And some writers aren’t happy about Amazon’s plans: “Not content with threatening high street bookshops and disrupting the traditional publishing model with its Kindle e-readers, the web giant has written to authors’ agents to announce its attack on another link in the chain.”
Tag: 11.30.12
Kindly Shut The Hell Up – And Stop With The Fisticuffs
“Ever since an audience member at the BSO punched out another audience member who asked him to be quiet, I’m terrified to suggest that one reprimand theater offenders.”
Humans Are Deeply In Love With Adultery (In Fiction, Anyway)
“The struggle to balance our collective and individual selves gets to the very root of what it is to be human. When the two urges come into conflict, as happens in any extramarital affair, all hell breaks lose.”
Watch Giacometti Draw And Paint One Of His Final Works
“The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his famously thin, elongated sculptures of the human form. Giacometti was a similarly brilliant and original draughtsman who maintained that drawing was the central skill of an artist.”
LA County Museum Council Members Quit En Masse Over Fee Hikes
“The Art Museum Council of LACMA is a very diverse, hands-on group. Our AMC Board of Directors voted to withdraw from LACMA rather than discriminate against any of our members who would be unable to pay the exorbitant increase to stay in our council. We do not believe in leaving anyone out of our group.”
LA’s Curator Shortage – Cause For Concern?
“At area art museums, the job of chief curator appears to be edging toward the endangered species list. Three notable chief curators have left their museum jobs in the past year. Successors are nowhere in sight.”
Rochester Philharmonic Fires Music Director Arild Remmereit
“The RPO board voted Wednesday to keep him only until August – just two years into his four-year contract. No reasons were given for the sudden action,” though clashes between the conductor and the Philharmonic’s CEO had become so frequent and fierce that an outside mediator warned that the conflict could endanger the entire organization.
Cervantes Prize (Spain’s Top Prize) Winner Announced
It’s Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald. “Often referred to as a member of the Generation of 1950 — writers who worked during the repressive reign of Gen. Francisco Franco — Mr. Caballero Boland wrote about the country’s social conditions.”
Bad Sex? Why Don’t We Take The Literary Sex Scene Seriously?
“The Bad Sex in Fiction Award survives by taking sex out of its literary context and holding it up to ridicule. In some cases, the books that have been shortlisted and presented with it have not even read by the judges.”
Report: Use Of Analog Movie Projectors Is Fading Fast
“The report estimated that by the end of 2012 film would only be used in 37 percent of theaters across the globe. By 2015 film will only be used in 17 percent of cinemas, putting it in what is called a niche projection format.”