“Overall, Nielsen reported that time spent watching online video rose 45% from a year ago, although the number of viewers increased only 3.1%. Viewers streamed 28% more video and spent 45% more time watching video online.”
Tag: 02.15.11
Pile of Ai Weiwei’s Sunflowers Seed Sells for $560,000
“Despite reports that it gives off hazardous porcelain dust and that there are traces of lead in the paint, one of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s works, Sunflower Seeds, sold at Sotheby’s in London Tuesday evening for £349,250 ($559,394).” That’s about $5.60 per seed.
Lee Breuer’s Japonaiserie Streetcar
“[W]ith firm guidance from a New York director with a long career in avant-garde theater,” the Comedie Francaise’s new staging of A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in “a fantasy world of dogugaeshi, sliding Japanese screens painted with menacing waterfalls and warriors, masked kurogo figures in black, and a long-haired Stanley in baggy pants and a satin tiger jacket.”
‘Asian Booker’ Prize Changes Eligibility Rules
“[T]here’s a slight change in the rules this year to the three-year-old prize: For the first time, the Man Asian prize will be awarded to a novel already published in English. In previous years, the award – then US$10,000, now US$30,000 – was given to manuscripts unpublished in English. Why the switch?”
Why Dawn Upshaw Sings So Much Contemporary Music
“It makes complete sense to me, singing music of my own time. It almost seems obvious, but in our business I guess it’s not.… If I could really do what I most want, I would be a singer-songwriter. But I don’t have the talent. I can’t write music.”
The Invisible Sphere: The Nature of Baroque Dance
“Catherine Turocy … was teaching a workshop on historical performance and asking her students to visualize themselves as Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man: Just as in Renaissance theory the proportions of the human body give rise to perfect geometric shapes, the Baroque dancer moved inside an invisible sphere measured by the extension and movement of the limbs.”
Video Game Industry Thinks Mobile
“After years of consistent growth, retail sales of core console games, which often cost around $60, are at best flat these days. Though an improving economy could change that, the major growth in the game business is on social networks and cellphones.”
When Tracey Emin Met Louise Bourgeois
“The first time I saw her she was screaming, shouting, angry, shaking her fist. The only word I could decipher was a name: ‘Sadie, Sadie, Sadie’. I just remember thinking: this woman’s free. But the irony was that even though this woman was being emotionally free, she was making references to the emotional entrapment of her life…”
Why Van Gogh Is Turning Brown
“A type of bright yellow pigment used by Vincent van Gogh in some of his most famous paintings turns brown in the presence of sunlight, because of a previously unknown chemical reaction, a study has found.”
Republicans Try To Kill Public Funding For Public Broadcasting
As the House prepares for debate today on the budget, Republicans are trying to cut off public funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service, which run such iconic programs as “Sesame Street” and “Morning Edition.”