“Qatar will open a new museum on Dec. 30 devoted to modern Arab art in its capital, Doha. Called Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, it will house a collection of more than 6,000 works, spanning the 1840s to the present and representing major artistic trends.”
Tag: 09.28.10
Dancing Up and Down the Wall: How to Choreograph Vertically
Amelia Rudolph of Project Bandaloop: “It includes a whole different realm of timing and tempo when we work this way. Some basic examples: when you’re higher on the wall you’re heavier and when you’re lower you’re lighter because of your distance from the anchor.”
‘I’m Not the English Philip Roth, I’m a Jewish Jane Austen’
Howard Jacobson, whose novel Kalooki Nights is a Booker Prize finalist, “explains how Jewish humour was developed as a form of self-protection and suggests that it was the Jews who invented the idea of the joke.”
Funding The Arts In Britain (It’s Complicated)
When we talk about how the arts in Britain are paid for, the phrase often used is a “mixed economy”. Broadly that means that we steer a middle course between the extremes of the American and continental European systems. Theoretically, it is the best of both worlds.
Court Tosses Web Streaming Royalty Formula
“In a ruling that has the potential to affect many websites that stream music, a federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lower court’s method for determining music royalties, saying the calculations were flawed.”
The Role Of Books In The Future Of Our Culture
“In the long night of culture, we knowledge workers are restless sleepers. We need dreamers–in technology and science as well as the arts. Right now we are walking through two great dreams that are shaping the future of scholarship, even the very idea of scholarship and the role “the book” should play within it.”
Sally Menke, Tarantino’s Longtime Film Editor, Killed in Hiking Accident
“Director Quentin Tarantino’s longtime film editor … was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in [L.A.’s] Bronson Canyon, according to law-enforcement sources. Award-winning film editor Sally Menke, 56, worked on such movies as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Jackie Brown.“
How E-Books Are Costing Authors Money
“Priced much lower than hardcovers, many e-books generate less income for publishers. And big retailers are buying fewer titles. As a result, the publishers who nurtured generations of America’s top literary-fiction writers are approving fewer book deals and signing fewer new writers. Most of those getting published are receiving smaller advances.”
Americans May Be Religious, But They Don’t Know Much About Religion
On a survey of knowledge about world religions done by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the highest-scoring group – atheists – averaged only 21 correct answers out of 32 questions. (Close behind were Jews and Mormons.)
Bronzino’s ‘Naked Dwarf’ Painting Uncovered
“The naked image of a dwarf who starred at the Medici court in the Florentine Renaissance, has been revealed after nearly three centuries of oblivion, Italian art experts announced last week at a press conference in Florence.”