“While the end result – graffiti – can be seen as a pain in the backside for the authorities, arguably a blight on communal areas, the perpetrators, consciously or unconsciously, question long-accepted norms about how our cities and spaces should be used.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
This SNL Comedian Who Is Also Now An ACLU Ambassador
“‘Comedy is analysis,’ said Zamata. ‘All I do as a comedian is analyze society. So, while people are listening, I may as well highlight subjects they may not regularly analyze on their own.'”
Dame Judi Dench Is Finished With Your Photo-Taking In The Theatre
“I can’t see well. … But what I can see is red lights all over the theatre, and I know that’s people taking photographs. It’s a kind of oblivion to other people.”
How Do Music Stations Hang On In The Era Of Internet Radio?
“‘The thing that has helped KEXP and KCRW is we’re not traditional radio,’ said Jennifer Ferro, the president of KCRW. ‘We’re really building this tribe of people that are interested in music discovery and curious about the world.'”
David Mitchell, Author Of Cloud Atlas, Is Not Into ‘Genre Snobbery’
“It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any,'” Mitchell says. “What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from.”
Translation Saves Books, And History Too
“Over the course of reading and re-reading those 1,300 pages, I realized that he’d not only accomplished exactly what he’d set out to do, but also ultimately created the repository of a world which had long since died, opening a window onto Libyan history from 1911, when modernity stormed the Libyan coasts in all its brutality—Libya was the first country in history to suffer an aerial bombardment—all the way to the 1960s.”
The New York DJ, Performance Artist And Muse Who’s Made It To MoMA
“This chapter of the performance deals with Huxtable’s sense of frustration and mourning about the internet’s ‘transition to something like an oligarchy … The idea of people’s personal information being controlled goes hand in hand with this access to history – the two things are determined by Google algorithms. And if a server is not renewed, then it’s gone for good.'”
The 10-Year-Old Who Keeps On Getting Symphony Conducting Gigs
“Beethoven was really his thing. He would go around singing sections of it, he’d hear it again, then he just started conducting.”
TED Gives Big Money Prize To Archaeologist Who Uses Satellite Technology To Fight Looting
“The scientist … has also assisted the Department of Homeland Security in undercover investigations, including Operation Mummy’s Curse, which this year repatriated dozens of smuggled artifacts to Egypt.”
Hollywood’s Hole In The Middle, Where Oscars Are Born
“In pursuit of global audiences and trying to combat the arrival of mammoth flat-screen televisions in America’s living rooms, Hollywood has steered sharply toward event movies. The likes of ‘Spectre,’ ‘Star Wars’ and ‘The Hunger Game’” work so hard to get people into theaters — and make the 3-D tickets and costly concessions palatable — that consumers just can’t be bothered to check out the more modest offerings. They will catch those on their enormous televisions.”