“Here we take you on a grand tour of the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics. You’ll find out how Claude Monet bypasses your consciousness and plugs straight into your emotions, how Salvador Dali triggers neural conflicts and how Renaissance art and trompe l’oeil fool us into believing the impossible.”
Tag: 09.24.10
Is British Cinema Uninspired? Blame the British
“It is frustrating to observe [UK films’] inability to engage with ordinary concerns. Costume drama and social realism continue to cast their shadows over much of its output. With a few exceptions, they yield few surprises. … But this is less the fault of British film-makers than of Britain itself. It is no accident that many of the great British films date from the country’s finest hours.”
Trisha Brown ‘Was Always a Visual Artist’
Wendy Perron, on an exhibition in Lyon devoted to Brown’s work: “Seeing it, you understand that … [t]here’s a direct line from her roof piece, where the human figure is set against the SoHo tapestry of roof tops and water towers, to her drawings of body parts. She has always created art from the human body.”
Trisha Brown, in Her Colleagues’ Words
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Stephen Petronio, Elizabeth Streb, Terry Winters and Laurie Anderson describe their experiences working with the path-breaking choreographer.
The City That Overshadows Whatever Art It Hosts
“Every street in Berlin is ghosted. Every memorial is plastered in 20 layers of tragedy, heroism, and shame.” You leave a theater, concert or exhibition and look around: the still-bombed-out Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church here, a moldering section of the Berlin Wall there, the Reichstag across the way, tiny memorials to Auschwitz victims amidst the cobblestones …
Why Are Dudamel and the Vienna Phil Playing a Kentucky Town of 18,000?
“The story of how this hard-to-imagine event in Bluegrass Country came about is difficult to unravel partly because it’s been a long time in the making but also because everyone we interviewed had a rather annoying habit of giving the credit to someone else.”
Want To Try A Contemporary Building?
Living Architecture is a combination of an architecture company and a holiday rental business. With, eventually, five new country houses to rent for a week or a few days at a time, it has been “partly inspired by the example of the Landmark Trust – which does similar things with rare and unusual period houses – and the hugely influential Californian Case Study programme.”
Prado Says It Has Discovered Large Bruegel Canvas
Calling it “one of the most important discoveries for many years,” curators at the Prado Museum in Madrid have uncovered what they say is the largest surviving canvas painted by the 16th-century Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Hazardous Duty: The Typo Eradication Advancement League
“Police arrested them at the Grand Canyon for correcting the grammar on an official sign. The judge imposed a fine of $3,000 and ordered them not to speak publicly about fixing typos for a full year.”
Traditional TV Networks Challenged By New Content Delivery Services
“New-tech rivals such as Netflix, Apple and Google, traditional TV distributors like cable and satellite companies face stiffer competition for programming.”