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Archives for February 14, 2014

Dudamel Defends Against Criticism He’s Condoning Venezuelan Violence

PEOPLE Posted: February 14, 2014 1:07 pm

“In comments that circulated widely in social media, self-exiled Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero on Thursday posted an open letter on her Facebook page criticizing Dudamel, saying he was ignoring ‘the toxic oasis’ in which she says El Sistema now operates.”

PEOPLE Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 02.14.14

Why Do Biographies Of Writers Make Them Out To Be So…Good?

PEOPLE Posted: February 14, 2014 11:15 am

“What I find odd is that biographers apparently feel a need to depict their subjects as especially admirable human beings, something that in the end makes their lives less rather than more interesting and harder rather than easier to relate to their writing.”

PEOPLE Published: 02.11.14

Read the story in New York Review of Books Published: 02.11.14

The Man Who Runs Arts Council England Has Some Ideas About “Subsidy”

ISSUES Posted: February 14, 2014 11:03 am

Just compare us to Paris, Rome or even New York. The arts are cheap – 14 pence a week per taxpayer goes to the arts, a third of what the French spend. It’s a tiny sum of money.” But the subsidy is shrinking. “I don’t use the word ‘subsidy’. It’s a wet, tedious word. I use ‘investment’. ‘Subsidy’ sounds so passive.”

ISSUES Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in New Statesman Published: 02.13.14

Want To Write Like Hemingway? There’s An App For That (Sorta)

WORDS Posted: February 14, 2014 10:47 am

It points out excessive adjectives, tiresome uses of the passive voice and so on. What it doesn’t do, sadly, obviously, is get you any closer to Papa’s prose.

WORDS Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.14.14

The Court Battle That Could Change The Way Musicians Are Paid

MUSIC Posted: February 14, 2014 10:43 am

“The streaming service Pandora is squaring off against Ascap in a closely watched trial over royalty payments. Big music publishers like Sony/ATV and Universal are calling on the government to overhaul the system, and technology companies are accusing the publishers of trying to skirt federal rules meant to protect them.”

MUSIC Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 02.14.14

Danger: The Comcast/Time-Warner Merger Would Change Things Far Beyond TV

MEDIA Posted: February 14, 2014 10:40 am

“The deal could impact satellite TV, television programmers like ESPN and Fox, online video providers like Netflix and YouTube, and the massive networks at the very heart of the internet.”

MEDIA Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in Wired Published: 02.13.14

Rethinking What We Expect From Musical Instruments

MUSIC Posted: February 14, 2014 10:33 am

“Digital audio gives us the opportunity to control any sound with a bunch of buttons floating beneath a glass screen, but it also offers the chance to create instruments that take new forms and inspire new types of performances, unbound by strings, sound holes, hammers or acoustics.”

MUSIC Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in Wired Published: 02.14.14

Would You Want To Be The Guy Who Removed A Picasso And In The Process Destroyed It?

VISUAL Posted: February 14, 2014 9:20 am

It may well be that Aby Rosen is “legally empowered to take down ‘Le Tricorne,’ and in so doing run the very real risk of destroying it. We’ll find out a few weeks from now. But it shouldn’t have to come to that. Mr. Rosen claims to appreciate art. Well, here’s the acid test of his appreciation.”

VISUAL Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 02.14.14

You Can Never Go Home Again (It Doesn’t Exist As You Remember)

IDEAS Posted: February 14, 2014 9:13 am

James Wood: “When I left this country 18 years ago, I didn’t know how strangely departure would obliterate return: how could I have done? It’s one of time’s lessons, and can only be learned temporally.”

IDEAS Published: 02.20.14

Read the story in London Review of Books Published: 02.20.14

Massive Fail: US Was Supposed To Issue New Airline Rules For Transporting Musical Instruments

MUSIC Posted: February 14, 2014 9:05 am

“Final regulations are due Friday, but the department hasn’t even started writing them. Transportation spokeswoman Meghan Keck said the agency hasn’t had enough money to do the work needed to write the regulations.”

MUSIC Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 02.14.14

The Academies Time Forgot – Where Traditional Academic Figurative Art Rules

VISUAL Posted: February 14, 2014 8:51 am

These national academies in Eastern Europe maintain the academic figurative art traditions. They’re clearly out of step with the contemporary world. And yet, do they preserve traditions we might rediscover and value again?

VISUAL Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 02.13.14

Maybe Not A Surprise: Design-Driven Companies Wildly Outperform Competitors

VISUAL Posted: February 14, 2014 8:27 am

A new analysis by the Design Management Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on design management, puts numbers to what design junkies suspected all along: in the past 10 years, design-driven companies outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500–a stock market index of 500 large publicly traded companies–by 228%.

