“Victoria & Albert: Art & Love is the first-ever show to focus on the enthusiasm for art shared by Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and her husband, Prince Albert. It reveals the couple’s starkly-differing attitudes towards works of art, with the queen favouring titillating images featuring plenty of naked flesh, while her husband appears prudish by comparison.”
Tag: 02.13.10
Why Did Google Delete Music Blogs?
“Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether music blogs are good or bad for the music industry, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act forces Google to take these actions — otherwise, it would lose the protection of the DMCA’s “safe harbor” clause and could be found liable for any copyright infringement on its blogging networks.”
First? South Korean Robot Performs In A Play
“The five-foot-two inch tall Eve Robot 3 (EveR-3) was developed by South Korea’s state-run KITECH in 2006. The android speaks in both Korean and English, and exhibit 16 different facial expressions.”
Where Music Fits In Life
“Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine – both were honoured for their services to music – wanted to take music out of the privileged milieu of Huygens and – to a lesser extent – myself. They believed it ought to be available to everyone. They used their fame, and the thrill their playing gave to their audiences to generate a grass roots movement in music.”
Time To Find New Purpose For Art?
“Art is the way that life tests and expresses itself, without which we are already dead. But what happens to your enthusiasm for belonging and contributing to this system of distribution when you are told that we have 96 months before the tipping point, when the feedback systems of man-made global warming take over – probably resulting in tens of millions of climate-change refugees displaced and made homeless by the end of this century?”
The Classic National Gallery
“Today, surrounded by the dated detritus of subsequent federal patronage, ridiculed by the cultural establishment as a fossil, built by an architect whose era had passed, funded by a besieged capitalist, filled with treasures confiscated by Communists and bequeathed to the American people in one of the most generous acts of democratic beneficence, the National Gallery remains a masterpiece–a timeless work of art that has never failed to inspire and move the millions of visitors who pass through its luminous space.”