“The artwork is by Argentina-born Italian sculptor and painter Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), entitled Concetto spaziale (Spatial concept), with an estimated value of 1.5 million euros, police said.” The canvas was later returned by the cab driver.
Tag: 05.02.17
Artists Rethink What’s Possible With A Photograph
“Rather than offering viewers immediate access to information about the world or simply how some given portion of it looks, artists working in this mode see the techniques, conventions, and history of photography as an interpretive grid that makes some things harder to see and other things easier. They consider that their work can only reflect on the world by looping back on itself—by rendering visible its photographic character as a pre-interpretation of the world that it claims merely to show.”
Why, In 2017, Are Bands Having To Scrutinize Their Own Ticket Sales To Ensure They’re Genuine?
There’s been some success – most recently, tech companies working with Adele so that perhaps only 2 percent of her Wembley Stadium tickets were scalped – but it’s ugly out there. Very, very ugly.
Now They’ve 3D-Printed A Stradivarius – And Here’s What It Sounds Like
Mind you, the instrument wasn’t spit out whole by the printer: individual parts of the instrument, carefully copied from the 1677 “Sunrise” Strad violin, were printed out and carefully assembled by hand. Here’s a video of the new copy being played, along with video of an original Strad (played by a different violinist with a different style) for comparison.
A History Of Mathematics In Art
The patterns are not merely beautiful, but mathematically rigorous as well. They explore the fundamental characteristics of symmetry in a surprisingly complete way. Mathematicians, however, did not come up with their analysis of the principles of symmetry until several centuries after the tiles of the Alhambra had been set in place.
Oh, The Stories You’ll Find In The Admissions Book Of A 19th-Century Philadelphia Prison
“A slave who ran away from Maryland, was drunk when the crime was committed. Thinks his confinement will promote the welfare of his soul.” Rebecca Onion, Slate‘s history maven, looks at these documents from the Eastern State Penitentiary, now a monument just down Fairmount Avenue from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Composer: What I Learned About What Opera Companies Want When They Commission Work
In the autumn of 2015, I reached out to roughly 200 small- to medium-sized American opera companies. In a 100-word email, I introduced myself and asked for a five-to-ten-minute phone conversation about trends in the commissioning and production of new opera (a subject that obviously interested me but was benign enough for an initial discussion). I received about 40 responses and eventually spoke with representatives of around 20 companies. My lone question was: “What conditions would need to be in place for your company to consider commissioning a new work, or producing a recently composed work?”
Why We Loved To Hate The Fyre Festival And Its Epic Disaster Weekend
The fact that it was promoted primarily to good-looking “influencers” on social media increased its ick factor to the high-minded. It was all brand, no product.
The Over-The-Top Met Ball – Celebrating Civilization’s End Times
“This year’s Met Ball—held Monday night and inspired by a Costume Institute exhibition, Art of the In-Between, showcasing the career of avant-garde Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons—was something remarkable in the Annals of the Absurd, an explosion of frippery and shamelessness that recalled late-Weimar or mid-career Mad Hatter in its slavish devotion to peacockery in the face of complex, oftentimes brutal, reality.”
Dallas School District Cuts Librarians
“School officials say it’s the result of drastic budget cuts as the district scrapes around to make up for a $60 million shortfall next year. The changes will save $2 million. No librarians will be laid off. Instead, they will be shuffled to fill vacant positions at other schools, leaving 11 campuses without librarians for the 2017-18 school year.”