“How is it possible that a play can convey a crippling blow to religious dogma and authority without alienating anyone except the most puritan and devout?”
Tag: 06.20.11
British Art Stars Designing 2012 London Olympics Posters
“Twelve artists including Tracey Emin, Martin Creed and Chris Ofili will design a set of posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer, as Britain seeks to use the events to showcase its cultural heritage.”
A Different Approach To Computer Translation: Cryptography
“[Current] machine translation techniques rely on analysing the statistical properties of the same text written in two different languages.” But a pair of researchers in California “treat translation as a cryptographic problem, as if the foreign text were simply English written in an advanced cipher.”
Are Prize Juries Taking Over The Arts?
“The rise of the prize means the public is more and more guided by official taste as embodied in juries. It is often said the critic is a dying breed. But juries are replacing critics, and they exert influence in a far more questionable way. A jury does not have to explain its decision to the public; does not have to say why one artist is better than another.”
Fight Over Canadian Artists Rights In Museums
“Under this law, the owner of any work created after 7 June 1988 cannot display it without the copyright holder’s permission, which could mean paying a fee to the artist each time a work is exhibited. Most Canadian museums try to negotiate the long-term right to display works they acquire at little or no fee. An extra exhibition fee is generally paid if a post-1988 work is borrowed.”
Theatre @ The Movies
“This Company was, in part, an experiment in accessibility designed to continue the ongoing exploration of the potential for live theater to make money by filming performances for display in movie theaters.”
Colorado Shakespeare Festival Looking For Turnaround
“Setbacks that weren’t in the script for the outdoor festival — the recession, a West Nile virus scare and a summer of heavy rainfall — all contributed to the decline in revenue over the past few years.”
Movie Theatres Grapple With The Texting Generation
“What happened to our attention spans? Why must we talk, text and tweet in the middle of a movie? And what–if anything–can theaters do to stop this erosion of cinema civility?”
When Non-Profits Go Poof!
“Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service announced that 275,000 nonprofit corporations, clubs, and charities had lost their tax-exempt status. Poof! Just like that, 6,500 of them in Massachusetts.”
At The Annie Open Call Auditions
“This interactive feature, compiled by Erik Piepenburg, a producer for NYTimes.com, and Michael Nagle, a photographer, includes portraits and selected audio interviews with 43 girls waiting in line to audition.”