“This has to be frightening to anybody in the illustrated book business. Bookstores are disappearing. Sales are moving to digital. We’ve had an iPad in the marketplace for almost two years. And we have as yet discovered no formula for success to convert a successful illustrated print book to a successful illustrated ebook.”
Tag: 01.04.11
Cutting the N-Word From Huck Finn: Outrageous and Unnecessary
“The book, which deals directly with racism, is not better served by erasing the racial slur. The only purpose is to ease the tension that is felt by parents and teachers of students who would read it. To pretend this is for some higher good is to insult the intelligence of the American public.”
Feel More Powerful, Be More Powerful – Stand Up Straight
“As it turns out, there is a simple method to both transform people psychologically and signal power to others: altering your body posture. Across species, body posture is often the primary representation of power.”
Street Artists Protest LA MoCA Removal Of Mural
One by one, the artists took aim and shot their messages onto MOCA’s exterior — drippy, handwritten, illuminated scrawl: “Dump Deitch.” “Give us back our walls!” “War is over?” “Peace Now!” The group meticulously documented the event, with plans to upload photos and video clips to Facebook and YouTube within days.
“Art in America” Gets A New Editor
Lindsay Pollock, a reporter for Bloomberg and the author of “The Girl with the Gallery,” about Edith Gregor Halpert, has been named editor in chief of Art in America.
Study: We May Have Saturated The Car Market
“Since 2003, motorized travel demand has leveled out or even declined in most of the countries studied, and travel in private vehicles has declined,” the authors wrote in their study. “Car ownership has continued to rise, but these cars are being driven less.”
The Secret To Surviving On Broadway
“You need to have a plan — maybe a clever plan, maybe a surprising one, but some kind of plan — to survive on Broadway these days when you’re not a big, brand-name musical.”
Should Chicago’s Free Festivals Be Privatized?
“What’s clear is that “free” isn’t working anymore, and hasn’t been for quite some time. With the exception of Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and a few others, the top concert draws at Taste and the other, more music-intensive city summer events in recent years have been below par, a parade of has-beens, journeymen and cover bands.”
The Death Of Punctuation?
“Punctuation is a train wreck among my students. I have no doubt as to the root of the problem: Students haven’t spent much time reading. Punctuation, including the use of apostrophes and hyphens, is governed by a fairly complicated series of rules and conventions, learned for the most part not in the classroom but by encountering and subliminally absorbing them again and again.”
Of Wojnarowicz, Culture Wars, And Doing Nothing
“Arts professionals need to be proactive now if they want to forestall a new culture war. Anti-censorship statements on websites are fine–the AAMD released one condemning “unwarranted and uninformed censorship from politicians and other public figures”–but does the general public read such statements?”