“A scrap of twisted silver found a few weeks ago by a metal detector in Lancashire will take its place among masterpieces of medieval art at the British Museum … It shows one of the companions of St Ursula, one of the most popular mystical legends of medieval Europe.”
Tag: 06.20.11
EMI Puts Itself Up for Sale (Again)
“EMI, the music company that was seized by Citigroup in February after a disastrous four-year ownership by the private equity firm Terra Firma, is going up for sale again.”
Dutch Government Poised To Slash Funding For Classical Music And Dance
“Dutch music is under threat, from its orchestras to its opera houses, its new music ensembles to its small-scale touring outfits.” The three largest institutions – the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Dutch National Ballet and Netherlands Opera – face minimal cuts, while smaller outfits such as the National Touring Opera and the Netherlands Dance Theater face cuts of 60% or more.
Beyond Dot-Com: Now Your Domain Name Can Be Dot-Anything
“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22. Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.”
And The New BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Is –
Valentina Nafornita, a 24-year-old soprano from Moldova who also received the Audience Award. Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko won the Song Prize, considered the runner-up award.
A Brief History Of Hippies And Rock Festivals
From the originals (Monterey; Hendrix and Joplin) through hippies 2.0 (Lollapalooza; The Grateful Dead and Phish) to hippies 3G (Bonnaroo; Sound Tribe Sector 9 and, still, Phish), “what’s amazing … isn’t how much they’ve changed. It’s how much they haven’t, especially as society has changed around them.”
Which Dead-Tree-Paper Institution Is Adapting Best To The Digital Era? The New York Public Library
“It’s no longer only a place where people take out books and scholars dig through archives. The library has become a social network with physical and digital nodes … [and] three million active users … An institution as old and august as the NYPL is not supposed to react nimbly to new developments, let alone lead the media companies producing the books and magazines it preserves.”
The Onion Is Ready For Its Pulitzer Now
“Saying the paper’s journalistic excellence should be overlooked no longer, The Onion is beginning a full-scale multimedia campaign to get a long-coveted Pulitzer. Readers, celebrities, world leaders and a nonprofit advocacy group called Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes are all contributing to the effort.”
Humanities Professors, Stop Dressing Like Bums!
Robert Watts: “I secretly feared that my frumpiness lowered the quality of my teaching and cost me a certain amount of respect among my students. I feared that among my students were those who … thought: If I learn this stuff, do I have to grow up and look like him?” (And guess what happened when he started wearing suits in class.)
How The Brain Recognizes Its Body
“Australian researchers have shown that along with the sense of touch and vision, signalling receptors in the muscles and joints also play a critical role. … Previous research shows people can be deluded into claiming ownership of an artificial hand. This is done by simultaneously stroking the subject’s hidden hand and a visible artificial rubber hand.”