After James Grashow found several of his older papier-mâché works gradually disintegrating as they were stored outdoors by their owner, he coped with the shock by creating Corrugated Fountain, “an assemblage of figures inspired by the Roman fountains of the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini” – made out of cardboard.
Tag: 05.14.13
Netflix Accounts For One-Third Of All Internet Bandwidth Use
“Netflix said it streamed more than 4 billion hours of video globally in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 1 billion per month last June. The company has packed on customers, adding about 2 million U.S. streaming subs to stand at 29.17 million domestically — making it bigger than HBO in that regard.”
Does The Idea Of “Commons” Work For The Arts?
“No organization is made better off by focusing on the broad shared vision; they are only made better off when they focus on the part of that vision that can be attributed immediately to their work. In this way, the shared vision of cultural innovation is lost to the competitive struggle for funding.”
Tate Britain Has Rehung Its Collection. Here’s What The Critics Say…
“Tate Britain’s reorganisation of 500 British artworks in chronological order has been praised by newspapers, with the Independent hailing a “triumphant new hang”.”