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Archives for February 28, 2014

Oscars’ Problem With Historical Dramas

MEDIA Posted: February 28, 2014 6:28 pm

“I don’t mean to sound cynical, but when I look at the films nominated for Best Picture, I can’t help but feel disappointed that such a glittery, bloated event, which costs roughly $38 million to produce, doesn’t have more substance to justify its self-congratulatory pride.”

MEDIA Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in Esquire Published: 02.28.14

Women At The Top: Museum Directors Run Majority Of American Museums

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 1:54 pm

“As of 2012, 57 percent of museum directors in the United States are women, according to the American Alliance of Museums. In Washington, about 50 percent of museums and historical sites are now led by women.”

VISUAL Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 02.28.14

Evidence-Based Philanthropy? I Have A Problem With That

ISSUES Posted: February 28, 2014 11:40 am

“It’s time to rethink that pesky E word: evidence. Evidence = Observations. The problem is that “evidence” means different things to different people.”

ISSUES Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in Stanford Social Innovation Review Published: 02.28.14

Who Owns “Happy Birthday”? (And Why That’s A Problem)

ISSUES Posted: February 28, 2014 7:44 am

“Happy Birthday” generates an estimated $2 million each year in licensing fees for Warner/Chappell, largely from television and movie producers, and it’s not currently set to lose copyright protection until 2030. Avoiding these fees is why restaurant chains like Red Robin and Joe’s Crab Shack serenade customers with their own unique birthday songs.

ISSUES Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 02.27.14

How Publishing Is Failing Science

WORDS Posted: February 28, 2014 7:40 am

“Peer review is failing to ensure the quality of published research, and new research fails to get into the hands of those who need it, ending up behind journal paywalls after a review process that can take more than year.”

WORDS Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 02.27.14

Are We Wrong About Who We Are In The Universe?

IDEAS Posted: February 28, 2014 7:36 am

“For a long time, we’ve had this preconception that life is here on Earth, but the universe is dead. But maybe we should be thinking of this as a living universe. We may be relative latecomers to the game.”

IDEAS Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 02.26.14

How NBC Kept Fan Videos Of The Olympics Off The Internet

MEDIA Posted: February 28, 2014 7:02 am

“NBC said it worked with Olympic officials to stop some 45,000 instances of illegally posted video or pirate streams that surfaced to show competition during the Sochi games.”

MEDIA Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 02.27.14

Why Coverage Of That Smashed Ai Wei Wei Vase In Florida Was So Bad

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 6:57 am

“Stories of vandalism, destruction, forgery, and theft fascinate us because they are such tidy allegories of our relationship to art, a relationship that, at least since the time of the Armory Show, has consisted of a bizarre admixture of suspicion, discomfort, and occult reverence. Today, these attitudes are neatly characterized by the large fortunes that art sometimes commands.”

VISUAL Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 02.28.14

Metropolitan Opera To Ask Unions To Take Pay Cuts (First Time In 134 Years)

MUSIC Posted: February 28, 2014 6:30 am

“The cost-cutting move comes after the board of the opera company, with ticket sales faltering, decided that it had reached the limit of its donors’ willingness to cover, year after year, the company’s growing expenses, according to a person familiar with the matter.”

MUSIC Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 02.28.14

Should Artists Get Royalties When Their Work Is Resold? Here’s California As A Cautionary Tale

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 6:19 am

“As the only droit de suite in the US, the California statute has served as a test case. It should also serve as a cautionary tale for politicians considering the new Equity for Visual Artists bill, who would do well to learn from its mistakes.”

VISUAL Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 02.26.14

Liverpool’s Famous Everyman Theatre Reopens After £27 Million Makeover (And The City Chops Arts Budget In Half)

THEATRE Posted: February 28, 2014 6:13 am

“Its rebirth comes as Liverpool City Council plans to cut its culture budget by 50% by 2017, although the council said the Everyman would be protected.”

THEATRE Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 02.28.14

Why Doesn’t Dance Get The Serious Scholarly Attention That The Other Arts Do?

DANCE Posted: February 28, 2014 6:10 am

“Where is the equivalent to Adorno on Stravinsky and Schoenberg? Where the monographs to match those on Cubism, or the modern novel? If the link between the “Demoiselles d’Avignon” and temporality in fiction is worth examining, why not between that same painting and Nijinsky’s Sacre du Printemps?”

DANCE Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in Times Literary Supplement Published: 02.26.14

The Wellesley Sleepwalker After The Viral Controversy Dies Down

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 6:08 am

“The sleepwalker, now knee-deep in snow, has turned into an attraction akin to a meteorite that lands in a farmer’s field. People are coming from all over to see it. It has been clothed, posed with, and photographed almost constantly. Oddly, given the reaction of some at Wellesley, the general feeling generated by the work (at least while I was present) seems to be one of bemused endearment rather than trepidation.”

