“A copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which sold for 10 cents in 1939 and featured Batman’s debut, got the top bid on Wednesday – raising $523,000.”
Month: February 2012
What Rap Can Teach Business Leaders
“Rap presents an immediate test. If you get up on the stage and your are whack, you are going to get booed off. You have to present yourself in the moment and you have to move the crowd. I think there is a lesson there in leadership because it’s about creating pathways of connection.”
A Gallery Of Trafalgar Square’s “Fourth Plinth” Art
Artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset have become the latest contemporary artists to unveil a public sculpture on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.
Why Writers Work In Cafes (The Noise Helps Them Think)
“People who like to write in cafes are onto something, it seems: A moderate level of noise – the equivalent of the background buzz of conversation – prompts more creative thought, according to a study.”
Barney Rosset, 89, Publisher And Anti-Censorship Hero
“[He] was most identified with his work at Grove Press, the New York-based book publisher he bought in the early 1950s. For the next several decades, he … used his company to distribute critically acclaimed but sexually explicit books by D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs and engaged in a series of groundbreaking legal battles that changed the way the government interpreted the First Amendment.”
Theatres Chosen To Create Online Content For BBC
“Bristol Old Vic, Shakespeare’s Globe and Sadler’s Wells will be among the first companies to create theatre content for a new online arts channel being launched by Arts Council England and the BBC.”
How Habits Get Formed (The Ad Industry Knows)
“The malleability of habits isn’t news to Madison Avenue: Effective commercials show how people can be quickly trained to do something new and then keep on doing it. The secret, it turns out, is the quick combination of a memorable cue and a rewarding experience.”
Sergei Polunin Is Back! (In Ballet And In Britain)
“Following his sudden walkout from the world-famous company [the Royal Ballet] where he was trained and nurtured as the most promising young man for decades, he is returning to Sadler’s Wells in a mere three weeks with the independent programme of male ballet put on by his compatriot-in-rebellion Ivan Putrov.”
Akram Khan On Being Injured And Sidelined From Dance
“I am completely destroying my whole body, all my technique and strength. It will come back, it’s like riding a bicycle, but I will have to start from scratch. It’s a bit traumatic. … The only good thing about this is that my mind’s been dancing a lot. I have been creating a lot.”
Kathryn Bigelow To Recreate Bin Laden Compound And Town For Film
“[The] Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker … is to recreate the Pakistan Army garrison town Abbottabad in India for her new film on the US Navy Seals who tracked and killed Osama bin Laden.”