“Catacombs of beauty” is how curator Achille Bonito Oliva describes his ten-years-and-counting project, which has recruited more than 100 artists and architects – including the likes of William Kentridge, Sol LeWitt, Shirin Neshat and Robert Wilson – to transform metro stations into cultural monuments.
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How The Digital Reading Revolution Is Different In Africa
“The digital reading revolution is not going to look the same in developing countries as it has in the developing world — but that doesn’t mean that ebooks don’t have potential there.”
Want To Succeed In Publishing? Try Your Hand At Short Stories
“Story collections, an often underappreciated literary cousin of novels, are experiencing a resurgence, driven by a proliferation of digital options.”
Sex: Hard To Get Right On Stage
Why can’t live theatre do it the way they do on the silver, and smaller, screen?
The Ephemeral Art, And The Lasting Game, Of Carving Snow
“The teams rely on decades of experience, handcrafted tools, and creative techniques to fashion their massive sculptures. The team members are sculptors and artists and designers, but also doctors and lawyers. Though they spend weeks each year carving, nobody makes a living doing it.”
Musical Theatre Influences The Set For The Biggest Movie Night Of ALl
“McLane said he looked to the style of repeating geometric patterns common to 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals. In Berkeley’s case, those patterns were often made up of dancers’ gyrating bodies. In McLane’s, they are composed of objects connected in some fashion to movies, including Oscar statuettes.”
Britain’s Got A Misogyny Problem, Says Starchitect Zaha Hadid
“The British Iraqi, who is a former winner of Britain’s Stirling prize and the international Pritzker prize, said it was frequently assumed that a woman architect could not take on a big commercial project and that she was better suited to residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres.”
Taking A Conservatory To New Heights – And New T.V. Deals
The Colburn Conservatory of Music is only a decade old, and used to be a “well-kept secret” in L.A. That was before they hired a guy who knows how to brand.
Hey Guys, Want To Sell Your ‘Used’ E-books? Amazon Is On It
“The most frightening thing about Amazon’s latest move is that it reminds us that it’s all too late. It is already Amazon’s world and we just live in it.”
Spain’s Austerity Program Hits, Hard, At The Arts
“You cannot project about the future. You cannot have an idea of a project or design a certain kind of artistic project from one year’s distance, because you actually don’t know if you can pay the rent next month.”