“I’m saying quite honestly what I’m usually thinking about … I was thinking it might be something like the Agora of Athens in ancient Greece, where everyone came together and anyone could put up their hand and say whatever they wanted to say.”
Tag: 05.07.15
Adelaide Festival Has A New Director – A Pair Of Them, In Fact
“Nine years after they last shared the running of Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre, Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy have been announced as the new co-artistic directors of the Adelaide festival of the arts.”
Who Will Miss Dave Letterman Most?
Americana musicians: “‘Dave was celebrating Americana artists before we knew what we were called,’ says Emmylou Harris, one of the scene’s matriarchs, who first performed on Mr. Letterman’s program in 1989.”
Leanne Cope Leaps From Ballet To Broadway With Ease
“Big ballet companies grade their artists by rank, like the military, and out of the Royal’s six ranks, Cope is in the second. From the bottom.”
Big Changes Coming In The Way Songwriters Are Paid?
“Right now, publishers and songwriters are required to license their songs to anyone, at rates that are set by a special rate court. ASCAP and BMI have been pushing to raise those rates, but Pandora and other streaming services have pushed back. So far, the courts have sided with Pandora. Now, the publishers are trying a new approach.”
Tunisian First Novel Wins “Arab Booker Prize” (And Is Banned)
“Shukri al-Mabkhout’s award comes just a week after his publishers learned from an Abu Dhabi bookshop that the novel was banned from bookshops across the Emirates. ‘The Italian’ is the eighth winner of the $50,000 (£33,000) prize known as the “Arabic Booker”.
Study: Facebook Doesn’t Create Echo Chamber, Our Behavior Does
“In a new peer-reviewed study published today in Science, Facebook data scientists have for the first time tried to quantify how much the social network’s formula for its News Feed isolates its users from divergent opinions. According to their findings, Facebook’s own algorithms aren’t to blame. It’s us.”
Does Tory UK Election Win Mean Disaster For The Arts?
“Proposals for further enormous cuts that have more to do with ideology than necessity, combined with the Conservatives’ politically desperate promises not to destroy the NHS or education, mean the cultural sector will effectively be demolished by a second Cameron government.”
LA School District’s Ambitious Technology Bet – And How It Failed
“If one of the country’s largest school districts, one of the world’s largest tech companies, and one of the most established brands in education can’t make it work, can anyone?”
Boston Unveils an Enormous, Rainbow-Colored Spiderweb
“The untitled piece hangs above the Rose Kennedy Greenway and was made by local artist Janet Echelman … Though it appears lightweight, the 600-foot-wide entanglement weighs 2,000 pounds and required 100 miles of rope and a half-million knots.”