11.05.17 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Rules Of The Road For Classical Music Concerts?

“To my colleagues who work in classical music, I have a request. Let’s stop with the rules. If there is in fact something wrong with classical music, consider that it has everything to do with how we talk about it and nothing to do with anything else. And, if you are hearing music by Bach in a church performed by an internationally-known soloist who has been performing this music for nearly seven decades, being reverential is OK, not snobby or elitist. Likewise, some guidelines in the program may be entirely appropriate for a roomful of teenagers new to classical music-going.”

The Business Of Academic Publishing Is A Disaster That Can’t Hold Up

“As the dean of libraries at a state school, I contend that the economic model for academic journal publications is broken. As scholars are handicapped by limited access to the corpus of research in their fields, scientific progress is restricted and slows, and society ultimately loses.” Patrick Burns of Colorado State University explains how things have gone wrong.

A Pharoah’s Tomb, Re-Created By A 19th-Century English Architect, Has Been Re-Re-Created In London

“The sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I, carved from a single vast block of translucent alabaster, cost [Sir John] Soane £2,000 after the British Museum turned it down … Almost 900 people trooped through his rooms and into the basement renamed ‘the Sepulchral Chamber’, where the sarcophagus glowed eerily, lit by candles placed inside. [His] museum recently recreated the experiment.”

They’ve Finally Figured Out What Killed Chopin – By Examining His Pickled Heart

“The great Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin had a morbid fear of premature burial. ‘The earth is suffocating,’ he told one of his sisters as he lay on his death bed in 1849. ‘Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won’t be buried alive.’ … His heart was removed and later stored in a jar of cognac, then interred in a church pillar in Poland. Now scientists have taken advantage of Chopin’s morbid desire.”

When Should Movie Theatres Raise The Lights?

As the movie Call Me By Your Name gets rapturous reviews, two London theatre chains are in hot water for raising the lights during the credits – which actually scroll over the final scene in the movie. That could be because of automation or health and safety laws, but how can it be fixed?

How To Attribute Drawings, Or This Drawing Specifically, To Michelangelo

Style, handwriting, and documentary evidence all played a part. Details help: “The gnarled torso, the lightly sketched peripheral elements and the corrections made with parallel hatching are all hallmarks of Michelangelo.”

Michelle Pfeiffer Isn’t Shy About Saying That Sexual Harassment Is ‘Pandemic’ In Her Industry

Pfeiffer told the BBC, “I know I’m having conversations with women I’ve known my whole life and we have never discussed this and it is coming out.”

Hollywood Wonders Who’s Next

Though let’s be honest here, Hollywood probably knows who SHOULD be next. “This is, after all, Hollywood in the age of President Trump, a reality show host who crystallized the marriage of celebrity and politics, and a candidate who admitted to groping women only to land in the White House. The entertainment industry railed at Trump but the allegations against Weinstein, Ratner and others suggest a long pattern of abuse perpetrated by men who considered themselves artists and liberals.”

The Atomic Theory Of Origami

Physicists are using statistical mechanics to study origami folds – and defects in the folds. Why? “Crease patterns are also networks—not of particles, but of folds. Using these conceptual tools normally reserved for gases and crystals, Assis is gaining some intriguing insights.”

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