The L.A. mural’s original artist will use 120 digital frames to resize and repaint the mural smaller, and on a different side of the building, as developers destroy the old one.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Our Online Free Speech Remains At Risk – How Can We Protect It?
“Any attempt to regulate speech online — whether in service of ‘stopping piracy’ or ‘defending against cyberattack’ — must be ruthlessly interrogated for how it will be abused. Because it will be abused. Those with censorious impulses will push the four corners of the law as far as possible to silence speech they don’t like.”
That’s Sir Kenneth To You
Queen Elizabeth II knighted Kenneth Branagh and gave Kate Winslet an Order of the British Empire as part of her regular Birthday Honors. Branagh was excited to join the knighted actor side: “‘When I was a kid, I dreamed of pulling on a shirt for the Northern Ireland football team,’ said the Belfast-born, 51-year-old actor. ‘I could only imagine how proud you might feel. Today it feels like they just gave me the shirt, and my heart’s fit to burst.'”
The Rise Of The Very Young Maestro (And One Who Can Charm Audiences, And Donors)
“That is what conductors do: they concentrate the efforts and skills of an orchestra in one powerful individual, so that the paying public experiences the music, its emotional highs and soothing lows, through the personality of the maestro. [Gustavo] Dudamel, 31-year-old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of the leading US orchestras, fulfils that role better than most. He is the epitome of the 21st-century maestro – dynamic, articulate, media-friendly and, above all, young.”
What We Post (Or Don’t) On Facebook Reveals Our Personality Type
And it will make us targets for specific kinds of advertising – if only the scientists can agree what our posts mean.
A Court Case Could Dramatically Alter Fair Use For Artists
Museums across the country “argued that they would be forced to hire lawyers to investigate their collections for works containing borrowed images, and given the ubiquity of such images in 20th-century art, the cost to the museums would be unsustainable. The more likely, though no less troubling, alternative is for museums to censor what they exhibit.”
Want To Tour Joyce’s Dublin? There’s An App For That
“The app uses Joyce’s masterpiece as a window into the tastes, smells and sounds of Dublin at the turn of the century. It takes users along the route of [Ulysses‘] characters, as well as past locations from Joyce’s book Dubliners.“
Classical Musicians Aren’t Exactly Known For Their Improvisation Skills
But could they start (re-)learning the skill?
Those Sketches That Dad Bought Decades Ago? Oh, They’re By John Constable
Sure, the note on “tatty wrapping paper” claimed the sketches, which had been placed in a cupboard for decades, were by Constable, but who could believe that? (Experts.)
Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Sues Its Landlord
“The Shakespeare Theater has filed a lawsuit against its landlord, a nonprofit organization created in support of the theater, to attempt to prevent it from raising the Lansburgh Theater’s rent by 700%, according to court documents. The theater is seeking an injunction to prevent its rent from being raised, as well as a ruling that will allow it to remain in the building. The lawsuit also requests that members of the nonprofit landlord’s board be dismissed.”