An architectural historian says it’s time to distinguish between Germany’s “good” architectural sins – the ones that make people the angriest, like a shopping mall that looks like a meat cleaver cut it in half – and the boring bad ones.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Times, It Is A-Changin’
“In place of the 30 reporters and editors who left last winter, the Times is hiring Âdozens of videographers to create new Âcontent for the paper’s website” – and they report to the corporate, not the editorial, side of the paper. Wait, what?
Is ‘Cool Culture’ Somehow Better (Or Different) Than Geek Culture?
“Nerds, once the overlords of this inclusive pop-culture universe, will also take a back seat of sorts, standing in suddenly long, winding lines with reclusives and prom queens alike, everyone indulging in ‘geek chic’ and cosplaying as their fave heroes.”
Does Watching Violence Lead To Committing Violence?
Even though a lot of us think that’s ridiculous (does watching Twilight make you a vampire?), the evidence says maybe.
Dancing Away From That Moldy Old Building The Ballet Calls Home
The Orlando Ballet springs out of its 112-year-old building – which is already the site of a million-dollar environmental clean-up effort thanks to diesel fuel & oil – when mold attacks.
They’re Not Forgeries, Just Super Exact 3D Replicas Sold By The Museum
“It really is the next generation of reproductions because they go into the third dimension. If you’re a layman, they are pretty indistinguishable [from the originals].” (And only £22,000!)
How Stephen King Defines America
“At some level, Stephen King novels issued a necessary corrective to my wanton teenage materialism and overweening belief in American goodness. They did their own kind of national myth-making.”
The Immortal(ized) Cats Of The Hermitage
Yes, this is happening: Rat-catching cats in imperial servant dress, in portraits commissioned by the museum’s magazine.
Google Is Going Down The Toilet, Thanks To Search Engine Optimization
“We find writers frantically writing posts, blogs, press releases and website content and gathering data on industries they know nothing about through brief Google searches (which we almost never cite). That information then begins populating the search results of Google, Bing and other search engines, making it seem more reliable as it spreads further.”
Sony Has A Hidden, Thriving T.V. Business Going On (Did You Know?)
Sony Pictures Television is “a largely hidden operation that has at times felt like a second-class citizen inside its own conglomerate and in Hollywood broadly, with the spotlight going instead to the movie division” – but it has four potential hits in the pipeline this fall.