Trinity College Dublin needs funds for the upkeep of the famous illuminated manuscript and the other items in its rare book collections. So they applied for a worldwide trademark – only to get objections from a fast-food giant.
Tag: 08.09.15
Russian Publisher Puts Western Authors’ Names On Books They Say They Never Wrote
“Journalists Luke Harding and Edward Lucas and U.S.-based Russia expert Donald Jensen confirmed to The Moscow Times that they did not know anything about Russian-language books allegedly written by them and produced by Moscow publishing house Algoritm.”
Throwing Off The Shackles Of Being A “Professional” In Theatre
Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making more money off theatre than I ever did as “a professional.” But I’m not a professional.
Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Struggle To Remember
“Art museums across New Orleans felt compelled to remember Hurricane Katrina as the 10th anniversary of its landfall approaches. But the anniversary shows at some of the city’s most high-profile museums seem surprisingly understated, at least to outsiders’ eyes. In fact, they barely seem to be about Katrina at all.”
Prince Compares Traditional Recording Contracts To Slavery
“His pitch to the group was simple: Typical record company contracts turn artists into indentured servants with little control over how their music is used, particularly when it comes to revenue from streaming services playing their music online — and he wants to change that.”
How Instagram Is Influencing The Visual Art Market
In the past few years, it has emerged as the social media platform of choice for many contemporary artists, galleries, auction houses and collectors, who use it to promote art — especially works by emerging artists — and to offer an early peek into studios, auction houses and art fairs. How much that actually translates into sales like the “Lockheed Lounge,” however, is still up for debate.
Tenor Fractures Spine After Stage Collapses Underneath Him
During a performance of Turandot at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy on Friday, tenor Marco Voleri, playing the Emperor Altoum, was sitting on his throne when a cable snapped and the platform fell in, causing him to tumble more than six feet.
David Foster Wallace Took Book Blurbs Way More Seriously Than He Let On
In 2004, he coined the word blurbspeak, defined as “a very special subdialect of English that’s partly hyperbole, but it’s also phrases that sound really good and are very compelling in an advertorial sense, but if you think about them, they’re literally meaningless.” On the other hand, he wrote about two dozen of them over the years, and Lucas Thompson argues that they’re genuinely worthwhile writing.
Born To Riot: Why Sports Fans Love To Brawl, Smash And Set Things On Fire (And Not Just In Philadelphia)
Steve Almond talks to author Justine Gubar (Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan), whose thesis is that “just about anyone can turn into a rioter.” (Even Vancouverites.)
‘One Of The Strange Originals Of American Ballet,’ Alastair Macaulay Called This Man
Who but Matthew Neenan, co-founder of Philadelphia’s BalletX and resident choreographer of the Pennsylvania Ballet, could pull off a classical dance work about a key event in the history of airmail?