“If you’re a young adult of a certain age, Christine Cavanaugh’s distinct voice probably plays a role in the pop culture memories from your childhood … Cavanaugh died last month at the age of 51, and in tribute to her work we’ve highlighted some of her best turns as both a voice actor and as a character actor.” (video)
This Organ Performance Will Last Longer Than You Will (Or Your Children Or Grandchildren)
A look in on the German project that’s taking John Cage’s piece As SLow aS Possible very, very seriously.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.05.15
Did Worcester Museum’s “Rethinking” Work? A FollowUp
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-05
Postmodernism and the Human Condition
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-01-05
Mis-Communications? Exodus of Guggenheim’s Top PR Officials
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-05
Monday Recommendation: Nat Hentoff
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-05
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Our Patent System Is Utterly Borked, But There Are Ways To Fix It
“How ironic that we live in a democratized technological ecosystem in which anyone can invent and patent anything, yet it is mostly just the rich and powerful who can effectively partake of its resources. The patent system is thus hostage to a costly and exclusionary legal system. So let’s liberate it.”
Panto Is Popular – Very Popular – In Northern Ireland
“In 2013, more than a quarter of all theatre tickets sold in Northern Ireland (27%) were for pantomime shows, with the north-east close behind at 24%. Pantomime was proportionally least popular in London (2%) and the north-west (11%).”
What A Musician Thinks Might Improve Classical Concerts
“People are becoming more creative about using visual effects, such as lighting and sometimes images, in order to bring a certain aspect of the music to life.”
Australia Returns Yet Another Stolen Statue To India
“The NGA said a preliminary assessment had earmarked 54 ‘significant south Asian works’ for further investigation into how they ended up in the collection. It expected this work might take several years.”
Artist Who Was Arrested Three Times Last Week In Havana Warned To Stay Away From Biennial
“‘This served to unmask everyone,’ Bruguera told the journalist Adriel Reyes of Radio Martí.”
The Day T.S. Eliot Invented The Hipster
“Neither hipsters nor Prufrock would exist without the modern urban setting that bred their sensibilities. It is in the city that the pulse of a civilization is taken.”
New Tomb Of Previously Unknown Pharaonic Queen Discovered In Egypt
“This discovery will help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids.”
Pulp Fiction – How Reading Was Democratized
“Editors at the old hardcover houses looked on paperbacks as a bottom-feeding commercial phenomenon, like the pulp magazines and comic books they were distributed with. Critics ignored them, or attacked them as a lowbrow and politically retrograde diversion. Religious and civic groups campaigned to get them regulated or banned.”