“Minds are not made by nervous systems alone but rather by nervous systems in cooperation with many other and far older living systems of our body, including metabolic, endocrine, immune and circulatory systems. Nervous systems are late-comers in evolution. They are useful servants of the older life systems
Tag: 03.03.18
The Fundamental Premise Of Most Biographies Is Wrong
More than the deluge of personal detail, the chief problem with biography is that the fundamental precepts are wrong, the principles too rigid. For the idea always seems to be that by gathering and establishing facts, cataloguing testimonies and anecdotes, each life can be made a perfect whole — that the objective biographer will see to it that there has been a plan or pattern, and dignity is conferred. I disagree. Why should a personality hang together?
Artist Papers Over Rauschenberg Print To Resell As New Art
On Monday, artist Nikolas Bentel will auction off a Robert Rauschenberg print for, he hopes, $20,000. Except it won’t a Robert Rauschenberg print anymore. It will be covered in advertisements for people and firms—including a graphic depiction of a six-inch penis—that Bentel has attracted to his mission to destroy a Rauschenberg and create a new work of art.
Met Museum Gives Big Bonuses To Senior Execs As It Pleads Financial Hardship
Daniel Weiss was paid $670,066 in 2016 as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s president and received a housing allowance that brought his total compensation package to $901,671, according to the Met’s 2016 tax filing, the latest available. Suzanne Brenner, the Met’s senior VP and chief investment officer, got a $470,313 bonus, bringing her total compensation to $1.3 million, according to the records obtained by The Post.
What’s Next For The Woman Who Bought The Weinstein Company?
Maria Contreras-Sweet and her investors group have a plan: “to turn the rubble of Harvey Weinstein’s former New York-based studio into a new, female-focused film and TV company run by women. If the plan works, it would be an unprecedented turnaround for a badly tarnished company and possibly even set an example for the male-dominated entertainment industry.”
Olivia De Havilland’s Lawsuit Is Not Just Her, But Perhaps The, Last Stand For Truth On The Screen
Her last lawsuit against Hollywood made case law, establishing protection for workers in personal services contracts – and helped break the studio system. Now, if this lawsuit against FX and Ryan Murphy goes anywhere, it will also be huge: “That upends the film industry, the TV industry, the video game industry. Anyone who is trying to make stories based on true events with real people are not going to be able to do so without permission.”
Where Did A24, The Movie Studio That Funds Arthouse Hit After Arthouse Hit, Come From?
The studio, which funded last year’s Best Picture winner Moonlight and this year’s Florida Project … and Lady Bird as well. But “how has the company so quickly created such a strong consumer identity, with analysts saying that fans are starting to buy tickets simply because they see A24’s retro logo on a trailer?” It’s a mystery (deliberately so).
It’s Been Fifty Years Since ‘The Graduate’ Won Best Picture
How does it hold up? Hm; the Gen-Xers who discuss it here are mostly bemused. “I don’t quite understand how young audiences would have seen Benjamin’s stupefaction in the face of a future beyond his control as righteous—or even particularly rebellious. There’s really nothing countercultural about running off with the pretty girl next door.”
The Final Pre-Oscars Awards Show Gives Best Movie To ‘Get Out’
Jordan Peele also won best director at the Indie Spirit Awards, but Lady Bird won best screenplay, and all of the actors who have been winning everything, well, won everything. Still … could it predict what happens tonight?
David Ogden Stiers, Major Winchester On MASH, Has Died At 75
But he wasn’t just famous for MASH: “The actor, with his educated, resonant intonations — though he did not share Major Winchester’s Boston Brahmin accent — was much in demand for narration and voiceover work, and for efforts as the narrator and as of Disney’s enormous hit animated film Beauty and the Beast, he shared a Grammy win for best recording for children and another nomination for album of the year.”