“State funding of the arts [could] be viewed as a form of ‘venture capital,’ encouraging investment in the British brand: The value of the artistic sector could be ‘leveraged’ to deliver economic growth.”
Tag: 07.16.13
Will Google Be Your TV Provider?
“Foreshadowing a new challenge to entrenched cable and satellite providers, Google is one of several technology giants trying to license TV channels for an Internet cable service.”
The Limits Of “Neuro”-Answers To Everything
“In the mad rush to commercialize the new EEG technology, the neuromarketing researchers are currently gleefully painting over the logical and technical cracks in their methods with glossy results graphs and 3-D pie charts.”
Build The Sydney Opera House With 3000 Legos
“The new model is astoundingly detailed, capturing subtle touches like the gray lines running through the venue’s main staircase.”
Why Do Children’s Books Perpetuate Gender Stereotypes?
“Mothers are much more likely to be portrayed nurturing and caring for children, and men are more likely to work outside of the home. These depictions have not significantly changed over time, so that these storybook characters often inhabit a bygone, male breadwinner-female homemaker era.”
The Bubble That Ate The Hirshhorn
“The Hirshhorn Museum’s Seasonal Inflatable Structure known as the ‘Bubble’ never got off the ground, but many who spent years debating the project say it took up all the oxygen in the room. … Debate about the project became a proxy for a larger existential debate about the museum’s core mission and its role in the art world.”
New Money Bumps California Out Of Dead Last In Per Capita State Arts Grants
With the extra $2 million appropriated by the Assembly Speaker, California will be spending 18.5 cents per resident on arts grants in 2013-14 – ahead of Georgia (13 cents) and Kansas (7 cents). (Leading the pack is Minnesota, at $6.50 per resident.)
Meet Saudi Arabia’s First Female Filmmaker
“Wadjda director Haifaa al Mansour talks to Xan Brooks about being the first Saudi Arabian woman to make a feature film. Mansour directed parts of the film from a van in order to adhere to restrictions on men and women working together. She describes how her country is changing as its artists address the conservatism of their society.”
Remembering The Battle Over The Color Purple
“In 1983, [Alice] Walker became the first African-American woman to win both the Pulitzer and National Book awards for fiction, amid all hell breaking loose. What Walker has defined as ‘womanism’ caused an uproar in many corners of the African-American establishment, full of indignance at what was judged her ‘negative imagery’ of the black male.”
Beatles Jukebox Musical Opens Amid Intellectual Property Lawsuit
In the case of Let It Be, just beginning previews on Broadway, “one Beatles tribute band is in the curious position of defending itself against copyright infringement claims leveled by another Beatles tribute band.”