“Using advances in infrared imagery, [researchers] have uncovered a hidden portrait of a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand” underneath the 1901 painting. (Picasso evidently re-used the canvas.) “Now the question that conservators at The Phillips Collection in Washington hope to answer is simply: Who is he?”
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Sherlock Holmes Is In The Public Domain, Rules U.S. Appeals Court
“The decision came in a suit between the [Arthur Conan] Doyle estate and Leslie Klinger, who was editing a set of stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes and other Doyle characters.”
Yet Another Problem For Journalism: Nobody Really Knows If Online Advertising Works
It’s true that advertisers have a lot more data – vast seas of data – from the Web than they ever did from print or broadcast. But researchers are finding that much of that data, and most ads, aren’t really useful for convincing people to buy things they weren’t going to buy anyway.
What Does All That Data From The Internet Tell Us? (That We Lie To Ourselves)
“The obvious answer is that it teaches us what you’re interested in. The less-obvious, but equally true, answer is that it teaches you what you’re interested in. If we merely asked what you wanted, without measuring what you wanted, you’d just keep lying to us – and to yourself. … Ask audiences what they want, and they’ll tell you vegetables. Watch them quietly, and they’ll mostly eat candy.”
Using Improv To Prevent Rape
“Something you don’t hear too often in the middle of an improv set: ‘Okay, and for the next scene, my opening line will be ‘I really didn’t rape that girl’.’ That’s the moment when Sex Signals, one of the country’s fastest growing sexual assault prevention programs, stops being so funny.”
Why The CIA Distributed Pocket-Sized Copies Of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ In The USSR
“Pasternak did not think of his novel as a weapon for intellectual warfare. … He wanted [it] treated as a novel, not a pamphlet. The CIA, on the other hand, was delighted by the media spotlight on the anti-Communist passages. The CIA also recognized that the symbolism of the situation made the Soviet Union look at least as bad as the novel itself did.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.17.14
What’s Left Unsaid About the Delaware Deaccession
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-18
Come down from the mountain
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-06-18
How Western Opera Came to China
AJBlog: The Great Flourishing | Published 2014-06-18
From Ashes to True Love
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-06-17
Taking Stock of the Ojai Music Festival
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-06-17
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John Adams Responds To Met’s Cancellation Of Klinghoffer Theatrecast
“The cancellation of the international telecast is a deeply regrettable decision and goes far beyond issues of “artistic freedom,” and ends in promoting the same kind of intolerance that the opera’s detractors claim to be preventing.”
Met Opera Cancels Movie Theatre Broadcast Of Klinghoffer
The Met decided to cancel its planned Nov. 15 Live in HD transmission of “Klinghoffer” to movie theaters and a radio broadcast after discussions with the Anti-Defamation League. The league praised the Met’s decision, saying that “while the opera itself is not anti-Semitic, there is a concern the opera could be used in foreign countries to stir up anti-Israel sentiments or as a vehicle to promote anti-Semitism.”
Two Royal Ballet Dancers Boycott Russia Tour Over Anti-Gay Laws
A Royal Ballet statement said: “Out of the 96-strong dancers in The Royal Ballet, just two dancers have chosen not to go on tour to Moscow for political reasons.”