“Nine times out of ten, when individuals commit a robbery like that, it is done by individuals or criminal organisations which have the ability to do a burglary, but they don’t usually have the ability to sell paintings.”
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Apple Censors Books – Is This The New Censorship?
It simply advises artists that to gain access to the Apple platforms, they have to meet the guidelines. “But that means artists will begin to self-censor their work and that’s not healthy.”
Is Fiction Told By Twitter A Passing Fad?
“Paradoxically, although the experience of receiving Tweets over several days is quite long, the completed Twitter fictions tend to be quite short. So what is the advantage of publishing in this format? Does it make us experience literature anew or is it just a parlour game?”
Producer Warns BBC Is Under Attack And Needs Defending
Addressing actors and writers at the event, Steven Moffat warned that the BBC is “under terrible attack” and urged the industry to defend it. He said if no one speaks out in support of the Corporation it “will never be here again”. “That light will go out. And that would be a terrible and awful thing for everyone in this room. So let’s start shouting now,” he added.
Tolkien Court Battle To Define Marketing Rights
“You now have a tug-of-war to decide who controls the iconography of Tolkien’s masterworks and their place in our society. On the one side you have the estate of the original creator and the publisher of his works. On the other side, there is the company behind one of the largest film franchises in history.”
Should We Tell Museums What Art Is Or Should They Tell Us?
“Now that the concept of artistic “greatness” has become a political football, many museum curators are reluctant to fulfill their traditional function of helping to define it.”