Graham Beck decided to try it. After consulting with loved ones, he determined to use online video to learn to draw, overcome road rage, listen better, and butcher a chicken.
Tag: 01.14.14
Proposed Guggenheim Helsinki Is On Again
Plans for a Finnish branch of the Guggenheim empire have been very controversial, and the project has been called off and restarted before. But now land has been set aside and the architectural competition to design the new building is on.
The Early Buzz On What To Pay Attention To At Sundance
Sundance is a filter as well as a spotlight and a megaphone for lots of new things.
UAE Censors Turn ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Into a Mess
Think about it: Take all the sex, drugs and profanity out of that screenplay, and what’s left? Only three-quarters of the film, that’s what – not quite enough to make sense.
Fairfax County, Virginia Saves Arts Center From Foreclosure
The suburban D.C. county made a deal with Wells Fargo to cut in half the $60 million owed on the Workhouse Arts Center, built in a former prison in Lorton, and then assumed the remaining debt for the county.
Of Course That Ancient Chinese Scroll We Sold Was Authentic, Says Sotheby’s
“Sotheby’s said Tuesday that an ancient calligraphy scroll the auction house sold in September for $8.2 million was authentic, despite recent claims by a group of Chinese art historians who insisted it was likely a 19th-century reproduction.”
Can Britons Save the Red Telephone Box?
“People in the United Kingdom are racing to save a beloved icon, in a mission that in some ways resembles efforts to save the giant panda in China, or the polar bear in the Arctic.”
There’s an Art Jihad in Uzbekistan
“Jihad” has become a loaded word, but a group of video artists in the Central Asian republic are “using it to brand their own subversive, humorous criticisms of the overpowering central state.”
Take a Little Tour of London’s New Jacobean Theatre
A video visit to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the candlelit 340-seat replica of the sort of indoor venue where Shakespeare’s late plays would have been performed during the winter. Shakespeare’s Globe, which built and operates the Wanamaker, opened it this past weekend.
“Print” Is A Concept That Used To Be Dictated By The Tools We Had (So…)
“Really, the idea of an immutable and unchangeable text dates only to the printing press. Before that, every scribe tasked with producing a tome thought he was an author. Like movie producers dabbling with plot, it was difficult for the hand-copiers of text not to make a tweak here or there. Books were ever-changing. Stories evolved. And that was the way things were until Gutenberg’s time.”