“In her weekly video podcast, before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Merkel appealed for more international co-operation on copyright protection and said her government opposed Google’s drive to create online libraries full of scanned books.”
Tag: 10.12.09
Frieze: Modern Art As Spectator Sport
“Last year Frieze welcomed 68,000 visitors. Most came because they were interested in art; not in buying it, or schmoozing around it, but because they were excited by the amazing concentration of international works under one temporary, tented roof. Just to have a look. How did this happen? When did the UK become so open to, so excited by, modern art?”
LA’s Actors’ Gang Revs Up Activity In Hard Times
“I’m not ignoring the economy. We are flying in the face of it. We are saying, ‘This is not going to stop us.’ And so the best way we can figure out for it not to stop us is to do more than we ever have in the past.”
Michael Arad’s Ground Zero Memorial Mockup
“No one would mistake the structure in Brooklyn for a toy. It is roughly fifty feet long and thirty feet wide, and includes an L-shaped portion of two low walls displaying the names. The mockup is mostly painted plywood, but a ten-foot-wide strip of one wall is made from the same bronze and granite that will be used in the memorial.”