All of this comes at a time when there’s been an enormous proliferation in the number of other online outlets – whether personal or under umbrella sites – to fill the vacuum. But few do (or can) remunerate their contributors. So we’re rapidly seeing a new model for criticism emerging: one in which only hobbyists and retirees, or those who are financially independent, will be able to pursue a ‘career’ in the field. The arts world constantly talks up diversity as an aspiration; but this will inevitably lead to reduced diversity in the field of arts criticism.
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A DC Critic Declares His Favorite Theatre. Perhaps It’s Instructive How He Chose It
A night at the theater can mean everything from parking and dinner, to elbow room in the lobby and in the seats, all on top of the price of a ticket. The city’s entertainment czars know this; that’s what drove the remarkable expansion of theater after theater a decade ago, with boosted capacities and bigger lobbies. Even now, more money is being raised to convert comparatively new complexes into more fully rounded destinations.
How Penguin Has Strengthened Its Publishing Empire
Privately owned, the company has moved deliberately, while publicly traded competitors like HarperCollins (which is owned by News Corp) and Simon & Schuster (CBS) have had to fend off pressures from shareholders. It has not used its gargantuan size—it controls more than half of the traditional literary marketplace according to many estimates—to take back territory from Amazon. Instead, it has focused on building equity and ensuring that it publishes the next generation of bestsellers.
Lots Of Foreigners The World Over Get Their Ideas About Englishness From Agatha Christie
“Her works are seen as so easy to read, she’s a favourite author of people learning English. Christie is also, by leaps and bounds, the world’s most translated author – so if many people are learning the English language through Christie, they are learning about the English people through her, too.” And not everything all those folks pick up is bogus.
Sistine Chapel Choir Being Investigated For Financial Irregularities
Pope Francis has authorized an investigation into “possible financial irregularities” within the Sistine Chapel Choir, Reuters reports.
Why It’s So Hard To Make A Movie About Lizzie Borden (And Why People Keep Doing It Anyway)
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Borden murders still grip us. They’re unsolved, they’re grisly, … and they involve a very strange woman. … The problem with ‘reimagining’ the story of Ms. Lizzie Andrew Borden is that, by 2018, there is nothing new under the Fall River sun.”
So You Think You Own Those Movies And Music You Bought Online? Think Again
As outlined in the Twitter thread, Apple states the content provider of the movies in question removed them from the store. And that removed them from the user’s library, even though he had paid money to buy them. It’s easy to see why that’s frustrating (especially since Apple wasn’t willing to cough up a refund for the purchases he no longer has).
Fake 17th-Century Turkish Miniatures Are All Over The Place, Even In Museums And Textbooks, And They’re All About Science
Historian Nir Shafir (editor-in-chief of the Ottoman History Podcast) explains how he figured out that all these artworks were forgeries and explores how and where they were made and why they fooled so many who should have known better.
Bramwell Tovey Appointed Music Director Of The Rhode Island Philharmonic
Tovey, 65, recently stepped down as head of Canada’s Vancouver Symphony, where he was music director for the past 18 years, conducting as many as 50 concerts a season. He is also principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in England, and last year was named head of conducting studies at Boston University, where his 20-year-old daughter Jessica is a violin major.
Haruki Murakami’s (Not So) Brief History Of Japanese Short Stories
“Having become a Japanese novelist (once and for all), I may have something of a problem on my hands in saying that I know hardly anything about Japanese fiction.” Considering that Murakami is writing this in his introduction to the English-language Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, that may indeed be something of a problem. In fact, he maintains here that this makes him an excellent guide to this collection.