“It all makes one long for some Netflix-like behemoth — Netclassix? — that could easily stream works from all over to all televisions, tablets, smartphones and computers.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Loving The 100-Year-Old Leica
“Suddenly it was possible to be unobtrusive. The camera fitted in a coat pocket. It didn’t need a tripod and was quick and quiet to operate. So photography became fluid, informal, intimate: the technology no longer got in the way of telling the story.”
Alone In Public At The Museum (If It Gets Built That Way)
“Museums are very public buildings that offer the promise, or at least the hope, of this intimate experience, the moment of seduction and insight. A museum master plan probably needs to be most concerned with organizing the traipsing around, but not at the expense of silencing that voice from the alley.”
Time To Celebrate #Shortreads?
“Of all things, the least of which we have is time, and short novels tip their hats courteously to that fact.”
Can Video Of A Performance Ever Hold Your Attention Like The Live Performance?
“In this age of multitasking, a great virtue of live performance is that you can’t fast-forward, open a new tab or check your email as it unfolds.”
Time For The FCC To Review The Comcast Takeover Of Time Warner
“Among other things, the FCC requested that Comcast explain how the proposed Time Warner Cable transaction would result in ‘cost savings and other synergies worth approximately $1.5 billion’ according to the public filing.”
That Year Allison Tolman Almost Gave Up, And Then Starred In ‘Fargo’
“My cast mates keep teasing me,” she said, “like, ‘Not all jobs end in Emmy nominations, just so you know.'”
Sometimes An Artist’s Best Strategy Is To Avoid Strategic Plans
“No matter what the crisis is — whether financial, emotional, spiritual, creative, physical or other — it is not the time to be setting future objectives or making determinations about how you’ll behave in a year, or two, or three. You don’t have objectivity in a crisis and your ability to be strategic is greatly diminished.”
Yes, Grasshopper, You Must Know The Canon In Order To Deconstruct It
“Foucault loved the archive and grounded his scholarship in encyclopedic knowledge. His teaching showed it.”
What Are Apps Doing With – And For – Ancient Greece And Rome?
“The Greeks and Romans recorded their worlds on papyrus and tablets made of wax or clay, and there’s a satisfying sense of continuity when you study their millenniums-old ideas on 21st-century tablets made of glass and metal.”