Britain’s Queens Of Pattern Influenced The Country’s Look For Decades

These women were part of”a succession of great women designers and illustrators who still shape the world we look at and who are finally being given their due recognition as cultural figures. They survived in an era when female printmakers were rarely trusted with the bank loans or investments that might have allowed them to set up their own design houses. Instead they worked anonymously as freelancers.”

The ‘Golden Booker’ May Be A Stunt, Says One Of Its Judges, But It’s A Worthy (And Perhaps Surprising) One

The Golden Booker is an award for one of the Booker winners from the past 50 years, and the shortlist has now been revealed. It includes both popular books – The English Patient and Wolf Hall – and a few surprises as well. Critic and writer Robert McCrum says, “It’s a vindication of 50 years’ debate about the nature of so-called literary fiction. Prizes offer an odd kind of lit crit, but I’d say that almost all the novels the judges had to read, reread and consider have stood the test of time.”

For The Love Of All That’s Holy, Los Angeles MOCA, Please Get A Decent Museum Director This Time

As Philippe Vergne heads out the door, art critic Christopher Knight wonders if there’s some way to DNA-test curators to see if they can make the leap to becoming museum directors – a very different role. “Like his MOCA predecessors Jeremy Strick (1999-2009) and Jeffrey Deitch (2010-2013), Vergne was unable to make the transition from curator to director. That means MOCA, a major art museum of international significance, has been without an effective director going on 20 years — half its lifetime. That desperately needs to change — and fast.”

The Man Tasked With Remaking The Times Literary Supplement For The Internet Age

Adding reviews of Radiohead albums, essays, and political commentary to book reviews has actually worked, it looks like: “The paper is the fastest-growing weekly publication in the United Kingdom, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Paid sales from subscriptions and newsstand have been up 30 percent each of the past two years, from some 26,000 in 2016 to nearly 45,000 today.”

Yes, They Have Awards For The Best Movie Trailers

Trailers have their own ratings and metrics now – the number downloaded in the first 24 hours after release, for one thing. “Television plots have become more interesting and complex, with story arcs playing out over seasons instead of a couple hours. To keep up, the trailer business is becoming more creative, with tightly wound teasers targeted to different global markets and attention spans. Some are as short as three seconds on mobile devices.”