“Openness in a digital age implies that more academic services and content will be portable and that, for better or worse, this changes the kind of policies and institutional forms which are available to academic communities.”
Tag: 10.26.13
The Place JFK Was Shot – Architecture Not To Love
“Dealey Plaza is instead a curious mixture: part high-traffic intersection, part gateway to the city, part flood-control project, and part accidental historical monument.”
Do Movie Theatre Only Still Exist Because Of Nostalgia?
“There’s the rub. It’s nostalgia that keeps the movie racket alive as it exists today. Cannes is irrelevant. The movie theatre is irrelevant… The movie racket is dying. Long live the home screen experience.”
Innovation? Maybe That’s A Trap For Arts Organizations
“The world is changing radically and so must we. That’s the agenda underlying the innovation mandate. This change agenda is actually a critique, a presumption that arts organizations are calcified, failed.”
Auction Houses And Galleries Are Staking Out Positions In A New Art War
“The danger of auction houses muscling in on galleries’ turf was vividly illustrated last week at Christie’s when collector-dealer Charles Saatchi dumped 50 large sculptures from his collection, several by artists with little or no auction history, on the market.”
This Week’s Edition Of ‘What The Selfie REALLY Means’
“We document everything we want to be true. We seed in subplots with two careful clicks and a Valencia wash. In saying: ‘I’m fine! I’m totally fine!’, aren’t we, sort of, asking: ‘Am I?'”
The Internet Is Ruining Everything, But Especially Freelance Writing
“People who would consider it a bizarre breach of conduct to expect anyone to give them a haircut or a can of soda at no cost will ask you, with a straight face and a clear conscience, whether you wouldn’t be willing to write an essay or draw an illustration for them for nothing.”
Antonia Bird, 54, Director Of ‘Priest’ And ‘Mad Love’
“Bird said she enjoyed working with British actors because they ‘arrive on the set and they have an idea of what they want to do in the scene.'”
What Does A ‘Chief Digital Officer’ Do For The Metropolitan Museum Of Art?
“You are constantly in storytelling mode. And storytelling is what we do here at the Met. With two million square feet of gallery space and tens of thousands of works on view, at any given time, we can ask, ‘What stories can you tell?’ about each item.”
Should Architects And Urban Designers Be Playing With Smell As A Material?
“Designers are trained to focus mostly on the visual, but the science of design could significantly expand designers’ sensory palette. Call it medicinal urbanism.”