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Sunday, May 19, 2013
media
Yep, We're Still On Zombies "'In the Flesh' is about fear of others, intolerance, small-mindedness and the search for forgiveness. The great thing about the zombie genre is that it can be used for such multiple storytelling purposes."
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/18/13
people
The New York Times 05/18/13
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Frank Lloyd Wright Homes Are Splendid - Unless You Live In One "It's often tricky to renovate an architectural treasure while preserving Wright's innovations, such as radiant-floor heating, carports, built-in furniture and soaring clerestory windows. Meanwhile, permanent easements held by the Wright conservancy on 16 private Wright residences limit exterior alterations."
The Wall Street Journal 05/16/13
music
The New York Times 05/17/13
music
NPR 05/17/13
people
The New York Times 05/18/13
ideas
The New York Times 05/18/13
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BBC 05/18/13
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The New York Times 05/18/13
ideas
What Will Big Data Do For, And To, All Of Us? "All cops carry smartphones and tablet computers to access the web-based prediction program while on patrol. They are encouraged to spend time in the marked zones whenever possible. Clark can tell many stories about how his officers have caught burglars and thieves red-handed in the predicted zones."
Der Spiegel 05/17/13
media
Interactive TV: Wonderful - But What About The Robot Overlords? "The new smart TVs, like the smartphones and tablets that have shaped them, are meant to seem like devoted servants, concerned with our welfare, eager to anticipate our needs -- happy to collect and digest information we are, or imagine we are, too busy to collect and digest ourselves. It is all a bit flattering."
Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
dance
Why Is Ballet Leadership Still Dominated By Men? "Of the girls who grow up to become top dancers, few have actually graduated into the upper levels of leadership. Right now, the biggest U.S. ballet companies are run by men -- with one exception."
Miami Herald 05/19/13
ideas
The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
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The New York Review of Books 06/20/13
people
Der Spiegel 05/17/13
issues
Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
music
The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
theatre
The Boston Globe 05/18/13
music
The New York Times (Texas Monthly) 05/18/13
issues
MoMA's Thirst To Destroy The Folk Art Museum Is Territorial "Williams and Tsien's physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA's presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director since 1995."
The New York Review of Books 05/23/13
Friday, May 17, 2013
media
Blockbusters Lining Up To Be Flops "Of the expensive action and animated movies, we've never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it's fewer. This summer you've got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they're all great movies, but it's not likely."
The New York Times 05/17/13
issues
Cairo - In Need Of Artistic Revitalization "It's a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society," he says. "So the city is abandoned."
NPR 05/16/13
visual
Why Is China Copying Western Icons, Towns, Cities? Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it's all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called "copy towns."
Pacific Standard 05/16/13
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Raid On Prominent Manhattan Gallery "As newspaper photographers gathered around, agents hauled away computers and boxes of documents as part of a sweeping investigation involving the gallery's owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, who is known as Helly and is accused along with several others of playing leadership roles in a $100 million gambling and money-laundering network with connections to Russian organized-crime figures."
The New York Times 05/17/13
music
3D Printer Makes Old Fashioned Records Amanda "Ghassei has developed a technique to make records using a laser cutter, in a bid to make the technology more accessible, and has cut records out of acrylic, wood and paper."
Journal of Music 05/13/13
visual
The New York Times 05/16/13
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Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities "Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples."
The New York Times 05/16/13
visual
Unknown Dalí Watercolors Come To Light "At a glance they seem like familiar 19th-century botanical lithographs, the type you see on endless hotel room walls. But look closer and the plum appears to be running away, the raspberries look embarrassed and the grapefruit ... well, it's enough to make the viewer blush."
The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
issues
Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees "The Kennedy Center hopes to bring greater transparency to a selection process that has been largely opaque in past years. Last year, some national Hispanic advocacy groups criticized the Honors' selection process after noting that only two of the 186 honorees since 1978 were Hispanic."
