And he’s got very credible reasons for doing so.
Tag: 06.03.13
Decoding How Time And Space Are Perceived In The Brain
“While most people are familiar with the ensuing influence Einstein’s ideas had on both the academic and public conception of the physical universe, few people are aware a similar revolution against space and time is underway in the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience.”
English National Ballet CEO Resigns After Three Months
“English National Ballet’s chief executive, Karen Napier, has quit her job after three months in the position. She began in February of this year and resigned last month because it was ‘not the right role for her’, according to a spokeswoman at ENB.”
Writers Guild Poll Names Best-Written TV Series Ever
Members of the Writers Guild of America “evaluated hundreds of dramas, comedies, miniseries (six hours or more), daytime serials, animation, variety series, talk shows and kids’ programs to come up with an unprecedented, exhaustive list of TV’s top 101.” Leading the pack was a certain New Jersey family.
Time Out London Delays Publishing Following Fire
“The free title, which is normally distributed across the capital on a Tuesday, … will fail to publish on time for the first time in more than 44 years, after a warehouse fire destroyed more than 200,000 copies of this week’s edition.”
Cities Behind Stalled Arts Center Of North Texas Can’t Even Agree To Dissolve It
“More than seven months after plans to dissolve the Arts Center of North Texas were put into motion, the three owner cities have still not come to an agreement over how to best carry out that task. … The project is jointly owned by Plano, Frisco, and Allen [in metro Dallas-Ft. Worth], but all momentum stopped in May 2011 when Frisco voters decided to pull out of the project.”
Are Video Games Looking More Like Art?
“Recently, a number of museums, including the Smithsonian and the MOMA, staged exhibitions featuring video games as art, throwing the topic into focus again.”
Artists Protest Australian Police Seizure Of Artwork From Museum
Police seized artwork that showed children’s bodies with sexual objects.
In Defense Of The Whitney Museum’s New Logo
“Generally speaking, minimal structures offer a lot of space for interpretation. They require something from the viewer — an active eye, an active mind.”
How The People Of Timbuktu Smuggled Out Their Treasure
“It was very risky. We evacuated the manuscripts in cars, carts and canoes,” says Dr Abdel Kader Haidara, who launched the operation in October, frequently concealing the metal boxes under crates of vegetables and fruit. “One car could only take two or three metal boxes at the most. So we did it little by little.”