VISUAL Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in Fast Company Published: 02.13.14

Study: Dress A Bit Oddly If You Want People To Think You’re Powerful

IDEAS Posted: February 14, 2014 8:22 am

They argue that dressing in an unconventional way “signals that one has the autonomy needed to act according to one’s own inclinations.”

IDEAS Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 02.13.14

Former FCC Chairman: I’m Sorry We Killed Independent Media

MEDIA Posted: February 14, 2014 8:19 am

“Gone are hundreds of once-independent broadcast outlets. In their stead is a truncated list of nationwide, homogenized, and de-journalized empires that respond more to quarterly reports than to the information needs of citizens.”

MEDIA Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in Columbia Journalism Review Published: 02.13.14

Beautiful British Columbia – Where They’re Killing The Band

MUSIC Posted: February 14, 2014 8:13 am

“Every single step that they [the board and the school administration] have taken is counterproductive to music education,” he says. “It was like an abusive relationship. You only take so much for so long and then you ask, “Why am I killin’ myself here?”

MUSIC Published: 02.12.14

Read the story in The Tyee Published: 02.12.14

Why Is There So Little Horror In The Theatre?

THEATRE Posted: February 14, 2014 8:11 am

There have been countless comedies, musicals and tragedies, but only a few pure horror plays. Why is that?

THEATRE Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.14.14

The Music Discovery Problem – This Company Thinks It’s Figured It Out

MUSIC Posted: February 14, 2014 7:56 am

“How do you discover new music? Some companies have bet on human editors, while others put their weight behind clever algorithms. One company thinks the solution is actually more like a pendulum that swings back and forth between the two.”

MUSIC Published: 02.14.14

Read the story in Fast Company Published: 02.14.14

A New NEA Chief Is Great. But There’s A Bigger Problem…

ISSUES Posted: February 14, 2014 7:53 am

Philip Kennicott on arts in the Obama Administration: “Why has it neglected one of the fundamental tools it has for shaping attitudes to American culture? Why did President George W. Bush manage to use the NEA so effectively while Obama has manifested only indifference? Is this the sad reality of the technocratic mindset, that culture is secondary or tertiary, and not worth the bother?”

ISSUES Published: 02.13.14

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Is Amazon Bad for Books? Not Just Publishers, But Books Themselves?

WORDS Posted: February 14, 2014 3:30 am

George Packer: “Recently, Amazon even started creating its own ‘content’ … In the book business the prospect of a single owner of both the means of production and the modes of distribution is especially worrisome: it would give Amazon more control over the exchange of ideas than any company in U.S. history.”

WORDS Published: 02.17.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 02.17.14

Amazon’s Secrecy Problem (And It Really Is a Problem)

WORDS Posted: February 14, 2014 3:28 am

George Packer: “Perhaps a sector that monetizes information is more likely to become obsessed with protecting it than if the product were oil or cars. But even in this atmosphere, Amazon is reflexively, absurdly secretive … From Amazon’s point of view, there might be nothing to be gained from greater openness … But I would argue that a culture of secrecy is bound to end up harming the institution itself.”

WORDS Published: 02.12.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 02.12.14

Publisher Recalls All Copies in India of Controversial Book on Hinduism

WORDS Posted: February 14, 2014 1:04 am

“Penguin India has agreed to recall and destroy all remaining copies of a book on Hinduism by a leading American academic … Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History had been the subject of a legal challenge claiming the text was offensive to Hindus.

WORDS Published: 02.12.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 02.12.14

Sex, Lies and Hinduism: Why A Hindu Activist Targeted Wendy Doniger’s Book

WORDS Posted: February 14, 2014 1:02 am

“Dinanath Batra has arm-twisted … Penguin India into recalling and destroying American scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. Here’s why he has a problem with it.”

WORDS Published: 02.12.14

Read the story in Time Published: 02.12.14

Pharmaceuticals for the Lovesick

IDEAS Posted: February 14, 2014 12:56 am

“As we discover more about love’s neural basis, we are getting closer to a pill to diminish heartbreak.”

IDEAS Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in New Scientist Published: 02.13.14

If There Is a Cure for Love, Should We Use It?

IDEAS Posted: February 14, 2014 12:53 am

“Breaking up is hard to do. If drugs could ease the pain, when should we use them, asks neuro-ethicist Brian D. Earp.”

IDEAS Published: 02.12.14

Read the story in New Scientist Published: 02.12.14

Where Valentine’s Day Is a Chance to Rebel

IDEAS Posted: February 14, 2014 12:46 am

“While arranged marriages are considered the moral norm, pursuing individual love fantasies are potentially frowned upon and discouraged in a lot of traditional … homes.” (Can you guess? Probably.)

IDEAS Published: 02.13.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 02.13.14

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