“‘Post-Sony, getting people to cooperate with me has been a completely different experience,’ Ms. Zezza said. ‘Everyone gets that life has to change.'”
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Google Is Adding A Mission – Documenting Street Art Before It Disappears
“Offering the best the street art world has to offer, the Google collection is an obvious boon for fans of the medium and benefits artists by giving them worldwide exposure. But cataloging, quantifying and curating run contrary to the street art ethos adhered to by artists whose ephemeral messages admonish and amuse people around the world.”
The Coloring Book For Adults That’s Sweeping The World
“Fan mail poured in from busy professionals and parents who confided to Ms. Basford that they found coloring in her books relaxing. More accolades flowed on social media, as people posted images from their coloring books.”
How Country Came To Rule The Airwaves
“It wasn’t inevitable that country music would thrive in the globalized world of perpetual Facebook updates, a world whose frenetic pace can be felt in electronica, or whose nouveau riche aspirations are extolled in hip-hop.”
Slideshow Of A Home Once Rejected
“These photos explore what the Chinese-American identity is, a coming-of-age story about the merging of two, sometimes polarizing, cultures. As I used art to understand our place and contributions in the country’s social landscape, I noticed something else.”
Britain’s First Cinema Is About To Reopen Its Doors As A Movie Theatre Once Again
“By 1896, the reputation of the institution was such that the Lumière brothers chose it as the UK venue on a world tour designed to showcase their film projector, the cinematograph.”
The Lawyer Who’s Preparing For Courts About, And Maybe In, Space
“I began to see analogues between the founding of the United States and what we would need to do to go into space. I want to point out very, very strongly that this analogy between the founding of the US and space law is not a call for United States dominance or Manifest Destiny in space.”
The Whitney’s Curators Mount A Big Show In The Museum’s New Renzo Piano Digs Downtown
“The show they’ve created is not a comprehensive survey of American art history, but rather a thematic look at ‘overlapping narratives,’ says De Salvo, told through a selection from the 22,000 pieces in the Whitney’s wide-ranging collection.”
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Penguin’s Little Black Books Hit A Sweet Spot
“The commercial success of the commute-length gobbets – 80 titles ranging from the Communist Manifesto to Sappho’s poems to Mozart’s letters to his father – is striking since they are all in the public domain.”