“Yesterday saw the launch of the first Bauhaus magazine production since 1931. Although the Bauhaus influence was not silenced in the intervening 80 years, the launch, at a crowded bookshop in former East Berlin, is nevertheless an exciting moment in the tumultuous relationship between science and the arts.”
Tag: 03.31.11
Jesting Our Limits: The Social Science Of April Fools’ Day
“More than just a celebration of mischief – or a license for the boorish – the practical jokes and humor associated with this annual holiday actually play a role in the formation and maintenance of social bonds in small groups.”
How To Protect Copyright? Make Sure You Offer Something People Want To Pay For
“Heavy-handed enforcement of copyright is not the answer when your real goal is to persuade people to buy digital goods and services. To encourage people to part with their money, you have to demonstrate that you have a service worth paying for – as Spotify, Lovefilm or iTunes already do.”
The Great American Art Trip (Coming Soon In Trucks To You)
“After years of rumors about a Great American Art Trip in the works, the painter Eric Fischl has announced a privately financed program in which a truck-based roving museum and performance space will tour the country for two years to address what he sees as an identity crisis in American culture.”
Prediction: Chinese Movie Box Office Will Beat American Box Office In Ten Years
“Overall, the 2010 international box office increased 13% to $22.1 billion. Half of the top 20 films were directed by non-American directors with roles for more international stars, appealing to a worldwide audience.”
Is Amazon’s New “Cloud” Music Service The Future Of Music?
So-called “cloud music”, where music libraries are stored in cyberspace rather than on computer hard drives, is the new Holy Grail of the digital music industry, as technology companies race to entice consumers in a world where the CD has been all but abandoned.
Books In Trouble? When Weren’t They?
“You’d think our literary culture is at a crisis point, and from here our nation will descend into illiteracy and intellectual decrepitude. Marjorie Garber, a professor of English at Harvard and author of several books about Shakespeare and literary studies, draws from hundreds of years of history to prove that literature always seems to be at a crisis point — and it always recovers.”
Reconstructing David Foster Wallace (And Voila A New Book Emerges)
Wallace’s publisher “spent two years assembling and editing the contents of that duffel bag. The results will be published, appropriately enough, on April 15. If The Pale King isn’t a finished work, it is, at the very least, a remarkable document, by no means a stunt or an attempt to cash in on Wallace’s posthumous fame.”
Who Wins And Who Loses In UK Arts Funding Reallocations
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What’s Next After UK Arts Funding Cuts?
“The arts need to prepare for the fightback now. The cuts have been so long heralded that they have taken on a patina of inevitability. In fact much can change, even during this parliament. Many councils will change colour, returning power to the party which imaginatively transformed declining post-industrial cities through cultural development in the last hard times. Meanwhile any potential post-2015 government will need to be pressed to see this retrenchment as reversible.”