No, it’s not the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg – we already told you about that one, and this one didn’t run 920% over budget. This one is also next to one of the world’s most handsome train stations. Where is it? (includes video interviews with the chief exec, the acoustician, and a musician)
Tag: 12.02.16
The New York Times Tells You What It’s Like To Be A Bee
Using the second person, an interactive feature by Joanna Klein walks the reader through the hive, the hunt for pollen, the tastes and smells (powerful) and sights (not so much) and movements of apian existence.
Are DC’s Big Theaters Hoarding Their Audience Pools Instead Of Sharing Them?
The good news from a decade-long study of the area’s seven major pro companies is that audiences there aren’t tapped out, they’re growing (even subscriptions increased!). But there was one startling finding: “A whopping 85 percent of audiences patronize a single troupe.”
The Women Of Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Cinema Of Women’
Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma. Marisa Paredes, Emma Suárez, and others on how the flamboyant director creates his female-centered worlds.
Hardly A Conflict At All – Beethoven Score Expert Who Cried Fake Smelled A Bargain
“Now it has emerged that one of the two experts who refused to authenticate the score later tried to persuade the owner of the piece to part with it for just €900 (£757), less than one per cent of the value put on it by the auction house.”
When ‘Bibliomania’ Was (Considered) A Real Illness
“Symptoms included a frenzy for culling and hunting down first editions, rare copies, books of certain sizes or printed on specific paper.”
All About The Flash: Why Museum Buildings Are Upscaling
“The old world of museums as quiet, cavernous halls displaying collections of objects for those willing to make the trek is having to adapt. While perhaps branding was once sniffed at in cultural institutions as the dark arts of commercial witchery, today it is a key part of the show. In an age of flashy soundbites and stories told dramatically, most commonly on a digital platform, museums recognise the need to stretch well beyond their physical boundaries.”
Old Drummers – Deaf, Crippled And Creaky
As rock’s iconic drummers get to middle age and older, they’re suffering hearing loss and muscle and joint pain associated with a lifetime of hitting the skins.
Martin Amis: Within A Generation Literary Culture As We Know It Now Will Be Gone
Zadie Smith said to me years ago, “Everything we think of as literary culture will be gone in a generation and a half.” She said, “It will last your time, but it won’t last mine.” I don’t think it will ever disappear, but it will shrink. It will go back to what it was when I started out, which is a minority interest sphere, which some people happen to be very interested in.
In The Age Of Trigger Warnings And Microaggressions, Are Campuses Still Safe Spaces For Studying – And Experimenting In – The Arts?
“Unlike Jerry Seinfeld and his jokes, college art instructors cannot just take their lesson plans to some local concert hall. In an environment set up to encourage experimentation and free expression, is parody or a critical stance allowable and, if so, which targets are O.K.?”