“If the best experience we can have with technology requires an American-designed platform, we’ll get an American experience: Buy an Apple iPhone, and in a thousand quiet ways, we interact with it the way Cupertino wants us to.”
Tag: 12.11.13
Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries
“Some 90% of Americans ages 16 and older said that the closing of their local public library would have an impact on their community, with 63% saying it would have a “major” impact.”
Is There Such A Thing As A “Global” Art Aesthetic?
“Funny thing about the word “global”: It looks the same in Spanish and English. But it sounds different, and brings different connotations.”
Detroit Institute Of Arts Joins Talks For Control Of Its Art
“The Detroit Institute of Arts embraced publicly, for the first time, the broad outline of a federally mediated deal that would protect its art from sale and spin off the museum from city ownership into an independent nonprofit. The deal would raise roughly $500 million from a consortium of national and local charitable foundations and funnel the money into retiree pensions on behalf of the value of the art at the DIA.”
Hey TicketMaster – Time To Rethink Those Tickets!
“My job requires me to check tickets and usher people to their seats–a manageable task, but after checking hundreds of Ticketmaster tickets, it’s very clear that these tickets were designed more than three decades ago without a serious look into how people interact with it.”
Alex Ross on The Minnesota Orchestra: Words Fail
“The Minnesota Orchestral Association gives a dumbfounding report of its financial situation.”
What The Choice Of The Kennedy Center’s Next President Says About The Kennedy Center
“It’s not that she’s a woman, though it was certainly high time for the Kennedy Center to be led by one. It’s that she comes from the classical music world.”
Digital Language Death (Yes, It’s A Thing)
In the 21st century, can a language survive for long if no one uses it on the Internet?
Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays To Be Filmed For Broadcast
“Richard Nelson’s critically acclaimed Apple Family plays, which are running in repertory at the Public Theater through Sunday, will be recorded for television by WNET, the PBS station on Channel 13 in New York, for broadcast at a future date, the Public announced on Wednesday.”
Everything Around Us Is About To Be Electronically Tagged (And That Will Change The World)
“The most obvious application for iBeacon is tying digital information to physical places. When Apple first presented iBeacon to developers at their WWDC conference this summer, they used the example of an art museum. Instead of punching a three-digit number into a handheld tour guide, you could walk up to a painting, pull out your iPhone, and find additional information on the artwork right there waiting for you.”