“In fact, the Jewishness of Mads humor cannot be overstated: It was, for many people outside New York, the first place they ever heard words like knish and shnook. … We would not have had Spy magazine without Mad, nor The Daily Show, nor Colbert, nor CollegeHumor.com, nor Gawker.”
Seattle Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Dies Suddenly
“The death came as a shock to Jerry Manning’s wide circle of friends and colleagues in Seattle and beyond. In early April he told the Times he expected to recover fully from the operation, and he announced a line-up of plays for the 2014-15 season.”
Copyrighting Marx: Challenging The Ownership Of Ideas
To some, it was “uncomradely” that fellow radicals would deploy the capitalist tool of intellectual property law to keep Marx’s and Engels’s writings off the Internet. And it wasn’t lost on the archive’s supporters that the deadline for complying with the order came on the eve of May 1, International Workers’ Day.
How Netflix Is Changes The Economics Of The Internet
“Now that companies like Netflix and Google are pushing such enormous amounts of video across the network, the economics of the internet are changing.”
Paper – Still The Essential Reading Device?
“Maybe it’s time to start thinking of paper and screens another way: not as an old technology and its inevitable replacement, but as different and complementary interfaces, each stimulating particular modes of thinking.”
More And More, Symphony Orchestras Turn To Video Artists
“The trend is driven in part by orchestras’ efforts to attract younger concertgoers, who tend to embrace visual stimulation and the mixture of art forms—think graphics as DJs spin records. Meanwhile, advances in digital technology now give video artists enormous flexibility to manipulate footage, allowing them to tweak their pieces live.”
A Record Year For Royal Albert Hall
“The figures represent the most succesful year of trading in the venue’s 143-year history with 390 events driving a 7% increase in audiences. The venue recorded its highest ever operating surplus of £5.3 million.”
Politics And Art Don’t Necessarily Equal Political Art
“It is not about the intentions of art; it is about what art can do — which is to say quite a lot in a world saturated with pictures. It must be clear that both art and politics remain autonomous spheres that follow their own rules. Trying to intermingle the two at all costs has never been my idea of art.”