“The sale … is one of the largest of its kind to occur in the UK, featuring 244 works – and the trove is really delightful, bringing to public eye many rare and original illustrations that depict cats in a variety of ways, from straightforward portraits to bizarre or humorous caricatures.”
Tag: 10.28.15
‘Boulez Is Napoleon, Stockhausen Is Just Bismarck’: A 1967 Interview With Morton Feldman, In English For The First Time
This interview … was conducted in 1967 by composer and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur, then aged twenty. … [It] was conducted in English originally, but the audiotapes have been lost. Therefore until now this interview has only been available in French translation.”
London’s Handel House Museum Opens A Hendrix Half
“In the mid-18th century, George Frideric Handel wrote his epic oratorio Messiah in a Georgian town house here. Around 230 years later, Jimi Hendrix moved in next door. Now, a revamped museum dedicated to both musical pioneers is set to open Feb. 10 on Brook Street in the Mayfair district, in the adjacent apartments where they lived.”
Los Angeles Is Hiring An Artist – To Help Reduce Traffic Deaths
“The artist will be embedded in the city’s Department of Transportation, to focus on how to save bike riders and pedestrians from being maimed or killed by automobiles.” Says the department’s general manager, “I want somebody who can understand the issues and think of them in different ways.”
Small Towns Using The Arts To Attract New Business And People? It’s Working In Wisconsin
“The arts are playing an increasingly important role in stimulating the local economies of small towns and rural communities throughout Wisconsin.”
The Root Of All Evil: The Original Jack O’ Lanterns Weren’t Pumpkins, They Were Turnips
“Jack-o’-lanterns originated in Ireland, ‘where people have been carving turnips and other root vegetables for centuries, to ward off evil spirits.’ Irish legend holds there was an actual man named Jack …”
Is Poetry A Better Password?
Turning random strings of characters into rhymed, metered verse was the brainchild of Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and a professor in their Computer Science Department, and Marjan Ghazvininejad, a Ph.D. student at the institute.
Obama: I Learned About Complexity From Reading Novels
“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels”.
Romance Writer Accused Of Plagiarizing
“Her book was almost a word-for-word, scene-for-scene duplication of my book, except the characters’ names had been changed, and short M/M love scenes had been inserted. The only scene she didn’t include was the epilogue, which couldn’t be altered to an M/M scene. It involved the heroine in labour and the hero having sympathetic labour pains.”
Who Owns “Star Wars”? George Lucas Or The Fans?
Love or hate it — or love it and hate it, as legions of its fans do — the “Star Wars” series is a force to reckon with, less because of Mr. Lucas than the fans who elevated it to cinema’s alpha and omega.