Midnight Madness “had a disastrous showing at the box office. Then cable channel HBO proceeded to broadcast it constantly, cementing cult status for the film among millions of fans now in their late 30s and 40s.” Now some of those fans stage overnight scavenger hunts based on the film, with teams of players swarming all over Manhattan.
Tag: 09.17.13
Modernist Violin Concertos (All Hungarian, No Less) Win Gramophone Record Of The Year
“Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja was named the winner of the prestigious Recording of the Year for her Naïve album of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No 2, Ligeti’s Violin Concerto and the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’s seven, performed with Ensemble Modern and the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eötvös.”
What Happens When You Clean A Jackson Pollock? You’ll Be Amazed
Christopher Knight: “I was frankly unprepared for just how different – how fresh and kinetic – Mural looks now. Color contrasts are emphatic. Patches of white canvas are bright rather than dim. While wholly abstract, several flickering suggestions of animal forms are vivid. Layers of visual space have opened up.”
Why Rick DeVos Created The ArtPrize
“‘I followed the principle of the purple cow,’ he says, referring to author Seth Godin’s concept that great products get people talking, as if they’d spied a purple cow, and gain visibility through word of mouth. So he created the world’s most lucrative art contest, with the biggest winners chosen by the public rather than experts.”
Dallas Morning News Turns To Academia For Its New Arts Critics (A New Model?)
“The benefits here are obvious: Readers get better coverage — both more of it and higher quality — and the paper saves money by not having to hire a professional journalist. It’s the kind of small-bore savings that media bigwigs are talking about when they say improving the health of the news industry will require a lot of small moves at least as much as a few big ones.”
James Patterson Says He’ll Give $1 Million To Support Independent Bookshops
“What’s happening right now is, a lot of book stores are disappearing, a lot of libraries are disappearing or they’re not being funded. School libraries aren’t being funded. This is not a good thing. It used to be you could go to your drugstore, you’d find books everywhere.”
The Day Laurence Olivier Got Stage Fright
“He was now the most famous stage actor in the world and he suddenly buckled under the weight of expectation that this reputation had placed on him.”
In Defense Of Philosophy As A Serious Field Of Study
“In the division of intellectual labour, philosophers work mainly at the level of the hinges between thoughts, on those concepts deeply embedded within the argumentative threads weaving through our culture. But these are threads that have started somewhere with the formation of beliefs, and end somewhere in actions.”
Appetite For Pirated Entertainment Growing Online
“In January2013, 327 million unique users illegally sought copyrighted content, generating 14 billion page views on websites focused on piracy, up 10% from November 2011, according to the report.”
Study: Classical Music Makes Men Think Women Are More Attractive
“Recently published research found a relationship between the type of music used on someone’s personal webpage and whether they are seen as attractive by the opposite sex. Men found women more attractive if classical music was playing in the background, but women found men better-looking if their webpage had a heavy-metal soundtrack.”