Trinity College Dublin needs funds for the upkeep of the famous illuminated manuscript and the other items in its rare book collections. So they applied for a worldwide trademark – only to get objections from a fast-food giant.
Russian Publisher Puts Western Authors’ Names On Books They Say They Never Wrote
“Journalists Luke Harding and Edward Lucas and U.S.-based Russia expert Donald Jensen confirmed to The Moscow Times that they did not know anything about Russian-language books allegedly written by them and produced by Moscow publishing house Algoritm.”
Throwing Off The Shackles Of Being A “Professional” In Theatre
Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making more money off theatre than I ever did as “a professional.” But I’m not a professional.
Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Struggle To Remember
“Art museums across New Orleans felt compelled to remember Hurricane Katrina as the 10th anniversary of its landfall approaches. But the anniversary shows at some of the city’s most high-profile museums seem surprisingly understated, at least to outsiders’ eyes. In fact, they barely seem to be about Katrina at all.”
Prince Compares Traditional Recording Contracts To Slavery
“His pitch to the group was simple: Typical record company contracts turn artists into indentured servants with little control over how their music is used, particularly when it comes to revenue from streaming services playing their music online — and he wants to change that.”
How Instagram Is Influencing The Visual Art Market
In the past few years, it has emerged as the social media platform of choice for many contemporary artists, galleries, auction houses and collectors, who use it to promote art — especially works by emerging artists — and to offer an early peek into studios, auction houses and art fairs. How much that actually translates into sales like the “Lockheed Lounge,” however, is still up for debate.
Tenor Fractures Spine After Stage Collapses Underneath Him
During a performance of Turandot at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy on Friday, tenor Marco Voleri, playing the Emperor Altoum, was sitting on his throne when a cable snapped and the platform fell in, causing him to tumble more than six feet.
David Foster Wallace Took Book Blurbs Way More Seriously Than He Let On
In 2004, he coined the word blurbspeak, defined as “a very special subdialect of English that’s partly hyperbole, but it’s also phrases that sound really good and are very compelling in an advertorial sense, but if you think about them, they’re literally meaningless.” On the other hand, he wrote about two dozen of them over the years, and Lucas Thompson argues that they’re genuinely worthwhile writing.
Born To Riot: Why Sports Fans Love To Brawl, Smash And Set Things On Fire (And Not Just In Philadelphia)
Steve Almond talks to author Justine Gubar (Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan), whose thesis is that “just about anyone can turn into a rioter.” (Even Vancouverites.)
‘One Of The Strange Originals Of American Ballet,’ Alastair Macaulay Called This Man
Who but Matthew Neenan, co-founder of Philadelphia’s BalletX and resident choreographer of the Pennsylvania Ballet, could pull off a classical dance work about a key event in the history of airmail?
Issa Rae Killed It On YouTube, But TV Isn’t Working Out As Well (Yet?)
“A number of networks and production companies expressed interest in adapting ‘Awkward Black Girl’ for prime-time TV. To Rae’s disappointment, most wanted to completely rework the show. Rae recalls a phone conversation with a network executive who wanted to make it into a pan-racial franchise operation, starting with ‘Awkward Indian Boy.’ Another suggested Rae recast the lead with a lighter-skinned actress with long, straight hair — in essence, the exact opposite of Rae. She turned down the offers.”
Is Binge-Viewing Going Out Of Style?
Hulu’s head of content: “With all of our new originals, we will release episodes weekly. … We want to give viewers the opportunity to discover their favorite shows every week. Like you, we value the shared experience and the joy of the watercooler that is television.”
Honoring Community Theatre
“We are living in an age when we get to choose our communities. I could be a sports fan, or a gamer, or build houses for Habitat for Humanity, or a zillion other things. But my real friends, my chosen family, my loved ones, they almost all do theatre. Many of them get paid. Many of them don’t. The ones that don’t make theatre are board members, boosters, donors, and most importantly, an audience.”
What Developers Plan To Do With One Of London’s Last Big Industrial Relics
“The mills closed down in 1992 after years of decline, and though officially abandoned, the giant buildings have rarely been empty since: film-makers, music video creators and a variety of unofficial visitors have all been in, many leaving their mark on the building.”
The Marketing Company That Knows How To Sell Movies In China
“Film companies pay for outdoor banners and signs, advertise online, team up with local promotional partners and, increasingly, call a company with enormous reach that few people outside of China have ever heard of: Mtime.”
Conductor Seiji Ozawa Breaks Hip, Cancels Performances
“The bushy-haired conductor ‘accidentally tumbled and hurt his hip’ last Saturday and would be out of commission for three weeks to heal the fracture, the festival said on its website.”
Dancer Killed Hours Before He Was Scheduled To Close Out A Matthew Bourne Ballet
“Jonathan Ollivier, 38, was killed as he rode his motorbike through Clerkenwell in central London on Sunday, Scotland Yard said.”
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The Art Historian Who Knew How To Tell A Story
“Her detailed, original research, empathy with the artists she wrote about and insight illuminated the subject. Her approach was both methodical and imaginative: she knew that this was precious historical material that needed to be gathered and recorded before it was lost; but Marion [Whybrow] knew how to tell a story, too, and how to pick out an anecdote that summed up a character.”
The Bestselling Authors You’ve Never (Yet) Heard Of
On the fifth anniversary of the Kindle becoming available in the UK, “the result of authors choosing to go it alone is a new digital literary landscape where romance, erotica and science fiction reign supreme and people – rather than publishing houses – are deciding what sells.”
The Broad Museum’s Storage Vault Will Open (Some Of) The Unhung Collection To Visitors
“The vault was conceived as the heart of the $140-million museum. It allows the Broad to store or exhibit 99% of its nearly 2,000-object collection on-site, where it’s all surprisingly accessible to the staff. That’s a game-changer logistically for the museum, as planning exhibits and lending works to other institutions will be far easier, giving the collection more international play.”
Being An Irish Writer Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Anne Enright, who’s up for a second Booker Prize right now and is the first-ever laureate for Irish fiction: “Writers are never telling wonderful stories about Ireland, they’re telling interesting stories about Ireland, and Ireland doesn’t necessarily appreciate that. So for me to be accepted, for a female voice – with all the anxiety there is about the female voice in Ireland – for that somehow to dissolve, and this symbolic thing of the laureateship, is just lovely.”
The New CEO Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Has To Confront Attendance And Budget Issues
“Pittsburgh Symphony projects it will run another million-dollar-plus budget deficit this season, and has seen ticket sales fall to 50 percent for the classical subscription series and to 54 percent for the Pops. The symphony’s last balanced budgets were for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, before the financial sector meltdown.”
Benedict Cumberbatch Pleads With His Fans To Stop Filming ‘Hamlet’
“The Sherlock actor made his debut as Hamlet at the Barbican last week but found the distraction of red lights in the audience so ‘mortifying’ that he stepped outside the stage door after the show to ask the waiting throng for their help.”
‘To Me, They Are Art World Royalty’ – The Guerrilla Girls, 30 Years On
“After three decades as masked crusaders for gender and racial equality in the art world – and increasingly, everywhere else – the Guerrilla Girls have lately been enjoying a victory lap. … What follows is an oral history of the Guerrilla Girls and their big-footed leaps across the cultural world, recounted by the Girls themselves, their art-world contemporaries and younger artists they inspired, as well as curators, dealers and museum directors who were witness to their insurrection.”