Hollywood Stars Taking Huge Paycuts

“They seemed to have cut out that tier of actors in film that used to make mid six figures – those working actors that didn’t greenlight movies but were reputable and good at their craft. Now they pay the Will Smiths of the world and then lowball everyone else. It has become so competitive that people will take what they can get.”

New Acropolis Museum Looks Ahead Into The Ruins Of The Past

“With its survey (on a lower floor) of archaic sculptures excavated on the Acropolis, and its dramatic mirroring of the Parthenon, the New Acropolis Museum makes a standing argument for repatriation of the so-called Elgin Marbles, the largest and finest remnants of Parthenon sculpture, prize treasures of the British Museum since the early 19th century.”

Is Obama The New Pop Culture?

“Popular culture and mass media are no longer very popular or mass. By and large, both entertainment and art appeal to niches, cultural tribes that range in size from tiny to smallish. But our hunger for massively shared cultural moments has not disappeared. In our Balkanized era, Barack Obama simply is the pop cultural colossus.”