“The passions provoked by the show [Girls]–among both critics and admirers–suggest something both refreshing and a little startling: that a pop-culture product that focusses mostly on women and intimate, sometimes gruesome details of their lives, is still considered a provocation.”
Tag: 07.06.12
A New – Well, An Unfinished And Neglected – James Turrell Earth/Light Work
The piece is in Santa Fe and “was never actually open to the public on any regular basis, instead opening only on specific occasions. Hopefully that will change once the refurbishment happens: a Turrell without visitors sitting inside and gazing at the sky seems like the proverbial tree falling in a forest without anyone to hear its sound.”
Is Sibelius Music Score Software Being Shut Down? (Company Says No)
Avid PR contact Ian Bruce, responding to a direct request for comment, stated, “Specifically on Sibelius, this was not part of the sales we announced this week. Sibelius stays with Avid, and is an important brand and product for us going forward.”
Librarians Worry Court Decision Curtails Their Lending Rights
“If left to stand, the library community says the ruling could strip libraries of their first-sale right to lend copies of works made abroad.”
Have Britain’s Young Creative Workers Failed To Evolve?
The real task for young creatives is to earn the institutional support and respect that will allow for any sort of longevity. For those who have something genuinely original, new, and different, however, it is institutional support that is least forthcoming – made even more difficult by the fact that society’s disposable income remains concentrated in our parents’ hands.
Europe’s Tallest Building Opens In London
“It is true that the Shard is strikingly larger and different in design from many of London’s traditional icons. In their time St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower bridge no doubt also stood out against older buildings. Yet to thrive cities need to be living, breathing institutions rather than fossilised organisms.”
Actors, Studios Fight Over Classic TV Shows
“Cast members, noting the continued visibility of their shows on everything from slot machines to action figures to, of course, DVD box sets, are pursuing legal action against studios, often claiming the latter are concealing the amount they’ve made off the actors’ likenesses.”
Claim: 100 Caravaggios Discovered
“Two Italian art historians claim to have discovered as many as 100 works, most of them drawings, by a very young Caravaggio in a collection long attributed to a master Milanese artist he studied under while a boy in the late 1500s.”
Make Haste, Slowly: Hollywood Has At The WikiLeaks Saga
“Movie studios are jostling to be the first to bring the story of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, to the big screen. But when Hollywood attempts to harness a swift-moving news story – particularly one lacking a finale – the task can be more complicated than simply casting a look-alike.”
China’s Top Painter Hits A Wall
“Zhang Xiaogang, age 54, a Beijing-based painter whose hypnotic portraits have topped $10 million at auction, recently suffered a pair of heart attacks, and his doctors told him – for the first time in his three-decade career – to rest. Few artists embody China’s art boom better than Mr. Zhang, who grew up amid the Cultural Revolution … Yet his desire to keep breakneck pace with China’s developing art scene has taken a toll.”