“A European Parliament committee voted on Monday to reject the nomination of Hungarian Tibor Navracsics as education and culture commissioner.” The legislators found that he was qualified for the post, but objected to his former role as justice minister in the controversial right-wing government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Most Argued-About Church Building On Earth? Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Looking for all the world like a cluster of gigantic stone termites’ nest, a colossal vegetable patch, a gingerbread house baked by the wickedest witch of all or perhaps a petrified forest, this hugely ambitious church has confounded architects, critics and historians ever since its unprecedented shape became apparent soon after World War I.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.14.14
Amazon and monopoly: encore
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth
In and out of history
(David Jays on the late theater director Yuri Lyubimov)
AJBlog: Performance Monkey
Mistake at DIA: A Pay-Raise Ruckus And A Solution
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts
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Ulster Orchestra Could “Cease To Exist” By Next Month, Warns Lawmaker
A member of Northern Ireland’s Legislative Assembly has said that, in just a few more weeks, the orchestra “will not have enough income to meet their outgoings. It’s a very bleak picture for them.” The province’s arts minister acknowledged that the ensemble’s finances have gone “from scary to scarier”.
A First For ArtPrize: Audience And Jury Choose The Same Winner
Anila Quayyum Agha’s light installation Intersections won the vote for the $200,000 Public Grand Prize outright and split the $200,000 Juried Grand Prize with Sonya Clark’s Hair Craft Project.
It’s Totally Unfair That Americans Are Included In The Booker Prize, Says Australian Author Who’s Already Won It Twice (And Lives In New York)
Peter Carey: “I find it unimaginable that the Pulitzer or the National Book award people in the United States would ever open their prizes to Brits and Australians. They wouldn’t. … The old Booker had a particular cultural flavour. … There was and there is a real Commonwealth culture. It’s different. America doesn’t really feel to be a part of that.”
Is Google Making Us All Dumber? The Neuroscience Of Search Engines
“Google is known as a search engine, yet there is barely any searching involved anymore. The gap between a question crystallizing in your mind and an answer appearing at the top of your screen is shrinking all the time. As a consequence, our ability to ask questions is atrophying.” Says Google’s head of search, “The more accurate the machine gets, the lazier the questions become.”
Content And Its Discontents: The Future Of Netflix
“If you really look at Netflix, it’s a pay-TV company. People still think of Netflix as a video store, because that’s their history. But the way a pay-TV service works is that people subscribe and pay a monthly fee for a service that aggregates content and offers original content of its own. That’s exactly what Netflix does.”
How A Milkman From A Russian Shtetl Became An American Icon
Studio 360 considers the unlikely success of Fiddler on the Roof. (audio)
John Cleese Quits Movies, Says He’s “Looking Forward” to Death
“I have only got five or six years left and I will be gone – I won’t have to worry about ISIS or Ebola. I am looking forward to it. … Most of the best people are dead – I will be in excellent company having a wonderful time.”