“‘When we look at unbuilt projects, we see so many ideas, so many alternatives,’ says architecture critic Martha Thorne. … ‘It helps us realize that there’s not just one path that a city follows; there’s not just one path that architecture follows.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Here’s One Major Orchestra That Isn’t Hurting
The L.A. Philharmonic posted a surplus for the 10th time in 11 years, and paid both its music director and its CEO well over $1 million apiece.
And Here’s Another Successful Orchestra (In A Much More Challenged City)
“Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians ratified a new three-year contract Friday that will include the restoration of salary cuts that were made in the wake of the economic downturn.”
What To Do With All Of Those Dream-killing Postwar Highrises?
“The issue is how they were placed in the city and in the landscape. Modernist planning deliberately kept them away from sources of employment, retail hubs and decent transit, and they were surrounded by vaguely defined spaces which created an unpleasant no-man’s-land condition.”
Wait, The U.S. Has A $100,000 Prize For Poetry?
Yep, we sure do. This year’s winner is …
As Another Artist-Run Gallery Dies In NY, What Does The Future Hold?
“All the great spaces that are institutions now started out artist-run, mostly collectively. PS122, DTW (now NYLA), The Kitchen and so forth got big and less agile, more institutionalized. There’s an upside, but there’s a downside as well.”
Look, It’s Time To Give The Short Story Some Real Credit (But What *Is* It?)
“Nobody ever demands of an established novelist that she write a goddamn book of stories already; to write one nonetheless argues for some new twist in the long history of the form.”
Everyone’s Recording Anyway; Why Not Join In – & Sell Your Own Product?
Several acts record and sell their own performances – which are essentially the same, night after night – to each specific crowd at the end of the show. If you can’t beat ’em, sell it to ’em?
Just In Case You Somehow Thought Your Smartphone Was Private, It’s Really Really Not
“The documents state that it is possible for the NSA to tap most sensitive data held on these smart phones, including contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been.”
A.C. Crispin, 63, Author Who Fought For Writers
“As an author, she helped carve a space for women writing science fiction. She helped prove media tie-in novels could be great books in their own right. And she fought for writers to get treated fairly, with the indispensable site Writer Beware.”