“After dominating the architecture scene for 40 years, Norman Foster seems to have decided that the world is not enough: his practice has joined a European consortium to look into how future structures could be built on the Moon….”
Tag: 09.18.09
The Year Of Selling My Book
“Like many other authors, my books used to be launched with a simple drinks party – the usual plastic-cups-and-a-couple-of-speeches affair, somewhere at the back of Holland Park. These days, however, there has been a radical change in the way books are launched. Behind this lies the striking growth of the whole global literary festival bandwagon.”
Scottish Artists Survive Budget Ax
Despite warnings of budget cuts. Scotland’s cultural sector gets off with only minor damage.
A Big Victory For The Internet
“Federal regulators next week are expected to seek to turn controversial ‘net neutrality’ principles into formal rules intended to give the nation’s computer users the right to use whatever services and devices they like without interference from their ISPs.”
Artists At The End Of Life
“Why are deathbed masterpieces so unusual? Mainly, I suspect, because prettified Hollywood-style deaths, in which the sudden disappearance of makeup is the only outward sign that a terminal illness has reached its denouement, are so uncommon.”
Where Jazz Thrives: Tokyo
“If jazz is America’s gift to the world, Japan is the place that knows how to unwrap it. While serious musicians and devotees fret that traditional, noncommercialized improvisation is becoming as esoteric a taste as it is in the land of its birth, jazz in all its forms still pulses through Tokyo.”
US Wants Court To Modify Google Books Agreement
“The Justice Department said that while the agreement would provide many benefits to the public, it also raised significant issues regarding class-action, copyright and antitrust law.”
Lessons From The Toronto Film Festival: The New Pragmatism
“The auteur movement in film has been declared dead as often as rock ‘n’ roll, which has been around for almost as many decades. No one was playing taps for auteurs at TIFF, but signs of a new willingness to combine vision with populism were unmistakeable.”
Why The Chicago Symphony Is America’s Top Orchestra
“What’s unique about the CSO approach is its combination of razzle-dazzle and high-mindedness.”
Gormley’s Trafalgar Plinth – Is It Really Art?
“It is a sad, feeble, ineffectual excuse for a public sculpture. All this talk about it existing in its full reality only on TV or the internet or wherever is nonsense. This is a physical work of art that involves people standing on a plinth. And the truth that some of us can’t help noticing, however much we are lectured otherwise, is that they look stupid up there.”