“Here’s the reality. If the cable bundle dissolves, buying the TV you love on-demand would probably be either much more expensive than you’d think … or much lower quality than you’d accept.”
Tag: 10.23.12
Why Writing About The Art Market Is Unsatisfying
“Art market reporting is not financial news. It’s financial-news porn. It’s a voyeuristic, vacuous distraction from the facts of the finances, and certainly from any analysis of how that wealth was amassed in the first place…”
Girls Only – Seattle Art Museum Removes All the Boys’ Art From Its Walls
“Not a single male artist from the modern and contemporary period remains on the walls at SAM.”
Are Researchers On The Verge Of Deciphering 5,000-Year-Old Tablet?
“The world’s oldest undeciphered writing system is close to being cracked thanks to a new technology and online crowdsourcing, Oxford University researchers have announced. Called proto-Elamite, the writing has its roots in what is now Iran and dates from 3,200 to 3,000 B.C. So far, the 5,000-year-old writing has defied any effort to decode its symbols impressed on clay tablets.”
ABT To Leave New York’s City Center
“The game of musical chairs launched by New York City Opera last year when it left Lincoln Center is going at least one more round: American Ballet Theatre … has signed a three-year deal to perform at the David H. Koch Theater, starting in October 2013 … The change means that the company will terminate its fall seasons at New York City Center, on West 55th Street, which it began in 1997.”
Scotland’s Arts Funding Body Bows To Complaints, Announces Shake-Up
“Creative Scotland, which distributes £80 million of Government and National Lottery funds, has announced new internal reforms a fortnight after its chairman, Sir Sandy Crombie, received an unprecedented letter of protest from more than 400 artists.”
Montserrat Caballé Hospitalized Following Minor Stroke
The Spanish soprano, now 79, was in Yekaterinburg, Russia to give a benefit concert when she suffered a minor stroke, falling and breaking her arm. She declined treatment in Yekaterinburg and flew home to Barcelona, where she is in stable condition at the Sant Pau hospital.
Lap-Dancing Is Not A Tax-Exempt Art Form, Says New York Court
“The owners of Nite Moves, an exotic dance club near Albany, New York, had sought to have pole dancing and private lap dances qualified as tax exempt since revenue collected from ‘dramatic or musical arts performances’ is not taxable under state law. But the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, decided against the club in a 4-3 ruling handed down on Tuesday.”
The First Spider-Man Tell-All Book Is On The Way
“Glen Berger, the Off-Broadway playwright whose plum assignment to collaborate with Bono and the Edge of U2 on a Broadway musical turned into the media circus known as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has signed with Simon & Schuster to write a book about his experience.”
Facebook Isn’t Killing Reading – To The Contrary…
“A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project reveals the prominent role of books, libraries and technology in the lives of young readers, ages 16 to 29.”