VISUAL Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 02.28.14

Why Is The Vienna Philharmonic So Slow To Change?

MUSIC Posted: February 28, 2014 6:04 am

Sixteen years after the Philharmonic became one of the last big European orchestras to admit women, they are still an exotic sight onstage. Despite a blind audition policy, in which candidates are not visible when they play, the orchestra currently has just seven female members out of 130 total.

MUSIC Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in WQXR (New York) Published: 02.27.14

It’s Decision Day for Minnesota Orchestra Board

MUSIC Posted: February 28, 2014 1:12 am

“The Minnesota Orchestra board meets Friday to consider the fates of former Music Director Osmo Vänskä and President and CEO Michael Henson. Hanging in the balance is the return of Vänskä, who resigned in October during the historic, 16-month labor lockout, as well as the question of the board’s confidence in Henson.”

MUSIC Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Published: 02.28.14

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Steps Down

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 1:11 am

“Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers, whose 19-year tenure has been marked by massive growth and a slate of exhibitions both popular and controversial, announced Thursday night he will retire as soon as a successor is hired to run the region’s largest art museum.”

VISUAL Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Boston.com Published: 02.27.14

More Forged Abstract Expressionist Paintings Found in Queens House

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 1:10 am

“When it was discovered that one artist painted the more than 60 works peddled as Abstract Expressionist originals by the Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales, the revelation seemed incredible.” Turns out there’s more where those came from.

VISUAL Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 02.26.14

Craig Lucas, Climbing Back From the Bottom

PEOPLE Posted: February 28, 2014 1:08 am

The playwright and screenwriter (Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion, Marry Me a Little, The Light in the Piazza) talks about drinking with his mother, running out of money and work even after he became famous, overcoming addiction, and what Philip Seymour Hoffman literally chased him down to say.

PEOPLE Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 02.26.14

Well, They Won’t Be Shutting Down the Rome Opera Just Yet

MUSIC Posted: February 28, 2014 1:07 am

“Threats of a strike at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, which would have prevented Thursday’s opening night performance of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and damaged the company’s account books, were averted at the last minute.” The theater’s finances are so bad that Rome’s Mayor has been saying that a strike could force the company to close its doors.

MUSIC Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Gazzetta del Sud (Italy) Published: 02.27.14

Why I’m Asking My Dancers to Improvise an Entire Evening Work

DANCE Posted: February 28, 2014 1:05 am

“In the first of our new guest blogs, Candoco Dance Company’s co-artistic director Pedro Machado explains why, in their new work, Notturnino, his company are making it up on the spot. How will it change the dancers’ relationship with the audience?”

DANCE Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 02.27.14

The Most Unlikeable Hero in Children’s Literature

WORDS Posted: February 28, 2014 1:04 am

Laura Miller: “So she’s kind of creepy and something of a hypocrite. She may be the most unlikable hero in any children’s book, yet children, by the millions, insist on liking her. What’s [her] appeal?” (Miller includes in passing quite a pithy little takedown of Jonathan Franzen.)

WORDS Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in Salon Published: 02.27.14

Is Pussy Riot’s Music Actually Any Good?

MUSIC Posted: February 28, 2014 1:02 am

“Victims of state persecution, ambassadors for day-glo knitwear and wank fodder for beardy liberals the world over, the members of Pussy Riot have been filling both prison cells and column inches since 2012. In the process, they’ve also become one of the most famous bands on the planet. But let me ask you this – have you ever actually heard any of their music?”

MUSIC Published: 02.25.14

Read the story in The Spectator (U.K.) Published: 02.25.14

Here’s The First Ticket Agency to Accept Bitcoin

ISSUES Posted: February 28, 2014 1:01 am

The online ticket seller London Theatre Direct “has said it hopes the money it saves by using this type of payment can be passed onto customers, resulting in cheaper ticket prices.”

ISSUES Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 02.27.14

Racial Categories Aren’t Hardwired in Our Minds

IDEAS Posted: February 28, 2014 1:00 am

“Our race radar isn’t fixed. People subconsciously identify others more strongly by how they work together than by their skin colour.”

IDEAS Published: 02.27.14

Read the story in New Scientist Published: 02.27.14

The Limitations of Eve Ensler’s Dance-Based Activism

DANCE Posted: February 28, 2014 12:58 am

“Last year, when I first heard about One Billion Rising, the day of action Ensler had declared to ‘break the silence’ about violence against women, I did not immediately think (as 999,999,999 other women evidently did), ‘Oh hooray, the famous vagina lady is doing something about violence!’ Instead I thought, ‘They’re going to tell us to dance, aren’t they.'”

DANCE Published: 02.26.14

Read the story in The Hairpin Published: 02.26.14

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