The (questionable, internet-focused) glory of an MFA in a world where MFA programs have exploded.
Tag: 05.29.13
What Birds Can Teach Us About Human Language Learning
Researcher Gary Marcus explains how birds pick up the grammar of songs.
Cairo Opera House Staff On Strike Following Firing Of CEO
“The Cairo Opera House witnessed unprecedented protests on Tuesday, following the sacking of opera house head Ines Abdel-Dayem by the [Islamist government’s] new culture minister.”
Struggling Iraq Puts Together Pavilion At Venice Biennale
“The first challenge was finding artists in a country where making paintings or sculpture might seem at best a secondary concern compared with keeping body and soul together. But [Tamara] Chalabi, one of the figures behind the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, was determined to dent the mainstream western ‘Newsnight version’ of the country.”
Are Today’s Theatre Critics Too Soft?
Recently The Spectator‘s Lloyd Evans wrote of his colleagues, “Critics who go into raptures over near-flops risk turning their columns into the sort of perfumed screeds recited at the funerals of Asian dictators.” Does he have a point?
MoMA’s New Photography Curator Talks State Of The Art
Rather than suggest what it would prefer artists to be doing, a photography department, in Quentin Bajac’s view, has to reflect what they are actually doing. “Photographers can be nostalgic. Curators cannot. We have to follow the artistic practice.”
Workers At UK Museums Strike
“Half of the 66 rooms at London’s National Gallery were closed on Thursday, while one floor of the National Portrait Gallery was closed. Tate Liverpool’s galleries were closed to the public completely.”
A Word Person Apologizes To Numbers
“On behalf of word people everywhere, I hereby extend this general apology to numbers. We have not always counted you as friends.”
Actors Perform Comments From The Guardian’s Forums
“You could think of these skits as a sort of pop art – like Warhol’s can of soup, they challenge us to see a ubiquitous part of our (digital) culture in a new – and hilarious – way.”
Barry Diller: Internet Will Kill Cable TV Model
“Cable is a great closed system where the masses, now 100 million subscribers of cable, support ESPN that is only watched by 10 percent. That’s a great little plot so long as you can keep everybody inside the closed circle. We’re out to get the centricity moved to the internet.”