Art Throb is a multimedia online magazine, dedicated to chronicling the arts and culture of Boston’s North Shore. Founder and editor-in-chief Dinah Cardin says, “[Art Throb's] definition of art is not confined to things that hang on museum walls. We have a recurring theme…that art is in the cracks and crevasses of the sidewalk, in a way of looking at life and the people around us. Art is community.” We agree!
In 1991, Nan Richardson founded Umbrage Editions, an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-oriented publishing company, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Umbrage also represents a human rights organization, Speak Truth to Power, that produces plays, events, colloquia, films and more.
When does a derivative work of art cross the line from legally-protected commentary to copyright infringement? This ostensibly esoteric question has become increasingly relevant in recent years, touching everything from hip hop sampling to postmodernist poetry to open source software. Until recently, the most well known case that addressed these matters concerned The Wind [...]
For years now I’ve suspected that some of the summer blockbusters produced by the Hollywood machine were secretly written by computers. The scripts are so formulaic, the characters so transparently designed to appeal to target demographics, that it’s hard to believe any self-respecting screenwriter could be so cynical and calculating.
In the meantime, a business [...]
Lungfull Magazine is an annual literary journal that prints the rough drafts of its contributors’ work side-by-side with the final versions. The magazine was established in 1995, when it was distributed mostly at poetry readings in New York City. Now Lungfull! is distributed nationally and is being used in classrooms by teachers who want to [...]
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