“Why do people do it? Because they have no fear of reprisal. Sure, some of them pay me after they are confronted or take the image down, but why should I have to find them and confront them? I guess it shouldn’t be so surprising since modern journalists call aggregation “journalism,” when really it’s just slapping your name on someone else’s work and sometimes adding a snarky couple of sentences. People say that they will link to my site. Oh, really? That’s great, but I prefer cash.”
Tag: 01.26.12
Children’s Theatre Isn’t All Fun And Games – It’s Serious Education
“Facts are just facts and as a society, with a touch of the calculator or a hit of Google, kids can find a factual answer. But that can’t teach a mind to be subtle and flexible.” Practitioners and studies say that theatre can – and despite hits to the arts after No Child Left Behind, children’s theatre thrives in many U.S. cities.
Know A Narcissist? It’s Probably Tough On Him Too
“A new study has found that men who are full of themselves may actually be stressed out by their own narcissism.”
Of Art And Imaging Analysis
“There are manifest deficiencies of understanding on the crucial relationship between the discoveries that are being made through advances of technical analysis, and the original painterly/artistic means by which the art-objects-under-investigation were produced by artists in the first place.”
Proposing A ‘Temple Of Atheism’ In London
“The philosopher and writer Alain de Botton is proposing to build a 46-metre (151ft) tower to celebrate a ‘new atheism’ as an antidote to what he describes as Professor Richard Dawkins’s ‘aggressive’ and ‘destructive’ approach to non-belief.”
Why The Jaipur Literature Festival Disinvited Salman Rushdie
Festival co-director William Dalrymple writes of how he had to balance upholding the right to freedom of expression and exchange of ideas with the very real possibility of a riot in the middle of his event.
Why Did Sergei Polunin Walk Away From The Royal Ballet?
In an interview she conducted last month, Judith Mackrell notes that Polunin “spoke almost angrily of the kid he might have been had he not been pressured into ballet by family duty – the kid who could have gone to football matches, knocked around the streets with his mates and got into trouble.”
Conductor Paavo Berglund, 82
One of the most admired interpreters of Jan Sibelius, Berglund held chief conductor posts with the orchestras of Bournemouth, Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen and conducted most of Europe’s top orchestras during his career.
$25M Gift Means $25 Tickets At New York’s Signature Theater
The grant from the Pershing Square Foundation will allow Signature to keep admission at its new Frank Gehry-designed theater complex at $25 for the next ten years.
The Joffrey Ballet And The Revolution That Was Choreographed
“New York 1967: The Joffrey Ballet does the unthinkable, turning rock music, war and revolt into a new template for ballet. Ballet! … Robert Joffrey [was] making a work called Astarte, with a rock band in the orchestra pit and space-age goddesses grooving in psychedelic unitards.”