“The fact that the events had been initiated by art outsiders, rather than artists, musicians or writers–and the fact that all entries had to be sport-themed–also led many of the most prominent potential entrants to decide the competitions were not worth their time.”
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Are Facial Expressions Universal? Maybe Not
“Darwin came to the conclusion that emotional facial expressions were universal: people all over the world made the same ones, and could easily and automatically recognise them in others. … But today the debate is alive and well again: while some researchers are claiming we are close to a full understanding of emotional expressions, others argue that we are nowhere near.”
When The Olympics Gave Out Medals For Art
“For the first four decades of competition, the Olympics awarded official medals for painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music, alongside those for the athletic competitions. From 1912 to 1952, juries awarded a total of 151 medals to original works in the fine arts inspired by athletic endeavors.”
Man Falls Five Stories To Death At Tate Modern
“The man, in his late 40s, fell 100ft from a balcony at the Members’ Room onto the pavement below. He was declared dead at the scene.”
Twilight Of The Elites
“Why have elites failed the rest of us to such a degree? How could the experts not see and warn us about the military and financial disasters that seem so obvious in retrospect? And what does the “twilight of the elites” mean to the elite education institutions that produced so many of our failed leaders and clueless experts?”
Artists Take Over London Commercial Spaces Before Olympics
“Many of the art pieces posted in the Brandalism Project have since been covered over or rededicated to the advertisers who paid for the space. That determination to clean up for the Olympics could mean London work crews painting over Banksy images, which are worth millions of dollars.”
Five Grand Great Buildings That Were Never Built
“Economic and social factors across the ages meant that some of the grandest designs of renowned architects such as Lutyens and Inigo Jones were never completed.”
LA MoCA Mess Was All So Predictable
“When Jeffrey Deitch was installed the writing was on the wall: he would wait a decorous year or so, then lose Schimmel and bring in a curator or two as his pawns, putting on youth-focused exhibitions aimed at attracting young audiences through meretricious celebrity-focused publicity. The traditional audience would fade away, the youngsters would recognize MOCA’s pandering, and the institution would become an intellectually vacant party palace.”
Can The National Theatre Get A Novel About Autism On Stage?
Playwright Simon Stephens and author Mark Haddon talk about the challenges of adapting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Is Andy Warhol The Patron Saint Of Jeffrey Deitch’s MoCA?
Christopher Knight: “A certain homogenized sameness pervades the new program, which is about as boring as having the same Campbell’s soup every day for lunch. Yes, … the ghost of the late, great Pop artist, dead now for a quarter-century, hovers in the background – and sometimes steps into the foreground – of almost every exhibition conceived by Deitch in the last 18 months.”