The artist is dead, and parts of the $1 million work of art have been cleaned right away. Now what?
Tag: 11.06.11
3-D Is So Passé: For Martin Scorsese, Holograms Are The Next Big Thing
Scorsese loves 3-D. And “he also hopes the movies over the next few years will become ever-more interactive. Like, hologram-interactive.”
You Say You Want A Revolution? Better Talk To Your Farmer
Occupy movements could do worse than look at the way one Canadian farmer took on serious injustice – and drastically altered the political conversation.
How You Gonna Keep Them At The History Museum When They Can See It On TV? (Better Exhibits!)
Museums are hurting, but history museums are hurting worse. How can they stay relevant – and also stay afloat?
A Lone Woman, Competing With The World’s Most Famous Games
Ruth Mackenzie took over the U.K.’s Cultural Olympiad after a commentator called the whole concept a bath “in the warm vomit of inclusivity.” Well, at least there was no way to go but up.
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Young Composer Keeps It All In Perspective
Thirty-year-old composer Nico Muhly, thoughtful but energetic, is in the middle of opening two different operas. He’s working on a film score, a cello concerto, a song cycle … and about 50 other projects. Not to mention his blog and Twitter feed.
Brits Can’t Stop Obsessing About WWII. What’s That About?
“British writers and readers just can’t stop fighting the second world war. It ended nearly 70 years ago, but it’s as though the guns have just fallen silent.”
From Radiators To Graffiti: The Material History Of Spray Pain
How did spray paint get its start? As a way for a salesman to show off colors for radiator paints. To put it mildly, things have changed.
A Designer Who Changed Hollywood Has Other Talents Too
Why are old movie credits boring lists, while newer credits feel like part of the film? Thank Saul Bass, a graphic designer whose talents have transformed more than movies.
Martin Scorsese Makes A 3-D Children’s Film
The director who made tough cabbie Travis Bickle and boxer Jake LaMotta into cinema icons talks about filming “a graphic novel … about a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo who lives inside the walls of a 1930s Paris train station.”