The talk of woe in the arts – as in, where’s all the discretionary spending going, anyway – has numbers to back it up: spending on all entertainment has dropped 7 percent since 2009.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Endangered No More, Thanks To Cellphones (And 6-Year-Olds)
“We are getting languages where the first writing is not the translation of the Bible — as it has often happened — but text messages.”
Holiday Songs: Guilty Pleasures Both Pop And Classical [AUDIO]
“Some of it is classical, some of it involves pop stars across generations, and some of it is about animals.”
You Can’t Read Every Book (So Chill Out)
“Until books are downloaded into our brain, Matrix-style, the idea of reading everything is pure science fiction.”
Thanks For Worse Than Nothing, Ralph Waldo Emerson!
“Oh, the deception! The rank insincerity! It’s just like the Devil in Mutton Chops to promise an orgiastic communion fit for the gods, only to deliver a gospel of ‘self-conceit so intensely intellectual,’ as Melville complained, ‘that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name.'”
Out Of Work? Read Shakespeare Aloud, And All May End Well
“Shakespeare no longer seemed impenetrable. And I had a sneaky feeling there was nothing going on in my life that he didn’t have an angle on. If I showed up every month, I’d discover them all.”
Booted From Peabody; Called Back To Classical Music By A Label
Tori Amos couldn’t quite make the Peabody Institute work for her, but in the middle of her successful pop career, Deutsche Grammophon called — and she answered.
Best Documentary? Chilean Films About Stars And Pinochet
A Chilean film that explores the aftermath of the Pinochet coup and the years of Pinochet’s regime won the award from the International Documentary Association — but it didn’t even make the shortlist for the Oscars.
Cities Make Everything Uncertain – And Probably Better
“Yes, there may be hellish poverty, slums that almost defy description, conditions which should not be allowed in this century but they should be upgraded, improved, rebuilt and hence disappear. What is observable in the slums of Dhaka, Rio de Janeiro, Shenzhen and Tehran is history in the making.”
Which Cells Move Fastest? To Find Out, A Race In The Lab
“In a tongue-in-cheek contest of microscopic mobility, a line of bone marrow stem cells from Singapore beat out dozens of competitors to claim the title of the world’s fastest cells.”