“We can now ask how does observed lighting behave in response to things such as population and economic growth, external investments, war, and economic collapse.”
Tag: 12.07.11
Art Genome Links Works Of Art
“A team of art historians have spent the past year studying thousands of works and compiling a list of their distinct and measurable elements. The result is the Art Genome, composed at present of more than 550 “genes”: attributes of fine art that range from the simply factual (the medium, the color palette) to the undeniably subjective (the “movement” a work falls into, or its “subject matter”). Using these attributes, Art.sy’s recommendation engine can evaluate a piece on the fly and suggest relationships with other works, presenting those results on any device–even, eventually, a phone.”
Rahm Emanuel, Arts Mayor
“A few months after his May inauguration, Emanuel said, he decided that he would work out of the mayor’s so-called ceremonial office… and he would make it a showcase for Chicago art and furniture.”
Curing Disease By Playing Video Games?
“A Web-based video game called Phylo allows game players to arrange sequences of colored blocks that represent nucleotides of human DNA. The game asks the players to recognize patterns and match them up in closely related species, comparing their results to a computer and scoring them.”
Second Poet Pulls Out Of TS Eliot Prize Consideration
“John Kinsella has become the second poet to withdraw from the TS Eliot Prize in protest over its sponsorship by investment firm, Aurum Funds. The Australian, who was shortlisted for his collection Armour, said he was withdrawing on “ethical” grounds. Prize organisers The Poetry Book Society made the deal after losing its public funding earlier this year.”
Italy’s Finances Might Be On The Rocks, But Opera Is Important
“This year, as Italy moves to confront a deepening financial crisis, just as important to Milan’s famed opera house as the success on the stage was the presence in the audience of the head of government, head of state and four Cabinet ministers — which was taken as a signal that culture is taking center stage.”
Don’t Drill Into That Vasari Fresco! Not Even If There’s A Leonardo Behind It
“More than 300 scholars have signed a petition to Florence’s mayor and that city’s top art authority to stop a project that hopes to find a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio, now city hall.”
Top Edinburgh Fringe Venue Goes Bust, Stiffs Performers
“One of the Edinburgh Fringe’s leading venue operators, Remarkable Arts, is being wound up, owing tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid box office receipts to companies who staged work at its two theatres during this summer’s festival.”
Tony Kushner Gives $100K To CUNY Despite Honorary Degree Flap
Remember last spring when the City University of New York blocked (until getting shamed into backing down) the honoring of Kushner, after a board member claimed the playwright was “anti-Israel”? Well, Kushner is letting bygones be bygones, donating the prize money from his Creative Citizenship award to CUNY.
Long Beach Opera’s Innovative Director To Head Chicago Opera Theater
“Taking the helm of Chicago’s second opera company will be Andreas Mitisek, the artistic and general director of Long Beach Opera, who has built a following for edgy, risk-taking productions of unusual operas, much as [departing COT director Brian] Dickie has done in Chicago.