Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective boasts “probably the most successful and elaborate afterlife that any fictional character has ever enjoyed. He has appeared in countless movies, stage plays and television series, and has inspired a shelf full of literary sequels and knockoffs, as well as some cartoon versions. He has even been played by Daffy Duck.”
Tag: 01.06.10
It’s OK, Canada: You Can Read Books On US-Bound Flights
“A spokesman for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said today that ‘books and magazines were always allowed and still are on U.S.-bound planes.’ Books and magazines, however, weren’t included in a list of 13 ‘items’ that Transport Canada approved Dec. 28 for carry-on purposes.”
Authors Decry Google Books Settlement To Congress
“[T]hree groups — the National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America — pointed to what they saw as the overly confusing and ultimately unfair rules that would govern what Google could do with the books if the settlement were to be approved in federal court.”
The Surprising Timeliness Of The Princes’ Portrait
“Two youths pose dressed for war – and we are at war. One of them has served in Afghanistan. Beyond advertising the Windsors’ most marketable wares, this is actually a contemporary history painting that alludes in a dignified way to the most important fact about Britain now, that people are dying in uniform.”
How The Classical Field Uses Twitter (And How It Should)
The Leipzig Gewandhaus is “searching for a new director of its concert office and artistic planning. And it’s making this known over Twitter. This is actually a nice sign of institutional transparency — even, arguably, a sounder understanding of the Twitter audience than many groups seem to harbor.”
3-D TV Future Comes With A Few Complications
The “sets themselves don’t look terribly different. The thing that’s different, of course, is that you mostly have to wear those funny glasses in order to see 3-D…. There is possibly one set that will come out made by 3M where you don’t have to have the glasses. The problem with that one is that it actually means you have to sit in a certain position in order to see it.”
A MoMA Culinary Mainstay Expands To The Whitney
A new Whitney Museum restaurant by Danny Meyer (the Modern, Tabla, Shake Shack) is slated for a fall opening. “The Whitney’s current restaurant, Sarabeth’s[,] has been at the museum for almost 20 years and … will close on Jan. 17, the same day the museum’s big Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition ends.”
Cleveland Orchestra Settlement Seems Doubtful For Now
In negotiations for a new contract to replace the one that expired last August, management and musicians remain far apart on the issue of pay. For now, everyone has agreed to keep playing through MLK Day, just before the orchestra leaves for a Miami residency. Observers think a strike or lockout is unlikely.
Honoring The Elderly: It’s Not Just For Humans
“Respect for elders may be universal in primates. Monkeys – just like humans – pay their elders special attention during conversation, apparently in order to garner some of the older animals’ wisdom.”
The Difficulty Of Filming The Vogels
Making a documentary about the middle-class New York couple who assembled one of the great late 20th-century art collections wasn’t easy ”I asked them, ‘Why did you like this particular art?’, ‘Why do you like such and such artist?’, and the only answer I could get from them was, ‘Um … well, because I like them. I like them. It’s beautiful’.”