Friday, April 21
Code Sculptor: Oops, I Made A Mistake? For years cryptographers have been trying to solve the code in a sculture that sits at CIA headquarters. "But now Jim Sanborn, the artist who created the Kryptos sculpture, says he made a mistake. A previously solved part of the puzzle that sleuths assumed was correct for years isn't. The new information, including what the mistaken text really says, is creating a buzz among enthusiasts who've been obsessed over the sculpture for years." Wired 04/20/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:52 am
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Actor: A Design Competition For New Orleans Actor Brad Pitt is frustrated by the slowness in rebuilding New Orleans, so he's sponsoring an "environmentally-friendly" design competition. "Our goal is to kick off the rebuilding effort. It's certainly long overdue and I can only go from the reports that we get ... that it's behind, absolutely. People are frustrated. We could possibly build something that was better and took into account the historical traditions of the city and the voices of the people and turn this into some kind of good." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:13 am
Iconic Painting Slips Away From Aussie Museums Australia's museums fail to acquire an iconic work by John Brack. "One thing is certain: it is a painting lost to the people of the city whose recent past it documents in luminous panes of brilliantly executed light; not just a bleakly witty record of the six o'clock swill, but one of the most exquisite moments in Australian — Melburnian — modernism. Gone." The Age (Melbourne) 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 4:29 pm
Renzo Piano And Harvard's Museum Transformation Harvard has announced "a comprehensive transformation of its museums that will integrate the collections currently housed in separate facilities, and eventually add a second permanent facility for modern and contemporary art in Allston." The Art Newspaper 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 3:42 pm
French Galleries Sales Boom "French art dealers have been cheered — and rather surprised — by the results of a study released last month, which showed that art galleries in France turned over five times more than auction houses in 2004." The Art Newspaper 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 3:39 pm
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EMI: Download Sales Soar Recording giant EMI says its sales of digital downloads has increased by 150 percent in the last year. "The world's third largest record company predicted that the jump would help its annual profits rise by 12%." Downloading sales now account for 5.5 percent of the company's music sales. BBC 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 6:18 am
Music Of The Street Street musicians - buskers - in New York can make $200 a day and up. "It’s interesting to see what the street looks like from this angle. You enter a new world when you put yourself out like this. In a club there’s an invisible wall between you and the audience. Here, there’s not." New York Press 04/20/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 6:08 am
Why Pop Doesn't Travel Well Why is it that pop music not sung in English doesn't do well in the UK? "Indeed, with only 15% of UK record sales going to acts from outside the UK or US, the window is barely open at all. William Luff, senior press officer at EMI, puts this down to the strength of Anglophone pop as much as our notoriously insular attitude." The Guardian (UK) 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:32 pm
Apple: One Price Fits All (We Insist On It) Should different songs cost differnt prices? Steve Jobs thinks not. "Negotiations between Apple and the four major music companies - with which iTunes deals all expire in the next two months - have reached a crucial point as several record executives now say they are unlikely to convince Jobs to allow variable pricing, sources said. This marks a change of tune for the record industry as late last year several executives said they believed variable pricing - something the music companies have been pushing for - was imminent." New York Post 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:14 pm
Parents Buying More CDs Than Kids "The top 100 is strewn with records that can only be described as easy listening. And it is all a reflection of a significant change in the music industry - the power of 'mum rock'. Forty-somethings now buy more than twice as many pop CDs as teenagers and the gap is growing every year." BBC 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 3:34 pm
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Magazine: Go To Buffalo For Arts American Style magazine conducted a reader poll of top US arts cities. "Among big American cities, the winners were New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. In the small city category, the winners were Santa Fe, N.M.; Asheville, N.C.; and Corning, N.Y." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:39 am
US To Foreign Artists: Stay Home American visa rules are now so onerous (and expensive) that it's become more and more difficult to enter the country as an artist. And if you're part of a large dance troupe or orchestra? Almost impossible... Seattle Weekly 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 4:43 pm
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Foster Takes Canada "Though his iconic buildings grace much of the planet, it's only now, as conjurer of urban visions in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, that [Norman] Foster and Partners has seriously begun to infiltrate Canada..." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 6:41 am
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Death Camp "Superstar" Cancelled Plans for a performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar" at a former Nazi death camp have been cancelled. "It was not a good idea. It did not take into consideration the relations between Christianity and Judaism. I decided that there will be no performance because we must stick to the message of the museum, which is truth, memory, reconciliation." Washington Post (AP) 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:22 am
Naked Audience? Too Much A group called Males au Natural said it planned to strip naked in the audience during a New York play's graphic rape scene, "supposedly to show solidarity with the underdressed actors." But the actors union Equity says it won't require actors to perform if they do.
