not just what hurts but how to express it. They tell us how much to give away, and when. We are supposed to unfurl the answers according to specific protocols.”

THEATRE Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Believer Published: 02.09.14

Sony Leaves The North American Ebook Market And Hands Its Customers To Kobo

WORDS Posted: February 9, 2014 10:40 pm

“Sony, which is essentially a non-player in the U.S. ebook market at this point, is cutting its losses and shutting down its digital bookstore in the U.S. and Canada, the company reported Thursday”

WORDS Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in GigaOm Published: 02.09.14

As Sony Leaves Ebook Market, What Does This Mean For Barnes & Noble’s Nook?

WORDS Posted: February 9, 2014 10:39 pm

“I’m sure Apple or Kobo or Google would be just delighted to have their ebooks integrated into Barnes & Noble’s suite of offerings, and probably Amazon would too, although they would almost certainly never be asked.”

WORDS Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Shatzkin Report Published: 02.09.14

How The Hell Does The Builders Association Make (Good) Theatre About Technology?

THEATRE Posted: February 9, 2014 10:30 pm

Marianne Weems: “When we first started a lot of people would say, ‘Is this theater?’ — Producers, presenters and audience members alike. And our response at the time was, ‘Well it is taking place in the theater,’ and obviously all that has changed.”

THEATRE Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in HowlRound Published: 02.09.14

BBC Comedy Has Too Few Women – And Now The BBC Is Fixing That

MEDIA Posted: February 9, 2014 10:12 pm

“While all-male episodes already filmed will still be broadcast, all future programming will feature at least one female panel member or presenter.”

MEDIA Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Independent (UK) Published: 02.09.14

Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.14

AJBlogs Posted: February 9, 2014 10:00 pm

The Best Artistic Response To “Monuments Men”
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-10

Documenting Dance, Part 1
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-02-09

Raising Up the Masses?
Source: We The Audience | Published on 2014-02-09

In defence of BBC Radio 3
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-09

You Are There: Where Burroughs Once Lived in Mexico City
Source: Straight|Up | Published on 2014-02-09

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AJBlogs Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in AJBlogs Published: 02.09.14

What Will The Broad Museum’s Planned Plaza Do For LA’s Public Spaces?

VISUAL Posted: February 9, 2014 10:00 pm

“The design of the plaza is the most meaningful bit of news here. And that’s not just because Bunker Hill is short on public space that is well-designed and friendly to pedestrians. It’s also because the details of how the plaza will operate — and who will own it — make up a multilayered and in the end rather opaque story.”

VISUAL Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 02.09.14

So, Romance Novels Thrive On Predictability (Shocker!)

WORDS Posted: February 9, 2014 9:45 pm

“One thing that you have understand if you’re gonna get into writing romance is that the things that are valued in that genre are not the same things that are valued when we read something like literary fiction.”

WORDS Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in NPR Published: 02.09.14

Return The Elgin Marbles To Greece? George Clooney Says Yes

ISSUES Posted: February 9, 2014 9:30 pm

“Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad thing if they were returned. I think that is a good idea. That would be a very fair and very nice thing. I think it is the right thing to do.”

ISSUES Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.09.14

Turning Brainwaves Into Music (Literally)

MUSIC Posted: February 9, 2014 9:00 pm

Put an electrode at the back of your head, and watch a cellist play your thoughts. [VIDEO]

MUSIC Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 02.07.14

The British Love Fussy Architecture, Says Guy Who Headed Up The Stonehenge Visitors Center Debacle

VISUAL Posted: February 9, 2014 8:30 pm

“The English, he maintains, have what he calls ‘a sweet-tooth aesthetic’, a taste for ornamentation. That taste, he suggests, explains why each square metre of Lincoln Cathedral cost 10 times more than its French equivalents.”

VISUAL Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.07.14

As Film Production Leaves LA, Small Businesses That Supply It Fail

ISSUES Posted: February 9, 2014 8:00 pm

Film production in LA county is down, and that means distress for the small businesses that supply it. “The downturn has forced the closing or bankruptcy of several visual effects shops, prop houses and other vendors.”

