“Hokusai’s print was becoming more familiar just as the word tsunami was working its way into the English language … and the word and image soon became linked.”
Tag: 03.18.15
Add ‘Sells A Lot More Comics’ To The Reasons For Making Superheroes Female
“The first five new Thor books are currently selling more copies than the last five Thor books from 2012 by close to 20,000 copies per month, not including digital copies.”
Amerian Museums Band Together To Protect Giant Land Art
“Michael Heizer has spent the past 43 years constructing this massive land art project, which will be one of the biggest sculptures in the world once complete. City, which is located in the Nevada Desert, measures more than a mile-and-a-half in length and a quarter-mile in width, and comprises a complex of enormous geometric mounds and sculptures.”
A (Female) Bach Scholar Takes Down The Anna-Magdalena-Wrote-The-Cello-Suites Theory For Good
Ruth Tatlow: “My decision to undertake this analysis of Written by Mrs Bach was not taken lightly. I had to weigh up the pain of writing critically about the well-meant research effort of an acquaintance, against the temporary relief but longer-term discomfort of remaining silent. I offer this analysis in the hope that it might help clarify some of the confusions and defuse some of the widely-felt frustrations.” (pdf)
A Rothschild Is Selling Two Rembrandts For €150M, Causing Controversy In France
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit were acquired in 1877 by Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Eric de Rothschild is putting them on the market, and the French government has granted an export license – making some art lovers in the country furious at both of them.
Arts In England Face ‘Serious And Irreversible Damage,’ Says Arts Index
“The Arts Index, which has been updated to include figures from 2012/13 and 2013/14, is described as a ‘health check’ on the arts in England and is measured by 20 indicators including financial inputs and outputs, and community and participation levels.”
‘Washeteria’ – Off-Off-Broadway Royalty Take Children’s Theater Through The Spin Cycle
This “theatrical installation” at a laundromat in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, “is the first for families ever produced by Soho Rep, the venerable downtown institution that has won 18 Obie Awards over the past decade.”
Using A “Musical Glove” To Help Stroke Victims Rewire Their Brains
“The glove is outfitted with tiny sensors that track the user’s hand movements. Patients use it to play a Guitar Hero-style game that involves pinching and gripping notes on the screen of a tablet.”
It’s Getting More And More Difficult To Tell What Plagiarism Is In Music
“Music works in a different way than the courts work. The arts are often about breaking rules and the courts are about maintaining rules.”
“Faith-Based” Movies Go Indie – And Some Of Them Are Really Good
Alissa Wilkinson: “As the chief film critic at one of the oldest and most widely read evangelical publications in the world, Christianity Today, I’ve come to realize there is both widespread category confusion in the industry about what constitutes a faith-based audience and ignorance about a burgeoning religious movement in independent cinema.”