“The truth is that it took a long time for e-books to ‘arrive’; Amazon was far from first. There, admittedly, was a comfort level that had to be worked out with the electronic book, which gave Amazon the perfect opportunity to swoop in. Tonight’s Tedium talks about the evolution of electronic books before the Kindle. I’d tell you to turn the page, but we’re not really working with paper here, are we?”
Tag: 04.26.18
Vandal Who Slashed $3 Million Painting Was Owner’s Own Son, Say Police
Almost exactly one year ago, an unknown man jogged into the Opera Gallery in Aspen, walked up to Christopher Wool’s painting Untitled 2004, cut it twice with a knife, and jogged right out. Police now say that Nicholas Morley flew from London for the express purpose of damaging the artwork, which had been consigned to the gallery for sale by a holding company owned by Morley’s father. (Just days later, Dad tried to convince the gallery that news reports of the slashing had made the painting more valuable and that they should raise the price.)
Second Major Museum Of Contemporary African Art Opens In Cape Town – And It’s Poached Staff From The First
Just last September, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) opened in a repurposed grain silo on the Cape Town waterfront. And just last week, the Norval Foundation, funded by real estate financier Louis Norval, opened in a new building on a suburban estate near Table Mountain. What’s more, both the executive director and the chief director of the Norval came from Zeitz MOCAA.
At Work With One Of Britain’s – And Now Hollywood’s – Top Casting Directors
“There was a moment, somewhere in the nexus between Game of Thrones and The Crown, where it felt as if [Nina] Gold’s name was gliding through the credits of every high-end show on TV. Her 167 credits include many grand British success stories – The King’s Speech, The Theory of Everything, the Paddington movies and every Mike Leigh film since Topsy-Turvy. But in the past few years, she has ascended into Hollywood’s mega-franchise league (the Star Wars saga, sequels to Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!). Gold is partly responsible for the impression that British actors have colonised Hollywood.”
Digital Art On Your Wall By Subscription
Meural is one of the more notable startups in the digital art subscription space. For hardware that is ultimately just a high-end digital photo frame, the companies are more focused on the idea that a certain type of consumer is interested in a monthly subscription to digital art. It’s a wild idea that has been a tough one to chase.
The Sackler Protests Continue, This Time In DC
On Thursday, the Nan Goldin-led group PAIN traveled to the capital to protest the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery of Art. Goldin said, “We are here to call out all of the Sacklers. … The Sackler brothers built an empire of pain.”
The New Lynching Memorial Is ‘Gut-Wrenching And Beautiful’
“That’s the genius of the museum’s design. It neither shies away from nor revels in the horrors it asks you to contemplate. … It grabs you by the throat but makes sure not to choke you. It confronts without condemning. It provides hope through the sculptures, and footprints, of brave women in Montgomery who were the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. They overcame and so can we.”
Sam Hamill, Poet And Founder Of Copper Canyon Press, Dies At 74
Hamill also sparked a massive movement of poets against the war with Iraq after being invited to a White House symposium in 2003. “He built a website to present the poems he received, and the White House eventually canceled the symposium. More than 135 poetry readings and other protests were held around the country on Feb. 12, the day the symposium was supposed to begin. More than 13,000 poets submitted work to Mr. Hamill’s website, some of which, including poems by John Balaban, Ursula K. Le Guin and Adrienne Rich, were collected in an anthology, Poets Against the War.“
A New Institute To Study Failure
Research on failure as a motivator is limited, though the evidence that does exist suggests that students can grow both from learning about the failures of other successful people and from experiencing failure themselves. Crucially, for failure to “work,” research indicates that educators and parents need to encourage students to figure out what went wrong and try to improve. “Failure needs to give people a chance to regroup and rewind the clock,” Xiaodong Lin-Siegler explained. Her main goal, she said, is to help students realize that failure is a normal part of the process of learning.
What It Takes To Be A Festival Director These Days
Preserving a special sense of meaning is pivotal for Jane Moss. “There are lots of festivals around. You need to stay focused on a festival that has meaning of some sort.” She has found that the most successful performing arts events “always have enormous passion attached. For a festival, you need somebody who is an advocate and who is passionate about what they are presenting. Audiences do not want programming based on a focus group. They tend to respond to vision. If you start with the premise: ‘We want an audience of XX and therefore will do YY, because we think we know what they will like’, it almost never works. The audience will respond to a director who has passion.”