“In the early days my work was about collapse and decay. Now some of the changes that occur are too beautiful to be described as simply decay.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Salman Rushdie Explains Why Kazuo Ishigoro’s ‘Remains Of The Day’ Is Such A Perfect Novel
“What then is our true relationship to power? Are we its servants or its possessors? It is the rare achievement of Ishiguro’s novel to pose Big Questions – What is Englishness? What is greatness? What is dignity? – with a delicacy and humour that do not obscure the tough-mindedness beneath.”
Don’t Rework Comments Systems – Just Kill All The Comments, Already
Comments “belong on personal blogs, or on Twitter or Tumblr or Reddit, where individuals build a full, searchable body of work and can be judged accordingly. Hell, put them all on Medium, and let Evan Williams try to sell the douche bags to BMW.”
Can The (Now Rather Commercial) Internet Bridge Cultures, Or Is That A Chimera?
“Embracing cosmopolitanism is an active process, while the digital environment is often a passive one. The web, by and large, has become an explicitly commercial space. Commercial spaces don’t make people uncomfortable or challenge their assumptions.”
You, Too, Can Be (One Of Hundreds As) A Broadway Producer!
“Broadway has become a very expensive game, with producers taking our money in exchange for profits and all our names being billed above the title. … It’s getting out of control. But Broadway nowadays can’t survive without us.”
The Guercino Stolen Last Weekend Was Just Sitting Around Unprotected And Uninsured
“According to the parish priest Gianni Gherardi, who reported the theft, the church could not afford to insure the painting. Its alarm system – fitted during a renovation in the mid-1990s that was financed by the local bank Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena – had been inactive since the funds dried up.”
If Mainstream TV And Movies Won’t Show Latinas And Latinos, So What? There’s YouTube
“The network, which distributes lifestyle videos in both Spanish and English, surpassed 6 billion views. In June, the company announced that its Series B funding round had netted $10 million.”
Most Critics Have Deserted The Edinburgh Fringe Fest, And That’s Not A Good Thing
“Very few first-string critics now make an appearance at the fringe, and those that do often find the filling in of forms in triplicate that is necessary to secure a ticket off-putting.”
Yes, This Is A Post About Kim Kardashian’s Game
Because here’s the thing: When a video game app has the potential to make more money than a massive hit movie, what’s going to happen to apps, and movies, in the future?
Take A Look At How These Artists Live
“I wanted to see how people spend the majority of their time, how they work, to motivate myself—and take away more positive ways that people work with their space, or work with whatever situation they’re in, to stay motivated.”