“The renovated space will include two sky-lit interior Tower Galleries and an outdoor sculpture terrace overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Tag: 03.12.13
The Battle Over Encouraging Audiences To Tweet In Their Seats
“The controversy raises a number of questions that are hard to answer: Is sustained focus even possible in mass audiences anymore? If not, what have we lost? But part of the discussion, taken on its own terms, boils down to a fairly tractable psychological question: Who, really, is more engaged? Is it the audience member holding a screen and responding to the action with his thumbs, or the one sitting silently in the dark with her eyes glued to the stage?”
The Danger Facing Romanian Film: Romanians
“Does a new wave exist if there’s no one around to hear it crashing to shore? Festival audiences and international arthouse buffs [have] certainly marvelled at the high quality of the Romanian new wave.” Romanian moviegoers? Not so much – they prefer the product of the country’s nascent commercial film industry.
Mary And The Zombies: Can Science Explain Consciousness?
“We know that our experiences – of seeing red, feeling pain, falling in love and so forth – depend on physical systems like the brain that science can, in principle, exhaustively explain. But it’s hard to make sense of the idea that experiences themselves could be physical. No doubt experiences correlate with objective physical facts, but, as subjective phenomena, how could they be such facts?”
How The Sequester Could Leave Actors Unemployed
“Theater executives who have been through government budget tightening before say it’s likely most organizations will see a percentage reduction rather than an outright elimination of their funding. Still, for small-to-midsized theaters a reduction of $5,000-$10,000 could mean one or two less Equity actors in a production.”
Twice-Stolen Rembrandt Recovered In Serbia
“The portrait of the artist’s father has been valued at almost $4m (£2.7m) and has been stolen twice in the space of 10 years. Police recovered the painting 60 km (40 miles) south of Novi Sad, where it was stolen from the city museum.”
Amazon Used To Be About Books. Now…
“Amazon is an elephant by design, and we’re all blind men. It may not even be an elephant; it could be five.”
Report: Vienna Philharmonic Was Shaped By Nazis
“A startlingly frank new report posted on the orchestra’s website (in German only, for now) makes it clear that when the Germans swept into Vienna, they found an orchestra that was a ready, even eager tool of Nazi propaganda.”
Another Plan For L.A. MoCA: Partnership With National Gallery
“The troubled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is in talks for a possible partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a development that could cloud MOCA’s acquisition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.”
‘I’m Now The Official Cult Gal’ – Lisa Pulitzer, Ghostwriter Of Choice For Escapees
“[She] has earned her role because she can turn around a book in three months and because she uses her reporting skills to substantiate her subjects’ stories for publishers. Finally, she has a motherly presence that is comforting to women who are about to expose raw truths of a sordid past, allowing her to establish a level of trust with them quickly.”