“Jazz just has new life again. The torch is being passed. You feel the sentiment by the music becoming more intense or having more depth to it. The light’s shining through again when it comes to the creative mind state. And that’s what jazz is: the ability to improvise, the ability to tighten up, play fast, play slow … it’s all of that. The idea of jazz is travelling right now.”
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How The World’s Big Mega-Galleries Are Expanding In Asia
Galleries are looking not only to import their own artists to cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but also to scout major local talent. And some have begun to look beyond financial hubs like Hong Kong to expand into less saturated markets like Seoul.
Why Are Museums Gouging The Public With Fees To Reproduce Images?
“These days, a large part of the budget for arts programmes is taken up by reproduction fees. Museums merrily charge hundreds of pounds each second a painting is seen. But such charges are little more than a hustle. Museums talk threateningly about “copyright”, but in law, they’re on weak ground. If a painting was made by an artist who died more than 75 years ago (70 years in the US), it is out of copyright, end of story. Faithfully photographing it generates no new copyright implications, and there is nothing in law to stop one reproducing (say) a Rembrandt, in any context, and without paying. But because most of us think we need to pay to secure a spurious image ‘licence’, museums get away with it.”
What If – Just Bear With Us Here – A Former Obama Official Takes Over Weinstein Co. And Installs A Majority-Female Board?
Maria Contreras-Sweet ran the Small Business Administration, and now she’s wants to run a big business – the scandal-laden, struggling Weinstein Co. Or at least that’s what she said in her surprise bid: “I believe we have now reached a crossroads where it is imperative that a woman-led board acquire control of the company and create content that continues to inspire audiences around the world.”
Pixar Could Have Screwed Up Royally With ‘Coco’
But it didn’t, and here’s how: It had to upend decades of Pixar secrecy to avoid massive cultural missteps.
Could E-Sports – That’s Right, Gaming – Be The Next Big Thing In Media?
They already are – millions of people tune in to watch e-sport championships online, and the players train every day for the chance to become famous (and rich).
Music Lovers Rejoice: The ECM Records Catalog Is Finally Streaming
ECM, which cared very much about sound quality, “was long a holdout against streaming services that have to contend with bandwidth limits and non-optimal soundcards in computers and phones, as well as deals that minimize the value of music.” Sadly, or perhaps luckily, it’s given in.
Ursula LeGuin On Life, Literature, And Just About Everything
On becoming a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters: “To paraphrase Mary Godwin’s line about the vindication of the rights of women, it’s a vindication of the rights of science fiction. To have my career recognized on this level makes it a lot harder for the diehards and holdouts to say, ‘Genre fiction isn’t literature.'”
Shannon Michael Cane, The Man Who Made Art Book Fairs Cool, Has Died At 43
The Australian took over the Printed Matter book fair in New York in 2013. Printed Matter is “the granddaddy of such gatherings, and [Cane] transformed it into a radically inclusive affair, attended by venerable rare-book dealers alongside obscure zine makers so scrappy they could barely afford the plane fare to participate.”
When You’re German, It’s Tough To Make Sense Of The Imprecision Of English
Whew, what’s up with but and butcher? Or cheesy? But there are deeper differences: “Germans read and speak differently; we scan to the end of the sentence, then we go back and parse it. Understanding this, in my view, is crucial to understanding how English speakers and German speakers think differently. English speakers make it up as they go along; German speakers have to know where they’re going.”