“Tension between popular and scholarly approaches to history can get rancorous, as the recent dust-up over Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” can attest.”
Month: January 2013
Small Cable Channels Feeling The Squeeze
“Distributors have talked for years about belt-tightening, but two things are different now: potential Web competitors are creeping up and programming costs are soaring, particularly for sports channels and broadcasters.”
What Happens To Us When The Robots Take Over
“It may be hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70 percent of today’s occupations will likewise be replaced by automation.”
What’s Wrong With The Way Most History Is Written
“Today’s historical monographs resemble those written 100 years ago, speakers said. They’re still narrated in an omniscient, third-person voice that was largely invented in the 19th century. And the profession is built to sustain the present model.”
Would Tuition Disparity Encourage Study Of Other Majors?
“Offering tuition breaks for strategic majors is meant to entice undergraduates who otherwise might have pursued their passion for, say, literature, to instead choose to spend their college years learning skills like Java programming. But will it work?”
Social Media Meets Theatre
“Over the past four years, almost 1,000 of the company’s Twitter followers from across the U.S. have written more than 4,900 one-tweet plays.”
The History Of Public Transit Art … In Los Angeles
“Weary commuters arising from the depths of the Civic Center Red Line station are greeted by Samm Kunce’s Under the Living Rock, a 160-foot curved wall depicting a classical hanging garden of Venetian glass and striated granite. An uplifting passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, etched into black granite ribbon, may well soothe the harried soul.”
We’re Going To Broadway! (Maybe)
“The economics of Broadway have become prohibitive. Roughly 75 percent of shows on Broadway never turn a profit.”
Is Reality TV Too Dangerous (For Its Crews)?
“A combination of tight budgets, lack of trained safety personnel and pressure to capture dramatic footage has caused serious and in some cases fatal incidents.”
Marcel Duchamp’s Dinner That Changed The Arts World In New York
“In February 1968, the avant-garde legend Marcel Duchamp hosted an informal dinner in New York for a group of local artists. Among them were composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and the painter Jasper Johns.”