“Former Asheville mayor and city manager Ken Michalove, who has been dogging the footsteps of the Asheville Art Museum for nearly two years, now says it is headed for bankruptcy unless it ramps up its own fundraising, sticks to its original goals and stops trying to adjust its game plan and financial reports so as to qualify for city and county money.”
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Tattoo Artists Starting To Assert Their Copyrights With Famous Clients
These days, tattoo artists for athletes have started to pay more attention to their rights. And those worries aren’t necessarily frivolous, says Tim Bradley, an intellectual property attorney. He says copyright law is actually very friendly to the artist, and that protections kick in once you’ve shown a “modicum of creativity” in your design and you’ve put it on a “tangible medium.”
No, We Are Not In A Golden Age Of Journalism, Whatever Techie Utopians May Say
“A true golden age of journalism, if it is to last more than a few ephemeral years subsidized by check-writing billionaires and venture-capital speculation, will require that publishers make a profit and writers and reporters can make a decent living. … If you are lucky, you might be able to command a freelance pay rate that hasn’t budged in 30 years. But more people than ever work for nothing.”
TV’s Golden Age Makes The Emmys That Much Shinier
“HBO, which racked up 99 nominations this year, the most of any network, will face off against a lineup of broadcasters, cable networks and the subscription streaming service Netflix during the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.”
Warning: Watching Reality TV Makes People More Aggressive, For Real
“Those who had watched Jersey Shore or Real Housewives actually gave louder, longer blasts after watching those shows than those who watched the more violent crime dramas.”
John Hughes, Icon, And The Real-Life Town He Reinvented On Screen
“The only thing that kept me from giving up and turning myself over to Child Protective Services was thinking that if Kevin McAllister could spend one Christmas alone at the age of 8, then I could certainly finish out high school uneventfully on a friend’s futon. After that, I just wanted to get out.”
Student Actors In Ramallah Use Theatre To Tell Their Stories As Palestinians
“Festival participants included Palestinian students from the West Bank, a group of 12th-graders from Tromsø, Norway, actors from the UK, and trainers from Germany, Egypt and Romania who gave workshops in dance, drama, comedy and performance art. The final group performance included a movement piece reflecting the dynamics of street protest, a sketch about Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, Commedia dell’Arte scenes and monologues about self-image and harassment.”
Top AJBlogs For 08.24.14
The Arts in a Civic World Upside Down
AJBlog: Jumper | Published 2014-08-24
Weekend Extra: Copenhagen
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-08-24
Spier & Gasparatto: Getty’s Dark-Horse Curatorial Appointments
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-08-22
Endgame: Culture and Suicide
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-22
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Sir Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director, Giant Of British Cinema, Dies At 90
“Richard was an academic failure who was happiest when performing in plays.” You may know him from his starring roles in “The Great Escape” and “Jurassic Park” or from his directing of “Gandhi” or “A Bridge Too Far” – or maybe even as Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
When Memoirs Turn Out To Be Fiction, Why Can’t We Just Appreciate The Writing?
“To take anybody in, they must be well written and compelling to read. In every case I came across, the text was interesting in itself, even more so when it was known to be fake.”