“He comes from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where his track record includes the surprise success of the Internet Cat Video Festival, which brought 10,000 people together in a field in 2012 and then 11,000 paying customers at the 2013 Minnesota State Fair.”
Tag: 02.11.14
Guatemala’s Mayans Aren’t at All Sure About the Nation’s Proposed Maya Museum
Concerns include “the exclusion of indigenous voices from the museum, the proposed museum site, and whether the institution would further weaken the public national museum that already exists.”
Where Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Came From, And What the Rest of the World Misunderstands About It
Former prime minister Jigmi Thinley explains how the country’s fourth king came up with the concept, and how it’s defined and measured.
What Happened At The Boston Symphony When JFK Was Assassinated?
“At 2 o’clock on Friday, November 22, 1963, the Boston Symphony Orchestra began a matinee program of Handel and Sydeman. A suite by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was to follow, but instead there was a pause.”
Where Do TV Shows Get Their (Often Mediocre) Art?
“TV art is headed in the right direction, but it’s been flattened. The failure of these fabricated art objects to be neither valid nor completely ridiculous means that most of the comedy comes from outside the art.”
Why Do Biographies Of Writers Make Them Out To Be So…Good?
“What I find odd is that biographers apparently feel a need to depict their subjects as especially admirable human beings, something that in the end makes their lives less rather than more interesting and harder rather than easier to relate to their writing.”
Letting Loose the Clogs of War
A theatre company in northern England works clogging and Morris dancing into most of its productions – from Shakespeare’s history plays (the houses of York and Lancaster did battle with their wooden shoes) to a new script about the First World War.
Crowdfunding Is Great. But Can It Replace Artists’ Day Jobs?
“In our excitement over the creative projects made possible by crowdfunding, we shouldn’t forget that a flourishing creative middle class requires good jobs for arts workers and healthy arts institutions.”
When London Theatre Stopped Being Posh
Tony Robinson recalls when the ’60s counterculture, ’70s identity politics and the closing of the Lord Chamberlain’s censorship office led to the birth of alternative theatre.
Felix Salmon: We Should Be Happy About How The Sharing Of News Is Evolving
“We’re at an excitingly early stage in working out how to best produce and provide news in a social world. There are lots of business models that might work; there are also editorial models that look like they work until they don’t. But if you look at the news business as a whole, rather than at individual companies, it’s almost impossible not to be incredibly optimistic.”