“Nine artists from Glasgow on the Turner Prize shortlist in the past six years alone and ten more on the Beck’s Futures shortlist during its six-year existence in the early 2000s.”
Tag: 04.17.12
Jordan’s Only Orchestra Faces Closure
“A loss of donor funding means that the [Amman Symphony Orchestra] and the Amman Arab Music Ensemble (AAME) will close down at the end of the 2012 concert season if they do not raise enough financial support from both public and private institutions.”
Cynthia Ozick 2-1 Favorite To Win Orange Prize
Well, that’s what the London bookies are saying. The 84-year-old author “joins a [finalist] list including her fellow Americans Ann Patchett and Madeline Miller, Esi Edugyan from Canada, the Irish writer Anne Enright and the sole British contender, Georgina Harding.”
Did Humans “Invent” Music?
“Of course, music is universal now, but so are mobile phones, and we know that mobile phones aren’t evolved adaptations. When we think about music, it’s important to remember that an awful lot of features that we take for granted in Western music–like harmony and 12-bar blues structure, to say nothing of pianos or synthesizers, simply didn’t exist 1,000 years ago.”
E.B. White On A Writer’s Responsibility
“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. I feel no obligation to deal with politics. I do feel a responsibility to society because of going into print: a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error.”
Meet San Francisco Ballet’s Gennadi Nedvigin
In 1997, he was a teenager on tour in California with a French youth ballet troupe when SF Ballet director Helgi Tomasson walked right up to him backstage after a performance and offered him a contract – as a soloist.
AP Style Guide Finally Gives In On Usage Of ‘Hopefully’
“The barbarians have done it, finally infiltrated a remaining bastion of order in a linguistic wasteland. They had already taken the Oxford English Dictionary … They had pummeled American Heritage into submission, though she fought valiantly … [Now] the venerated AP Stylebook [has] publicly affirmed (via tweet, no less) what it had already told the American Copy Editors Society: It, too, had succumbed. ‘We now support the modern usage of hopefully,’ the tweet said. ‘It is hoped, we hope’.”
Report: The Internet Isn’t Killing Entertainment Industry
“The founder of Techdirt, Michael Masnick, has released a provocative new report (pdf) called The Sky is Rising!, in which he argues that the degree to which the internet is harming the creative industries has been grossly overstated.”
London Olympics To Fans: No Sharing The Action Over Facebook, Twitter
“Fans in the crowd won’t be allowed to upload snippets of the day’s action to YouTube – or even, potentially, to post their snaps from inside the Olympic Village on Facebook. And a crack team of branding “police”, the Games organisers Locog have acknowledged, will be checking every bathroom in every Olympic venue – with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers’ logos even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets.”
Is Abu Dhabi Ready For A Contemporary Art Museum?
With all the delays in the construction of the planned museums on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island – including a Guggenheim branch – some observers are wondering if the whole idea was a good one. After all, both the government and the population are very conservative, and the Gulf already has Qatar pouring big money into museums and the art market.