“Does she understand what’s going on? If you make her hear, she can understand what’s going on. Can she give informed consent? Absolutely, she can give informed consent. She knows what she likes, who she likes, what she doesn’t like. Mainly, she doesn’t like people to disturb her and interrupt her privacy and probe in her personal business.”
Tag: 02.04.15
Is Harper Lee’s “Go Set A Watchman” A Sequel, Or What? The Publisher Explains
Jonathan Burnham of HarperCollins: “It’s set 20 years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird, … during the mid-1950s during a turbulent time in American racial politics. … In a way, it’s a pre-sequel, if that could exist. None of the material from Go Set A Watchman can be found in To Kill A Mockingbird. All the scenes are new. The writing is new. … It’s in every respect a different novel.”
You Have No Idea What Happened: How We (Mis-)Remember Shock Events
“Their memories were vivid, clear – and wrong. There was no relationship at all between confidence and accuracy.” Maria Konnikova explores how this happens in the brain.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.04.15
Walter Liedtke, Consummate Curator of Dutch and Flemish Painting, Dies in a Train Crash
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-04
Arts Predispositions I: Yeses
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-02-04
Happy Returns: Relinquished Hellenistic Silver Back on Display at Metropolitan Museum
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-04
The Bill Evans Legacy
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-04
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Pianist Aldo Ciccolini, 89
Throughout Mr. Ciccolini’s career, critics praised his playing for its technical virtuosity, airy lyricism and cool, assiduous elegance.
Troubled Flanders Ballet Gets A New Director
“The internationally prominent choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui will be the new artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the company announced Wednesday in Antwerp, Belgium. Tamas Moricz , a former dancer with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt, will be the associate artistic director.”
Picasso’s Granddaughter Is Selling Off The Art She Inherited. Uh-Oh.
“Her unconventional sales approach is reverberating through international art markets, worrying dealers and auctioneers accustomed to playing key — and lucrative — roles in the sale of renowned art. In an interview, Ms. Picasso said she would sell works privately and would judge “one by one, based on need,” how many, and which, of the remaining Picasso works, of about 10,000 that she inherited, she would put up for sale.”
Problem: TV/Video/Movie Producers Don’t Have A Reliable Way To Measure Who Is Watching
“The fact that we don’t have the ability to look at a telecast of a show or the flight of a series…and don’t understand the (audience) behavior is really sad.”
NYC Mayor Pledges New Affordable Housing For Artists
“in Bill de Blasio’s second State of the City Address, delivered this afternoon, the mayor outlined his plan for addressing New York’s housing problem, which includes building 1,500 affordable artist work/live spaces by 2024.”
British Invasion (NY’s Three Biggest Arts Projects Led By Brits)
“New York City has three arts centers under development and the artistic leadership at each one is coming from across the pond.”