Some of it is the particular way Italian law looks at culture and heritage – and some of it, of course, is about cash.
Tag: 03.11.14
America’s Shopping Malls Are Going Out Of Business
“Within ten to fifteen years, the typical U.S. mall, unless it is completely reinvented, will be a historical anachronism—a sixty-year aberration that no longer meets the public’s needs, the retailers’ needs, or the community’s needs.”
Nôtre-Dame de Paris Gets a Lighting Makeover
“Many things look better with crisp-edged LEDs – traffic signals, airplane cabins, perhaps even Christmas lights. But what about the moody, atmospheric interior of a 12th-century French-Gothic cathedral?” Oh, yes – have a look and see.
Missing Norman Rockwell Turns Up in Ohio
“The 1939 painting, called Sport, was used as one of the many Saturday Evening Post covers for which the artist is well-known. It sold last spring for more than $1 million at an auction in New York and disappeared later last year” – in Queens, yet again.
Okay, Folks, Don’t Expect ‘Cosmos’ to Save Science in America
“If only Americans loved science a little more, the thinking goes, we could end our squabbling about climate change, clean energy, evolution, and funding NASA and the National Science Foundation. These are high hopes to pin on a television show, even one as glorious as Cosmos.”
Sam Mendes’ 25 Tips For Directors
Avoid, please, all metaphors of plays or films as “pinnacles” or “peaks”; treat with absolute scorn the word “definitive”; and if anyone uses the word “masterpiece,” they don’t know what they’re doing. The pursuit of perfection is a mug’s game.
The Advantages Of Disadvantage
“There is this weird thing where having a little bit of resources is worse than having none. Or: having a few numbers of options is worse than having no options. It can be freeing to be at the very bottom.”
Van Gogh Museum Resumes Ban On Photographing In Galleries After Complaints
“Permitting photography led to constant tension between those who wanted a clear view for their camera and those who wished to look at the paintings. Many also insisted on photographing their companion or themselves in front of a picture. This led to numerous complaints from other visitors.”
The Future Of Books: A Netflix-Like Subscription Model?
“So now that we know that it’s possible to deliver books like magazines, to sell them like magazines, and to target them at clusters of readers like magazines, the big question looms: Do book enthusiasts actually want to engage with literature the way they engage with magazines? And can they afford to?”
Should America’s Broadcast TV Networks Abandon Free And Move To A Subscription Model?
“By going all-subscription now, the big networks would have a chance to define that future rather than becoming its victims.”