The Washington Post 05/16/13
people
Jacqueline Brooks, 82, Classical Stage Actress And Teacher "[She] appeared in films and on television but ... won her widest acclaim on the stage in New York and around the country, performing the work of Shakespeare, Molière, Pirandello, Edward Albee and other dramatists over a 60-year career."
The New York Times 05/13/13
music
The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 05/16/13
theatre
Does Britain Need Any More Theatres? Will new playhouses create new activity and help regenerate their neighborhoods and towns? Will they just be yet more parties in the never-ending scramble for public and private funding? Lyn Gardner starts the discussion.
The Guardian (UK) 05/16/13
visual
Interpol On The Lookout For Qaddafi Art Holdings "The UK government has confirmed that art is likely to be among the items seized as part of a drive to recover billions of dollars worth of assets siphoned off by the Qaddafi family during four decades in power." The late dictator's son Saif al-Islam "was known to be a keen art collector and reportedly active on the Islamic art circuit."
The Art Newspaper 05/16/13
visual
On The Art Market As An Arbiter Of Quality Christopher Knight: "So the art market is
a judge of quality, just like Mom and cousin Fred are, but hardly the
best judge. There's a simpler explanation as to why collectors and dealers aren't the ones deciding who, finally, are the important artists. (Nor, for that matter, do curators, critics or the general public.) It's because artists do."
Los Angeles Times 05/16/13
ideas
Artificial Intelligence Computers Could Begin Taking Over For Lawyers "Software tools are already important in the legal world, especially for big cases like company mergers, where algorithms help people comb through vast piles of documents. But the application of artificial intelligence to the law promises to go beyond document mining. It aims to let automated systems handle arguments where the logic is not clear."
New Scientist 05/17/13
dance
The Stage (UK) 05/15/13
media
The Hollywood Reporter 05/15/13
people
Ai Weiwei Videotapes A Riot On Mother's Day The artist and his brother were walking to meet their mother at a restaurant when "they saw a commotion ahead of them. On the ground were overturned tables. There were people shouting and throwing chairs and waving sticks, Mr. Ai said. He got out his cell phone and began recording the scene."
The New York Times 05/16/13
people
Young German Leftists March On Barbie's Dream House Says one group leader: "It would be a huge danger for capitalism if working men and women were united, so one of the best ways to divide and conquer the workers is by enabling men to over-sexualize women and by preoccupying women with sexualizing themselves. This is why we need to oppose Barbie."
The Wall Street Journal 05/17/13
Thursday, May 16, 2013
issues
Broadway Vet Named President Of Lincoln Center "Jed Bernstein, who for more than a decade led the Broadway League, the industry's national trade association, and has produced Broadway shows himself, was named on Wednesday as the successor to Reynold Levy, who is stepping down in January after 11 years as Lincoln Center's president."
The New York Times 05/15/13
issues
Australia Council Gets New Chief "Tony Grybowski is well known to the industry from his role as executive director of the council's Major Performing Arts Board since 2007. Before that he was an executive with several classical music organisations and with Arts Victoria."
The Australian 05/16/13
dance
I'm Sorry For The Dance World "So on behalf of the dance world, permit me to apologize for the mess you're entering into. It's insane. But it's *incredibly* exciting. The world you thought you were entering into is long dead, and none of the old (anti-intellectual, super-sexist, super-classist and SUPER-racist) rules of dance history need hold true for you."
DanceUSA 05/16/13
issues
Vanishing New York 05/14/13
media
TV Crack - How Producers Make Their New Shows Addictive "Talk to the people behind Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and so on, and it soon becomes clear that they've designed these shows to be more bingeable--more propulsive and page-turning--than anything the networks ever pushed on us in the past. How We Watch may be changing. But it's changing What We Watch as well."
The Daily Beast 05/15/13
theatre
National Review 05/15/13
music
Minnesota Orchestra Contract Talks Unlikely "The lack of transparency from management is troubling to the Musicians, the public, and Minnesota's legislative auditor, Basic artistic and financial information about the Orchestra is being withheld to seemingly to stall negotiations."
