“The site allows readers to refresh and see a new, pastel-on-white cover of a book on scientific ideas. Each could fit easily alongside Gladwell’s back catalog, but for an absurdist twist. One cover, serving as an operating thesis for Gladwell’s entire career, reads: Power: How Power Powerfully Powers Power.”
Tag: 02.09.11
So What Now? Chicago Symphony Ponders Another Long Muti Absence
“The orchestra’s prospects become rather more clouded, both artistically and financially, in the long term if such a thing as a pattern should emerge from Muti’s cancellations.”
Canadian Regulator Reconsiders Controversial Internet Regulation
“Canada’s internet regulator has launched a review of decisions that would have eliminated unlimited internet plans and drastically lowered downloading limits for customers of small internet service providers.”
What Are Young Arts Administrators Thinking About?
“There are more questions than answers at this point, but most agree that a few salient issues will shape this transition: reevaluating the internal structures that non-profits use operationally; allowing technological innovation to streamline administrative tasks; and trusting that asking questions can lead to better answers and more support.”
Why the Mapplethorpe Collection Belongs in L.A.
“There’s a good reason that Robert Mapplethorpe’s trove of photographs and archives deserve a place at LACMA and the Getty: His sly take on straight photography turned convention on its head and gave an important artistic touchstone in Southern California a new form.”
Nikolaj Hubbe to Make Return to NYC as Head of Royal Danish Ballet
“The Royal Danish Ballet – under the artistic direction of former New York City Ballet principal dancer Nikolaj Hübbe – announced Tuesday that it will perform in New York from June 14 to 19 as part of its four-week American tour.”
Playing Dead Bodies on TV Keeps Actors’ Livelihoods on Life Support
“It’s a gig actors call ‘corpse duty,’ and in a shrinking market for jobs in scripted TV, dead-body roles are on the rise. In the past few years, TV dramas have responded to feature-film trends and HDTV, which shows everything in more realistic detail, by … delivering more shock value on the autopsy table.”