“More than 264 million digital homes will be added between the end of 2007 and the end of 2012, more than double the current total, with China accounting for 60 million of the extra homes.”
Tag: 11.26.07
Britain’s Youth Conductor Movement
Three major orchestras have recently hired young. “Artistically, there are the twin benefits of an orchestra regenerating momentum and of a young conductor being given the stability to mature. The likes of Karabits, Nelsons and Petrenko represent bright hopes for the future.”
Penney Takes On London’s National Gallery
British art scholar Nicholas Penny takes over as new director of the National Gallery in London. “Dr Penny, 58, a graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld, will return to the UK in the spring from the National Gallery of Art in Washington where he has worked for the past five years.”
Guerilla Restorers Break In, Fix Historic French Clock
“For a year, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid ‘illegal restorers’ set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building’s famous dome. They pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.”
Your Dance In A TV Show
If “So You Think You Can Dance,” is becoming part of our default national arts education, frankly, we could do worse. It’s often criticized for cliched, commercial choreography. But a lot of the dance-making here is fantastic by any standard, especially the ballroom and the hip-hop.
Sides Take Breather In Broadway Strike Talks
The parties announced the adjournment about 6:30 a.m. The talks between producers and stagehands began Sunday evening and lasted through the night.
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Pens In The Animals
“Included here are 2,500 new entries that treat language more as living menagerie than as natural history museum. Along with restless leg syndrome and flatline come more questionable entries, where use becomes the main criterion for inclusion.”
The New Museum’s “Inspired Idiosyncracy”
“The museum’s blend of delicacy and industrial brawn recalls the early-twentieth-century infatuation with the aesthetics of manufacture.”
911 – Modernist Buildings Need Rescue
Modernist buildings from the 1950s and 60s are deteriorating and in need of restoration. “The ambition of the architects was ahead of the technology of the time. They cost pennies to build and millions to restore.”
Hollywood Writers Make Their Case Over New Media
“As the strike enters its fourth week, writers have stepped up their use of blogs, short videos, MySpace pages and other Web-based methods aimed at keeping their ranks together and reaching a wider audience, including TV viewers who will soon have to settle for reruns of their favorite prime time shows.”