“I don’t want to be a sad sack who made a mistake. I gotta have a home, a base, a place where all my shoes are. I’m settled. When I first moved in here, I had good friends around me, but I kept thinking, ‘I can’t imagine being here alone.’ But then I was alone, and everything was fine.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Poet Withdraws From Major Prize, Admitting He Plagiarized
CJ Allen: “I accept that I did plagiarise certain poems (although it was genuinely not my intention to deceive), and that I am withdrawing from the competition because of the intolerable strain of the recent, negative publicity.”
How Did Ed Ruscha’s Gas Station Photos, Once Scorned, Turn So Iconic?
“Ruscha’s books have been widely influential among artists, who have adopted their disaffected look. But their influence also extends to architects: Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry.”
Urban Exploration – Um, Playing On Buildings – Is Often Illegal But Also Amazing
“Just as certain climbers prefer granite to gritstone, and certain cavers prefer wet systems to dry ones, the explorers have their specialisms: the bunkerologists, the asylum seekers, the skywalkers, the builderers, the track-runners, the drainers. Most people start out in ruins, though.”
Have The Emmys Actually Caught Up With A Changing TV World?
“If you look at the quantity of product being developed at Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and Xbox, it’s certainly reasonable to expect that this evolution will accelerate.”
J.S. Bach Was No Angelic Teenager, Records Show
Welp: “Bach’s education was troubled by gang warfare and bullying, sadism and sodomy – as well as his own extensive truancy.”
What Ever Happened to Ponyboy?
The characters who survived S.E. Hinton’s instaclassic young adult novel (& later, hit movie) “The Outsiders” would be, hm, well into late middle age by now. What might they be doing?
How Should The Louvre Protect Its Art From Potential Floods?
Why, it should “establish a storage facility in the north of France that would house most of the museum’s vast 460,000-strong collection,” of course.
Sure, Anyone Can Conduct An Orchestra … Of Computers
“The project’s creators, Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte, and Laura Perrenoud, imagine a future in which music will change drastically and picture the Computer Orchestra as a kind of humanizing antidote to symphonies created and played entirely by algorithm.”
Is Google Replacing People? Well, Kind Of
“We have begun to treat search engines, Evernote, and smartphones the way we’ve long treated our spouses, friends, and workmates. They’re the handy devices we use to compensate for our crappy ability to remember details.”