MPR 05/15/13
music
Boston Symphony Appoints New Music Director "Andris Nelsons, 34, has been music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain since 2008. He made his debut with the Boston Symphony in 2011, replacing Mr. Levine."
The New York Times 05/16/13
theatre
Attendance At Broadway Touring Shows Down Again "Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. ... The attendance for touring shows is the lowest since the 2003-04 season. In the last 10 years, attendance peaked at 15.9 million in 2009-10."
Los Angeles Times 05/13/13
visual
Mayan Pyramid Demolished For Road Gravel "A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday."
Yahoo! (AP) 05/14/13
visual
Is Money Laundering A Problem In The Art World? (Yes) "April's federal charges against the New York dealer Helly Nahmad included that he worked 'to launder tens of millions of dollars on behalf of the illegal gambling business.' While Nahmad has pleaded not guilty to all the charges in the indictment, the accusation raises the questions of whether (and if so why) art would be used in this way."
The Art Newspaper 05/13/13
dance
How British Does The Royal Ballet Need To Be? Judith Mackrell: "Critics argue that the cosmopolitan make-up of the company threatens a dilution of the British 'style'. But even that issue is moot. Dance in this country has always been a mongrel product."
The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
dance
BBC 05/15/13
issues
France Proposes Taxing Smartphones To Fund Culture "Here's a proposal that would have a hard time finding support in the United States. A new government study in France suggests levying a new tax as high as 1% on the sale of smartphones, tablets and other Internet devices, with the funds going toward funding cultural initiatives."
Los Angeles Times 05/15/13
people
Thomas Messer, Longtime Guggenheim Director, Dead At 93 "During his [27-year] tenure - one of the longest of a director of any major American art museum - the Guggenheim deepened its collection, expanded its exhibitions program, vastly improved its publications and took its first step toward becoming a global institution."
The New York Times 05/16/13
theatre
Mies Julie Director Takes On Delhi Gang Rape Yael Farber, who adapted Strindberg's mistress/servant drama into a powerful piece about post-apartheid South Africa, is leading an all-Indian cast in developing
Nirbhaya, a new theatre piece inspired by the rape and fatal beating of a 23-year-old student by six men on a bus in Delhi last December.
The Guardian (UK) 05/14/13
theatre
The Stage (UK) 05/15/13
visual
Artists Occupy Budapest Museum Over Replacement Of Director "Around 30 activists from the group 'United for Contemporary Art' have been occupying the entrance hall of Budapest's Ludwig Museum in the Palace of the Arts since last week. The protest, which is still ongoing, is directed at the 'lack of transparency' in the selection process of the Ludwig's new director."
The Art Newspaper 05/15/13
visual
German Galleries Fight Against Hike In VAT On Art "The German federal association of galleries and dealers ... has, for the moment, won a major battle to keep VAT rates down on the purchase of original works of art. The European Commission has been trying to raise German VAT tax on original works of art from 7% to 19% to bring it in line with higher VAT rates in the rest of Europe."
The Art Newspaper 05/15/13
ideas
Why Rituals Are Ubiquitous: They Work "Recent research suggests that rituals may be more rational than they appear. Why? Because even simple rituals can be extremely effective. ... What's more, rituals appear to benefit even people who claim not to believe that rituals work."
Scientific American 05/14/13
ideas
Analogies Aren't Just SAT Questions; They're Fundamental To The Way We Think "Is analogy the core of cognition? Yes. Is analogy irrational, subjective and concrete? Yes indeed, but it is also the underpinning of rationality, objectivity and abstraction. Analogy is not a rare luxury of thought or an exotic, remote corner of cognition. Analogy is the entire transport system of thought, including motorways, roads and trails."
New Scientist 05/09/13 (includes video)
issues
Planning A National Museum For Palestine Jack Persekian, director of the new institution, to open in Birzeit in late 2014: "The Palestinian Museum is a political symbol only in so far that it celebrates the accomplishments of the Palestinian people in arts and culture, and that it affirms the presence of Palestinians as a people who have agency, who are productive, who shape their own histories."
