“Just because psychoactive drugs with a large recreational following may help in some mental issues doesn’t automatically mean they don’t cause other ones. Except, a new look at health records finds, they don’t.”
Tag: 08.22.13
The Amazing Garbage Monsters Of London
“Using bright, messy paints and a knack for arranging trash that rivals Japanese ikebana masters, [Francisco de] Pájaro has transformed a construction dumpster into a toothy shark, a stack of cardboard boxes into a lecherous centipede, and piles of bin bags into what looks like a Smurf snuggle party.”
Women Artists Still Don’t Get Respect
“There is still a glass ceiling when it comes to recognition. Women are no longer prevented by a guild system from actually training as artists. But they are consistently denied the ultimate accolades of fame and respect.”
Egyptian Churches, Monuments, Damaged In Protests
“In its latest report, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Egypt’s best human-rights organization, documents a total of 47 churches attacked, of which 25 were burned, seven looted and destroyed, five partly damaged, and 10 attacked without sustaining heavy damage.”
Berlin To Build New Museum For 20th Century Art
“The agreement ends a long dispute over an initial plan to move the city’s collection of Old Master paintings out of its current home at the Gemaldegalerie and build a new home for it on the Unesco-listed Museum Island to make way for the 20th Century collection.”
Moveable Feast – The Art Trade Takes To The International Circuit
“By offering what a gallery cannot — seemingly endless gawking at artwork, artists and celebrities — the fairs are as popular, glamorous and fizzy as Cristal, attracting both the new moneyed classes that fly in from Kiev, Shanghai, Doha or Abu Dhabi and the serious American collectors who now prefer to do their browsing at fairs at home and abroad.”
Producers Allegedly Bilk Spain’s Film Subsidy Program
“Some producers, they contend, inflate ticket sales to reach audience thresholds that enable them to receive big state subsidies worth as much as a third of the cost of production.”
Robert Rauschenberg’s Trustees Sue His Estate For $60M
“Before he died in 2008, the brashly inventive artist Robert Rauschenberg appointed three of his dearest friends and longtime business associates as trustees to administer his $600 million-plus estate and protect the charitable foundation he had created in his name. But now, that foundation and the three men entrusted with its welfare are engaged in a court battle in Florida [and New York].”
Two Rockers Try Earning A Living Through A Subscription Radio Site
“Even before the record business imploded, musicians regularly brainstormed about ways to get their work to potential listeners. But Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi were feeling more than the usual sense of urgency when they came up with a novel plan, a subscription Web site, Rabbit Rabbit Radio, to distribute new music by their latest band, Rabbit Rabbit.”