10.29.14 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Stan Lee, Creator Of ‘X-Men’ And ‘Spider-Man’ And Other Comics, Beats His Namesake Company In Court

“The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finds Stan Lee Media Inc.’s claim of owning Spider-Man, the X-Men and other characters to be ‘implausible'”

Theaters Are (Finally?) Recovering From The Recession, Says Report

“Earned income was up an impressive 40.8 percent (adjusted for inflation), although total attendance was up only 0.4 percent.”

New York’s Latest Graffiti Crackdown May Be Backfiring

“Busting graffiti artists distracts the local cops from fighting serious crime, like robberies or homicides, which have increased in Long Island City’s 114th Precinct, where 5Pointz is located, over the past year.”

Are Some People Hard-Wired For Bravery And Others For Cowardice?

“Which trait increases my chances of survival or my chances to reproduce? What would be most adaptive is switching from one response to the other, depending the situation, but our underlying biology cannot switch back and forth that quickly”

Italy Hid This Leonardo Self-Portrait From The Nazis So It Wouldn’t Give Hitler Magical Powers

“It is said that just before taking an exam, students would do their last-minute revision in the Royal Library above the vault. Legend has it that studying near Leonardo’s genius can somehow rub off.”

Four More Women Allege That Jian Ghomeshi Smacked Them Around

One of them has even agreed to be identified publicly. All of them have given plenty of unsavory detail.

When Bill T. Jones Met John Cage

“[Cage] literally represented for me everything cool and removed and sophisticated at a time when I was trying to wend my way into the art world.” The choreographer talks about the genesis of his dance-theater work Story/Time.

Director Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art To Retire

During his 15-year tenure, Michael E. Shapiro led a $160 million, three-building expansion, raised $20 million for acquisitions, established an art conservation center, launched partnerships with major European museums, and founded an award for African-American art and artists.

The Johnny Rotten Of Soviet Dissidents

That’s how Edward Limonov described himself. He was “at once a rebel and a totalitarian, a salacious writer of semifictionalized memoirs who, after years in the West” – as a drugged-out thug in New York and a celebrated author in France – “stood with the Serbs in the Bosnian war and then returned to Russia to become an ultranationalist political agitator.”

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