Tamara Rojo: “It’s not a healthy environment of artistic criteria that’s at work, but a network of people pushing their protégés – which is unfair, and can become violent.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
British Race Against Time And Salt Water To Rescue Trove Of WWI Submarines
“It had practically vanished from popular memory that the Germans caused great losses to their main enemy, Great Britain, in World War I through targeted torpedo strikes against the royal merchant navy.”
Will UK Architectural Activists Stop An (Ominous Drumroll) American Developer?
One campaigner for the large Victorian-era market site: “Smithfield was the scene of many martyrdoms – this would be another.”
Nate Silver, Expert Predictor, Leaves The NY Times For Mickey Mouse (& Sports)
“The statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, the sports empire controlled by the Walt Disney Company.”
Where Summer Blockbusters Fall, B-List Movies Must Rise
Seriously, America? We’re giving more money and attention to cheap little movies like ‘The Conjuring’ while ‘Pacific Rim’ stumbles? (Yes, and we have our reasons.)
Is New York Better For Musicians Than San Francisco (Or Anywhere Else, For That Matter)?
“Without access to my ‘easy listening,’ the new music swirling around the mixing bowl of the five boroughs, I lose sight of what I’m working on–the things that I’m trying to get into my head and fingers.”
Lindy Hess, Who Reshaped The Publishing World, 63
“For more than two decades, Ms. Hess helped shape the publishing industry by training a good percentage of its new recruits in an intensive six-week summer course and by acting as an industry matchmaker.”
From The Deepest, Dimmest Vaults, ‘Storage Art’ Makes A Comeback
“There is this public assumption that museums are hoarding objects in dark rooms, and by the way that isn’t totally wrong.”
The Theremin: Still Weird Even As Japan Sets A World Record For Playing It
“Theremins are usually box-shaped, but the workings of these particular ones were contained inside small Russian dolls.”
Domestic British Drama Takes A Big Hit At The BBC
“BBC4’s programmes were regarded as fresh and new with ‘much higher reach and a growing reputation’ among viewers. But the channel will have to further that reputation without homegrown drama, which has been axed, with big cuts to its history, entertainment, documentary and science programming.”