Exhibition designers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop.”
Tag: 04.01.10
Art Gallery Of Ontario Director Was Paid $1 Million In 2009
“The disclosure came just hours before 400 AGO staff … voted 96.4 per cent in favour of a strike if they can’t get a contract to replace the one that ended last November. On Thursday, 37 full-time and part-time Local 535 members are set to lose their jobs in a layoff action announced last month by AGO management.”
Mass. Music School Shrinks Staff In Bid For NY Partnership
“After years in the shadow of Boston’s major classical music schools, the Longy School of Music is looking to change course, transitioning from a small institution to a more significant player, perhaps as a satellite of Bard College in New York. The change … has involved shedding more than 20 percent of its teachers, many of whom have taught for decades.”
Boston Public Library Releases Data On Branch Popularity
“The 15 individual measures, which draw on statistics from 2009, lay out in stark detail which branches are less used, clustered close to other locations, and have inadequate facilities…. The release of the data marked the latest step in a process that could end with as many as eight shuttered libraries in the face of a $3.6 million budget shortfall.”
Chicago’s Most Essential Director Gets Under Our Skin
“The flagship director (that would be [Robert] Falls) of our flagship theater (that would be the Goodman) is supposed to get this town, this big town, all riled up. He is supposed to do so with a fresh work of magnitude and ambition. He is supposed to make a series of bold, risky theatrical choices. … Job done.”
Finding The Funny In Classical Music
“People think classical music is supposed to be taken terribly, terribly seriously, but in fact there has been quite a lot of funny classical music over the years. Musical jokes that make you smile, or laugh out loud.”
What A Songbird Might Tell Us About Human Speech
“The genome of the male zebra finch devotes a lot of genetic code to hearing and singing songs, according to an analysis in the journal Nature. Much of that code controls brain circuits that are similar to the circuits people use for vocal learning.”
Bibliophile Seeks E-Reader; Must Be Easy On The Eyes
“So far, there’s little scientific evidence about which screens are better for the eyes. Ophthalmologists say there isn’t really much of a difference between how the eye works with either e-paper or back-lit screens. Neither could damage the eye and neither of these modern screens flicker like old-fashioned TVs.”
Is Retrofitting 2-D Movies As 3-D Even A Good Idea?
“Among movies previously envisioned as 2-D productions, Sony is planning a 3-D reworking of its 2011 vampire story ‘Priest,’ while Warners has similar stereoscopic plans for the last two ‘Harry Potter’ films, 2011’s ‘Sucker Punch’ and ‘Green Lantern.’ But the tactic does have its doubters, including ‘Avatar’s’ own.”
The Nation’s Paper-Hoarder
Meet David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States.