And, regarding Scocca’s attack on Eggers in particular, Gladwell looks at everything Eggers has done and says, “You have to be running pretty low on ammunition to look at someone like that and call him full of shit.”
Tag: 12.11.12
Want A Job With This Publisher? Your Life Must Basically Be Over, Then
Dalkey’s looking for workers, aka indentured servants, who “do not have any other commitments (personal or professional) that will interfere with their work at the Press (family obligations, writing, involvement with other organizations, degrees to be finished, holidays to be taken, weddings to attend in Rio, etc.”
Street Art In One Atlanta Neighborhood Becomes A Messy Business
“Living Walls, a nonprofit arts group that aims to connect street artists with urban planners,” had commissioned dozens of murals to help brighten up areas in the city that had suffered due to the real estate crash. Then, one day, people showed up with paint rollers and blotted out one of the murals – and so began a long, strange battle.
Australia’s Great Female Artistic Polymath (Whom You Probably Didn’t Know About)
“Composer, adventurer, opportunist and benefactor” – as well as painter and critic – Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born in Melbourne 100 years ago this month. “[She] had an international career and enjoyed a mid-century artist-bohemian lifestyle that brought her into contact, sometimes intimately, with prominent creative figures of the day. Paul Bowles, Anaïs Nin, Yehudi Menuhin – even Theo Flynn, Errol’s old man – were close friends.”
Met Opera To Sell $100M In Bonds
“The Metropolitan Opera faces growing operating losses as it prepares to sell bonds for the first time since its founding in 1883. Losses from operations swelled 7 percent last season to $135 million, according to bond documents. It was the third consecutive operating-loss increase.”
A Slave’s-Eye View Of Rome’s Caracalla Baths
“‘This is our glimpse at maniacal Roman perfection, at incredible hydraulic technology,’ said archaeologist Marina Piranomonte, as she descended and waved at a network of high and wide tunnels, each measuring six metres (20ft) high and wide, snaking off into the darkness.”
LA’s Colony Theater Inches Back From The Brink
After making it through an emergency $49,000 fundraising campaign this fall, the Burbank company has a well-gregarded show onstage. “The theater is working toward a larger $500,000 fundraising goal by January … [to] cover the next two productions and reestablish marketing and fundraising.”
Qatar Philharmonic Chooses Female Music Director: Han-Na Chang
“Founded just five years ago, the ensemble has now chosen a musical director who really stands out from the classical music crowd: she’s a woman, she’s Korean and she’s only 29 years old” – and already has an international reputation as a cellist.
Why Humans Speak So Many Different Languages
“Around the world today, some 7000 distinct languages are spoken … more languages in one species of mammal than there are mammalian species. … If language evolved to allow us to exchange information, how come most people cannot understand what most other people are saying?” Because of a deep human instinct …
Picasso, The First Modern Master Of Personal Branding
“At some level he realised that merely being a prodigiously talented painter was not enough. At first, it was his art that fascinated the public, but later his wealth (his brand value) became the fascinator itself.” He carefully controlled how much of his product was on the market, “excited demand with a continuous stream of new styles … [and] understood the media and the value of social networking.”