In the UK, “a review of ebook lending in libraries commissioned by the government has found that libraries risk becoming irrelevant if they do not start lending digital books.”
Tag: 03.28.13
How Is China Dealing WIth A Waning Interest In Ideology?
Red tourism, of course: “The idea is for Chinese people to have fun with their political party, to enjoy themselves in the great amusement park of Communism. They’re invited to feast on braised pork, Mao’s favorite dish, in the leader’s birthplace of Shaoshan.”
This Dance Was Nearly Wiped Out By The Khmer Rouge, But …
“The dance is making a comeback after its unique moves were painstakingly recorded by experts who studied sculptures and wall carvings from Angkor Wat’s temples, which are roughly 1,000 years old.”
Does Philly’s Newest Arts Festival Threaten The Rest Of The Arts Ecosystem?
“The backdrop for this high-budget, dual-fuzzy-concept festival is a city where the arts are simultaneously thriving and starving.”
Off-Broadway Theater Head Sends Out Sorta-Not-Quite Apology For New Play
In the letter to one group of subscribers, Tim Sanford of Playwrights Horizons “tap-dances between expressing understanding for those who found the play not to their liking and a carefully marshaled argument for its merits. He expresses affection and support for the play repeatedly, but also seems to back away from it at other points.”
When Western Contact Transformed Japanese Painting
When Japan re-opened itself to the world in the mid-1800s following two centuries of isolation, “the vast scale of Western inroads and the collapse of traditional patronage that followed the Meiji restoration threw Japanese art into a state of crisis.” One group of painters responded by applying European visual styles to traditional Japanese materials and genres.