“Joe Simon and others had hoped that the lawsuit would uncover the committee’s secretive deliberations and open the door to claims that could result in reassessment of numerous rejected works, potentially resulting in many millions of dollars worth of art being reinstated in the Warhol canon.”
Tag: 10.24.10
“Could” Or “Couldn’t” Care Less. A 50-Year Debate
In American speech, according to research by linguist Mark Liberman, “could care less” is far ahead of the “couldn’t” version. And “could care less” is no recent corruption, Zimmer found; it shows up in print by 1955, only 11 years after the first sighting of “couldn’t care less.”
Kama Sutra Reworked as Modern Lifestyle Guide
“Gone are the erotic drawings and sexual illustrations that have accompanied various translations of the ancient Hindu text. Instead, the new edition, to be published by Penguin, will be a text-only pocket-sized handbook, described as a ‘classy’ manual ‘covering every aspect of love and relationships’.”
Inside Gelsey Kirkland’s New Ballet Academy
“[She] may be tiny, but she’s not the airy type. In conversation her subdued voice forces listeners to lean in closer, but in the studio it sounds a bit like Ethel Merman mixed with thunder.”
Science, Literature, and Where the Twain Meet
“Half a century ago the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow bemoaned the estrangement of what he termed the ‘two cultures’ in modern society – the literary and the scientific. These days, there is some reason to celebrate better communication between these domains, if only because of the increasingly visible salience of scientific ideas.”
The Threat Of Online Bookstores
“It is those online bookstores — the websites offering hundreds of thousands of titles, often at massive discounts — that are threatening to destroy the business models of small independent publishers and multinational giants alike, while simultaneously killing off thousands of tiny bookshops and even threatening the mega-chains.”
Warhol Brillo Boxes Downgraded To Copies
“More than 100 Brillo boxes, said to be works by Andy Warhol, have been declared “copies” by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board after a three-year investigation.”
Was Jane Austen A “Messy” Writer? (New Research Says Yes, But Don’t Believe It)
Research by an Oxford scholar on Austen’s manuscripts has led to the startling claim that the most elegant prose stylist in the history of the English novel in fact submitted messy, “experimental’ texts that were cleaned up and polished to their famous dazzle by her editor.
Charleston Symphony Music Director David Stahl, 60
“During his 25 years as music director of the Charleston Symphony, he transformed a modest community ensemble into a respected professional orchestra, winning praise from civic leaders, arts patrons and classical music colleagues all over the world.”
America’s New Elite – It Exists
“The more efficiently a society identifies the most able young people of both sexes, sends them to the best colleges, unleashes them into an economy that is tailor-made for people with their abilities and lets proximity take its course, the sooner a New Elite — the “cognitive elite” that Herrnstein and I described — becomes a class unto itself.”