“Down the road, expect new ways to easily store digital movies online, so you can access them from any computer, anytime. We might also get theaters filled with dozens of speakers for super-sharp sound, as well as much more lifelike animated characters.”
Tag: 12.08.08
A Race To Keep A Titian In The UK
UK arts enthusiasts have until Dec. 31 to secure the first £50 million (about $74 million) — enough to buy Diana and Actaeon. With less than a month to go in the worst economic climate in years, the museums say they are nonetheless cautiously optimistic.
Video Games Hit The Music Big Time
“With an expected $50 billion in global sales this year, video games have turned into such a big business that established composers from film and television are signing on to create the sweeping scores and intricate sounds that help guide players through their missions.”
Roberta Smith’s Prescription For Saving LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art
“Imagine the museum as a gravely ill relative deeply loved by an enormous squabbling family. Does that family really want to come together for the first time at the funeral, especially knowing that the patient could, with cooler heads, have been saved? No.”
The Moral Authority Of Science
“In our time, we are perhaps less inclined to recognize science as a set of ideas with aspirations to universality precisely because the scientific enterprise has been so successful. But the authority we cede to science, both as the servant of health and as the master of knowledge, weakens our allegiance to those other sources of wisdom so crucial to our self-understanding and self-government.”
Miami Beach Draws The Line At Art Basel’s Ink Fountain
“Art Basel Miami Beach is known for its aestheticized hedonism. But city officials have barred the installation of artist Cooper’s Roman-style, black-ink-spewing Dark Fountain, which was commissioned for the fair, from a public park. ‘The ink stains,’ says Max Sklar, the city’s tourism honcho. ‘Clothing, cars, the sidewalk–everything.'”
Koch To City Opera: I Already Gave!
“David Koch is funding a renovation of New York City Opera’s home, and that’s enough. His $100 million donation will transform the New York State Theater–home to City Opera and New York City Ballet–into the David H. Koch Theater, and he feels bad about the opera’s financial and administrative mess. But he isn’t planning to bail it out.”