“The Chinese government plans to turn Beijing into a key art hub in Asia by building an 83,000 sq. m freeport next to the Beijing Capital International Airport scheduled for completion late 2013. Officials hope that the vast storage facility, which is expected to be tax exempt, will encourage collectors and corporations to stockpile their art in Beijing.”
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In An Online World All Art Is “Live”
“For decades, TV writing was a solitary pursuit, the writers alone in a room. Social media has transformed it. The process is now more like playing in a live band, with an audience cheering, booing, and hollering out requests. This is true across the cultural waterfront. As artists in all media go social–from novelists to painters to musicians–the very practice of their craft is becoming public.”
What Happens When You Give A City Free Internet?
“Kansas City tech leaders and the company itself have described Google Fiber as an experiment in civic innovation: Give a whole city super-high speed connections and see what they do with the bandwidth. But Google may also have more self-interested motivations.”
Martin Amis: Beyond Post-Modernism
“Postmodernism had, I think, tremendous predictive power–it predicted how the world was going to be. Now even a politician will talk about, how am I going to spin this. It’s all knowing, and wised up, and confessedly wised up, in a way that it didn’t used to be, before. But as a genre it was naturally kind of disappearing up its own ass.”
Are The Olympics The Biggest Media Event Ever?
“The communications regulator Ofcom has called it the “biggest media event in history”, and says it has prompted a record demand for wireless spectrum to provide close-up pictures and high-quality sound for an expected global audience of over 4 billion.”
Egypt’s New TV Channel For Women, Entirely Veiled
“A satellite channel run and hosted by fully-veiled presenters aims to break down the barriers for women in niqab who until the revolution that brought Islamists to power were shunned by Egypt’s lucrative television industry.”
Is The High-End Classical Music World Going All Spiritual On Us?
Lincoln Center has its new-ish and successful White Lights Festival; the Lucerne Festival has titled its 2012 edition to “Faith”; even the secular, swanky Salzburg Festival has added a ten-day “Spiritual Overture” to its schedule.