“How, one might ask, can quantum mechanics have anything to say about the human mind? Isn’t it about things that can be physically measured, such as particles and forces?”
Tag: 07.10.12
Omar Sharif Denies Rumor That He Converted To Judaism
“On Monday the Arab news website Albawaba reported that the Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif had converted to a kabbalistic sect of Judaism. Today a contradictory news report has emerged with Omar Sharif’s spokeswoman flatly denying that he has switched religions.”
Copyright And Choreography: The Good, The Bad, And The Fair
“Until the mid-1970s, there was no copyright protection for choreography … When Congress added ‘choreographic works’ to the Copyright Act in 1976, it seemed to give our art some credibility and respect. But copyright protection has been both a boon and curse.”
Artists Under Threat In Tunis
Artists in Tunis still feel under threat following protests by hundreds of hard-line Salafi Islamists last month against a number of works shown at the Printemps des Arts contemporary art fair.
Book Claiming Discovery Of 100 Caravaggios Withdrawn After Questions
“Their claims were met with scepticism by many scholars, while the custodians of the archive said they were unaware that the two art historians had been researching the collection. The withdrawal of the book raised questions about why the historians’ claims, which garnered worldwide media attention, had not been peer-reviewed.”
Peter O’Toole Retires From Acting
The eight-time Oscar nominee, who turns 80 next month, said in a statement, “It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. The heart for it has gone out of me; it won’t come back.”
New Jersey Symphony Extends Contract With Conductor Jacques Lacombe
“The French Canadian [maestro], 48, … has renewed his contract as music director of the New Jersey Symphony through the 2015-16 season. He has been in that post since 2010.”
Austrian City’s ‘Virtual Public Library’, With QR Codes Instead Of Card Catalogues
“Strangely, the Austrian city of Klagenfurt doesn’t have a public library … However, an initiative dubbed Project Ingeborg is turning the municipality into a book repository of sorts with 70 QR code and NFC chip-equipped stickers. Plastered throughout town, they direct users to web pages where they can download public domain works.”
Fifty Shades Of Grey Spawns A Classical Hit (It’s Tudor Church Music, No Less)
During one of the many sex scenes in the wildly popular e-novel, our heroine uses as background music Thomas Tallis’s ecstatic motet for 40 voices, Spem in alium – and now The Tallis Scholars’ recording of the piece has gone zooming up the iTunes classical charts.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Warns About Long-Term Damage In Defunding The Arts
“It is a sector that is under fire. Arts funding is under unimaginable strain… I want to be clear, and if I appear a little nervous, it is because I want to say that our vast creative potential is being strangled without any clear funding strategy for its long-term future.”