ISSUES Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 02.08.14

Using Music’s Patterns To Create Stronger Spider Silk

MUSIC Posted: February 9, 2014 7:30 pm

“From the basic physics of string theory to complex biological materials, different functions arise from a small number of universal building blocks. I call this the universality-diversity paradigm.”

MUSIC Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 02.09.14

How A Space Battle In An Online Game Cost Its Players Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars

MEDIA Posted: February 9, 2014 7:00 pm

“Though it was just a game, the 7,548 people who fought the Battle of B-R could not have taken it any more seriously—and not simply because they lost virtual ships worth more than $300,000 in real-world money fighting it. And it all started when someone forgot to pay the rent on a space station.”

MEDIA Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in Wired Published: 02.08.14

A Life Utterly Devoted To Ballet

DANCE Posted: February 9, 2014 1:00 pm

“‘Janet Sassoon gave her life to dance like the maiden to the volcano,” says choreographer Alonzo King, who has known Sassoon for decades. ‘Complete, total, unequivocally committed, as a performer, teacher and coach.'”

DANCE Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in San Francisco Chronicle Published: 02.07.14

China May Raise Foreign Movie Quota By 10

MEDIA Posted: February 9, 2014 12:30 pm

“The Film Bureau in Beijing looks set to raise the quota of foreign movies allowed into China by 10 movies to 44 films, a sign of growing openness in the world’s second-biggest box office market.”

MEDIA Published: 02.09.14

Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 02.09.14

Really, J.K. Rowling, Did You Have To Tell Us You Had Doubts About Hermione And Ron?

WORDS Posted: February 9, 2014 12:15 pm

“If Rowling feels that strongly, she should write a sequel putting right what she thinks she got wrong – Harry Potter and the Acrimonious Divorce, perhaps.”

WORDS Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 02.08.14

Not So Fast: Judge Temporarily Bars Removal Of Picasso Tapestry From Four Seasons

VISUAL Posted: February 9, 2014 12:15 pm

“I don’t want to be the judge who has a Picasso destroyed. … If some damage were to occur, no amount of money could make up for the loss of any Picasso.”

VISUAL Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 02.08.14

Our Audio And Video History Is Disappearing. Can We Save It?

ISSUES Posted: February 9, 2014 12:00 pm

“Video tape and audiotape is not a stable format. After 40 or 50 years, they are disintegrating. And the information—pictures, sounds on that physical medium—is disappearing. Unlike a piece of paper or a photograph that might last 100 years, media formats are extremely fragile.”

ISSUES Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.07.14

Sure, She Won A Pulitzer, But What Was Maxine Kumin Like In The Classroom?

PEOPLE Posted: February 9, 2014 11:45 am

“The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between lie and lay, let alone its and it’s.”

PEOPLE Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.07.14

What Makes A Playwright Qualified To Tell Someone Else’s Story?

THEATRE Posted: February 9, 2014 11:30 am

“Plays are stories—fairy tales and fictions, historical and magical. They are not documentaries or history lessons. To think they are such would be myopic.”

THEATRE Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in HowlRound Published: 02.08.14

We (And Publishers) Need To Figure Out How To Measure Our Time Online

IDEAS Posted: February 9, 2014 11:15 am

“Shares and mentions can communicate the magnitude of an article’s attention, but they can’t always tell you the direction of the share vector: Did people share it because they loved it, or because they loved hating it?”

IDEAS Published: 02.08.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.08.14

How Can Jazz And Classical Get Some Attention On Streaming Services?

MUSIC Posted: February 9, 2014 11:00 am

“Services such as Spotify and iTunes don’t handle the more complicated metadata very well, often rendering music in these genres harder to discover and sort. But building a tailor-made private playground cut off from huge pools of listeners is an even worse attempt at a solution.”

MUSIC Published: 02.07.14

Read the story in New Music Box Published: 02.07.14

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