“What if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Recalcitrant Publishers? Toss ‘Em Out – And Transform Academia
danah boyd: “Why the hell aren’t academics working together to resist the corporatization and manipulation of the knowledge that they produce? Why aren’t they collectively teaming up to challenge the status quo?”
Want To Read Newton’s Original Manuscripts? Power Up Your Laptop
Just wow: “Cambridge University has published more than 4,000 pages of Newton’s most important works on a new digital library website. They include the scientist’s own annotated copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.”
Speed Archaeology May Have Turned Lion Woman Into Man
With new fragments and new reconstruction work, archaeologists may finally solve the mystery of the 35,000-year-old “Lion Man” – which may really be the “Lion Woman.”
Great Art Is Just A Mouse-Click (And A Hefty Payment) Away
Used to be one had to pity the novice art collector, intimidated by older, more knowledgable and experienced collectors, bullied by auction houses and endless parties at art fairs. But no longer. Collecting’s transformation starts with — what else? — the internet (and maybe an app or two).
How Do You Disappear A Store In Grand Central Station?
You can slide right into the architecture if you know how to do it right – that is, if you’re Apple, and you have ungodly amounts of money to spend on it.
Ah, Cannes, The Perfect Place For Dance. (Wait, Dance? Yes.)
Meet Frédéric Flamand, the new director of the Cannes International Dance Festival. He “embodies every notion you might ever have had of an intellectual European” and says, “Dance is the best means we have to speak of our place in society today.”
At Last, A (Small, Weak) Ray Of Light For Nonprofit Theatre
Things may be looking up, at least a little, at least for some nonprofit theatres, finds the Theatre Communications Group – at least if one doesn’t look too hard at the cash flow problem.
What We Lost When Movies Turned To The Talkies
“Silent cinema is much more than film without words. … At its best, it has more in common with attending a séance than going to the multiplex.”
What’s Gone Wrong With Hong Kong Architecture? Ask A Theatre Director/Architect
Mathias Woo: “The essence of architecture is not economics, but art. Architecture is everywhere, in every part of our world of the senses: sounds, colors, smells, light and air.”