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Tag: 09.04.12
Amazon Deal Doesn’t Look Great For Netflix – Or Does It?
Netflix stock prices dropped when Amazon announced a deal with EPIX to stream movies like The Hunger Games and The Avengers – but will that deal actually harm Netflix?
How To (And How Not To) Write Narratives About People
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers): “Nobody is representative. That’s just narrative nonsense. People may be part of a larger story or structure or institution, but they’re still people. Making them representative loses sight of that.”
Edward Villella Leaves Miami City Ballet Eight Months Early
“‘Over the weekend [Villella] and the MCB Board leadership decided it was in the best interest of the company to speed the transition,’ the announcement from Villella and ballet officials said. It went on to say that incoming artistic director Lourdes Lopez, appointed last spring, would take over immediately.”
Atlanta Symphony Management Locks Out Musicians
“With only a month until the first scheduled concert of the season, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has stopped paying its musicians and the Woodruff Arts Center has locked them out of the symphony facilities.”
National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest: How To Decide If An Image Is Fake Or Over-Photoshopped?
“Dan Westergren, Traveler‘s senior picture editor, has been judging the contest for many years. I asked him how they detect manipulated or otherwise inadmissible submissions among the massive volume of entries.”
Surprise Pick For Britain’s New Culture Secretary
“Maria Miller, a junior minister in the Department for Work and Pensions, is the surprise replacement for Jeremy Hunt as culture secretary in David Cameron’s first major cabinet reshuffle. … She will also become minister for women and equalities in addition to the [Department of Culture, Media and Sport] responsibilities.”
Why Did The UK Arts World Hate Jeremy Hunt So Much?
“As Jeremy Hunt leaves the DCMS today, he will do so with the distinction of being the least mourned secretary of state in the culture department’s history – as least as far as the arts world goes. … Why has Hunt been so loathed? To answer that, one needs to go back several years, to 2008.”
Arts Council England’s New Chief Is The Man Behind Big Brother
“Sir Peter Bazalgette, the man who will forever be known for introducing Big Brother to British television, is to be the chairman of Arts Council England. Bazalgette was on Tuesday named as the successor to Dame Liz Forgan – one of the last decisions made by the outgoing culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who was reshuffled to the Department of Health.”
Will Ferguson, Annabel Lyon Lead Giller Prize Semifinalists
The race for the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize will feature books by previous nominee Annabel Lyon and three-time Leacock Medal winner Will Ferguson. A jury has selected 13 titles to vie for the prestigious literary award for the best Canadian work of fiction in English (or translated into English) published in the last year.”