“[He] turned his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker into a distinctive approach to making sculptures and paintings that defy easy categorization.”
Tag: 02.11.13
There Were Almost No Obituaries For Sylvia Plath
“At the time of her death by suicide – 50 years ago, on February 11, 1963 – she was a published novelist and an acclaimed poet; beyond that, she was also a statuesque, stylish American married to the celebrated English poet Ted Hughes. … The secrecy surrounding Plath’s suicide, as it turns out, masked more than just the ugly details of her death.”
Could The Right Software Recreate A Dead Language?
A team of researchers in Vancouver and Berkeley “posits that dead languages could be reconstructed by feeding modern successors into computer programs configured to build extinct languages word by word.”
Padlocks Over The Seine (Lots Of Them)
“Paris’s picturesque bridges … are heaving with padlocks, bike locks, handcuffs and other talismans of amour. Enamored visitors write their names on a lock, attach it to a bridge and throw the key into the river. … The public displays of affection have unchained loathing among coldhearted locals.”
Can You Make Arts Organizations Be More Diverse? (Should You?)
“Merely because an organization exists in a specific geographic spot is not, to my thinking, a valid enough argument to convince me that they have some obligation to program for the residents of that spot.”
Serious Movies – They’re Getting Longer
“It may come down to expectations: Directors want to give, and audiences are ready to take, and with ticket prices increasing, perhaps anything less than two hours is just not enough any more.”
The Secret Of Galileo’s Genius (Well, One Of Them)
His father, music theorist Vincenzo Galilei, “wrote a book … ripping apart ancient Ptolemaic systems of lute tuning, as his son ripped apart Ptolemaic astronomy. … The young Galileo took for granted the intellectual freedom conceded to Renaissance musicians … [and] transfer[red] the spirit of the Italian Renaissance in the plastic arts to the mathematical and observational ones.”