“It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science”
Tag: 07.19.13
Australia’s Resale Scheme Was Meant To Help Artists. Is It Working?
“Although the Aboriginal art market is estimated to be worth A$200m ($186m) a year, indigenous artists have not traditionally seen their share of the wealth” – but those artists make up 60 percent of those benefitting from the new royalties.
Is It Ethical To Play Outside During The Northeast’s Huge Heat Wave?
Soloist Nicola Benedetti “was on the verge of tears by the end of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto’s first movement: Her neck was so sweaty she couldn’t maintain solid positioning of her violin.”
Why Don’t Iranian Officials Censor This Play About Kids Sentenced To Death?
“Six nooses hang above a group of teenage inmates, who are making chairs in a prison workshop to be used as platforms in their own hangings. The audience gasps. This is theater that’s raw, edgy and political — and it’s all been cleared by the Iranian authorities, even though they have tightened controls on speech.”
The Hunt For Picasso’s Sculptures (It’s A Massive Project)
“The actual numbers and whereabouts of Picasso’s sculptures are outdated and often incomplete. His own dealers and foundries never kept good records on the numbers of bronzes they cast from his plaster molds, because the art-world custom before World War II was simply to fill orders as they came in from collectors.”
Judge Dismisses Copyright Claim By Faulkner Estate Against Woody Allen
“Clearly, the quote in dispute, the second of these, is a fragment of the idea’s expression,” the judge wrote, adding: “Qualitative importance to society of a nine-word quote is not the same as qualitative importance to the originating work as a whole.”
Debates About Stravinsky’s Sexuality
“Stravinsky’s sexuality is important because he wrote so many stage works in which he represents men, women and trans people in various ways. To understand this representation, we need to understand him. Stravinsky rarely presents gender and sexuality in a conventional way.”
Immersive Theatre – Where Every Experience Is Unique
“The audience is the camera floating around this dream,” says Barrett. “All we are doing is presenting loads of content like the unedited rushes for them to cut together.”
With Detroit Bankrupt, Is DIA’s Art More At Risk Of Being Sold?
Probably yes.
The Blockbuster Screenplay Formula All The Studios Are Now Using
“Summer movies are often described as formulaic. But what few people know is that there is actually a formula–one that lays out, on a page-by-page basis, exactly what should happen when in a screenplay. It’s as if a mad scientist has discovered a secret process for making a perfect, or at least perfectly conventional, summer blockbuster.”