Over the past 50 years, abebuu adekai – “proverb boxes,” fantastical caskets hand-carved from wood – “have become one of Ghana’s most unique cultural exports. The curious tradition of burying people in coffins shaped like everything from lobsters to busty women is primarily practiced in Accra and has spawned over 10 workshops in the capital city.”
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Computer Analysis Of Bestselling Books Reveal What Works. So Can Computers Show You How To Write A Bestseller?
“Most writers of literary fiction regard bestsellers with a mixture of envy for the numbers involved and disgust for the kind of writing that often racks them up. Le Devoir lightened its assignment by presenting it as a game, with a reader poll to decide the winner.”
Can You Think Yourself Into Becoming A Different Person? On Neuroplasticity
“It’s hard, for the non-scientist, to understand what, exactly, neuroplasticity is and what its potential truly is. ‘I’ve seen tremendous exaggeration,’ says Greg Downey, an anthropologist … and co-author of the popular blog Neuroanthropology. ‘People are so excited about neuroplasticity they talk themselves into believing anything.'”
Cameron Carpenter’s Majestic Machine: A Massive Virtual Pipe Organ For Touring To Concert Halls
“The computerized programming of the International Touring Organ delivers what’s in essence a digitized synthesis of the sounds of Carpenter’s favorite pipe and electronic organs” – theater organs as well as church and concert-hall instruments – with “five manuals (keyboards), a specialized pedalboard, and controls for the stops [as well as] a supercomputer/amplifier unit, the brains of the array, and an expansive proprietary system of specialized speakers. But no pipes.”
Why Are Some People Habitually Late?
“There’s no single cause. Chronic lateness is a kind of end-product phenomena. People can have very different sorts of motives and patterns” – several of which are explored here – “that lead them to be chronically late.” One common factor: we they honestly don’t mean to be rude.
Once-Famous Floating Hotel To Become Phnom Penh’s Center For Cambodian Arts
The Boat, long abandoned, will be renovated into a complex with art studios, rehearsal and performance spaces, office facilities, restaurants and galleries.
Whoever The NY Philharmonic’s Next Music Director Is, It Won’t Be Salonen
“That leaves two conductors who are considered leading contenders for the position: Jaap van Zweden, the music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Manfred Honeck, the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — though dark-horse candidates have been known to emerge victorious in the orchestra’s past searches.”
Is Kentucky’s New Governor Eliminating The State’s Arts Council?
“It is not clear whether an alternative agency will be formed or whether the arts will be folded into another agency. In either case, oversight of the arts will become political with changes in personnel and programs with each election.”
Ghiberti’s Bronze Doors On Baptistery In Florence Replaced By Replicas
“For nearly 600 years, Lorenzo Ghiberti’s panels depicting scenes from the life of Christ on the north doors of the Baptistery in Florence were exposed to the elements and other vicissitudes of time. Now, the gilded bronze doors with their 28 panels have been replaced with replicas made by a team of artisans using the materials and techniques mastered centuries ago by the Renaissance sculptor and his workshop.”
Akram Khan Responds To Open Letter Criticizing His Remarks About Female Choreographers
“I would hope that the work I have done throughout my career to help support anyone with talent would demonstrate to those that don’t know me well, and to my colleagues in the dance industry that do know me, that “those comments are simply not where my heart lies.”