As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks.
Tag: 02.06.08
Street Art Finds Big Buyers In London Auction
“The auction signalled another step towards the mainstream for the genre, with 75 pieces of ‘urban art’ in the catalogue. Spray-paint and stencils featured largely in the works on sale, and many began life as street graffiti before being transferred to canvas.”
Getting Straight On Site-Specific Theatre
“Site-specific theatre” has come to mean any theatre that breaks with the conventions of the auditorium. But it’s such a broad label these days, it’s become meaningless. “By labelling them thus, they become merely another new-fangled and eminently bracketable novelty act, cast in opposition (or as a diverting supplement) to ‘straight’ theatre.”
Will Students Read More If They Choose From Pop Reading List?
If high-schoolers are bored with the traditional classic reading lists for examinations, how do you get them more interested in reading? One plan is to let UK students choose any book from a popular TV book club’s reading list…
Legendary Aussie Opera Journal To Shut Down
“David Gyger, an American-born journalist, and his wife, a former university lecturer, published Opera-Opera each month from an office a few doors from their [Sydney] apartment but have decided that the January issue, Number 361, is their last… The loss means there is no single coherent source providing qualitative information about opera and musical theatre across Australia.”
How Pixar Became A Standard Bearer
Pixar is well known for having changed animation forever, by hiring the top talent in the business and spending lavishly on the best technology money could buy. Of course, relying on computers inevitably means dealing with their obsolescence, which often comes astonishingly quickly.
Could Arts Council Cuts Really Benefit UK Writers?
The UK Arts Council’s decision to overhaul its funding process has set the council’s directors on their heels as public and media outrage mount. But the council’s literature chief says that writers actually will be getting a good deal when all the dust settles.
They Kid Because They Love
A trio of artistic pranksters has been tweaking the Seattle Art Museum with unauthorized audio tours and sculptures mocking the museum’s “don’t touch” signs. Their activities have met with mixed reactions from SAM officials.
Writers To Be Briefed On Possible Contract
“Members of the striking Writers Guild of America will gather Saturday in Los Angeles and New York to be briefed on a possible contract with Hollywood studios… Guild leaders remained cautious about a settlement while a proposed contract was being drafted based on last week’s breakthrough talks with studio executives.”