In a world where Banksy street-pieces — essentially, illegally created public art — cut from buildings can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars, proprietary domain is a hot-button issue. Legally, according to attorney Eric Baum, who represented artists in litigation involving the 5 Pointz mural space in Long Island City, “The owner of the building can sell [or keep] the artwork.” And, he adds, the property owner can also destroy it.
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Finally – Orchestras are Changing
Talk to orchestra leaders around the country, and you find a new consensus about what community work means: a new approach to an orchestra’s role, even a new approach to training musicians. Leaders of some of the most innovative orchestras stress the need to find different ways to perform and get the music out there. But it’s a hard thing to talk about without lapsing into routine orchestra-speak — and an even harder thing to spotlight for a public.
The Rise Of An Aggressive (And, So Far, Successful) Podcast Network
Though many podcast networks are on the move right now, one has been dominant since its founding, taking advantage of “a quirk of the iTunes chart, which appears to reward an influx of new listeners rather than the overall size of an audience. As Mr. Quah put it, ‘it’s a hotness meter, not a bigness meter.'”
Did The Met Museum Need To Hire Its Tenth White Male Director In An Unbroken Row?
Whew, Met Museum. Some people are not thrilled with your selection of Max Hollein: “It feels like a very ho-hum decision on the part of the Met, almost like electing an old pope who will only be around for a few years until someone better comes along.”
Are Anthropologists Actually Spies?
One American anthropologist asked for a file kept on her by the secret police in Romania – and she was shocked to find that more than 70 people had informed on her during her time there, and that the secret police thought she was a spy. She tries not to judge her friend/informants, but other anthropologists “believe they do better research when they embrace and act on their moral reactions to the world they are trying to understand.”
Just Some Ordinary Design Love
Writer Renno Eddi-Lodge: “Design is something that seamlessly slots into your life: my clothes, the tech I use, the bike I ride, kitchenware. I try to prioritise function; I am not someone who thinks about beauty that much. I like things to be clean, tidy and functional.”
The Astronaut Who Took A Crash Course In Cinematography From Darren Aronofsky
For a National Geographic documentary, astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli turned into a cameraman – with a famous trainer. But that didn’t help much when space intervened: “The sensor seemed to be badly damaged, and this is normal when cameras go into space. … We are outside the atmosphere, yet all of us, including the cameras, get an abnormal dose of space radiation.” Oh.
What In The World Is Happening Behind The Scenes Of The Nobel Prize For Literature?
A summary would include several committee resignations after a failed vote to exclude a poet whose husband – not who, herself – has been accused of rape and sexual harassment. But wait: “It turns out that you cannot resign from the Academy itself. The statutes, laid down in 1786, make no provision for it. Members are elected until death. All disaffected members can do is to withdraw from the Academy’s workings. After this week’s withdrawals there is no longer a quorum needed to elect any new members. King Carl Gustav XVI, the hereditary patron of the Academy, is reported to be preparing a change of the statutes to break the deadlock.”
The Getty Villa Revamp Is Finally Finished, With The Art Ready To Tell A Longer, Broader, Less ‘Fanboy’ Story
Historians may rejoice, while fans of mythology might be a little sad: “One driving force behind the renovation was to put artworks into proper historical context. Mr. Potts and his team have rearranged works in the permanent collection galleries to tell a more chronological story, from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D., largely presenting Greek works on the first floor and Roman on the second. Gone are the entertaining themes like ‘gods and goddesses’ that mixed figures from different periods in a pantheon of superheroes.”
Outrage Grows After German Rappers With Anti-Semitic Lyrics Win A Prize
The Echo prize went to Kollegah and Farid Bang, whose lyrics include claims that their bodies are “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners,” which they say is not anti-Semitic. The upshot: “The BVMI group initially defended its decision, saying the award recognises sales, not quality, but its chief Florian Druecke told the RND newspaper chain the Echo prize would be revamped in light of the protests and that the association rejected all forms of antisemitism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia and the glorification of violence.”