“We had to pivot and say: What are we going to do with these books that were going to be anti-Hillary? Instead we developed new approaches that talked about the Trump agenda.”
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Out Damn Ticket Surcharge!
“At the Birmingham Stage Company we recently went public about our decision to pull out of future presentations at Leeds Grand because of the £3 booking fee and £1 restoration fee that is levied on all tickets. This means that schoolchildren seeing our production of Gangsta Granny by David Walliams for £10 are then being asked to pay another £4 on top. This effectively amounts to a 40% surcharge on every ticket.”
This City Branding Campaign May Make You Laugh, But It Won’t Make You Roll Your Eyes In Contempt
“A new campaign out of Chattanooga, Tennessee dubs the city ‘Literally Perfect’ with a series of delightfully demented mini-musicals.” Laura Bliss explains why it’s “better than it ought to be.”
Teachers Selling Their Lessons Has Become Big Business
“Teachers Pay Teachers contends that it hit a milestone last year, when its 80,000 contributors earned more than $100 million, and that at least a dozen have become millionaires since the site launched a decade ago. Other major sites including Teachwise and Teacher’s Notebook, and recently such corporate players as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Amazon, have launched sites of their own. But some educators worry the increasing monetizing of lessons will stifle the longstanding practice of teachers freely sharing their ideas. And legal experts question whether teachers actually have ownership of the lessons they are selling.”
An Autism Advocate Explains How She Helped ‘Sesame Street’ Create Its New Autistic Muppet
Slate‘s Marissa Martinelli talks with Julia Bascom, executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
Sculptor Who Made Wall Street’s Iconic Charging Bull Sculpture Says His Work Has Been Appropriated Without His Permission By “Fearless Girl” Creators
The sculptor who created the iconic “Charging Bull” statue in New York City’s financial district says the city and an investment company violated his rights by installing the newly popular “Fearless Girl” statue near his creation without permission for what amounts to a commercial ad campaign.
Where Exactly Do Pianists Look As They Play? This Project Tracked Their Eyes To Find Out
“Function, a video series from Fractal NYC, outfitted two piano players with special glasses that track the movement of their eyes. … Insight pianists gain from eye tracking can be an excellent tool to help them perfect their playing. That is, if they can watch without getting dizzy.”
Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ May Be Saved – By A Grocery Chain
“Perhaps you didn’t know, but The Last Supper … is deteriorating rapidly, mostly due to the factors of time, humidity, wartime bombs, and the fact that it was once housed in a prison.” But Eataly, the upscale food purveyor, is paying for a high-tech contraption that may help save the decaying mural. Nate Freeman has the details (and a bit of snark).
Refugees Form A Theatre Company On One Of Berlin’s Fabled Stages
The Exil Ensemble is “a group of seven performers from Syria, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan who can’t pursue their art in their home countries and who are now in residency at the Maxim Gorki Theater” (whose house director, incidentally, is Israeli). “But how do you turn your own arrival into art so soon? How do you face the trauma? And express yourself in a new language?”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.12.17
Plumbing Duchamp’s Urinal: How Erudite Art Historians Piss on Simplicity
When pondering the meaning of enigmatic artworks, critics and scholars often mix factual knowledge with leaps of interpretive imagination, conveyed through highfalutin verbiage. Thus it was when … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-04-12