“Sixty-two percent of viewers across the country interviewed in a poll conducted for the nation’s largest cable company, Comcast Corp., said they have used time-shifting technology. Six in 10 people said they owned a digital video recorder.”
Tag: 08.17.10
Why Do Conceptual Artists Bother?
Here’s a “question of conceptual art and conceptual artists in general: Why do they bother? Why do conceptual artists continue to employ finite resources and materials, not to mention occupy valuable space in museums, when, unlike other artists, the conceptual artist has an infinite amount of perfectly adequate space available to make and exhibit art in his or her head?”
Device Rewires The Brain To Let Blind People “See” By Sound
“A new device that restores a form of sight to the blind is turning our understanding of the senses upside down.”
National Jazz Museum Acquires Near-Mythical Audio Collection
“For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of ‘the Savory Collection.’ … [It] was known to include extended live performances by some of the most honored names in jazz – but only a handful of people had ever heard even the smallest fraction of that music, adding to its mystique.”
What to Do With the Arts on New York’s Governor’s Island?
“Eight hundred yards from Manhattan’s shores, Governors Island has been shaping its own cultural identity, Mr. Rothstein wrote, which he characterized as eccentric, surprising and fanciful. On the ArtsBeat blog, New York Times critics from several disciplines discussed the island’s role as a cultural destination.”