“Not everyone lives in a great city, not everyone lives near a great city, and not every great city is a great city for bookstores.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Google Glass (And Other Wearables) Could Completely Change The Way We See Art
“Google’s new wearable computers can be used to display instant information on artworks as visitors walk round museums, possibly replacing gallery guidebooks and audio guides entirely.”
What Makes For A Good Theatre Date?
“The person in the next seat can also change your perspective on a performance both during it and after, and for better or worse, as much as the idiot using their mobile phone to take pictures down the row or the fidgetter in front of you.”
In Detroit, Creditors Demand Entire Art Collection
“The city’s bankruptcy managers have begun trying to place a value on the museum’s entire 66,000-piece collection. That’s quite an escalation from a previous appraisal of only about 1,700 works that the DIA had bought with city funds.”
How Come The Most Watched TV Series Get Little Attention On Social Media?
“Why is CBS big on TV but not Twitter? Simple demographics explain a lot: CBS still has the oldest audience among broadcasters with a median viewer age of 58. And older people use Twitter less.”
Museums – And Heirs Seeking Restitution – Will Now Have Access Online To Nazi-Era Catalogs
“The 93 volumes detail the sales made between 1936 and 1945 by Adolf Weinmüller, whose auction house flourished during the Second World War thanks to the forced sale of Jewish collectors’ personal property and the liquidation of Jewish art dealerships.”
Remember That Big, Expensive Plan To Remodel The New York Public Library?
It was scrapped, and in the new plan, the planners acknowledge that it would have cost at least $200 million more than they’d claimed.
Hay’s Indie Bookstores Are Dying As The Festival They Made Famous Thrives
“Hay is a market town, and it’s whatever the market will bear. At one time it was sheep, it was butter, it was cheese, it was books. And now maybe Hay is heading for the next thing, which could well be ideas.”
Taking A Selfie? The NSA Will Be So Happy To See It
“The government leads the way in developing huge face recognition databases, while the private sector leads in accurately identifying people under challenging conditions.”
How Stupid Is The U.S. Patent System? They Let This Artist Trademark The Pi Symbol
“Pi is a popular symbol in mathematical puns, so the pi-pocalypse lit a firestorm in the print-on-demand T-shirt world.”