“There are times when you walk through Midtown Manhattan, among the soulless slabs and towers of Modernism, and you wonder how an entire generation could have tolerated such unrelenting rectilinearity. Was no one bored? Was no one disgusted?”
Tag: 12.17.07
England’s Hidden Public Sculpture Collection
Over 60 years, Arts Council England has collected more than 7,500 sulptures. But you can’t see more than one percent of them. Shouldn’t we find a way to distribute and make them accessible to the public, asks Germaine Greer?
Funding Council To Arts Groups: You’re Cut Off!
Nearly 200 arts organisations in England have been told that their funding will end from next April in the biggest and most bloody cull since the Arts Council was set up more than 50 years ago.
Laura Huxley, 96
“A vigorous and engaging therapist, musical prodigy and author, Laura Huxley, who has died of cancer aged 96, will be best remembered as the second wife, muse and champion of writer Aldous Huxley.”
Why Lax Copyright Can’t Hurt Poetry
“There’s something fishy about any argument that begins from the position that poetry, which has been created and shared for millennia, depends for its flourishing on the strict application of copyright law… All the evidence of the online era suggests that getting tough on copyright infringement and trying to build legal walls in cyberspace certainly doesn’t work.”
Daniel Libeskind On Building The Modern Museum
“Money is not a determinant of architecture. If you give a poet more money, the poem he writes wouldn’t be any better.”
Striking Writers Working On Net Startups
“At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses that, if successful, could create an alternative economic model to the one at the heart of the walkout, now in its seventh week.”
Reality TV Becomes Striking Writers’ Battleground
“Reality TV, the amorphous catch-all that includes everything from “Survivor” to “Dancing With the Stars” to “The Hills,” has emerged as the unlikely flash point of the work stoppage, and not just because the networks hope that hundreds of hours of unscripted series will serve as substitute programming once the networks’ well of comedies and dramas runs bone-dry.”