“Nine out of 10 Cubans lack access to a mobile phone, and Internet connections are slow and subject to government censorship. State-run Internet cafes in the country charge $4.50 an hour for online access, a huge sum where the average monthly salary is about $20. Broadband Internet connections in Cuban homes are virtually unheard of.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Despite Fire, The Show Must – And Does – Go On At London’s Battersea Arts Centre
“A theatre is not just a building. It is all the people who pass through it, and who – for however brief a time, a few days or weeks or years – call it home. The people may move on, but the ghosts linger; theatre may be ephemeral but all shows leave their traces in every brick. “
Frei Otto Created ‘Transparent, Democratic’ Architecture In Reaction To The Horrors Of The Third Reich
Mies van der Rohe’s “famous dictum ‘less is more’ is one Otto believed in to the core of his being. The duty of the architect was to make as little impact as possible on nature and to learn from natural design – in Otto’s case, from the structures of crab shells, birds’ skulls, spiders’ webs and bubbles on the surface of water.”
Artefacts Under Attack Across History And Across The World
“The assault on ‘idolatrous’ images in England had begun in earnest a century earlier with the Protestant Reformation. One thing you didn’t see in Wolf Hall were the sledgehammer gangs unleashed by Thomas Cromwell during the dissolution of the monasteries. … It has been estimated that by the time this state iconoclasm ended, with Edward’s death in 1553, England had lost as much as 90 per cent of its Christian art.”
HBO Documentary Revives Interest In Solving A Decades-Old Murder
“A source in law enforcement said information uncovered in the program played a role in the investigation. On Saturday, Durst was arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant related to Berman’s slaying.”
Innovative Portland Dance Company Evicted Suddenly, After 20 Years
“Prior to last week’s eviction notice, Nia had given Conduit until March 31 to leave, Mathern said. ‘We were negotiating. We had proposed an exit plan through the end of the year, but we didn’t know for sure how long they would allow us to stay.'”
The Most Visited Attraction In The UK Is …
The British Museum. “But it was London’s Imperial War Museum which saw the most significant increase in visitor numbers across the year.”
Science, And Even Science Fiction, Can Make Us Better People [PODCAST]
“Before the rise of science, says Shermer, many people participated in grotesque evils like witch burning simply because they lacked a reliable method for identifying false beliefs.”
Hiding From Facebook Or Other Institutions? Invisibility Glasses Are (Almost) Here
“While the prototype won’t be on sale anytime soon, the company thinks there’s a clear need for something like this, especially as facial recognition technology improves.”
OK, This Is Just Odd: The Boston Globe Pens An Open Letter To The Thieves Who Stole Art From The Gardner Museum In 1990
“You can bask in a certain solidarity with the rest of humanity, for starters. And then, better still, you can wise up. You can recognize your mistakes. You can shake your head and rub your eyes in disbelief that you were ever so dumb as to break into a museum, or to receive a stolen Vermeer, and you can marvel at the fact that back then you really didn’t know what the hell you were doing.”