“From CEOs to struggling artists, in everything from health care to entertainment to education, many of us are being challenged by the problem of others sharing and using our intellectual property without permission. This challenge requires a change of attitude, because sometimes piracy isn’t the problem, it’s the solution.”
Tag: 05.10.08
Next Jukebox Show: The BeeGees
“Robin Gibb said the project was already in the pipeline and could be on stage in the next 12-16 months.”
When Viral Marketing Makes You Sick
“Entire industries have been built on developing viral campaigns. Movie and games companies lead the way with clever, funny and attention-grabbing ideas. These are shrewd campaigns which normal web users will instinctively Fwd to their friends.” But when organizations try to “manufacture” viral campaigns…
Can The Internet Write A Novel?
The answer is yes but a terrible one! “But the project itself is ripe for sociological study. It’s a fully and publicly documented interaction between over a thousand would-be authors, a postmodern literary critic’s orgiastic wet dream.”
Why Jerome Robbins Matters
Like Leonard Bernstein, “Robbins believed that it was possible to create a distinctively American style of high art that could draw on popular culture without compromising its own underlying seriousness.”
Fiction That Reliably Reflects National Reality
The story of Israeli literature is as troubled and turbulent as the country’s 60-year-old history. “In a world where the struggle over meaning is felt to have the power to determine the destinies of peoples, it has most often – certainly most powerfully – acted as the nation’s conscience, shattering the rhetoric of state.”
Britart’s Best?
“Will Rachel Whiteread, unshowy as she is, be the Britartist who stands the test of time? Whiteread was always regarded as the serious-minded one among the Britart pack. While the work of Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas screamed for attention, Whiteread’s tended to whisper – despite its scale. It also caused huge controversy.”
Thomson Sketches Could Be Blockbusters
“Tom Thomson is probably the hottest artist in Canada right now – and he’s going to get even hotter this month… Five Thomson sketches are coming up for auction soon, [and] expectations are high that two works from this batch will at the very least enter the million-dollar circle, and at the very best smash the Thomson record of $1,463,500.”
A Critic’s Farewell
Melinda Bargreen is leaving the Seattle Times after 31 years as classical music critic. “It hasn’t been dull… During the past 2 ½ decades, an unprecedented arts boom hit the Northwest and changed the music scene forever.”
The Muti Effect
“Riccardo Muti is too diplomatic to say so, of course, but the reasons he chose Chicago over New York seem implicitly clear: Chicago has the better orchestra… and he faces nothing here like the podium competition he would encounter on the East Coast.” And while some have questioned the hire, John von Rhein says the CSO unquestionably made the right call.