“Seen as the toughest job in British ballet today, the position sits at the head of a company that has no London-based theater, tours the country extensively, and has serious funding restraints. But Rojo is a woman who loves challenges.”
Tag: 11.12
Banking And Art – Value Out Of Nothing
“The diamonds on the Hirst skull were reportedly worth $23.6 million–the rest of the work’s value was created, overnight, in the assemblage. For the Love of God applies the technique of a leveraged buyout not only to a work of art but as a work of art.”
Restoring The Color To An Ancient Marble Aphrodite
“To illustrate how a marble Aphrodite might have appeared to the ancients, we asked German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann, who has pioneered techniques of color restoration, to create a photomechanical reconstruction – never before published – of the first-century A.D. Roman Lovatelli Venus.”
The Printed Page – What Will Be Lost, What Will Be Gained
“To refuse to use the new technology in the hope of preserving old pleasures will not work because to do so would be no more authentic or honest than Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess. The regret is genuine; the refusal is not.”
High-Middle-Middle-Backflip-De-Diddle Brow Culture?
“Not middlebrow, not highbrow (we still don’t have an avant-garde to speak of), but halfway in between. Call it upper middle brow…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Summer As A Ranch Hand
At age 18, between terms at Princeton, Fitzgerald traveled to visit the Montana ranch owned by a school friend’s family. He did “what easterners visiting Montana often do: he went native. He outfitted himself in boots, brandished a pistol, rode horses, drank bad whiskey, played cards with cowboys, flirted with daughters of neighboring ranchers, and took but one bath a week.”
‘Steal My Book!’ Why I’m Abetting A Rogue Translation Of My Novel
Peter Mountford: “I wouldn’t have known about my Russian pirate translator had I not set a Google Alert for the title of my debut novel when it was published … But in March, the alerts began pointing me to a message board on WordReference.com. There, a user with the handle AlexanderIII, who gave his location as Moscow, was regularly seeking help understanding my unusual word choices.”
Is Contemporary Art Losing Its Chic?
“A number of coinciding events seem to have focussed a new, less reverential attitude towards the spin of the art world.”
How My Book Was Pirated In Russia
“Pirated books reportedly compose up to 90 percent of Russian ebook downloads. According to Rospechat, the state agency that regulates mass media, Russians have access to more than 100,000 pirated titles and just 60,000 legitimate titles, with illegal downloads costing legitimate vendors several billion rubles a year.”