“In order for art criticism to become a strategic differentiator we must innovate. But it will take an enabling technology for criticism to become a strategic innovator or disruptor. Until then, creating new web-based media that appear to be critical but are actually commercial plugs for cities and businesses is not innovative.”
Tag: 03.06.13
Here’s What Happens When A Philosopher Watches Too Much Reality TV
“I just had a dream the other night that, as a public philosopher, I was hosting a new show. Then, I realized that if it was a hit, I could have a huge new empire of reality TV shows on my hands. Here’s what I mean.” Tom Morris pitches his ideas for The Real Philosophers of Boston, Semantic Survivor: Plato’s Cave Version, and Top Sage, among other shows.
Is This The Woman Who Inspired The Bolshoi Acid Attack?
Angelina Vorontsova, 21, variously described as the girlfriend or common-law wife of attack mastermind Pavel Dmitrichenko, airs her frustrations and grievances with Bolshoi Ballet director/attack victim Sergei Filin in a rehearsal and interview conducted in February.
What Could August Strindberg Have To Say About South African Race Relations? Plenty
A look at Mies Julie, Cape Town director Yael Farber’s extraordinary translation of the Swedish playwright’s tale of a 19th-century battle between mistress and servant to a present-day farmstead on the veld.
Board And Director Battle Over Salzburg Festival Budget
“The debate had started already last year. Alexander Pereira, the director of the festival demanded 65 million Euros in order to finance his extensive programme. He threatened to resign if his conditions were not fulfilled. The board of trustees then approved 60 million Euros” – and Pereira proceeded to spend the remaining 5 million anyway.
Four More Years For Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia Music Director
“Returning from financial retrenchment of past seasons, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced a four-year contract extension for music director Dirk Brossé and a new residency with Lincoln University, starting in the 2013-14 season.”
Across The River: A Literary Festival In The Other Congo
“A special overseas edition of Etonnants Voyageurs, a major French literature and film festival, had landed in Brazzaville like a U.F.O., disgorging these characters into the city, along with a substantial, mostly French, press corps, and assorted international lit-fest habitués.”
Sherlock Holmes Copyright Lawsuit Throws Fans Into Turmoil
When the Baker Street Irregulars, an invitation-only literary club, gathered for their annual weekend in New York in January, few had any inkling they would soon be embroiled in a distinctly 21st-century case that might be called “The Adventure of the Social Media-Driven Copyright Debate, With Annotations on Sherlockian Sexism and the True Nature of Literary Devotion.”
Belfast Increases Arts Funding 27 Percent
“Almost £1.4 million will be distributed annually from 2013-16 – compared to just over £930,000 per year in 2010 to 2012 – through the council’s Core Multi-Annual Funding scheme which will also see the number of organisations receiving core funding increasing more than threefold from 16 in previous years to 52.”
British Authors Back Drive For Libel Law Reform
“Some of the Britain’s most acclaimed authors and playwrights including Stephen Fry, Sir Tom Stoppard, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie have called on the main party leaders to honour their pledge and implement a defamation bill aimed at transforming 170-year-old laws they say have silenced scientists and authors as well as journalists and activists.”