“In polls, public radio is rated as the most trusted source of news in the nation. The audience for most of its programs dwarfs the number of subscribers to the The New York Times or The New Yorker, or the number of people who read even the biggest best sellers.”
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When Books Are No Longer On Paper, Are They Still Books?
“Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium too.”
100 Art World’s Most Powerful
Larry Gagosian tops the list in the annual ranking.
Tensions Flare Over Handling Of Holocaust Art Claims
“Among the issues that divide them are what exactly constitutes Holocaust art loot, who should adjudicate claims, and where and how final rulings should be made. But the major source of contention is the claims community’s charge that museums are deliberately thwarting justice by wriggling out of ethical obligations through cynical legal maneuvers.”