“Eventually cable will follow bunny ears into the basement of dead technology, and online TV will be called something else: plain old TV.”
Tag: 10.20.14
Paris Opera Ejects Audience Member In Muslim Face Veil
Officials at the Opéra-Bastille asked a woman seated in the front row, a tourist from the Persian Gulf area, to either remove her niqab or leave the theater after some cast members refused to begin the second act while she was there.
Memphis Symphony Musicians Agree To 38 Percent Pay Cut
“Memphis Symphony Orchestra musicians on Monday formally agreed to accept a one-year, 38 percent pay cut in an attempt to help the financially struggling performance arts organization reduce expenses as it works toward the goal of balancing its budget.”
Drawing The Disappearing Bookstores Of New York
Bob Eckstein offers watercolor-style portraits, with anecdotes, of the likes of Coliseum Books, Scribners, Shakespeare & Co., and Forbidden Planet.
How To Put Your Graffiti Tag On Insanely Expensive Art Without Actually Damaging It
“It’s resourceful, at least: Instead of going straight for the million-dollar works, an especially DGAF graffiti artist used the reflective surface of a Koons piece by spray-painting the white Whitney wall next to it. All the better to selfie with.” (includes video of incident)
Will The Networks’ New Streaming Services Eventually Devour Each Other?
“Do I get Netflix, HBO, CBS and Showtime?”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.20.14
Klinghoffer’s Unheard Silence
AJBlog: Creative Destruction
What do college students in the arts do after graduation?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth
What is it about sunshine?
(Deborah Jowitt on L.A. Dance Project)
AJBlog: Dancebeat
The Perelman-Gagosian Brawl
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts
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Harvard Will Finally Get A Theatre (And Dance) Major. Will Princeton Ever Cave?
“We have so many students who are active in the arts and are trying to figure out how to make that a core part of their experience, and this does that.”
Suni Haru, Who Sacrificed Her Career To Help Other Asian American Actors In Theirs, Dead At 75
“To her Philippines-born parents, dismayed that she had participated in a public protest, Haru said, ‘How else can we let people know that here’s discrimination in the theater?’ she wrote in “Iron Lotus” her 2012 autobiography. ‘You’ll see, someday I’ll make a living acting.'”
Paul Krugman Is Deeply Over Amazon And Its Defenders
“The desirability of new technology, or even Amazon’s effective use of that technology, is not the issue. After all, John D. Rockefeller and his associates were pretty good at the oil business, too — but Standard Oil nonetheless had too much power, and public action to curb that power was essential. And the same is true of Amazon today.”