“We should think of YouTube and the music industry as being locked in a marriage that is equal parts mutual dependency and mutual hatred. It’s less angels and devils, more George and Mildred.”
Tag: 04.18.16
Replica Of Palmyra Arch Created In London’s Trafalgar Square
“The scale model of the Arch of Triumph has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch.”
Atlanta Makeover: A City Refreshes Its Arts Leadership
“Not only the High Museum, the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Ballet but also the Cobb Energy Centre just lost its managing director and is looking for a new person. That’s a major, major change. From 2008 to 2012, the arts took a huge hit. And in the past three years, there has been a renaissance or reinvention of the arts. People in Atlanta are coming back, but they want to see something new and different.”
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Play Is Back In Monroeville – Under New Management
“Harper Lee, the author who first gave life to the story and became this town’s most famous resident, died in February. The play, which is an adaptation of her novel, is being produced this spring for the first time by a nonprofit she” – and her controversial attorney, Tonja Carter – “created, not the local museum that had relied on it for revenue.”
US Supreme Court Rules Google Books Project Covered By “Fair Use”
“The Supreme Court let stand the lower court opinion that rejected the writers’ claims. That decision today means Google Books won’t have to close up shop or ask book publishers for permission to scan. In the long run, the ruling could inspire other large-scale digitization projects.”
20 Ways For Nonprofits To Be Nicer To Job Applicants And Stop Treating Them Like Crap
“There are tons of tips out there for job applicants about how to stand out and improve their chances of securing that dream job. Today, let’s bring some balance. We in the nonprofit sector pride ourselves on equity, community, and social justice. And yet we still have some terrible habits that we need to break.”
Court Orders La Scala To Rehire Ballerina Fired In Anorexia Controversy
“Mariafrancesca Garritano was sacked unfairly in 2012, the Court of Cassation concluded in a definitive ruling on a case that turned the spotlight on eating disorders in the high-pressure world of professional ballet.”
The New Yorker Becomes The First Magazine To Win A Pulitzer (Two Of Them, In Fact)
The Feature Writing prize went to Kathryn Schulz for “The Really Big One,” about the potential for a massive earthquake in California; the magazine’s television critic, Emily Nussaum, took the award for criticism.
New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum Wins Pulitzer; Twittersphere Jumps For Joy
As it happens, Nussbaum is the second female television critic in a row to take the prize, which went to The Los Angeles Times’s Mary McNamara last year.
Literary Pulitzers Go To Books That Had Been Overlooked (Until Now)
For instance, “literary types spent most of the fall arguing about A Little Life in the pages of various literary reviews [while] neither the London Review of Books nor the New York Review of Books has touched” this year’s fiction winner. (They will now.)