“Following a yearlong financial crisis, as government funding cuts and the loss of evening advertising resulted in a massive budget shortfall, public broadcaster wseeks to cut costs as part of its recovery plan.”
Tag: 08.28.13
When Woody Allen First Got Serious: Revisiting Interiors
“Much of what’s great about Interiors comes from Allen writing a piercing drama, straight from the heart; much of what’s bad about Interiors comes from his arid feints at duplicating a master.”
Could These Apps Be Pointing The Way To Classical Music’s Future?
“In May digital-software publisher Touch Press offered a sophisticated app for Apple’s mobile devices that allows users to explore Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. And it has thus far been downloaded more than 620,000 times.” The company already has two more, with some heavyweight talent involved.
French Art Business Figures Warn Against VAT Increase
“High-profile trade figures in the French art world have warned the government that a proposed rise in VAT affecting works of art imported into France from outside the European Union will seriously undermine the country’s standing in the global art market.”
Enough Already With The “Theory Of Everything”
Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser explains why “we have to do away with this idea for once and for all.” First of all, it isn’t really about “everything”; more importantly, the very idea is, in a sense, antithetical to the ethos of science.
Haters Really Are Gonna Hate, Scientists Find
“A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology corroborates the hip-hop and Internet truism that you just can’t win with some people. (No word yet on whether playas gonna play or ballers gonna ball, but we’ll probably find out soon. Researchers gonna research.)”
Patrick Stewart Conquers The Internet – As A Comedian
He puts out a steady stream of entertaining tweets – often selfies taken with food – that get him lots of online love, and a new YouTube video in which he teaches us the secret of the quadruple-take is headed toward half a million views.
Don’t Call His Novels “Hillbilly Noir”
Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone: “I guess I’m going to need a new hyphenate here, maybe ‘Semi-Southern’ or ‘Kinda Gothic’. … Most of my characters aren’t hillbillies anyway. Let’s just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.”
Canada Imposes Expensive New Fees On International Musicians Performing In Canada
“The new rules, which quietly came into effect July 31, will double, triple or even quadruple the cost of bringing in international artists to perform in bars, restaurants or coffee shops.”
Is This LA MoCA’s Next Director?
“Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam director Ann Goldstein has resigned from that position. Goldstein has been identified as a possible successor to departing MOCA director Jeffery Deitch. Goldstein, who was senior curator at MOCA before she left to direct the Stedelijk, will leave the Amsterdam museum’s top job Dec. 1.”