“In Hong Kong, the goal is not only to preserve the objects for posterity. Although the protests have disbanded, Mr. Wong said, the hope is to display the objects in a way that can revive the spirit of the movement.”
Tag: 05.13.16
The British Composers Who Took Minor Poems And Made Them Into Major Works Of Art
“Composers, however, have rarely hesitated … to treat their poets in cavalier fashion: changing titles, altering words, omitting or repeating lines or whole stanzas. Of course, poems have become known across the globe, carried by the power of music.”
New Policies Aim To Calm The Hamilton Lines, And Resale Fees, Down A Bit
First, Ticketmaster canceled the tickets of entities that had bought too many – and sold them to Hamilton fans who saw the tweet about new tickets in time. Them, “producers also announced via Twitter new rules for people waiting in line, often round-the-clock, outside the Richard Rodgers Theater, hoping to buy the few tickets released by the box office just before each show.”
The Toast Is Closing, And Here Are Some Of Its Finest Moments
“The Internet wept. It’s hard to believe that The Toast has only been in our lives for three short years, but in that time it has become a bastion of hilarity, comfort, and understanding.”
(Here is the announcement by the Toast’s owner/editors.)
Where Did Yves Klein Get Into All Of That Blue Paint, Anyway?
“Levin had called Klein’s blue paint ‘cheap poster-paint.’ Musgrave corrected him in a letter to the editor, pointing out that Klein ‘prepares and grinds his own paint, an exacting process which gives it its own especial depth, brilliance and beauty.’ This was Klein’s ultramarine blue, in which the radiance and intensity of the original dry pigment was not compromised or dulled by the medium binding it to the support.”
Barbican Chief Says The Arts Center Was Wrong To Cancel “Exhibit B” After Protests
“The scale of the complaints took us by surprise. We were not trying to cause offence and we were always willing to engage in debate. But I accept that we did offend and we offended doubly. We offended those who thought the production was racist and those who thought we prevented freedom of speech when we made the decision on advice from the police to cancel the show.”
So E-Books Are Down And Paper Books Are Up. What Happened?
“What went wrong? Clearly publishing, like other industries before (and since), suffered a bad attack of technodazzle: It failed to distinguish between newness and value. It could read digital’s hysterical cheerleaders, but not predict how a market of human beings would respond to a product once the novelty had passed. It ignored human nature. Reading the meaning of words is not consuming a manufacture: it is experience.”
Without Warning, Brussels Ends All Funding For European Union Youth Orchestra; Music Community Fights Back
EUYO chief executive Marshall Marcus writes about the extraordinary praise the band has received over its 40 years, the bureaucratic reason for the cutoff of money, and how the likes of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Barbican, and the Salzburg Festival are responding.
‘Geek Love’ Author Katherine Dunn Dead At 70
“Dunn had two little-known novels to her name, written in the early 1970s, when Geek Love became widely celebrated. … She seemed bemused by her sudden literary fame after years of struggling to earn a living by working freelance for a number of regional and national outlets, including as an advice columnist and as a boxing writer.”