“All artists who focus on wildlife, historical and nautical scenes are confronted on a regular basis by people who are knowledgeable in these fields” and who are “looking for mistakes. … How to research is not taught in studio art classes, but it is a skill artists in the accuracy trade need to acquire.”
Tag: 02.09.10
Readers’ Tastes Have Been (What’s This?) Underestimated
“I would have hypothesized that there are two basic strategies for making the most-e-mailed list. One, which I’ve happily employed, is to write anything about sex. The other, which I’m still working on, is to write an article headlined: ‘How Your Pet’s Diet Threatens Your Marriage, and Why It’s Bush’s Fault.'” Not so, researchers have found.
RSC Plans 6-Week Summer Sojourn In NYC
Next year, the company will bring five plays to the Park Avenue Armory, where they will perform on “an exact copy of the company’s Royal Shakespeare Theater, which is being built in Stratford. The reproduction will be shipped in pieces to New York and assembled in the Armory’s monumental Drill Hall….”
iPad Strengthens Publishers’ Hand Against Google, Too
“Now, as publishers enter discussions with the Web giant Google about its plan to sell digital versions of new books direct to consumers, they have a little more leverage than just a few weeks ago — at least when it comes to determining how Google will pay publishers for those e-books and how much consumers will pay for them.”