The painting, by Daniel Buren, is described as “a cotton canvas with white and red vertical stripes,” and the attacker was being held for psychiatric evaluation. – BBC
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Should You Really Go To A Book-Adapted Movie Before You Read The Book?
It’s an important question as The Goldfinch, based on a rather lengthy novel, hits theatres. And then … what about movies based on Stephen King books? “The more sophisticated the source material, the stronger the obligation felt: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl were mere airport novels, I told myself, so no pressure there.” – Los Angeles Times
Anne Rivers Siddons, Author Of ‘Peachtree Road’ And Other Books Whose Subject Was The New South
Siddons was an advertising copywriter before her buddy Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, urged her to write about Atlanta – which she did. But that wasn’t her only topic. “‘The South is hard on women,’ she told People, ‘partly because of the emphasis on looks and charm. No matter what I did, I always ended up with this hollow feeling. … That’s why I wrote: I am writing about the journey we take to find out what lives in that hole.” – The New York Times
Sure, Whitman Self-Published, But That Doesn’t Mean Everyone Should
Editors matter. More to the point, “Those of us who tweet self-publish daily. Our screeds and scowls and sorrows arrive without an editor’s filter. Perhaps I am a purist, but a book is a wondrous object—worthy of more discernment. Does everyone have a book in them? I’m not sure.” – LitHub
The Plan To Turn Spotify Into The Ultimate Podcast Hub
Spotify already has listeners; now it wants to expand its market share through podcasts. But can it compete with the undisputed podcast provider champion, Apple? Says the woman in charge of Spotify’s podcast empire, “The amount of content that we can make is endless.” – Los Angeles Times
How To Get Paid For Your Writing
Write someone else’s college papers, basically. Essay farms are a huge industry now, so blatant that one administrator says, “If we don’t do anything about it, we will turn every accredited university into a diploma mill.” – The New York Times
How Do People Win Dance And Other Reality Competition Shows?
Literally, it’s the luck of the draw – or where they’re placed before people vote. The later, the better. (Though the very first performers also do well.) Why? The “recency effect” and a kind of grade inflation. – Phys
Is Instagram Ruining Architecture?
Sometimes, but not always, because Instagram is filled with artists and designers. One architect recalls something she learned in the early days of the app. “‘You came, you saw, you stood there, you took your picture. … That was my first realization how status can be brought through a photograph.’ It is like bagging a seven-point Instagram buck.” – The New York Times
Opera Union, Not Trusting Opera Companies, Opens Investigation Into Allegations Against Placido Domingo
The American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents opera performers and staff, has launched its own investigation into the sexual harassment and abuse allegations against the singer. The claim: This investigation will go beyond any individual company and will “examine the systemic failures within the industry that could have allowed this conduct, if substantiated, to continue unchallenged for decades.” – Billboard (AP)
The Muslim Woman Who Photographed The Last Synagogue In This British Town
In Bradford, “a city that became home to so many German Jews in the 19th century that the warehouse district they created is still called Little Germany,” the 2011 census showed fewer than 300 Jewish residents left. The photographer is a single mother who can’t afford her own camera, but her documents of the final synagogue, which has an unusual Moorish style, are going up as an exhibit. “‘There are fewer and fewer Jewish people left,’ she says. ‘It’s this declining population and disappearing culture that I wanted to document.'” – The Guardian (UK)