The Art Newspaper 05/14/13
music
Reuters 05/15/13
dance
Pilobolus Dances With Drones Company executive director Itamar Kubovy: "The prevalence of drones made it more important to understand what the kinds of interactions between man and machine is like. We wanted to explore having a space that is occupied by both machines and people - this idea that a machine is watching and surveilling and a human is responding to that."
U.S. News & World Report 05/15/13 (includes video)
people
Beau Brummell, The Founding Father Of Dandyism "It's unusual for a tribe or breed to have such a definitive beginning, but all agree that Brummell was It. This Englishman of middle-class birth climbed into Regency-era aristocratic circles based on no more than his verbal wit and the eloquence of his dress."
The Wall Street Journal 05/15/13
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
media
Even In The Internet Age, Cannes Is Still The Place To Be "Though we now live in an age when films can be viewed via links on computers anywhere in the world, the number of journalists covering this maddening 12-day affair has multiplied by five in the last four decades, to nearly 4,000."
Los Angeles Times 05/15/13
media
Researchers: Women Are Disappearing From Hollywood Movies "Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as "Bridesmaids" and the "Hunger Games" and "Twilight" series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism."
Los Angeles Times 05/14/13
visual
The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
issues
Der Spiegel 05/15/13
music
Director Of Canceled Tannhauser Defends His Production "In Wagner's opera, the mortal Tannhäuser sins by loving the goddess Venus. Today the story can no longer be told as a scandal that leads to expulsion from society. I'm interested in the great archaic theme of guilt. Why then shouldn't Tannhäuser be made into a perpetrator, into a war criminal? In my staging Tannhäuser is forced by members of the Wehrmacht to shoot a family. The production deals with individual guilt under National Socialism and during the development of the Federal Republic of Germany."
Der Spiegel 05/14/13
media
The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
issues
Researchers: Victorians Were More Clever Than We Are New research in the journal Intelligence suggests the Victorians were naturally cleverer than we are, and draws the startling conclusion that "the Victorian era was marked by an explosion of innovation and genius, per capita rates of which appear to have declined subsequently".
The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
media
Next Year's TV Lineup? Fewer Gay Characters "The most striking aspect of the massacre of existing shows that preceded the annual upfront announcement, was the cancellation of many shows featuring gay and lesbian characters."
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/15/13
music
BBC 05/15/13
visual
BBC 05/15/13
issues
BBC 05/14/13
dance
Chicago Business Journal 05/14/13
dance
Florence's Opera House To Shut Down Ballet Company "Addio to MaggioDanza, the ballet company formed in 1967 under the auspices of Florence's Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. A financial crisis has resulted in the decision to axe the ballet company ... [which] had already been streamlined to 16 elements over the last few years, and after Vladimir Derevianko left the direction of the company in 2010 it has been on shaky ground."
Gramilano (Milan) 05/14/13
dance
The Telegraph (UK) 05/14/13
issues
How Cooper Union's Endowment Failed The School's Mission "Since Peter Cooper's heirs gave the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art the land under the Chrysler Building in 1902, the school's endowment has enabled it to offer students a high-quality, tuition-free education through two world wars, the Great Depression and multiple stock market crashes and financial crises. So why does Cooper Union now find itself forced to charge tuition of an estimated $20,000 a year?"
The New York Times 05/11/13 (includes video)
issues
Top Cultural Official In Dublin Suspended Pending Scandal Investigation "Dermot McLaughlin, chief executive of Temple Bar Cultural Trust," which funds arts and culture organizations in the Irish capital's cultural district, "has been suspended on full pay pending an investigation by its board of his role in offering three senior staff members redundancy packages last week, each worth €100,000 or more."
The Irish Times 05/14/13
media
The Guardian (UK) 05/14/13
music
Seattle Symphony Musicians Ratify New Contract "After 15 months of negotiations, the Seattle Symphony players organization and the SSO board of directors have approved a new contract, through August 2015." The terms include a "temporary" reduction in the orchestra's size, salary concessions and a less expensive health insurance plan.
