“This version, the work of an Azeri theologian named Elmir Kuliyev, was declared illegal for promoting extremism through ‘statements about the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims’; ‘negative evaluation of persons who have nothing to do with the Muslim religion’ … and also, it was argued, inciting violence.”
Tag: 10.08.13
The Early Cave Painters Were (Possibly) Almost All Women
A new study says it’s all in the finger length. The study’s author: “There has been a male bias in the literature for a long time. … People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why.”
Fun Home: How On Earth Do You Make A Time-Skipping Graphic Memoir Into A Book Musical?
“The specific challenges range from the practical – in her cartoons, [Alison] Bechdel can depict her parents and brothers at many different points in their lives, while the musical has less flexibility with its flesh-and-blood actors – to the literary: The book’s storytelling is very recursive.”
Missing Miro Turns Up After Three Years – Or One Month
The 1975 drawing was lent out in late 2010 by the Miro Foundation in Mallorca for a show in San Sebastion. But the Foundation didn’t realize the drawing was missing until the following year, and didn’t report it to the police until this August. The police found it within a month. (Guess where.)
Why Are Hundreds Of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy?
“For one thing, the class fulfills one of Harvard’s more challenging core requirements, Ethical Reasoning. It’s clear, though, that students are also lured in by [the professor’s] bold promise: ‘This course will change your life.’ His students tell me it is true” – which may be why the course is the third most popular at the entire university.
Somebody Needs To Be In Charge Of Venice, If We Want To Save It
When enormous cruise ships visit the city (sometimes illegally sailing through canals), they cause more damage than you’d think, and Venetians are worried and angry. How to handle the tourist-filled leviathans is an issue where at least eight government bodies have jurisdiction – and that’s just one of the problems facing the sinking city that can’t be addressed efficiently because there’s no boss.
The Heart Of Classical Music’s Maestra Problem
Justin Davidson: “It is the professional institutions, presided over mostly by men and governed by ossified views, that control the process by which promising young musicians become prominent old ones. And a system ostensibly devoted to fostering talent in fact winds up casually squelching it.”
Berlin Is A New Hotbed Of Classical Musicians
“Berlin, with its low-priced real estate and openness to experimentation, is well established as a hotbed of the visual arts. Its growing film and fashion industries have also drawn ambitious agenda-setters from all corners of the world, who have found a welcome atmosphere in which to create and mix with other artists. More recently, it has also developed into an important hub for the classical music world.”
Met’s Opera Commissioning Program Provokes Questions About What Opera Is
“The commissioning program raises interesting questions about what 21st-century opera should sound like, how and where it should be presented, and just where musical theater ends and opera begins. Fewer than half of the original dozen composers chosen for the program, who were drawn from the worlds of classical music, musical theater, pop and jazz, have made it to the workshop phase so far.”
No Surprise – We Make Better Choices When We Feel Competent
“Researchers found that participants were more likely to prefer choices in situations in which they had previously received positive performance feedback or felt competent because of prior experience. The results provided evidence of a relationship between competence and choice.”