“Crime Stoppers of Houston is officially on the lookout for suspected art vandal Uriel Landeros, 22, after a tipster identified him as responsible for the defacing a 1929 Picasso painting in the surrealist galleries of the Menil Collection on June 13.” Landeros is an art student at the University of Houston.
Tag: 06.22.12
Ensemble Intercontemporain Selects Matthias Pintscher As Music Director
“The graying but still spry grandfather of new-music groups, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, said on Friday that the composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher would become its next music director, starting in 2013.” The Paris-group was founded by Pierre Boulez in 1976.
And What, Exactly, Is Art? Here Are 16 Attempts At An Answer
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings gathers thoughts on the matter from the likes of Aristophanes, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Thomas Merton and Francis Ford Coppola.
Occupy Anish Kapoor! Anti-Olympic Protestors Take Over Empty House Owned By Artist
“The group, calling itself Bread and Circuses, a reference to its argument that the Olympics are a means of distracting people from pressing economic and social issues, said it had ‘liberated’ the part-derelict five-storey house on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, one of central London’s most picturesque and expensive garden squares.”
Ray Bradbury May Be Immortalized In An Internet Error Message
“Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is given the status code 451.”
Why Did The Ancients Build Stonehenge? National Unity, Say Researchers
After a decade of archaeological study, a team of scholars believes that the huge stone monument was built to mark the end of a longstanding east-west divide between the peoples of neolithic Britain.
For Artists: Prolific Equals Relevant?
“For an artist to remain relevant and part of the cultural conversation, no matter how degraded they might consider that conversation, they can’t stand along the wall at the party only to step into the fray every five years, deliver a profundity and then retreat.”
Is It Better To Be Prolific Or Slow (We Mean Thorough, Of Course)
“For an artist to remain relevant and part of the cultural conversation, no matter how degraded they might consider that conversation, they can’t stand along the wall at the party only to step into the fray every five years, deliver a profundity and then retreat. … But myself, I’ve always admired artists who see themselves not as loiterers but sharks, never stopping, always moving, if only to circle back.”
New Contemporary Curator In Houston Takes Chances In His First Show
“Three other simple-looking works … could be confounding or funny, depending on your point of view, or elicit an ‘I could have done that.’ To which Daderko would respond, ‘Maybe. But would you have been able to ‘think’ it?’ It’s the conceptual aspects of readymades that fascinate him.”
To Work Well, Online Music Recommenders Require More Than Programming
Online services like Pandora, Last.fm, Spotify and others keep on trying to figure out the algorithms – and then pulling in human recommenders as well. Why? “Algorithms and APIs can do amazing things. But at the end of the day, determining what music – as well as art, movies, books and other media – people will like still requires human beings with real ears connected to real brains.”