The Seattle Times 05/14/13
people
The Independent (UK) 05/14/13
people
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tense, Unhappy Relationship With Hollywood "The prime chronicler of the jazz age - a term he coined - came up around the same time that the American movie industry did, and spent much of his career linked with Hollywood. But Fitzgerald's intellectual snobbery and Puritanical prudery made for a strained relationship with the film world, one that began as dismissive and ended as dependent."
The Atlantic 05/07/13
people
'I Got A Haircut From Ai Weiwei' "On top of everything else, Ai Weiwei is a barber. A good one? Hm. Maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's start here: exactly what kind of haircuts does he give? 'The kind that will make you want to cry,' he said."
Beijing Cream 05/10/13 (includes video)
theatre
Putting The Kite Runner Onstage Khaled Hosseini's novel and its film adaptation have become emblems of present-day Afghanistan. "Now it has been adapted for stage - and the cast and crew are, unsurprisingly, feeling the weight of expectation."
The Guardian (UK) 05/14/13
theatre
Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev And The Lessons Of Greek Tragedy "'Bury this terrorist on U.S. soil and we will unbury him.' So ran the bitter slogan on one of the signs borne last week by enraged protesters" at the funeral home keeping the body of the Boston Marathon bomber - "a cadaver seemingly so morally polluted that his own widow would not claim it, that no funeral director would touch it, that no cemetery would bury it." Sophocles, of course, wrote about a similar situation.
The New Yorker 05/14/13
visual
Did Vermeer Have A Secret Female Apprentice? About six of his roughly 30 surviving paintings differ noticeably in style from the others, despite depicting the same people and rooms. Art historians have wondered if Vermeer had an apprentice, though there's no surviving record of one. Scholar Benjamin Bistock suggests that this mysterious artist was one of Vermeer's daughters.
NPR 05/10/13
visual
These Intricate Sculptures Are Turning To Mush (By Design) After James Grashow found several of his older papier-mâché works gradually disintegrating as they were stored outdoors by their owner, he coped with the shock by creating
Corrugated Fountain, "an assemblage of figures inspired by the Roman fountains of the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini" - made out of cardboard.
The New York Times 05/14/13
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
music
A New Golden Age For Opera? "I think opera is experiencing the most creative period it's ever experienced in the last half-century; certainly I would say forever on this continent. .... "There is still huge audience interest in this multimedia art form called opera."
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/13/13
issues
Is Investing In Going To College Worth It? (In Many Cases Not) "An April study from Payscale.com, a data firm based in Seattle, ranked 1,500 educational programs on their return on investments for 2013. There were 74 schools that showed a return of $1 million or more on the investment in an education, while 30 schools had a negative return on investment--meaning the cost of attending was more than what the students would make up with increased wages, even over a 30-year period."
Pacific Standard 05/13/13
ideas
Mashable 05/13/13
visual
Plan To Sell Banksy Mural Raises Protests "This is a piece of art given to the community for public enjoyment, and people will find it galling that you can only view this work at an expensive champagne reception, when it belongs with the people of north London, not a private owner."
The New York Times 05/13/13
media
Netflix Accounts For One-Third Of All Internet Bandwidth Use "Netflix said it streamed more than 4 billion hours of video globally in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 1 billion per month last June. The company has packed on customers, adding about 2 million U.S. streaming subs to stand at 29.17 million domestically -- making it bigger than HBO in that regard."
Variety 05/14/13
issues
Does The Idea Of "Commons" Work For The Arts? "No organization is made better off by focusing on the broad shared vision; they are only made better off when they focus on the part of that vision that can be attributed immediately to their work. In this way, the shared vision of cultural innovation is lost to the competitive struggle for funding."
Createquity 05/14/13
media
CBC 05/13/13
visual
BBC 05/14/13
visual
Is This India's Greatest Architect? "From cultural and civic monuments to modest housing developments, Charles Correa's influence and style has spread far beyond the subcontinent."
