“By giving subjects—powerful or weak—the ability to bypass organizations they used to have to work with, platforms alter the terms considerably. That’s why so many disparate media parties are descending into panic at the same time. That’s why their subjects are asserting themselves. That’s why so many professional communicators are, when it comes to their own jobs, at a loss for words.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Talks About Cancer, Writing For Movies, And Revenge
“The difference between European and Japanese music is that there is almost no common element, there is nothing shared between them. It’s a very different system. Like languages: the Japanese language is so far away from the European languages. When we see European languages—even English and French—they share 50,000 vocabulary words between them, but compared to the distance of all the European languages and Japanese language, it’s so far away. It’s the same with music. Very different.”
You Can’t Understand Los Angeles If You Don’t Know The Work Of This Photographer
“Much of how the public has come to remember that time period has been through [Oscar] Castillo’s camera. ‘I had a personal need to do it,’ Castillo says. ‘I never thought I was going to be well known for this. I never really thought I would be creating a legacy.'”
MFA Programs And Unpaid Internships Are Destroying Literature In The United States
“Who has more dedication: the person who has the financial wherewithal to spend time in a writing program, or the writer who writes despite having to work full-time, early in the morning, with absolutely no one but themselves for motivation?”
A Woman Was Stabbed At Art Basel Miami Beach, And People Thought It Was Performance Art
“Inside the convention center, security guards and event organizers worked quickly to clean up the scene, and to keep public attention focused on the art and not the stabbing. One bystander said he asked a guard what happened, and was told that a very expensive statue had fallen on someone.”
How Can Freelancers Possibly Make A Difference?
“As a freelance artist constantly looking for work, I literally can’t afford to take a stand. If I did, it might mean not getting hired at one of the few theatres in my region that offer a decent pay rate. In this close- knit community, speaking out about my frustrations with lack of diversity in a particular company’s season could get me labeled as a ‘difficult’ actor, and I could never work again.”
Google Dance Aims To Take Viewers Anywhere In The (Dance) World
“Dreaming of taking a tour of the Palais Garnier? Plop yourself center stage. Or better yet, watch Benjamin Millepied’s new Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward from every angle in this 360-degree video.”
The British Photographer Who’s Seen It All And Is Still Working At 95
“I said I would take it to the drugstore round the corner in New York. ‘Not a good idea,’ he said. ‘Take it to this place in Paris and say I sent you.’
“‘And what is your name?’ I asked.
“‘Henri Cartier-Bresson!’ The most famous photographer in France! After that I had no choice. It was photography or nothing!”
How Do You Program Los Angeles? Ask These Executive Directors
“The town has come a long way from Woody Allen’s L.A.-phobic ‘Annie Hall’ days, when his alter ego, Alvy Singer, declared in the 1977 film, ‘I don’t want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.'”
Dear Adults: Please Shut Up About Coloring Books And Just Read
“Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos put it more clearly than most last year when he noted that books are no longer competing only against other books: ‘You’re competing against Candy Crush and everything else.’ The real battle isn’t between screen and paper editions, or even between Amazon and Hachette: it’s between one person trying to conjure a world in words, and another inviting me to match coloured shapes in lines until my eyes glaze into darkness.”