“This summer, China also unveiled the world’s largest building in terms of floor space in the western city of Chengdu. The New Century Global Center edged out the previous record-holder, the Dubai airport.”
Tag: 08.04.13
Did UK Arts Become Too “Safe” During Funding Boom?
“Mark Ravenhill said he was against cuts but that the performing arts had been compromised by a “cosy” relationship with funders over the past 15 years. He said artists “weren’t telling the truth” about the world often enough when public funding was more plentiful.”
Buy Local – Community Supported Art
“The C.S.A.’s have flourished in larger cities as a kind of organic alternative to the dominance of the commercial gallery system and in smaller places as a way to make up for the dearth of galleries, as a means of helping emerging artists and attracting people who are interested in art but feel they have neither the means nor the connections to collect it.”
Eventually, That Broken Heart Might Mend Damn Fast Via Computer Interfact
“Sure, it sounds like movie fantasy right now, but don’t laugh off the imagination of Hollywood screenwriters; sometimes the movies can be a great predictor of things to come.”
Stop Making Fun Of Life-Saving (Or At Least Eyesight-Saving) ‘Star Wars’ Action Figures
“Action figures provide all the interactivity of video games without the eyestrain — but with much of the freeform imaginary wonder of sticks and rocks. I would contend that the Star Wars toys many of us used to play with … open up remarkable new avenues of creativity for children.”
How Did A Legendary Editor And A Legendary Media Mogul So Badly Misread The Fate of ‘Newsweek’?
Current and former employees claim that Tina Brown and Barry Diller “underestimated what it would take to reverse the dive of a print magazine (the two have acknowledged as much) and that there was never a credible plan to integrate the products into a better whole (an opinion they utterly contest).”
(British) People Don’t Just Enjoy Opera, They Long To Create Opera
“Budgets for these operatic laboratories are minuscule, but the atmosphere is rich in constructive critical encouragement. As yet, no masterpieces have emerged from the Petri dish, but one day who knows?”
U.S. Tech Companies Aren’t Exactly Beloved In Europe
What with Amazon’s labor practices, Google’s Street View, and Facebook’s issues with privacy, Europe – especially German – is not into boosterism these tech companies often receive at home.
Turning Hurricane Sandy’s Devastation Into Theatre – About Hurricane Sandy
At the Rockaway Theatre Company, which lost everything in the hurricane: “There was the darkness part of the story, all storm songs and rain and wind songs. And then the other side is the comeback, the light that we would be coming into.”
When AMC Loses ‘Breaking Bad’ And ‘Mad Men,’ What Will It Do?
Basically? Develop more good shows – or so it hopes.