“At 35,000 square feet, the center is the first free-standing hall of its kind built exclusively for jazz, and its debut comes at a time when presenting live music — and jazz in particular — could be considered a risky proposition.”
Month: January 2013
The New York Life Of Violinist – Well, Fiddler – Mark O’Connor
“I scan the Internet for my favorite videos, and I’ve made different playlists. I’m stealing back my own content. I call it ‘social fiddle justice,’ and I’m having a lot of fun with it.”
Why Do Audiences Still Love Godot?
“The play has acquired a remarkable record for being performed in very different international settings. No disaster or civil strife is complete without its own Godot.”
Nonprofit Arts Organizations + Internet = Love?
Not always: “Digital technologies are primarily being applied to nuts-and-bolts issues of institutional survival, maintenance and growth. … Less useful is the digital capacity for education, artistic creation and collections management.”
How Robert Caro Researches His Many, Lengthy LBJ Biographies
“‘I was the first one to write the truth about Johnson,’ Caro says, before pausing to wonder if this is why Lady Bird stopped talking to him during his research for the first book.”
Digital Films Come To Cuba – But Not To Movie Theaters
“Hundreds of Cuban filmmakers, armed with digital technology, are laying the foundations of an independent movie industry outside the state apparatus that has defined Cuban cinema for much of the Castro era — and still, much to the frustration of some filmmakers, controls access to the island’s movie theaters.”
Super-Organizers At Library Of Congress Meet Their Ragnarok: Twitter
“The size of Twitter is on the order of the size of the Internet, just in tweets instead of web pages.” How will the LoC make the archive searchable?
Christopher Plummer: Theatre ‘Is Too Goddamned Expensive’
Without special low rates for the young, Plummer says, theatres will lose their audiences in the future.
Blurbing The Blurber (Or Was That A Self-Blurb?)
Do blurbs sell books, or are they simply a feel-good way for writers to show support to other writers? And is Gary Shteyngart simply a blurb whore? A YouTube investigation reveals all.
Artist’s ‘Ghost Trees’ Burned, Probably By Arson, In Australia
The trees, whose bark glows in the moonlight, were famous because of the work of Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira – and their destruction has shocked Australia.