As you can tell, the experience isn’t easy to describe. Afterwards, as I walked back out into the bright, muggy New York evening, I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled, and I knew this wasn’t like any other VR I’d seen. – TechCrunch
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Kinetic Art Pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez Dead At 95
“[His] multilayered, eye-popping works challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, helping to define what became known as Kinetic Art and Op Art … His work eventually leapt off the wall and into sculptures, installation, and immersive environments, [which] he called ‘Chromosaturations.'” – ARTnews
Emmett Till Memorial In Mississippi Keeps Getting Shot At, So It’s Being Replaced With A Bulletproof Version
“This will be the fourth sign that the [Emmett Till Memorial Commission] has placed at the site. The first was swiped in 2008, and no arrests were ever made in connection with the incident. The replacement marker was vandalized with bullets, more than 100 rounds over the course of several years. Just 35 days after it was erected in 2018, the third sign was shot at as well.” – Smithsonian Magazine
The Online Book Marketplace Is Now Riddled With Counterfeiting And Scams
Authors Guild president Douglas Preston: “Counterfeiting, author ‘doppelganging,’ title cloning, ebook piracy, cut-and-paste plagiarism and other rip-offs … the variety and cleverness of these cons is breathtaking.” And they’re difficult to police. – Los Angeles Times
Kraftwerk Wins Two-Decade-Long Copyright Case In EU Court
“The long-running case — which carries potentially large ramifications around the use and licensing of samples in the wider music industry — revolves around a two-second drum sequence from Kraftwerk’s 1977 song ‘Metall auf Metall’ (Metal on Metal), which producers Moses Pelham and Martin Haas sampled and looped in Sabrina Setlur’s 1997 song ‘Nur Mir.'” – Billboard
New York City To Arts Orgs: We Both Know You Have A Diversity Problem — How Are You Going To Fix It?
“After years spent measuring and analyzing the problem, the city is now asking organizations to work on fixing it. In recent months, 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property submitted plans to boost diversity and inclusion among their staff and visitors; if they failed to do so, the city warned, their funding could be cut.” – The New York Times
One-Third Of All England’s National Arts Funding Goes To London
“The £215m given to London organisations in 2018/19 is a much smaller proportion of total Arts Council England (ACE) funding than they received in 2012/13, when 82% went to the capital. But it is still almost 10 times more per capita than some other areas get.” – Arts Professional
Verbier Festival Founders Launch New Festival In Georgia (The Republic)
Avi Shoshani and Martin Engstroem are the joint artistic directors of the Tsinandali Festival, whose house ensemble, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (music director of the National Symphony in D.C.), is an orchestra of specially chosen young musicians from the three republics of the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) as well as Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. – Bachtrack
How Erdogan Purged Turkey’s Intellectuals
“An authoritarian state can do many things to get rid of these democratic types — put them in jail, put them on trial — but ultimately the government must attack the institutions that produce and sustain them. Newspapers can be easy to buy. NGOs are easy to shut down. Universities are much harder to dismantle. But this is what, through the great purge, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his allies sought to do.” – New York Times Magazine
HBO Officially Declines To Remake Ending Of “Game Of Thrones”
HBO programming president Casey Bloys explained that the network never had any intention of caving to the fan petition requesting that HBO hire new writers to do season 8 over — despite the fact that it has been signed by nearly 1.7 million people. – Time