“Copyright law is broken, and it needs to be tweaked. The duration for example, (70 years under the copyright extension act) is preposterous. So too, the big old gaping hole that doesn’t address the digital world.”
Tag: 03.18.13
More Museums Shopping At Maastricht Fair This Year
“Many dealers said that they believed that American museums in particular were feeling more flush than they had in past years because their endowments had been well invested in today’s rising stock market.”
Victoria And Albert Museum’s Biggest-Selling Show Ever
“Sales are more than double the number of advance tickets of the museum’s previous exhibitions.”
Cable TV’s Biggest Competitors?
“Cable TV’s delivery model is under siege from Intel, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Google and a host of others. Which makes it abundantly clear that cable and satellite need to do something to stop bleeding subscribers.”
Five-Year-Old Makes Carnegie Hall Piano Debut
“I did pretty good,” he said after his performance, adding “I feel very excited and I want to come back again.”
Do Artists Need Unions?
“Maybe unions or artists’ guilds can serve and protect an embattled creative class. With musicians typically operating without record labels, journalists increasingly working as freelancers as newspapers shed staff, and book publishing beginning what looks like a period of compression, unions might take some of the risk and sting out of our current state of creative destruction.”
US Congressman Submits Bill To Defund Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial
“Last week Rob Bishop [R-Utah] introduced legislation seeking to reject the current design by Gehry … and invite new proposals for the memorial while eliminating $100 million of future funding.”
That Painting Isn’t By Rembrandt’s Pupil – It’s By The Master Himself
“The painting, which is dated to 1635, shows Rembrandt at the age of 29, wearing a black velvet cap with ostrich feathers and a decorated velvet cape.”
Teach The Children Fairy Tales And The Bible, Not Just TV And The Internet
So says famous atheist Philip Pullman, author of the children’s His Dark Materials series.
Sergei Filin And The Complex, Terrible Society Of The Bolshoi
“Sometimes an institution has an uncanny way of embodying the society to which it belongs. … So it is at the pinnacles of Russian dance. Since the nineteenth century, the country’s two principal stages–the Mariinsky, in St. Petersburg, and the Bolshoi, in Moscow–have acted as microcosms of imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, and, now, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”