“Now that it’s easier to make a recording than to play Carnegie Hall and the standard repertory has been recorded to death, more artists are staking out their own niches by championing and recording forgotten composers of past eras.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Don’t Be Sad, Single People: You’re Way Better For Capitalism
“It now makes economic sense to convince the populace to live alone. Singles consume 38% more produce, 42% more packaging, 55% more electricity and 61% more gas per capita than four-person households.”
Why Big Tech Companies Fail
Sometimes, and counter-intuitively, it’s just flat-out too much success, and too much money.
The Power Of Architecture To Reflect, And Destroy, A Marriage
“The house was intended as some kind of remedy but exacerbated the ills it was supposed to cure. The frenetic accumulation of motifs can be seen as a way of covering a void. In which case, Larry and Lynda would be very far from the first people to imagine that homebuilding can fix relationships and be proved wrong.”
One Man’s Garbage Is Another Man’s Warhol Treasure Trove
When a compulsive hoarder died, buried by his stuff, the clean-up man didn’t realize at first the value of a pile of stuff from the dead man’s apartment. Then he started watching Antiques Roadshow – and the story got (very) big.
You Want Data Protection? Move To Europe
Google just got handed a fine of $22.5 million for “making erroneous statements” in its privacy policy, but that’s nothing for the giant. And it doesn’t look like the U.S. will have any privacy laws in place anytime soon.
A Composer, Staying Busy With New Sounds At 80
Pauline Oliveros “eludes induction into the pantheon. In place of scores suited for assimilation into the Western classical canon, Ms. Oliveros offers ‘Sonic Meditations,’ a 1971 collection of text-based contemplations, meant to facilitate communal music making. Deep listening, a discipline she developed during the 1990s, bypasses conventional music theory in favor of expanding consciousness through cultivating a keener ear.”
David Rakoff, 47, Essayist, Humorist, Voice Of This American Life
“Rakoff, a prizewinning humorist whose mordant, neurotic essays examined everything from his surreal stint portraying Sigmund Freud in a Christmastime shop window display to his all-too-real battles with cancer, died on Thursday in Manhattan.”
In Naples, Deep Plundering Of A State Library’s Valuables
“Prosecutors say that in the 11 months during which he managed the library, Mr. De Caro stole hundreds of its volumes. Investigators found boxes of valuable books, many with the library’s stamp, in garages and private homes in several cities as well as in auction houses abroad.”
Pussy Riot, Putin, And The Trial Of The Century
“There is no minimizing what a distinctly representative moment this is for Vladimir Putin.” Indeed, his regime is not looking so good as it squares off against a punk-feminist collective.