“The old media companies are constraining their content so severely that there’s more upside in retransmitting the old stuff in new ways – even boringly obvious new ways – than in creating new stuff. And that’s why we have so many re-runs, and why it looks like we’re doomed to have so much more in the near future.”
Tag: 08.07.12
Authors Sue Google For Billions Over Digital Copying
The Authors Guild is demanding “as much as $2 billion in damages for digitally scanning 2.7 million university library books without permission.”
Millions In UK Take Part In Olympic Arts Events
“Approximately 2.9 million took part in a mass bell-ringing session on the opening day of the games. A further 9.6 million visited free events like Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend and the Tate Modern’s oil tanks. Figures collated from venues showed another 2.5 million people had been to paid-for events.”
Art Critic Robert Hughes, 74
“With a Hemingwayesque build and the distinctively rounded vowels of his native Australia, Mr. Hughes became as familiar a presence on television as he was in print, over three decades for Time magazine, where he was chief art critic and often a traditionalist scourge during an era when art movements fractured into unrecognizability.”
Australian Ballet’s Ballet Master Retires After 50 Years
“Colin Peasley first agreed to do ballet under sufferance with two conditions: that it was a private lesson and he didn’t have to wear tights. More than 50 years later, Peasley, 77, is leaving the Australian Ballet as its longest-serving member, working as a principal dancer, educator and artist in residence at the company he founded in 1962.”
Not Your Ancestors’ Cradleboard: Contemporary Native American Art
“On one side, Donald ‘Babe’ Hemlock’s Ironworker Cradleboard (2011) looks like the cozy abode devised by American Indians to swaddle an infant … Painted on the cradle’s wood support is a Mohawk ironworker, balancing on one foot atop a construction girder that is vertiginously suspended over Times Square.”