“Established companies, aware of the precariousness of their franchises, are determined to maintain their position. … These rearguard actions assume a zero-sum economy where every gain for innovative entrants is a loss for incumbents.”
Tag: 04.25.14
Nigerian Censors Delay Opening Of Film About Biafra
“A film board spokesman told AFP there were ‘regulatory issues’ with the film but that it wasn’t ‘officially banned.'”
San Diego Opera Puts Director Ian Campbell On Leave
“The Campbells will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the organization, but they are still being paid and are technically still part of the company.”
Women Are (Bizarrely) Still Underrepresented In Media – Why?
“On the front page of The New York Times, the study noted, men were quoted three times more often than women. When women were writing the stories, the number of women quoted went up.”
Before The Corcoran Breaks Up, It’s Got To Answer These 22 Questions
“What about my wedding?? Your wedding will go on as planned—if it’s on the books now,” but “by all indications, the building could be going dark in 2015.”
Uproar After Pop Star Puts Out Call For Professional Dancers To Perform For Free
“There’s an assumption that people will work for nothing to get exposure and, of course, that undermines the profession. One would assume they would have enough money to pay dancers who were involved in a music video.”
Jazz At Lincoln Center, Success Story
“Today, ten years after moving into its new home (and against considerable odds), JALC has created a template for building a thriving cultural institution for jazz.”
Amsterdam’s Glorious Rijksmuseum Defaced By Banal Post-Its
Alain De Botton “thinks we’ve got art all wrong. He doesn’t like the way museums are organised and finds the usual little wall labels, with their dates and movements and snippets of art history, unhelpful. Ideally, he envisages museums reorganised according to therapeutic functions – with a basement of suffering, leading upwards to a gallery of self-knowledge on the top floor. It’s like Dante’s circles of hell.”
Censoring Books in Libraries? C’Mon…
“So…are the barbarians pounding down the doors of America’s libraries? Not hardly. A grand total of 307 challenges to the books on the Top 10 list and others like them were reported to the ALA last year. That’s chump change in a country of 318 million people.”
English As A Second Language: A New Wave Of Writers Melds Cultures
A new literary diaspora has taken shape, propelled, as Isabelle de Courtivron has written in “Lives in Translation: Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity,” by “immigration, technology, postcolonialism and globalization,” powerful forces that have “dissolved borders and increased cross-cultural mobility.”