“A study — ‘Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don’t Get Doctorates’ — argues that the much debated minority status for conservatives in higher education may be the result of differing priorities of graduating college seniors of different political persuasions.”
Tag: 11.16.07
Using Technology To Enhance How You Watch Movies
Hollywood is working to enhance the movie theatre expeience. “There are new opportunities with 3-D such as having the audience feel the same claustrophobia of the onscreen character trapped in a dank dungeon.”
Houston Ballet’s New Star
Connor Walsh is Houston Ballet’s newest principal dancer — and at 21, its youngest ever — is not just a star. He’s a meteor.
When Can You Use Culture?
“What constitutes ‘fair use’ in classes that rely on films, television shows and assorted media clips? In some ways, it’s still an open question. Copyright law and court precedent set the limits, but within those limits, colleges, scholars, studios and lawyers have struggled to define when exactly it’s permissible to use artistic works in the classroom and in students’ assignments.”
Video Never Works On A Theatre Stage (Unless…)
“There’s something about the on-stage appearance of two-dimensional screens that invariably undermines the depth of the theatrical experience. But I saw two shows last weekend in different cities where the use of video was both exciting and thoroughly complementary to the theatrical experience.”
de Waart Extends Contract With Hong Kong Phil
Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, will remain as Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Chief Conductor until the year 2012. The announcement dispelled any speculation that the Maestro would be leaving Hong Kong, following his decision to move his family to the United States earlier this year.
UCLA Scores $30m From Herb Alpert
“In what UCLA is calling the largest single gift to music education in the western United States, the Herb Alpert Foundation has given the university a $30-million endowment pledge to establish the cross-disciplinary UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.”
Writers Using New Media To Attack Old Guard
The striking TV writers are taking full advantage of the online resources available to them, putting creative and sometimes hilarious videos explaining their position on YouTube and other sites. “It’s very interesting to see how the writers have used that entity that doesn’t pay them – the Internet – to do an end run around the very media firms they work for. It’s certainly a nice bit of irony.”
ART Narrows Field In Director Search
“Harvard University’s search committee to name the next artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre has told two well-known candidates that they won’t get the job, [and] a third potential candidate… said yesterday that he had been approached for the position but turned the ART down.”
Fall Auctions Go Out With A Whimper
The fall auction season in New York came to a close last night with a “lackluster finale” at Phillips, de Pury & Company’s Chelsea location. “Lower-priced works by the youngest and hippest artists fared well, while more established names with far higher prices sold often barely or not at all.”