“Objects found in a burial mound at Netheravon, Wiltshire, include a bronze saw, an archer’s wrist guard, a copper chisel and cremated human remains.” (includes video)
Tag: 02.08.16
‘English Theatre Is Dead,’ Says Playwright Edward Bond
“I think it serves no useful social, creative function. So I work mainly abroad. … What has happened to English theatre, English society, is it has become infantile. It is not dumbing down, it is actually becoming infantile. You turn on the television and it is infantile. You are patronised as if you are a little child.”
Authors Guild Appeals Google Books Ruling To US Supreme Court
“In 2013, US circuit judge Denny Chin dismissed an authors’ lawsuit against Google, saying its scanning of the books, and the ‘snippets’ of text it makes available to users, constituted fair use,” and in 2015, an appeals court agreed. “The American writers’ body is now asking the supreme court to hear its case, with a group of writers, publishers and copyright organisations backing its petition.”
Onward And Upward In The Arts: Ted Cruz’s Choice As His National Security Advisor? An Art Historian, Of Course
“Who is behind this rise from art historian at the Cleveland Museum of Art to being the National Security Advisor to one of the presidential front-runners for the Republican Party? It appears to have begun with Donald Rumsfeld.”
Scientists Have Figured Out Exactly Where Music Works On The Brain
“By mathematically analyzing scans of the auditory cortex and grouping clusters of brain cells with similar activation patterns, the scientists have identified neural pathways that react almost exclusively to the sound of music — any music.”
Long Island Philharmonic Shuts Down, Effective Immediately
“The Island’s longest continuously operated performing arts institution … suspended its subscription concert season more than five years ago due to financial shortfalls. It shut down after a failure to reach an agreement to renegotiate terms of a loan that would allow the Philharmonic to continue paying its freelance musicians and skeleton staff.”
In A Politically Polarizing Time, What Should Be The Role Of Artists?
“We’re all aware by this point that political polarization is a persistent issue to a forehead-slapping degree, but we feel it in the arts, too. I recently taught a playwriting class to teenagers, and found that many of their plays were written from the extreme right and left perspectives.”
Christopher Wheeldon: How I Fell For Madame X
The choreographer explains his inspiration for his new ballet Strapless, about a young New Orleans woman who became a sort of Belle Epoque Paris supermodel – until she was ruined by a scandalous portrait painted by John Singer Sargent.
What Is The Self? It Depends
“We have different conceptions of the self the world over not because selves differ, but because at different times and places people have more or less concern with different aspects of selfhood. They provide different answers to the question ‘What is the self?’ because that apparently singular question in fact contains any number of different ones.”
Neurothrillers! Horror Movies Really Are Scarier Than They Used To Be
“Consciously or unconsciously, contemporary filmmakers not only tap into increased knowledge about the brain offered by neuroscientific experiments, but their films also stimulate the neural senses of emotions without the detour of narrative.”