Occupy movements could do worse than look at the way one Canadian farmer took on serious injustice – and drastically altered the political conversation.
Author: ArtsJournal2
How You Gonna Keep Them At The History Museum When They Can See It On TV? (Better Exhibits!)
Museums are hurting, but history museums are hurting worse. How can they stay relevant – and also stay afloat?
A Lone Woman, Competing With The World’s Most Famous Games
Ruth Mackenzie took over the U.K.’s Cultural Olympiad after a commentator called the whole concept a bath “in the warm vomit of inclusivity.” Well, at least there was no way to go but up.
Surfing A Wave Of K-Pop – And It’s Not About To Go Away
YouTube makes the music market deeply global – and Korean pop music? Yeah, that’s about to take over everything. Listen, and learn what might show up next at your town’s concert hall.
If She Doesn’t Dance, No One Will Come (So … How To Quit?)
Nina Ananiashvili just can’t give up. Why? Because she changed the world for Georgian dancers. “She found deplorable conditions, no electricity, few supplies — and no pay for the dancers. She told them salaries would come — eventually — if they stuck with her.”
Back In The Day, When TV Actually Did Kill People
“It strikes me that we may be in need of a National Television Heritage Day, not to recall what we watched, but how we watched.” No one had to walk two miles uphill in a snowstorm, but it wasn’t all simplicity and HD.
To Be Read Pile: It’s Never Going To Happen. Breathe.
“I have never enjoyed a novel by Eudora Welty enough to keep going. I think I got to the end of V., which may be even worse than having put it down, and know for a certainty I never got far in Gravity’s Rainbow.”
For Better Research, Stop And Smell The (Non-Existent) Horse Manure
“Just over a century ago the world’s greatest thinkers agreed that a big problem of the future would be the accumulation of horse dung, caused by the transport needs of a ballooning population: See how unimaginative we are in predicting genuinely new things and their effects on how we live?”
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Young Composer Keeps It All In Perspective
Thirty-year-old composer Nico Muhly, thoughtful but energetic, is in the middle of opening two different operas. He’s working on a film score, a cello concerto, a song cycle … and about 50 other projects. Not to mention his blog and Twitter feed.
Art Evolves, And So Do Performance Artists
Yes, all right, Chris Burden is famous for having someone shoot him back in the heady early days of performance art. But now he makes ships that sail themselves, and he’s still into pushing limits.