“Set up in 2003, the magazine took a high-brow look at music and culture whilst trying not to sound stuffy or pretentious.” But circulation dropped, and the July issue will be its last.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Mourning The Word As It Closes Down
“This is a sad, bad day for journalism. The Word was a music magazine that burst its banks to cover pop culture, and life, in general. It was smart, funny, original and tremendously human.”
Completely Colorblind Man Makes Art Via A Seventh – Cyborg – Sense
“Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an ‘eyeborg’, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound.”
Should Summer Ever Come To London, Here’s Where You Can Sit And Read (Outside) In Peace
Graves, fountains, pubs and towers – and recommendations for books, too, from author Iain Sinclair.
Stolen Bust Of Rodin Recovered (Accidentally) 13 Years Later
The work by Rodin’s student, assistant and lover Camille Claudel was taken in 1999 and is worth about 1 million euros.
How To Boost Theatre Sales: Make The Tickets Free, Obviously
A Twin Cities theatre that offered free admission saw a steep rise in attendance, in the percentage of attendees under age 30 and in the percentage of people of color at its shows. Sure, it lost money by not selling tickets – but it’s going to do the same thing next year.
The Artists Of Penzance
Is Cornwall played out for artists? The Penzance Gathering thinks not.
Oh, That Bright Yellow Bit On The Forum? That Was A Menorah
“The recent discovery that a version of the menorah in a bas-relief on the first-century Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum was originally painted a rich yellow should not come as much of a surprise. But given that the image faded to the color of its underlying stone long ago — like so much else in and around the Forum — precise knowledge of its once-bright pigmentation comes as an exciting revelation to historians and archaeologists.”
Listening To The Sounds Of The Universe (In Alien Movies, We Mean)
“The point is: no music, no communication, no possibility of connection with our alien brethren. But is this all just the workings of Hollywood’s febrile imagination? Not a bit of it. Nasa has recorded the ‘sounds’ the planets make as they orbit; or at least it has turned the radiowaves they emit into an audible format – thus giving us a physical representation of ‘the music of the spheres,’ the celestial harmonies of proportion and geometry that the ancients believed held the universe together.”
Indian Youth Couldn’t Care Less About Indian Dance
Western dance forms have taken over India’s youth culture, says a choreographer/director who wishes that weren’t so.