BBC 05/13/13
people
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/13/13
music
Was Opera Company Right To Cancel Controversial Tannhauser? "To some commentators, the Dusseldorf Tannhauser was a stretch: the opera is set in the Middle Ages and based on a ballad about a bard called Tannhäuser. Yet the intention of the director, Burkhard Kosminski, had a logic that many could understand. In the month of Wagner's bicentennial, he wanted to link the opera to the Holocaust - an event which the composer's own ardent anti-Semitism seemed to presage."
WQXR 05/13/13
theatre
The Guardian (UK) 05/10/13
music
The Awl 05/10/13
people
The Atlantic 05/10/13
people
Filmmaker Bryan Forbes Dead At 86 "Together with Richard Attenborough, he set up Beaver Films in 1959. ... His directing career began in 1961 with
Whistle Down the Wind, featuring child star Hayley Mills." Among the many films he helmed during the 1960s and '70s were
Seance on a Wet Afternoon and
The Stepford Wives.
BBC 05/09/13
dance
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Names New Artistic Director "Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company announced Daniel Charon as its new artistic director Thursday, May 9 -- the eve of its 50th anniversary. Charon becomes the first male and the second full-time artistic director to be hired by the company ... The company's founding directors, Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury, stepped down in 2008."
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) 05/10/13
dance
Measuring Success: Data-Driven Dance "Judgment [in the dance field] is often based on aesthetic or taste, usually informed by exposure, and it tends to limit the conversation to 'like' or 'dislike'. ... Our goal, instead, should be to guide and instruct performers and audiences in how to evaluate the quality of a product beyond an actual performance - including how to lead to performance and advance beyond it. But how do we best determine what those include?"
Dance Advantage 05/09/13
media
The New Yorker 05/10/13
issues
The Cleveland Kidnappings: An F.A.Q.? The
Plain Dealer actually has put together a list of Frequently asked questions about the three women who were rescued last week after a decade in captivity. Sasha Weiss considers - even as she understands why the paper did that - how coverage of the ordeal got to that point - and why the media narrative takes the forms that it has.
The New Yorker 05/12/13
ideas
The Limitations Of Empathy "Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it."
The New Yorker 05/20/13
issues
Why I Teach a College Class On How To Think About Pornography "Most of my students were born in the early-to-mid-1990s; they hit puberty under the influence of two conflicting social realities: the widespread availability of broadband and the Bush-era abstinence-only sex education policies. ... [This] meant that Internet pornography became the primary and ubiquitous source of information about [sex] ... It's as if instead of offering driver's ed, we taught you how to operate a car by showing you a James Bond movie."
The Atlantic 05/09/13
people
Bing Crosby Helped To Create Silicon Valley You never thought of Der Bingle as being in the vanguard of anything, did you? Well, it turns out that - as a media star and as an investor - he was crucial to the development of the tech industry, both in general and as a mainstay of northern California.
The New Yorker 05/13/13
theatre
Showgirls! The Musical! - It's High Camp And Therapy! "Elizabeth Berkley played the lead role with such vulgarity that it parodied itself; to outdo her requires an inventory of something deeper and more manic. April Kidwell has that in her" - and the theatrical spoof of the notorious film flop "has become an unlikely form of personal redemption for her."
Slate 05/13/13
Monday, May 13, 2013
media
Advertisers Deserting Network TV "Advertisers are moving more cash to cable, cutting into the networks' quarterly profits. New technologies are making it easier to skip those ads, anyway."
The New York Times 05/13/13
visual
A Cautionary Tale From Art's Bad Boy "However pure his motives, traditional his ultimate values or exemplary his professed commitment to old-school American painting, Eric Fischl is destined to be ever cast as American art's oldest living bad boy."
The Wall Street Journal 05/11/13
music
Hear The Oldest-Surviving Piano "The oldest-surviving English grand piano, one of the first ever made, was built by the piano maker Americus Backers in London in 1772 and has now been returned by English Heritage to the home of its former owner, the Duke of Wellington."
BBC 05/13/13
music
Building The 21st Century Orchestra "Various kinds of neighborhood outreach programs are springing up at orchestras all over the country, while educational initiatives have tripled."