Backstage 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:06 am
Roberts - Bad Reviews, But A Chance For Tony? Reviews for Julia Roberts' Broadway debut weren't kind. So will she withdraw? Well, it depends on the Tonys. "There are two schools of thought, and where theater people fall depends on whether they think she's got a shot at a Tony Award nomination - which, if she were to get one, would be the raw steak she can slap on her black eye." New York Post 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 6:34 am
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Harry Potter - Banned In Atlanta? Some Atlanta area parents are leading a campaign to have the Harry Potter books banned from local school libraries. "People who love the books say they are happy that kids are reading the books as much as they are. They say that the books are ultimately about good versus evil. But opponents say that the books with their magic wands and spells are all about evil." WXIA (Atlanta) 04/20/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 6:14 am
A Gathering Of Dying Languages "By the end of the century, linguists predict, half of the world's languages will be dead, victims of globalization. English is the major culprit, slowly extinguishing the other tongues that lie in its path." The New York Times 04/21/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:55 pm
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CBC Axes Designers To Save Money The CBC says it will eliminate 79 design jobs, from set builders and costume makers to makeup artists and hairstylists in Toronto. "We're sad about this. It is an end of an era. For 50 years, there has been in-house design at CBC, and now there is not going to be."
The Globe & Mail (Canada) 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:09 am
The Great American Screen Play There has been an explosion in the number of screenplays jockeying for attention. "Last year, some 40,000 screenplays were registered by the Writers Guild of America, and, since relatively few screenwriters go to the trouble to seek this early-stage copyright protection, the officials there reckon this figure represents only the tiniest tip of the iceberg." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:08 pm
Studios Increasingly Ignore Critics "This year, more and more films have been withheld from the press prior to opening day perhaps because studios have calculated that they can attract audiences regardless of whether the films have been reviewed beforehand. While it's not unprecedented for film companies to nix such previews, the recent trend underscores the extent to which the industry's changing business model relies less on critics for promoting certain types of mainstream fare." Christian Science Monitor 04/21/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:05 pm
- Are Movie Critics Losing Their Clout? "Aggregation and indexing have also had the unintended consequence of flattening the hierarchy of movie critics: Inevitably, The New York Times or Chicago Tribune reviewers are taken off their perch when their sound bites appear next to Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies, Ericsnider.com, or (our favorite) Hollywood Bitchslap. Even worse, their opinions are devalued when they become just one datapoint in an average score." Forbes.com 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 5:02 pm
FCC Investigates Radio networks For Payola The FCC is investigating four radio giants for payola. The FCC "requested documents from Clear Channel Communications Inc., CBS Radio Inc., Entercom Communications Corp. and Citadel Broadcasting Corp. over allegations that radio programmers had received cash, checks, clothing and other gifts in exchange for playing certain songs without revealing the deals to listeners, a violation of federal rules." Los Angeles Times 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 4:57 pm
Cannes's Festival Lineup The Cannes Festival announces this year's lineup of movies. "Having already announced Ron Howard's 'The Da Vinci Code' as the opening night, out-of-competition world premiere, the festival will keep star-wattage high." Los Angeles Times 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 4:52 pm
BBC Warned - No Full Increase UK culture minister Tessa Jowell has warned the BBC it isn't likely to get the full increase in the TV license fee it wants. "The BBC has proposed raising the licence fee by 2.35% above inflation, taking it from the current £131.50 to £180 by 2013." BBC 04/20/06
Posted: 04/20/2006 3:29 pm
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Hiphop Comes Inside A Colorado groups is bringing hiphop into the concert hall. "We're presenting hip-hop dance in a prestigious format, like people have done with jazz or ballet for centuries on big stages. Hip-hop is not just some gangster-type facade. Even when the dance side of it becomes aggressive, or battling, it always ends up positively." Denver Post 04/21/06
Posted: 04/21/2006 7:44 am
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