“Right now, we’re enjoying a rich new age of images — everything from Vine videos to BuzzFeed cat GIFs that are shared, recast and then shared again. If lawyers began to throw copyright grenades into this mix, these splendid strains of creativity could be quickly snuffed out. “
Author: ArtsJournal2
What Should Happen To Penn Station? (Not Precisely What’s Recommended)
“This is an open invitation to a back-room deal and to wholesale compromise of the sort that has made what should be a showcase gateway for the city into a blight and a safety hazard. What the city deserves is a new, safer, up-to-the-minute station and the next Madison Square Garden.”
Civic Theatre, Where Everyone Is, Or Could Be, An Actor
“MDR’s works can look like interactive street art, or theatrical ice-breaking, or social work, but they’re all about coaxing people to act out an ideal of social relationships. The question is always how far people really want to go in that direction.”
The Race Against Time To Find The Last Living WWI Veterans
“If you walk around with your eyes open, you’ll quickly discover that there are more monuments and memorials in this country to World War I than to any other war. So for some years after the war ended, it was terribly important to people that it and the people who fought it be remembered.”
Morris Renek, 88, Who Devoted His Life To Writing Hard-Boiled Novels
“‘He was respected but not easily published, admired but impoverished,’ Mr. Elman wrote. ‘His works are not sufficiently appreciated; he’s a serious popular novelist who lacks a popular audience.'”
Contemporary Chinese Art Is Exploding Onto The World Scene. Is That A Problem?
“For Chinese contemporary art the market is voracious and developed so quickly from zero to where we are today, so there has been a tendency to validate artists by their market’s worth.”
Can The Owners Of The Real Downton Abbey Cash In?
“The television show has brought worldwide fame to Highclere Castle (which Lady Carnarvon’s husband’s family has owned since the late 17th century), especially among what she calls ‘lots of lovely Americans.’ But the house costs $1.5 million a year to run, and it has not received the windfall that viewers of the show would assume.”
The Venice Biennale’s Youngest Artistic Director In 110 Years
The ambitious 39-year-old Massimiliano Gioni has doubled the number of artists and “is mixing high and low, with masters mingling with self-taught and outsider artists.”
The BBC Scraps £100 Million Digital System & Apologizes To License Fee Payers
“Mrs. Hodge described the episode as ‘a terrible shock and clearly completely shambolic.’ The corporation said the initiative had been badly managed and outpaced by changing technology, and that to carry on would be throwing good money after bad.”
How Uganda’s Women Writers Found Their Voices
“Traditionally, Ugandan women are the storytellers and keepers of the oral tradition but it takes a considerable leap of consciousness to become a writer.”