“Go to any technology conference these days, and you’re likely to find VCs who say that there are entire sectors they refuse to invest in, just because the waters are so troll-infested. Google and Apple might be able to do interesting things in wearable computing, for instance, but a single lawsuit could easily wipe out a startup in the same space — even if it was entirely frivolous.”
Tag: 06.05.13
Police Are Arresting Street Musicians In Atlanta
“The most recent arrest was just outside Turner Field, where police took a man’s trombone and cuffed him.”
Why Supporting Creativity Education Ought To Be Core To Philanthropy
“Philanthropy can and should view the arts as a way to accomplish its wider mission. Broadening and expanding the vision about how we categorize the arts and putting them front and center on the necessary and core list, not the optional list, is an important first step.”
David Carradine’s Last Movie Was Funded By Tax Fraud
“Richard Driscoll’s Eldorado was pegged to become a cult classic – the first British film shot in 3D set to be released posthumously as the last ever movie starring David Carradine. But after it was funded with £1.5 million taken from the taxpayer it never saw the light of day.”
New World Record Price For Islamic Art Set By Persian Carpet
The rarely-displayed Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet, one of 25 auctioned off at Sotheby’s by Washington’s beleaguered Corcoran Gallery of Art, sold for $33.765 million – a new high for art from the Islamic world and well over triple the previous record for a carpet.
A.M. Homes Pips Hilary Mantel To Take Women’s Prize For Fiction
“AM Homes became the fifth American in a row to be named winner of the £30,000 prize, formerly known as the Orange, for her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven” – defeating the oddsmakers’ favorite, Hilary Mantel’s multiple award-winner Bring Up the Bodies.
Hirshhorn Museum Officially Deflates The Bubble
“The Seasonal Inflatable Structure project, informally known as ‘the Bubble,’ is dead, the Smithsonian Institution and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced Wednesday. The decision … caps years of high-level debate and division about what the Bubble would mean for the Hirshhorn and the Mall.”
Conductor Quits Opera Australia’s First Ring Cycle
Richard Mills “has withdrawn just months before the November launch of the $15 million Neil Armfield production of Wagner’s tetralogy, due to a lack of both ‘chemistry between cast and conductor’ and ‘unity of vision’, Mills commented in a statement issued today.”
Jazz Bassist Ben Tucker Dead In Car Crash
The 82-year-old “performed with stars from Quincy Jones to Peggy Lee before he settled in the 1970s in Savannah,” where he became one of the city’s best-known working musicians. He was struck by a motorist while driving a golf cart on Tuesday.
Minneapolis Institute Of Art Gets Major Collection Of Japanese Works
The gift, from California ranchers Libby and Bill Clark, “is among the largest in the MIA’s history, consisting of nearly 1,700 objects – paintings, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, bamboo baskets – spanning more than 1,000 years.”