“Let’s call the slow disappearance of familiar brands the newsonomics of the long goodbye. Take companies that have huge imprints in our culture and habits — and cashflows to match — and their disappearance from our lives can seem like it is moving in glacial digital time. But that disappearance is no less real.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Paul DeMasson, 57, Australian Ballet Principal And Ballet Master
The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David McAllister: “Paul was one of the great dance actors, most recently returning to the stage as The Bonze in Madame Butterfly and Njegus in The Merry Widow with us last year. … He was extraordinary to watch on stage and was an inspiration to many of us.”
Streaming Video May Kill The TV Star, Or Just Morph The Entire Internet
Video may soon account for 90 percent of web traffic. “Netflix, which got its start in 1998 mailing DVDs to subscribers in its trademark red envelopes, streamed 2 billion videos in the fourth quarter of 2011. Hulu now boasts 30 million monthly users. And YouTube attracts about 800 million viewers a month.”
Getting The Real Banksy (Photos Can’t Touch This Art)
“The pleasure you get from a Banksy comes from the whole process: the chancing upon on an artwork in the unlikeliest of places, the speculation over how it got there, the uncertainty over whether it’s his or not, the subsequent authentication, and then the knowledge that it might have been rubbed out by the time you return.”
Some Theatre Companies Prefer No Home, Just A Cityscape To Perform In
“With a stagnant economy and a decline nationally in audiences for traditional dance and theater, there is renewed interest in performances outside darkened black- box theaters. Unusual spaces are also popular with patrons of the arts, who give grants for ‘creative place-making’ — art that can reach broad audiences and help revitalize downtrodden neighborhoods.”
Are We Deluding Ourselves With Newly ‘Finished’ Artworks By Dead Masters?
“Literary necrophilia” runs amok thanks to, well, greed – and maybe a desire to know the end of the story. But when should we let unfinished art, left behind when the artist or writer died, simply exist as it is?
Patron X, Of The Infamous Cell Phone Ring, Seriously Regrets The Error
“Patron X said he had no idea he was the culprit. He said his company replaced his BlackBerry with an iPhone the day before the concert. He said he made sure to turn it off before the concert, not realizing that the alarm clock had accidentally been set and would sound even if the phone was in silent mode. ‘I didn’t even know phones came with alarms,’ the man said.”
Amazon And The Plagiarism Problem That’s Not Only For Adults Anymore
Fake authors (possibly organized international gangs) are taking advantage of the ease of e-book self-publishing to earn crazy dollars off of pirated material, especially pirated erotica. Does Amazon care?
MoMA’s Film Stills Archive Still Shuttered – Why?
Ten years ago, the Museum of Modern Art shut its Film Stills Archive while it renovated its Manhattan building, promising to reopen the archive when the museum had more space. More space arrived in 2005, but the archive’s still shut – and an old labor dispute may be at the heart of it all. “What bothers me is that there’s no conscience, no morality to what they’ve done. There’s no making a wrong right here.”
Blockbuster Exhibits Make A Win For The Met, But MoMA Attendance Slumps
The Alexander McQueen exhibit boosts the Met Museum’s attendance, but MoMA can’t quite regain the banner numbers of 2010. Still, both museums have good news about the recession – for them, it’s pretty much over.