“Sony Pictures Entertainment announced Wednesday that it would continue its rollout of The Interview by adding new video-on-demand platforms, pay-per-view services and about 200 more theaters.”
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“Wolf Of Wall Street” Was The Most-Pirated Movie Of 2014
“Wolf was illegally downloaded 30.035 million times between Jan. 1 and Dec. 23, 2014. The film, which was released in theaters Dec. 25, 2013, grossed $116 million domestically and $392 million worldwide.”
Security Experts: Sony Hacking Probably Done By Insider
“They argue that the connections between the Sony hack and the North Korean government amount to circumstantial evidence. Further, they say the level of the breach indicates an intimate knowledge of Sony’s computer systems that could have come from someone on the inside.”
Penny Arcade: Here’s What It Takes To Have An Art Career These Days
“Art was done the same way for a long time — you were young, you came, you watched a lot of other people and you started to struggle to make your own work, and eventually people came to see you and you made a little bit of money. Now that economic structure is totally broken. Young people only go to see a few other people; they only go to see people whose careers they want to emulate. And they mostly stay within their own age group. So you have tons of people who are all 22 who make their work with other 22-year-olds. You can’t get much mileage out of that. You need the inter-generational thing, I believe: the energy of the young and the wisdom and experience of the old.”
In Praise Of Know-Nothing Criticism
“The problem with demanding a certain kind of knowledge or a certain kind of expertise in criticism, then, is that it can end up presupposing, or insisting upon, a certain kind of conversation. And often that seems like the point: expertise is used as an excuse to silence critics — and especially negative critics.”
How Sony Botched Its Response To The Hacking
“Interviews with over two dozen people involved in the episode suggest that Sony – slow to realize the depths of its peril – let its troubles deepen by mounting a public defense only after enormous damage had been done.”
How Shostakovich’s “The Bolt” Changed Ballet History
“Despite its seemingly impeccable narrative of industrial espionage being routed by heroic factory workers, its creators were too tempted to have fun with their cast of baddies (the Lazy Idler, the Petty Bourgeois Woman, and the decadent, western types satirised by the local amateur theatre troupe). They were too obviously bored by the decent workers, the earnest members of the local Komsomol group – the young communist league.”
As Shaker Design Gets Ever More Famous, The Largest Shaker Museum Struggles
Attendance at Hancock Shaker Village in the Massachusetts Berkshires “is down by nearly a third compared with a decade ago, to about 50,000 visitors a year. Donations and government support have also dwindled. The annual budget, never particularly robust, has been cut by a quarter, to $1.6 million.”
The Ten Worst Things That Happened In Art In 2013
“From war in Syria and Mali to labor problems at museums in the Gulf and the panopticon of government surveillance, these are some of the awful things that impacted arts and culture in 2013.”