If the contents of our phones are juicer than those of our relationships, can drama survive or even compete?
Author: Douglas McLennan
Our Modern Workspaces Have Been Designed To Look As If You Don’t Exist
“Across these diverse spaces, the two most consistent design principles are openness and a banishment of personal clutter. The new office presents itself as the interior design equivalent of everyone’s friend. It is comfortable and always available, a temporary platform onto which workers alight for meetings and some deskwork before fluttering off to another meeting, the home office, another job. But importantly, leave no trace behind. Remember: You have never been here.”
What Uncertainty? This Year’s ARTnews List Of Top 100 Art Collectors
“Some market observers were saying that collectors had recently gotten “cautious,” and that the air was thinner than usual for artworks priced in excess of $10 million. But one thing was for sure: the stalwarts—those collectors on our list—were there, their checkbooks at the ready and their keen eyes out for quality.”
LA’s Visual Art Scene Is Booming. But Can It Last?
“The gallery scene here has expanded before—notably in the 1990s—but this time the expansion has an internationalist, big-money feel… The question—posed frequently by gallerists, artists, and journalists—is whether this growth can support itself in a city long known for its scarcity of serious collectors.”
NYT Theatre Critic Charles Isherwood On The Art Of Being A Critic
In this podcast he discusses: Why we’ll never go back to making reviewers review the opening night performance.
What he thinks when he sees a quote from one of his reviews splashed on a marquee. Why Writers should NOT read his reviews. What he’s looking forward to this season. How he responds to “hate mail.”
Steve Reich At 80
“He composes, he travels, he coaches young musicians in their performances of 30-year-old scores. Asked whether he has any plans to retire — like his fellow octogenarian, the novelist Philip Roth — Reich professes to not quite understand the question.”
Study: A Measurable Bias About Rap Music
“Those who were told the lyrics were from a rap song perceived them to be more negative overall,” the researchers report. They were also more likely to favor regulation of the lyrics, and more likely to believe they were literally true.
Everyone’s Talking About Virtual Reality. So When Will It Really Be A Mainstream Thing?
“With VR, it feels like early days. It’s powerful, but it still requires standardization. Everyone needs to commit to a format. And there has to be one or two killer pieces of content that people who don’t yet own a device will be so interested in that they feel compelled to get one in order to get engaged. We haven’t seen that yet.”
Oops – Warner Reports Its Own Site For Violating Copyright, Demands Google Take It Down
“It also asked the search giant to remove links to legitimate movie streaming websites run by Amazon and Sky, as well as the film database IMDB. The request was submitted on behalf of Warner Brothers by Vobile, a company that files hundreds of thousands of takedown requests every month.”
Charge: Costs Of Arts Administration Have Gotten Out Of Hand
“The managerialism class in the arts have become somewhat like a self-serving class – a mafia, perhaps, in some people’s views – so they will fight tooth and nail to sustain their positions and their incomes.” An Arts Council England spokeswoman said it took fair pay for artists “very seriously”, and stressed that portfolio organisations who failed to pay them properly could lose their funding.