“Many people aren’t connected to the Internet in this remote hilltop village. But tweeting is a very big deal. Residents here have for centuries communicated with one another using a series of elaborately trilled whistles known as ‘bird language’.”
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Turkey’s High Court Overturns Acquittals of Publisher On Obscenity Charges
“Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously overturned previous ruling of acquittals of the publisher and translator of a French book” – Guillaume Apollinaire’s The Exploits of Young Don Juan – stating some of book’s context failed to fall under freedom of speech due to its perversion.”
Chinese Director Sets Shakespeare To Heavy Metal
“This is The Tragedy of Coriolanus by Lin Zhaohua, routinely described as China’s most controversial theatre director. First performed in 2007, it is big in every sense: there’s a cast of more than 100, and the action takes place on a near-empty stage against a vast, blood-red brick wall.”
Computers Are Writing More Of The Music You Hear
“The future of music, in fact, may largely be written by algorithm and could even be used to engineer the next big hits. But how does that impact our understanding of music as an authentic form of art?”
What More Fitting Way To Celebrate Andy Warhol’s Birthday –
– than to watch a live webcam of his grave?
Lawsuit Attacks Music Video Covers on YouTube
“Among the most popular videos on YouTube are cover versions of popular songs, often by amateurs or semiprofessionals who have built a following online. But according to the suit, filed in United States District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday by groups represented by the National Music Publishers’ Association, most of these lack the proper licenses and do not pay publishers and songwriters the royalties earned from ad revenue.”
Sculpture Park Versus Office Tower
“Museum officials say the garden has had to be resodded twice because of the higher temperatures created by sunlight bouncing off the glass; that some trees have burned; and that light-blocking panels were needed for the roof during a recent Ken Price sculpture retrospective.”
Why Isn’t Australian Theatre More Diverse?
“Despite indigenous Australians and those from a culturally diverse background numbering 7.3 million and making up 34 per cent of the population, last year only 13 per cent of plays produced were by writers reflecting that.”
Rise Of The Machines: Algorithms Are Increasingly Creating Content (and That’s Bad Because…)
“The algorithms they use are acting less and less like a card catalog for the web and more and more like an author. In other words, the machine isn’t just a dumb hunk of silicon: It’s a living creator. It’s less like a dull machine and more like a fully functional, content-producing Terminator.”
The Art You Can Buy In Amazon’s New Online Gallery
“Amazon Art is showcasing more than 40,000 works from more than 150 galleries in the US. Works range from a $44 (£29) cat portrait to Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis: Package from Home, being offered for sale at $4.85m (£3.12m).”