10.14.14 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Even Iggy Pop Can’t Make Any Money From Streaming Music

“If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales I’d be tending bars between sets.” The 67-year-old rock legend also says that electronic devices “estrange people from their morals and also make it easier to steal music than pay for it.”

How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under The New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?

“Last Friday, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (aka W.A.G.E.) announced that they will be rolling out their new W.A.G.E. Certification program, which promises to be a ‘paradigm-shifting model for the remuneration of artistic labor’.” Hrag Vartanian finds out just what wage rates W.A.G.E. has in mind.

Glad Your First Show Went So Well – Now You’re Evicted

“London fringe venue the Twickenham Theatre is to close just days after its first production – Sweeney Todd starring David Bedella – came to an end. [The company] has been told it has to vacate the premises after the pub over which it is based … was sold without warning.”

“Equal Parts Genius, Charlatan, And Kinkster”: The Man Who Invented Both The Lie Detector And Wonder Woman

“Devising the lie detector was the high point of [his] rather erratic pre-comics career. He seems to have lost every job he held. His venture into business ended in an indictment for fraud; his brief stint as a lawyer saw the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reject lie-detector tests as evidence.” Yet he ended up as creator of the first great comics superheroine – even as he kept his wife and mistress (and their children) all in the same house and his passion for women’s rights “somehow got all mixed up with bondage and spanking.”

Are Our Smartphones Getting Between Us And Our Art?

“The viewing process has become harder as the smartphones that Jay and Bey use to take their selfies have become omnipresent. The phone gets in the way of contemplating a single work on a blank wall; it creates a constant temptation to document your surroundings or check your email, Twitter, and Facebook.”

Catching Up With San Diego Opera, Now That It’s Been Saved

James Chute gives a progress report.

Man Booker Prize 2014 To Australian Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about the World War II prisoners forced by the Japanese to build “the Death Railway” in Burma, is a personal work for Flanagan, whose father was a survivor of that campaign.

Could Detroit Be The Next Berlin? These Berliners Think So

The music industry folks behind a project called the Detroit-Berlin Connection “compare Detroit to their city after the fall of the Berlin Wall and say it has all the ingredients for a similar rebirth as a center of underground culture: deserted buildings, cheap rents and a gritty reputation.”

The Most Argued-About Church Building On Earth? Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia

“Looking for all the world like a cluster of gigantic stone termites’ nest, a colossal vegetable patch, a gingerbread house baked by the wickedest witch of all or perhaps a petrified forest, this hugely ambitious church has confounded architects, critics and historians ever since its unprecedented shape became apparent soon after World War I.”

Tag: 10.14.14