“All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials. But no actual papers trade hands: everything is digital, and the internet-accessible content is not banned for shocking content so much as that modern crime, copyright infringement. But for the people who run the world’s pirate libraries, their goals are no less ambitious for their work’s illicit nature.”
Tag: 04.21.16
Cindy Sherman Is Sick Of Photography And Might Just Head For The Movies
“Back in 1999, Ms. Sherman insisted that ‘I’m under so many layers of makeup that I’m trying to obliterate myself in the images. I’m not revealing anything.’ Now she admits to a more ‘personal aspect’ in her images of aging stars: ‘I, as an older woman, am struggling with the idea of being an older woman.'”
Portland’s Contemporary Art Nomads Get A Huge New Rent-Free Home
“‘We’re moving into a space and not having a capital campaign,’ said Ethan Seltzer, PICA’s board president and a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. ‘This is mind-blowing.'”
An Ambitious Plan For A Children’s Lit Museum In Kansas City
“Few people realize that children’s literature has a canon, like music or dance. The superstore model and then the Internet model have destroyed publishers’ backlists. Whether it’s the ‘Little House’ books or ‘The Story About Ping’ and ‘The Five Chinese Brothers,’ there are thousands of classics that are not being connected back to the culture. We want to renew and revive and regenerate older titles.”
Looks Like Spain Might Not Be As Invested In Cervantes’ 400th Death Day As Fans Would Like
“On a recent visit, a guide told his group that Cervantes would have been better honored had he lived in London instead of Madrid, even though he lived in the same district of the city, aptly known as the Barrio de Las Letras (the literary quarter), as several other writers of the so-called Spanish Golden Age.”
When Algorithms Choose Your Music For You, Something Is Being Lost
“I do feel that if the great push of the smartest minds in this business is moving towards efficiency in curating for you, in delivering you what it knows you will like from the great abundance, well, something’s being lost, isn’t it? Isn’t the thing that’s being lost you and your efforts to figure out what you like and you respond to?”
Research: Men Who Are Good Storytellers Are More Attractive Mates
“Storytelling ability appears to increase (a man’s) perceived status, and thus helps men attract long-term partners.”
Playing The Queen: The Tricks To Portraying Elizabeth II On Stage And Screen
“What is it like to play one of the most famous faces in the world – and what makes so many want to do so? … Two who have done exactly that on stage say there is one crucial element for getting into character …”
Scenes From Antony Sher’s Falstaff Diaries
“Tuesday 10 September – ‘How do you learn all those lines?’ This question is the one that the public most frequently ask of actors. We laugh about it, laugh at them for being so shallow – as though learning lines were the great mystery in acting. Well, I’ve stopped laughing. It’s an age thing.”
Bach With Beer: Two Critics Assess A Bar Concert
“Peter Dobrin: The Baroque cello, with its sheep and cow gut strings, is a pretty quiet instrument. Did it come across for you? And was this your first non-vegan cello experience?
Samantha Melamed: It was my first, ahem, visceral cello experience.”