“Here is the future, we are made to understand: we can either get on board or stand athwart it and get run over. The same kind of revolutionary rhetoric appears again and again in the new books on the digital humanities, from writers with very different degrees of scholarly commitment and intellectual sophistication.”
Tag: 05.02.14
Portrait Of A Celebrity Canadian Arts Administrator
Jeff Melanson is “a disruptive innovator and so I think it would be safe to say that status quo is not going to be the way the Toronto Symphony moves forward.”
The Myth Of The “Poor Man’s Copyright”
“The practice of sending a copy of your own work to yourself is sometimes called a ‘poor man’s copyright.’ There is no provision in the copyright law regarding any such type of protection, and it is not a substitute for registration.”
Michelangelo’s David Could Be brought Down By Weak Ankles?
“According to findings from Italy’s National Research Council and the University of Florence, the famous marble sculpture has tiny cracks around its ankles that could cause a serious problem for the masterpiece’s prolonged stability.”
Pennsylvania Ballet Artistic Director Steps Down
“Roy Kaiser, who joined the corps de ballet of the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1979 and rose through its ranks to principal before eventually becoming artistic director of the company in 1995, has announced that he is stepping down.”