“Three individuals were involved in an attack on an exhibition in Chelsea … in which photographs were defaced, neo-Nazi leaflets dispersed, and a curator assaulted with pepper spray. The assailants objected to the Ukraine-focused section of a photojournalistic show on recent unrest in that country and Syria called Material Evidence.”
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How Garth Fagan Makes His Dances
“Fagan’s blend of Afro-Caribbean and modern dance is technically challenging, requiring changes in rhythms and speed. … But Fagan’s choreographic process begins in silence, when he has the dancers learn the movement and rhythms. ‘They learn the parts of the body that they should and shouldn’t use,’ added Fagan, ‘then I bring the music and their eyes light up.'”
The Prado Will Not Have To Give Up Its Bosch And Tintoretto After All
“Spain’s minister of education, culture and sport, José Ignacio Wert, has dispelled any fears that some of the Museo del Prado’s Renaissance masterpieces could be transferred to a planned Royal Collections museum, due to open in 2016.”
Tax Case May Change What Wealthy Collectors Do With Their Art
“Many people donate percentages of a painting to a museum over several years so that the deduction matches their income. While the ultimate goal is to give 100 percent of the painting to the museum, people might be deterred from giving art gradually if the I.R.S. discounted the value for charitable gifts.”
The Asian Male Stereotype On American TV (What’s It Take To Get Some Action?)
“What does it take for an Asian male to get some action on TV? While there have been trailblazing Asian male actors, such as George Takei on Star Trek and B.D. Wong on Law & Order: SVU, few of them have played characters who have had romantic relationships.”
America’s 200-Year-Old Arts Organization Has A Birthday
“I think the common denominator through these 200 years is the people of Boston — these businesspeople, musicians, the visionaries who really kept it afloat. If you think that it never stopped performing during the two great wars, the Civil War, the Depression . . . this organization has always kept going.”
Nielsen: Music Is Most Popular Form Of Entertainment
“When surveyed about their activities in the past year, 75% of respondents said they actively chose to listen to music, even ahead of watching television at 73%.”
Interactive Movies Were All The Thing (And Then They Weren’t)
But “we’re on a new frontier of interactive media: the virtual-reality simulation, as heralded by Oculus Rift and Google Glass, seems poised to break into the mainstream.”
Satanist Coloring Books Aren’t Being Distributed In Florida Schools After All
After a Christian group was twice allowed to distribute Bibles in Orange County public high schools, the Satanic Temple – last heard from with an idea for the Oklahoma state capitol – suggested that they should be permitted to give out The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities there. Several news outlets reported that permission had been granted (which led to the predictable protests), but it ain’t so.
Facebook Will Never Stop Manipulating Us
“Facebook has every reason to manipulate the News Feed to optimize for whatever user engagement metrics correspond to the best returns for advertisers, which in turn correspond to the best returns for Facebook. And it has every reason to use other experiments in an effort to improve other parts of its operation.”