By now, most of us have learned to see through, and make fun of, Upworthy-style headlines. “Thus clickbait – or whatever you want to call it – has now, in the manner of a hemorrhagic fever, evolved. It’s finished with its low-hanging-fruit phase, and has attached itself to a new form of curiosity-gap exploitation, one that’s more insidious, but no less irritating.”
Tag: 11.24.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.24.14
The soul of a city
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-11-24
Flight From Bentonville, Part II: Chris Crosman, Crystal Bridges’ Founding Curator, on Its Brain Drain
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-11-24
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve (Day)?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-24
Aimee Mann: Roots of a Songwriter
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-24
Spotify Lightning: Right Spark, Wrong Rod
AJBlog: blog riley Published 2014-11-24
#PublicArt posting on Facebook in November
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds Published 2014-11-24
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The Reason You Have To Smuggle In Reasonably Priced Candy Or Drinks To Movie Theatres
“Even with the exorbitantly high prices on food items, only about 4% of a theater’s gross revenue in a given year is profit, despite typically around an 85% profit margin on concession sales themselves,” thanks to a 1938 court case that limits studio monopoly power (really).
A Swiss Museum Will Accept The Secret Nazi-Era Art Trove Of Cornelius Gurlitt
The president of Kunstmuseum Bern’s board of trustees “said the museum would seek to set a new standard in handling Nazi-looted art, by having a privately funded team of experts comb the history of each piece before it came into the museum’s possession.”
Facebook Has A Huge Corporate Art Lab
“As much as PHP code and ‘The Hacker Way,’ art is a fundamental part of the Facebook culture. Art doesn’t just decorate Facebook’s offices, it defines them.”