“This is not the end of civilisation, but a sign of the times. Reading habits are changing worldwide. The consumer’s use of leisure time is no longer dominated by book-reading. That, says Daunt, means ‘we have to rethink what a good bookshop should be.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Year In The Life Of Ireland’s ‘National City Of Culture’
“What I would hate to see happen now is that City Hall would breathe a big sigh of relief and think, Thank God that’s over: we made it to the finish line and nobody got hurt – now let’s not talk about arts and culture for a long time.”
Prepping For The Bolshoi’s ‘Swan Lake’ [VIDEO]
“When the tragic situation happened with Sergei Filin, I froze. … I understood that if we wanted to do something good for Sergei, we have to try to dance as well as we can.”
How To Become A Poet
“I’ve been thinking about 1998. I was twelve years old that year; Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. were both killed that year. To learn about that kind of violence existing in the world — both racist and homophobic — it changed me. I don’t know if I fully understood it at the time, but I was terrified. And terror does many things but it also clarifies.”
‘Ida’ Is Piling Up The Awards As The Season Chugs Into Gear
“Eric Abraham, one of the producers of the film, dedicated the award to the people whose relatives were victims of the Holocaust, which included members of his own family. He remarked on the fact that anti-semitism was again on the rise.”
Who’s Saving – And Curating – Protest Art?
“Since it wouldn’t be in the true spirit of protest if there weren’t at least a few voices of dissent, not everyone’s on board with preserving these ephemeral but powerful works. In Hong Kong, many museums that were asked to keep some of the artworks rejected them because they were ‘political.'”
Book Publishers Need To Understand Fan Culture
“The online book world is about gathering around a book, or a love of books generally. As I’ve argued here before, for millions of us, the solitary act of reading becomes incredibly social in the digital spaces where we spend our time.”
Stage Manager Paralyzed In Theatre Accident Is Awarded Millions In Compensation
“She went through a standard, unmarked door, which had no warning signs or notices. When she opened the door she was met with a black curtain, which she assumed was a light blocker. She went in what she thought was a room but stepped into open air above the stage.”
The New York Philharmonic Needs (A Lot Of) Money. What Will The New Chairman Of The Board Do?
“The orchestra, which hopes to begin renovating its home as soon as 2019, wants to effectively double the size of its endowment. But there will be stiff competition: Its next-door neighbor, the Met, is planning its own campaign to double its endowment.”
A Supreme Court Case About A 50-Year-Old Spiderman Toy May Change Everything About Patents
“The court noted concern that a patent holder might require someone licensing a patent to also license expired patents in order to seal the deal — a bargaining power that would have undermined the intent of making patents eventually open up to the public. Effectively, it would give some added leverage where they already have a monopoly.”