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Tag: 02.09.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.14
The Best Artistic Response To “Monuments Men”
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-10
Documenting Dance, Part 1
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-02-09
Raising Up the Masses?
Source: We The Audience | Published on 2014-02-09
In defence of BBC Radio 3
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-09
You Are There: Where Burroughs Once Lived in Mexico City
Source: Straight|Up | Published on 2014-02-09
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What Will The Broad Museum’s Planned Plaza Do For LA’s Public Spaces?
“The design of the plaza is the most meaningful bit of news here. And that’s not just because Bunker Hill is short on public space that is well-designed and friendly to pedestrians. It’s also because the details of how the plaza will operate — and who will own it — make up a multilayered and in the end rather opaque story.”
So, Romance Novels Thrive On Predictability (Shocker!)
“One thing that you have understand if you’re gonna get into writing romance is that the things that are valued in that genre are not the same things that are valued when we read something like literary fiction.”
Return The Elgin Marbles To Greece? George Clooney Says Yes
“Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad thing if they were returned. I think that is a good idea. That would be a very fair and very nice thing. I think it is the right thing to do.”
Using Music’s Patterns To Create Stronger Spider Silk
“From the basic physics of string theory to complex biological materials, different functions arise from a small number of universal building blocks. I call this the universality-diversity paradigm.”
China May Raise Foreign Movie Quota By 10
“The Film Bureau in Beijing looks set to raise the quota of foreign movies allowed into China by 10 movies to 44 films, a sign of growing openness in the world’s second-biggest box office market.”
Broad Museum In L.A. Delays Opening Until 2015
“Construction, which began in 2012, was delayed by one of the building’s most distinctive features: a honeycomb-style concrete-and-steel structure, known as the veil, that wraps around the museum.”
A Terrible Night For Miles Davis – And Two Classic Albums For The World
“They have a big row, they go on, and basically they play this kind of speed-metal, punk, thrash-jazz, with Davis acting almost as conductor. They knew the setting and the moment was unique; they thought they were absolutely rubbish, though.”
Oh, You Think The Beatles Were Cute? They Destroyed America!
Well, American music, anyway: “February 1964 — boom! No one had made or heard sounds like these. Here’s a crucial truth that goes totally unappreciated today: They were loud. … By the standards of the day, they were cacophonous.”