“It’s a business proposition, not charity: Artists are offered a licensing deal in which they are responsible for delivering a finished master recording (at their expense) while the label assumes production costs, marketing and distribution. Artists are also given 1,000 CDs to sell on their own, keeping all profits. Meanwhile, revenue from the company’s sales are split down the middle after taxesand fees.”
Tag: 03.17.13
The Troubled, Full Life Of Lisa de Kooning
“There was no doubt that Bill de Kooning loved Lisa very much. But there was also no doubt he was never cut out to be a father in a stable domestic environment.”
West End Actors Aren’t Happy About Adding Forced Sunday Shows
“Actors already work antisocial hours in regards to leading a normal family life, and to eat into this time any more is too much of a sacrifice.”
The Brontë Sisters Were ‘Savage and Sensual’ And Should Top Best-seller Lists
The sisters probably weren’t as innocent or unworldly as Charlotte claimed after the deaths of Emily and Anne – and their books are “shocking, erotic, profoundly moving.”
And There Goes The San Francisco Symphony’s East Coast Tour
The tour for next week and weekend have been canceled, but “Brent Assink, the orchestra’s executive director, said on Sunday that management was ‘ready to resume bargaining’ with the players, though ‘collectively, we need a few hours of sleep.'”
Toyo Ito: The Pritzker Winner Finds Inspiration In Nature
“Ito’s architecture creates fluidity between nature and humanity. When people enter his completely solar-powered stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for example, he wants them to be able to feel the wind and feel the air. Too often, he believes, urban environments feel intended to keep us apart. He wants to redesign them to bring us together.”
An Historic House, A Thomas Cole Painting, And A Lawsuit
At the Seward House Historic Museum, the central attraction used to be a Thomas Cole painting. But “early one morning last month movers escorted by the police pulled up to the house, removed the Cole landscape, which measures roughly 7 by 5 feet, from the drawing room and hauled it away.”
Can A Tourist-Driven Theatre Survive In A Small Town?
The answer is not anymore, not in a little town an hour north of Austin at the theatre where former President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna held a wedding rehearsal party.
Pritzker Prize to Japanese Architect Toyo Ito
“The 71-year-old Ito is the dean of Japanese architecture, though with his mop of black hair he looks many years younger. He is best known for his 2001 Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box of a building that was dramatically shaken, though only lightly damaged, by the Tohoku earthquake two years ago.”
The Fishmonger’s Treasure Trove Of Irish History
“Ms. McCoole is still in Ballina nearly eight years later, still immersed in what is now known as the Jackie Clarke Collection: an astounding treasure of more than 100,000 items that provide an intimate retelling of Ireland’s long struggle to free itself of English rule. Fragile maps and rare newspapers, political posters and editorial cartoons, books, diaries, photographs, films, and even a scrapbook that Clarke began as a boy.”