“The first-ever mainland Chinese edition of the novel sold out its initial print run.”
Month: January 2013
What It Was Like To “Sell” Trisha Brown In The Beginning
“Three decades ago I was Trisha Brown’s Managing Director. In fact I was the only administrative staff, working at a desk with a rotary phone in the airshaft between her living and rehearsal spaces.”
Vinyl Record Sales Show Healthy Sales Gains
“According to Nielsen SoundScan, 2012 was another record-breaking year as vinyl album sales rose 17.7 percent from the previous year.”
Big Data? Maybe It Should Be Long Data
“No matter how big that data is or what insights we glean from it, it is still just a snapshot: a moment in time. That’s why I think we need to stop getting stuck only on big data and start thinking about long data.”
Is This Where The Arts Are Most “Vibrant” In America?
“ArtPlace has released a report on the ‘top 12 ArtPlaces’ in the country – the neighborhoods or clusters that scored highest on a subset of the funder’s much-discussed vibrancy indicators:”
What SFJazz’s New Center Might Mean For Jazz
“Some locals question whether SF Jazz’s season, expanded from 100 to 200 shows, threatens a delicate ecosystem. Others expect a rising tide that lifts all boats.”
NEA Chief Of Staff Jamie Bennett Talks About The Landesman Years
“What has made this such an exciting time to be doing this work is that Rocco never ran away from an interesting conversation. When he raised the now infamous “#supplydemand” question at Arena Stage, his instruction to me wasn’t to go into gatekeeper mode.”
Not All Of Timbuktu’s Ancient Manuscripts Were Burned, It Seems
Researcher Jean-Michel Dijan: “The great majority of the manuscripts, about fifty thousand, are actually housed in the thirty-two family libraries of the ‘City of 333 Saints.’ Those are to this day protected.” Many other documents (though not all) may have been hidden by the families who originally possessed them before the rebels arrived.
The Twisted Tale Of The Art Guys Marry A Plant
“Like many marriages, this peculiar union between two men and the (presumably) polyamorous plant wasn’t meant to be. .,. After scathing reviews, acts of vandalism, angry art patrons, and counter-protest art performances (not to mention an art critic who returned to prostitution after the ordeal), the Menil Collection – the Houston museum that had acquired the tree sculpture in 2011 – decided they had had enough.”
Antigua, The Next Intellectual Property Pirate’s Paradise?
“Any day now, you might be able to download Argo, Lincoln and Les Mis for a dime a piece. Microsoft Office could go for a quarter. … As part of a long-running trade dispute, the tiny island nation of Antigua and Barbuda (population: 90,000) won the right to use the intellectual property of U.S. firms – without having to pay any royalties or licensing fees.”