Henry Fogel is out as director of the New Hampshire Music Festival, the chairman and president are both stepping down, and three board members have resigned — all fallout from the audience’s vehement opposition to the festival’s “new artistic vision and restructured orchestra.”
Tag: 01.26.10
If Only Google Would Do All Our Social Interfacing For Us
The prank site Google Xistence “resembles a Google product page, complete with YouTube instructional video, and purports to let users plug in their Facebook, Twitter and blog log-in credentials. The service supposedly lets Google live your social life for you — so you can ‘play World of Warcraft or Tower Defense.'”
Huntington Library Buys Cache Of Dickens Letters
“Among the letters are Dickens’ instructions … about how a scene in a women’s hat shop in ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ should look: ‘there may be a cap on a block and a dress on a stand if it would improve the sketch,’ the author suggests, adding, ‘Please to take care that Miss Knag is not like Miss La Creevy.'”
Have We Been Going At Arts Advocacy The Wrong Way?
“It is intrinsically impossible to justify public investment in creativity using (economic) tools, because art’s essence is its ability to engage us fully in body, emotions, mind and spirit, … Trying to explain or demonstrate this with numbers is like trying to describe a rainbow without mentioning color.”
‘A Behavioral Economist’s Dream’: D.C. Charges A Nickel For Plastic Grocery Bags
“Thousands of people have altered long-held behavior overnight. Businesses are operating differently. The way people eat, shop and interact with each other has changed. And hundreds have been moved to fiery message-board debates about the proper role of government and at what point it’s gone too far.”
World’s Largest Book To Go On Display For First Time
“It takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his restoration and now 350 years old, has never been publicly displayed with its pages open. That glaring omission is to be rectified” when the British Library features it in an exhibition this summer.
Shepard Fairey Faces Criminal Investigation In AP/Obama Poster Case
“In October, the L.A. artist admitted that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others during the case in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his ‘Hope’ poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.” A grand jury is now considering an indictment over Fairey’s misrepresentations.
In Upset, Book Of Poetry Beats Toibin’s Novel For Costa Award
A Scattering, Christopher Reid’s collection of poems on the illness and death of his wife, defeated favorite Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn to take the £30,000 Costa book of the year prize. A Scattering has sold fewer than 1,000 copies.
Nashville Parents Find Romeo And Juliet Too Racy
“Toronto’s Classical Theatre Project presented [the play] … to an enthusiastic audience of 1,000 students and teachers Monday afternoon, but the performance was almost derailed Sunday night by a group of self-appointed censors who found the Bard of Avon a bit too racy for Music City, U.S.A.”
Historian: We’ve Wronged The Real Macbeth (And His Lady)
“He may have murdered his way to the throne, killing the king, Duncan … but Macbeth brought peace to Scotland in violent times. He was an effective and popular ruler and the first Scottish monarch known to have made a pilgrimage to Rome.”