“The NBC took the decision on Tuesday night ‘after the SA government’ ongoing delays in the payment of the funding required to secure and arrange the tour and in providing assistance with the required logistical details.”
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Master Animator Tissa David, 91
“A 1975 issue of Millimeter magazine described her as ‘one of the world’s best and busiest’ animators and ‘one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated cartoon field’.”
Painted Pigeons (Yes, Live Birds) At Venice Biennale
“In recent days, visitors to the city have been surprised to see pigeons sporting plumages that would do credit to a tropical parrot: green and yellow pigeons; pigeons whose feathers radiate electric blue or strident vermillion; even pigeons that seem to be robed in imperial purple. … [The] coloured birds were the work of a Swiss artist, Julian Charrière, and a German photographer, Julius von Bismark.” Some animal rights activists, however, are not charmed.
Should Government Fund The Arts?
This week a debate at The Economist: “It is not the cost of funding that is the problem, but the cost to the arts themselves of government intervention. There is no ‘right’ form of art. The arts market is well-functioning–people tend to get what they want. That what they want is not what the elite want is a problem for the elite, not the people.”
LA Revival Of “Deathtrap” Canceled Because Of Objections By Author’s Estate
“A Los Angeles revival of Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” has been canceled after the estate of the late author expressed objections to the use of nudity and some of the production’s gay content.”
Samsung/Apple Verdict Demonstrates That America’s Patent System Is Broken
“A growing chorus of voices–now including prominent judges such as Richard Posner–have reached the conclusion that America’s patent system has veered far off track. They’re right, and Samsung’s best hope may now be that this broader critique of the patent system will lead some judge or other to bail them out.”
America’s Great Taboo – Telling What You Earn
“Of course everyone in America thinks that they’re middle class. But the only way that someone who makes $12,000 a year and someone who makes $200,000 a year can assume that they are all in the same social category is by never actually revealing what they make to each other.”
Atlanta Symphony Musicians Now Have No Contract
“Without much of a fanfare, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and its musicians failed to come up with a new collective bargaining agreement, leaving them without contracts as the deadline quietly passed Saturday night.”
Van Cliburn Diagnosed With Advanced Bone Cancer
The 78-year-old pianist is reportedly being treated at home rather than in a hospital.
Real-Life Lysistratas: Can Sex Strikes Actually Work?
“A civil rights group in Togo is urging women to participate in a weeklong sex strike to put pressure on the country’s men to urge the president to resign. Do sex strikes ever work? Yes, but mostly as a means of garnering media attention.”