“The need for literary agents – a vital third party between publishers and writers – has become a hot topic in Chinese publishing since a February announcement by the country’s first Nobel laureate in literature.”
Tag: 03.02.13
LA County Museum Has Been Reinventing (The Question: Into What?)
“It was a promise that could not be fully kept, given the late start. But the notion of a “West Coast Met” did possess the virtue of audacity.”
Publisher Pulls Second Jonah Lehrer Book From Shelves
“On Friday night, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which published all three of Mr. Lehrer’s books, confirmed that after an internal fact-checking review of his second book, How We Decide, it would no longer offer it for sale.”
Meet ‘The Baz’, Arts Council England’s New Chief
Peter Bazalgette “is a dapper 59 year-old, whose trim frame gives the lie to his second favourite recreation, according to Who’s Who, of gluttony. His first is opera.”
How 3D Printing Is Going To Change Our Culture
“3-D printing is clearly going to be to 2018 as mobile devices were to 2008, the web was to 1998, personal computers were to 1988, and dance floors with randomly lit colored squares were to 1978.”
Can Data Really Hep Us Make Better Decisions? (Not Just More Informed Ones)
Big Data says: ‘Take a step back from looking at causes. Look at correlations. Look at the what rather than the why, because that is often good enough.’
This Just In: We Can’t Innovate Our Way To Perfection
“Recent debates about Twitter revolutions or the Internet’s impact on cognition have mostly glossed over the fact that Silicon Valley’s technophilic gurus and futurists have embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity. If they have their way, no individual foibles would go unpunished — ideally, technology would even make such foibles obsolete.”
Stravinsky’s Poor Battered “Rite Of Spring” Has Been Through The Mill
“Over the past century so many choreographers translated Le Sacre into different dance languages that its Russo-Franco origins have been over-watered, parched, starched or watered down, depending on the artist.”
Cincinnati Piano Competition Wants To Be No. 1
“A new partnership aims to restore glory to the half-century-old World Piano Competition, and make Cincinnati a destination for the world’s top piano competitors.”
This Ballet Was So Hot, The Curtain Caught Fire
“A curtain caught fire Saturday two hours before a ballet performance at Bass Hall downtown, causing a last-minute cancellation of Texas Ballet Theater’s Lambarena and Voluntaries.”