ECM, which cared very much about sound quality, “was long a holdout against streaming services that have to contend with bandwidth limits and non-optimal soundcards in computers and phones, as well as deals that minimize the value of music.” Sadly, or perhaps luckily, it’s given in.
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Ursula LeGuin On Life, Literature, And Just About Everything
On becoming a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters: “To paraphrase Mary Godwin’s line about the vindication of the rights of women, it’s a vindication of the rights of science fiction. To have my career recognized on this level makes it a lot harder for the diehards and holdouts to say, ‘Genre fiction isn’t literature.'”
Will Gainsborough Get A Much Larger Museum Of His Own?
Yes, if the project can find funding. “The new building will feature exhibition spaces for loans, a community gallery for printmakers, contemporary artists and schools. There will also be a landscape studio with the view of the countryside replicated in Gainsborough’s famous portrait Mr and Mrs Andrews.”
Here Are Some Curators Trying Their Hardest To Shake Up The Art World
These curators work in traditional spaces, create new space, work together, and say that the art fair needs to end. But more important than that, says one: “The art world needs to reckon with its own power.”
Pennsylvania Ballet Names Shelly Power As Executive Director
Power is currently the artistic director and CEO of the Prix de Lausanne dance competition and is the former administrator and AD of the Houston Ballet Academy. She said, “I like to build things, I like to develop things, whether it’s programs or strategic planning, and implementing and organizing strategically the path ahead.”
Finally It’s Time To Acknowledge And Celebrate Alice Coltrane
Why hasn’t her music been appreciated before? Well, it’s kind of like John Lennon and Yoko Ono: “Her talents weren’t hugely appreciated in the 1960s. This was partly due to the man with whom she fell in love in 1963. John Coltrane became her husband two years later and asked her to step into his band – which coincided with the saxophonist’s move into freer, more atonal music.”
Inception: A Novel Written By A Character On A TV Show, With A Blurb By The Actual Writer, Is Out Now
Follow this: “In the very first episode of Jane the Virgin — the hit show about a young woman who is accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine visit to her gynecologist — viewers learn that Jane wants to be a writer. Over the course of the show, she attends graduate school, obtaining her Master’s degree in creative writing and working with an adviser to hone her manuscript. She gets a job at a publishing company, eventually getting discovered at a reading for emerging writers. In the episode airing on Friday, her book is finally published.”
Ojai Music Festival’s Artistic Director Will Step Down In 2019
Thomas Morris, who has been artistic director of the California festival since 2004, has changed and – The New York Times adds – broadened the reach of Ojai, which has a different music director every year.
Is Spike Lee Solving His ‘Woman Problem’ With A Reimagined Heroine?
Lee’s movie She’s Gotta Have It is now a Netflix series, which, in 30-minute episodes, has changed the main character and given her many more facets. Also … “with television came a writer’s room, one that Mr. Lee filled with African-American female artists and writers.” That didn’t hurt.
The Creator Of Brazil’s Outdoor Museum Has Been Sentenced To Nine Years In Jail
Contemporary art museum creator Bernardo Paz, “an eccentric and celebrated figure in Brazil’s art scene, was accused of using money raised abroad for Inhotim for expenses related to a conglomerate of mining and steel companies he ran. Mr. Paz’s sister, Virgínia de Mello Paz, was also convicted in the scheme and sentenced to five years in prison.”