Bob Silvers doesn’t like to discuss what might happen to the NYRB after he steps down, saying only that there are “three or four brilliant editors who could run the review, and people who would make an exhilarating paper. They would do something probably different, in some way,” he muses. “We don’t know what they would do.”
Month: January 2013
A New Viral Video Lawsuit – Who Owns Your Image?
“A protest about control of an image paradoxically publicizes the image even more. It is unfair that the Technoviking made no money from his fame, but it’s too late to undo: his image has now passed into mythology, and so belongs to all of us.”
Why Is Folk Art Still Seen As Inferior?
“Despite rising interest in and scholarship about folk art — and even after the wholesale rethinking of several major American wings on the East Coast — the isolation of folk from academic is still the norm.”
Global Ticketing Companies Battle To Control London Venues
“A battle between the world’s two biggest live music companies for control of London’s prime venues, including Hyde Park, Wembley Arena and the Olympic Stadium, has prompted an investigation by competition watchdogs concerned about music lovers potentially facing higher ticket prices and less choice of big name acts.”
London Theatres Post Record Box Office In 2012
“Plays were particularly successful, with audiences up 9% on 2011, which itself was up on the previous year. Plays now account for 29.4% of overall attendances and 23.6% of box office. Musical attendances were down 3% and revenue down 2%.”
Report: Majority Of Home Viewers Still Want Discs Over Streaming
“For the time being, at least, consumers still like to own and rent movies and TV shows on DVD and Blu-ray, even in a world where connected devices and digital rental, streaming, and ownership options are becoming more accepted and commonplace.”
What Wikipedia Is – Return To An Earlier Time?
“When you place Wikipedia in a longer timeframe, it seems that the historical anomaly was not today’s online collaboration, but the 20th century’s professionalized, bureaucratically produced tomes.”
Why Did This Small Theatre Cancel The Rest Of Its Season? Smart Phones (No Really)
“Who wants to go out to a theatre when you can call up anything on your smartphone?”
How Small Museums Get It Right
“Perhaps because they are less susceptible to fads and fancies, small museums like Yale and the Parrish have the freedom to show art the bigger institutions won’t. These two newly reincarnated museums demonstrate that such institutions are indispensable.”
Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Wins Costa Prize By Unanimous Vote
Jury chair Dame Jenni Murray: “One book simply stood head and shoulders, more than head and shoulders … on stilts, above the rest. We had a really good discussion, like being at a high-powered book club, and I said, ‘OK, let’s have a vote on Bring Up the Bodies and every hand went up.”