Washington Post 05/11/13
issues
Tibet's Capital Is Being Demolished "The Chinese authorities have begun demolishing the ancient capital of Lhasa, including one of the most important Buddhist sites of the city, Tibet's holiest Jokhang Temple."
The Tibet Post 05/11/13
people
The Man At The Piano It seemed a miracle to me that the person trapped in this body was still such a stunning pianist. Yet when I asked him how long he expected to be able to continue playing, he said, "Forever."
The New York Times 05/11/13
ideas
On The Verge Of A Golden Age Of Education "In the last 20-30 years, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists have furthered our understanding, gaining a more literal "in-sight" into the mind's inner workings, and through this, they have just begun to test, measure, expand, and further stimulate the work of the artists and philosophers before them."
Sense and Sensation 05/13
visual
Why Can't We Take Pictures In Museums? "Even in the most locked-down spaces, people will still take pictures and you'll still find a million of these images online. So why not support it in an open way that's constructive and embraces the public?"
ARTnews 05/13/13
Sunday, May 12, 2013
visual
Art And The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy "Across the tristate area, dripping, silt-streaked canvases from galleries had to be parceled out to dry in warehouses in New Jersey and Long Island City, and corralled to contain mold spawned by moisture."
The New York Times 05/11/13
visual
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/10/13
ideas
The New York Times 05/11/13
music
Where Once Was War, Now All Is Music "With all transport requisitioned and no petrol anyway, they simply walked all day across the battlefield, shells falling all around them, to the hilltop town of Montepulciano, hiding amid the crops and ditches to avoid menacing aircraft and columns of German troops."
The Observer (UK) 05/11/13
music
Washington Post 05/10/13
people
The Observer (UK) 05/11/13
issues
The New York Times 05/12/13
visual
The New York Times 05/12/13
media
Variety 05/12/13
people
The New York Times 05/09/13
media
BBC 05/11/13
dance
Washington Post 05/09/13
music
The Return Of James Levine Prompts Questions About The Future "In the past, when Mr. Levine was working at full capacity, he redefined the role of music director in a public way that sent clear signals to operagoers and patrons," writes Anthony Tommasini. "But these days the Met does not convey the artistic focus and mission it did before Mr. Levine's health problems began."
The New York Times 05/10/13
issues
The Arts Versus Dementia & Alzheimer's "While visual arts generated the greatest immediate sense of achievement, it was music and dance that demonstrated a significantly longer energising effect than other art forms, with the results concluding that art practices can combat many of the most difficult effects of early dementia."
Limelight Magazine 05/13/13
theatre
Kansas City Star 05/10/13
visual
Holy Batman, Batman! "It's the most iconic subject matter Burden has tackled, and it's also the most labor-intensive painting he's ever produced. He started in February 2012 and finished in late November of that year, spending an estimated 1,200 hours on the painting and its elaborate frame, which is ornamented with resin Batman heads."
Wired 05/10/13
issues
The Art Newspaper 05/11/13
people
The New York Times 05/11/13
issues
Could Local Theatres Help Spur An Arts Funding Revolution? "If building audiences and arts engagement, and widening arts access at grassroots level, are prioritised, it could be that the arts find they have an army of advocates. It is those people whom this and future governments can't afford to ignore."
The Guardian (UK) 05/07/13
theatre
2amt 05/12/13
music
No, You Do Not Have To Be A Musician To Write About Music "One of the things I had to actually learn was how to be a journalist. 'Music critic' isn't satisfactory to me. I've learned to do reporting, to do research. It's not about saying, 'This music makes me feel this way!' The context and the story behind it are often just as rewarding, and are crucial to understanding the actual music."
New Music Box 05/09/13
ideas
FastCompany 05/10/13
people
The New York Times 05/12/13
issues
The New York Times 05/10/13
dance
NPR 05/10/13
media
The Guardian (UK) 05/10/13
ideas
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/10/13
visual
Los Angeles Times 05/11/13
theatre
BBC 05/11/13
visual
The New York Times 05/10/13