Esther Bejarano “is one of the last surviving members of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra, the only all-female ensemble among the many Nazi-run prisoner musical groups in the camp system.”
Archives for June 2014
How A Photographer’s Project About Librarians Went Viral (And Garnered Outrage)
“Early critics … complained that his previous sample was younger, more diverse, and more pervasively bespectacled than an accurate cross-section of the profession would reflect.”
Why Do People Think Free Theatre Has To Be Bad Theatre? (They’re Wrong)
“I suspect that lack of critical coverage is one reason why free is treated with suspicion. Free seldom gets reviewed.”
The Musicians Of The Delaware Symphony Worry About Its Future
“Citing turnarounds at the Lancaster, Harrisburg and Reading symphonies, musicians wrote ‘the DSO remains mired in negative thinking and dangerous lack of growth.'”
Once Again, Paris Auction House Sells Sacred Hopi Masks
“In Hopi tradition, the masks don’t merely represent spirits, but embody them, making it a sacrilege to collect and display them, or otherwise use them outside the ceremonies for which they were made.”
Theatre Parents Want Their Kids To Be Engineers
“What I really want is for my children to love the theater, to appreciate all their access, but have absolutely no desire to pursue it as a career.”
Who Owns A Story – The Writer Or The People Written About?
“Do I have the right to write about a firefight in Falluja, if I wasn’t there? Does it demonstrate respect and admiration for the soldiers, and show evidence of their importance in our culture? Or does it insult those who risked their lives, if I take literary possession of that experience?”
Will Suburban Sprawl Destroy Some Of The Richest Archaeological Sites In The U.S.?
“Harl recalled two mounds in the town of Fenton, Missouri, that were leveled to build a Walmart. The site of a 1,000-year-old village in Bridgeton, Missouri, was flattened to build an industrial park.”
YouTube (That Is, Google) May Take Over Indie Crowdfunding
“Many independent online content creators have been relying on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter to fund their projects, which ultimately end up on YouTube. Now, they can streamline the contribution process.”
‘Merica! Our College Are Number … Um … Let’s Not Talk About That
“American results on the literacy and technology tests were somewhat better, in the sense that they were only mediocre.”
An Interview With The Poet Who Asked People To Print Out The Internet
“Poetry is the only place in the arts where all the money in the world can’t do anything — it can’t make a better book, it can’t make a better poet; poets keep writing regardless of money. It’s utopia. Money has no value in poetry.”
What The Future Of E-Reading Looks Like: No Books, But Also No Readers
“The death of the standalone e-reader might be good news for consumers, who will have one fewer gadget to buy and lug around. But it’s bad news for the book industry.”
The Best Dance Films Show Us The Art Form’s Joy (& Physicality)
“In ballet, exaggeration exceeds itself; close-up, the makeup looks grotesque; the plots are melodramatic, the gestures heightened. It is both vibrantly physical and oddly unreal, allowing us to imagine an unlimited freedom for the limited body.”
An Artist Puts A Swimming Pool In The Middle Of The Desert, But Can Anyone Find It?
“There is no road. There is no fence. There is no sign. There is no trail. You just come on it.”
Should This Town Council Prevent A Private Homeowner From Demolishing A Banksy?
“If they breach that they’re in trouble. It’s quite a serious offence. If they’re making a hole then they’re removing the fabric of the building.”
So, Facebook Has Been Manipulating Us To Elicit Different Emotions
Yes, all of your suspicions are true: “Facebook’s methodology raises serious ethical questions. The team may have bent research standards too far, possibly overstepping criteria enshrined in federal law and human rights declarations.”
Massive Cuts To Canada’s CBC – Is This The End Of A Once Great Public Broadcaster?
“In announcing that he was tired of overseeing annual budget cuts, president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix announced a massive cut: as many as 1,500 employees or almost 20 per cent of the workforce over five years, though a lot of that, it is hoped, will be achieved through attrition. The scythe will be taken most significantly to the local news and sports operations, with dinner-hour newscasts pared from 90 to 30 minutes and sports productions taking an inevitable hit from the loss of NHL broadcast rights to Rogers.”
Canada Eliminates Big Visa Fee On Foreign Musicians Touring In Canada
“The removal of a work permit requirement for foreign musical acts, part of the government’s overhaul of the controversial temporary foreign worker program, went largely unnoticed amid a spate of other measures announced last week.”
Canada’s CBC Says It Will “Disrupt” Itself (Read: Radically Downsize)
“CBC says it will “privilege content” by getting out of the activities it believes aren’t at the core of its mandate: It will, for example, try to sell a chunk of its real estate, so it can be a fleet-footed tenant instead of a lumbering landlord. CBC will also, most contentiously, get out of the business of producing its own content, except for news, current affairs and radio.”
Amazon Offers To Print UK Publishers’ Books And This Is A Problem Because…)
“Amazon is attempting to convince publishers in the United Kingdom that it should be allowed to print its own copies of their titles to sell to its customers whenever the publisher is low on inventory.”
Worst Ten Hollywood Versions Of Broadway Musicals
“Hollywood has a long record of crimes committed against Broadway shows.”
America’s Fastest Growing City Has No Crime (Or Kids)
“That the most rapidly expanding U.S. metro area is a Manhattan-sized retirement village — with more golf carts than New York has taxis — highlights the transformation of the world’s demographic profile. The over-60 set — which the United Nations projects will almost triple to 2 billion by 2050 — offers opportunity to marketers and homebuilders even as it confounds governments that must care for an aging populace.”
A Connection Between Worry And Creativity
The study finds that, when the pressure is on, worry appears to be a motivating force for neurotic people. “Higher levels of intrinsic motivation in turn predict greater flexibility in idea generation,” the researchers add in the journal Emotion.
A Serious New Art Generation In Scotland
Scotland is obviously an enjoyable place to be an artist. You can play in three bands, teach at Glasgow School of Art and show your prints in a pub. Maybe that is, to quote the tattoo Ross Sinclair showed me on his back, “Real Life”. But real art happens when the pubs have closed and someone with the serious mind of a Christine Borland or a Douglas Gordon looks into the bottom of a glass stained with terrible thoughts.
Are Writers Running Out Of Book Titles?
Could authors and publishers be starting to run out of titles? It can look that way…