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Tag: 02.26.14
Are We Wrong About Who We Are In The Universe?
“For a long time, we’ve had this preconception that life is here on Earth, but the universe is dead. But maybe we should be thinking of this as a living universe. We may be relative latecomers to the game.”
Should Artists Get Royalties When Their Work Is Resold? Here’s California As A Cautionary Tale
“As the only droit de suite in the US, the California statute has served as a test case. It should also serve as a cautionary tale for politicians considering the new Equity for Visual Artists bill, who would do well to learn from its mistakes.”
Why Doesn’t Dance Get The Serious Scholarly Attention That The Other Arts Do?
“Where is the equivalent to Adorno on Stravinsky and Schoenberg? Where the monographs to match those on Cubism, or the modern novel? If the link between the “Demoiselles d’Avignon” and temporality in fiction is worth examining, why not between that same painting and Nijinsky’s Sacre du Printemps?”
More Forged Abstract Expressionist Paintings Found in Queens House
“When it was discovered that one artist painted the more than 60 works peddled as Abstract Expressionist originals by the Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales, the revelation seemed incredible.” Turns out there’s more where those came from.
Craig Lucas, Climbing Back From the Bottom
The playwright and screenwriter (Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion, Marry Me a Little, The Light in the Piazza) talks about drinking with his mother, running out of money and work even after he became famous, overcoming addiction, and what Philip Seymour Hoffman literally chased him down to say.
The Limitations of Eve Ensler’s Dance-Based Activism
“Last year, when I first heard about One Billion Rising, the day of action Ensler had declared to ‘break the silence’ about violence against women, I did not immediately think (as 999,999,999 other women evidently did), ‘Oh hooray, the famous vagina lady is doing something about violence!’ Instead I thought, ‘They’re going to tell us to dance, aren’t they.'”
Here’s the Internet’s Most Internet Sentence
Matthew J.X. Malady did the research so we don’t have to. (Spoiler: One of the runners-up was “Like us on Facebook.”)
How 5.5 Million People helped Harry Manx Get His Stolen Guitar Back
His rare guitar went missing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. So he wrote a post about it on Facebook and…
Where Do New Ideas Come From? Here’s How The Brain Makes Them
“How does our thinking leap beyond our existing knowledge to make new ideas? The answer is that we blend multiple ideas that are already in our minds, and these blends contain new ideas that didn’t exist before.”