“While the big boys figure out how to replicate television, and its profit margins, on the Internet, the vast majority of Web series continue to be scrappy affairs produced by young writers, actors and directors trying to make names for themselves. But you can almost hear the window closing.”
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End Of The Unique Museum?
“Over the past 15 or so years, some of the most original and idiosyncratic art institutions in the country — the Barnes, the ‘Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston — have embarked on major expansions to modernize (and in some cases, to generate more revenue), significantly transforming their identities.”
Movie Critics Changing Their Minds?: New York Times‘s Chief Film Critics Discuss
Manohla Dargis: “My reviews are a record of what I thought at a given moment. What changes with repeat viewings is how I love a movie, the intensity of that love, what I know about it (what I know about myself), and where I’m at in my life.” A.O. Scott: “I don’t see much point in publicly second-guessing myself. I’d prefer to have readers be the judges of what I got right or wrong. And, of course, the ultimate second-guesser is history.”