“A huge haul of paintings, etchings and prints are unaccounted for – with the authorities at the House blaming database errors but admitting they do not know whether they have been stolen.”
Tag: 07.26.18
Here’s Provocative Art That Really Provokes, And How Two Museums Are Handling It (Carefully)
At the University of Kansas’s Spencer Museum, one of the 16 flags in the project “Pledges of Allegiance” drew enough anger that the university president ordered it taken off the flagpole. The Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin is displaying The City, Vincent Valdez’s life-size painting of a modern-day Ku Klux Klan meeting. Both museums expected controversy; Claire Hansen reports on how they prepared.
Remains Of 1,800-Year-Old Library Discovered In Cologne
The walls of the structure, which dates to the second century, included niches for storing several thousand scrolls. Access to the ruins will be preserved when the construction project that unearthed them is complete.
UK Theatres To Get Protection From Noise Complaints By Neighbors
Until now, theatres near new developments have faced the threat of restrictions to their licences or – in the worst-case scenarios – complete closure, because of potential noise complaints from people moving into properties nearby that were granted planning permission after the live venues were established.
Why Are Series Based On Books Lasting Far Beyond The End Of The Book?
And how did HBO’s Sharper Objects not fall under the sway of the sequel season? Amy Adams wasn’t interested, basically – but the actors on The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies, and of course Game of Thrones certainly have been, and so have their networks.
An Artist, With The Help Of Many Others Across The DMZ, Unites The Koreas By Hand
Kyungah Ham found a North Korean propaganda leaflet – something she hadn’t seen for decades – in 2008, and that changed her art, and her life. “For a decade, Ms. Ham has been producing designs on her computer that are printed and smuggled into North Korea through intermediaries based in Russia or China. Then a group of anonymous artisans, whom she has never met or spoken to, are paid to convert them into embroideries, using exquisitely fine stitching. With bribes and subterfuge, the works are smuggled back out. Ultimately, they are shown and sold at galleries and exhibitions.”
Grammar Purists Are Running A Ridiculous (And Classist, Racist, Etc.) Ponzi Scheme On The English Language
What’s ‘standard’ English? What’s ‘colloquial’? Why is one right or wrong? “There is no official source of grammar prohibitions. For the English language, no one has the authority to lay down laws. Rules exist. It is possible to speak or write ungrammatically. It’s possible to be ‘wrong.’ But right and wrong derive from a far more powerful, albeit hard-to-pin-down source: us.”
What We Learn By Returning To Books We Loved As Kids
For many, having kids of their own provides an opportunity to share these beloved stories with the next generation. But revisiting them alone as adults can also provide comfort, relaxation and the pleasure of rediscovery. Not only do rereaders rediscover the story, but they may also rediscover themselves.
There Is No Such Thing As Unconscious Thought
In particular, when you walk away from a difficult problem, then come back later and suddenly see the solution, your mind was not working on the problem unconsciously. Your brain doesn’t work that way, and if it tried, the electrical signals traveling along your neurons would get hopelessly crossed. Behavioral scientist Nick Chater explains what’s really going on in such cases.
How A Venerable Oregon Chamber Music Festival Revitalized Itself
The first five weeks bristled with listener-friendly new music, fresh young performers, diverse older ones, jazz, tango and even contemporary music by Chinese-American composers. And Chamber Music Northwest has pulled this off while holding on to most of its aging core audience, its renowned longtime performers, and a healthy dose of core, classic repertoire. Audience numbers have stabilized—a triumph in the beleaguered classical-music world—and the demographic is gradually growing more diverse.