“I realize that The Voice has had a unique journalistic role in New York and the country as a whole,” Mr. Barbey, 58, said. “That deserves to survive and prosper.” The paper, he said, was once an essential “voice of the arts and cultural community in New York.” While he will not take over full control of the paper until February, Mr. Barbey said he would focus first on bolstering its arts coverage — mainly by attracting top writers.
Month: October 2015
The Decline Of America’s Alt-Weeklies (And Why It Matters)
“The top 20 alternative weeklies in the nation have seen their annual print circulation, which is still responsible for the great majority of revenues, drop every year since the Great Recession. In 2013 they fell by six percent, and then another six percent in 2014. But it’s not so grim everywhere. In mid-level markets like Denver, Boise, and Charleston, alternative weeklies are often the only publications left with the infrastructure to support in-depth investigative reporting.”
The Man Who Sells Books From His NY Apartment
Michael Seidenberg’s approach to business is mostly as a transaction between bibliophiles. Some books he will only sell if he detects true enthusiasm from the buyer. “I’m a slow bookseller,” said Seidenberg. “I have a huge relationship to my stock.”
What Do People Say Matters Most About A Liveable Community?
“After interviewing more than 40,000 residents over three years, the top three answers for why someone loves living in a place shocked almost everyone – they are “social offerings, openness, and aesthetics.” To those of us working in the arts, this fact said something huge – that if you are trying to build an equitable community, you need the arts at the community development table.”
Yes The Art Market Has Become More Globalized. But It Consolidates In London And New York
“Putting down roots in tried-and-tested cities is partly a reflection of the fragile economic and political environment elsewhere. Trading is already a challenge in many developing countries, and recent economic turmoil has increased the risks for overseas businesses.”
Researcher: The Link Between Music And How Food Tastes
“One of the most common things we see is a relationship between pitch and taste. Lower pitches tend to be associated with bitter tastes and higher pitches with sweet tastes. There are possible health benefits to this: if you play music that makes people think their food is sweeter, the sugar content of the food could be lowered.”
Why Are Critics These Days So Defensive?
“People who enjoyed what were once known as guilty pleasures have absolved themselves of guilt. Arguments that people should be ashamed of lower-order tastes – like Ruth Graham’s attack on adults who read young-adult books – are actually quite rare. Yet anxiety about all this is pervasive, as if everyone’s high-school English teacher were lurking around the corner, ready to scold us for skipping Middlemarch on the summer reading list.”
Playboy To Stop Publishing Pictures Of Naked Ladies
As of next March, the rest of us really can read Playboy for the articles – which the editors plan to beef up, harking back to the glory days of the 1960s and ’70s, when the magazine published stories by the likes of Gore Vidal and Margaret Atwood and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter, and John and Yoko. Says company CEO Scott Flanders, “The difference between us and Vice is that we’re going after the guy with a job.”
Playboy In Popular Culture (A Brief History)
The Times business section takes “look back at what made the publication and its lifestyle so prominent.”
Hating Renoir Is Just A Phase
Peter Schjeldahl: “On the merits of the case, I would have identified with the R.S.A.P. people at a time – a long time; decades – when I had left the first class of people who like Renoir and had yet to join the second. … In the second class of people who like Renoir are those who have stopped fortifying their self-esteem with pride in their sophistication.”