Microsoft Bob did not endure, but Comic Sans became one of the font options offered on Windows 95, and instantly became a favourite. “It sticks out,” says Connare. “Everything else looks like something traditional that you see in books.”
Tag: 06.04.14
Edinburgh Fringe Grows To A Record 3000 Performances
“The figure is an 11% increase on last year and ensures it keeps its place as the largest arts festival in the world. The overall rise means that while theatre makes up only 27.5% of all productions in the programme, the lowest percentage ever, the 877 theatre shows are 50 more than in 2013 and are still the largest number ever.”
Barbican, National Theatre And ENO Appoint A “Data Scientist In Residence”
“Somewhere like the Barbican has such a vast array of different data from different types of programming. It has a concert hall, a theatre, an art gallery and a cinema, among others. It will be interesting to see where the gaps are, where we might be able to bridge them and maximise their value.”
Liz Lerman On The Ways Dance Is Changing
“We see that people don’t want to be full-time; they want to be part-time and they want to have their freedom. They want to work with lots of people. They want to make a dance but then they want to make a film but then they want to do this or do that. It’s a very, very different sensibility we’re seeing in the strands of this new world. It’s so hybridized and I think we’re going to play that out for a while.”
A Korean-American Woman Playwright Tries A Black Identity Politics Show
“At first, [Young Jean Lee] envisioned The Shipment as a hip-hop dance piece. It failed completely. It was designed to make the mostly white audience uncomfortable, she said. Instead, they loved it. … ‘It was one of the worst artistic experiences of my life – seeing all the black people walk out and the white people happy, so happy.'”
Musée Picasso In Paris Names New Director
“Laurent Le Bon, the director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, is the new head of the Musée Picasso in Paris. The appointment … follows the dismissal of Anne Baldassari last month.”
Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Retires, Effective Immediately
Said the aristocratic 80-year-old Spaniard, a longstanding and beloved guest conductor with several top U.S. orchestras, “After meeting with my doctors, … I have to recognize publicly that I have cancer … and the moment to quit professional matters has come.”
Eimear McBride Wins Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction With First Novel
McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing defeated the favorite, Donna Tartt’s 771-page The Goldfinch, as well as titles by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri for the £30,000 award formerly known as the Orange Prize.
Australian Ballet Gets $1M In Public Funds To Purchase Mansion
The Melbourne property – full price $4.7 million – will be used as a boarding school for the company’s young students. Yet with most of Australia’s large arts organizations having to absorb big budget cuts, this particular budgetary line item has raised eyebrows.
How A Quirky One-Night-Only Musical Got Onto Broadway And Got Four Tony Nominations
A Q&A with producers Dan and Amy Sherman Palladino, who basically stalked the star and the director of the Roundabout.