It is they said, the “Creative Capital of the World ” with one of every six people employed in a creative field, and generating over $ 120 billion dollars annually in gross revenue.
Tag: 06.11.13
Sales Of Orwell’s “1984” Soar With NSA Revelations
“As of Wednesday morning, four different editions of the book are in the top 40 of Amazon’s “Movers and Shakers” list with the highest ranking at 17. At one point, the Centennial Edition’s popularity was up nearly 10,000 percent and clocked in at third most popular on the list.”
Greece Shuts Down Its Public Broadcaster For Reorganization
“The Greek government has shut down the public broadcaster ERT, calling it a ‘haven of waste’. … While all 2,500 employees would be sacked, [said a government spokesman,] they would be paid compensation and would be able to apply for work when the corporation relaunches as a smaller, independent public broadcaster.”
Your Hidden Censor: What Your Mind Will Not Let You See
Over the last generation, “hundreds of studies have backed up the idea that when attention is occupied with one thing, people often fail to notice other things right before their eyes.”
Ai Weiwei Says America’s NSA Is Becoming Like China
“Even though we know governments do all kinds of things I was shocked by the information about the US surveillance operation, Prism. To me, it’s abusively using government powers to interfere in individuals’ privacy. … I lived in the United States for 12 years. This abuse of state power goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be a civilised society, and it will be shocking for me if American citizens allow this to continue.”
Now Iran Has A Jon Stewart – And His Satire is Illegal
“[Kambiz] Hosseini’s scathing and hysterical news podcast is an essential part of the weekly media diet of Iran’s middle class. Produced by the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, and incorporating sound bites from the week’s headlines and commentary from Hosseini, the show channels the pathos of a generation desperate to intervene in a meaningful way in Iran’s political charades.”
‘Spectacular Blow-Up’: Why Opera Australia’s Ring Conductor Really Resigned
“A ‘spectacular blow-up’ between conductor Richard Mills and a senior cast member of the Melbourne Ring cycle was due to Mills’s inexperience in conducting the massive opera,” according to an unnamed backstage source.
Met Museum Returns Sculptures To Cambodia
“The life-size sculptures, known as the “kneeling attendants”, had been displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly 20 years. The museum pledged to return the artefacts after evidence suggested they had been illegally exported.”
Art Everywhere? Is That Really A Good Thing?
“This is a scheme that prioritises the accessibility of art over quality. The most obvious problem is that they will be prints of real pictures, pictures that are better seen in the flesh, so to speak.”
New Scan Illuminates Historic Opera Score
“When contemporary critics complained that the three-hour opera was too long, composer Luigi Cherubini blacked out its coda, according to legend. Now musicians have the full length of the original 1797 piece.”