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Archives for January 3, 2014

Writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, 90

PEOPLE Posted: January 3, 2014 1:17 am

“[She] won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1951 for her debut novel, The Beautiful Visit. But she is best known for her five-part family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles.” Martin Amis (her stepson) declared her “the most interesting woman writer of her generation.”

PEOPLE Published: 01.02.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 01.02.14

Sherlock Holmes Now (Partly) In Public Domain in U.S.

WORDS Posted: January 3, 2014 1:08 am

“A federal judge has issued a declarative judgment stating that Holmes, Watson, 221B Baker Street, the dastardly Professor Moriarty and other elements included in the 50 Holmes works that Arthur Conan Doyle published before Jan. 1, 1923, are no longer covered by United States copyright law, and can therefore be freely used by others ”

WORDS Published: 12.27.13

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.27.13

Cincinnati Art Museum Director Stepping Down

VISUAL Posted: January 3, 2014 1:07 am

“Aaron Betsky is leaving his post as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum after seven years in the job.” Says the board chairman, “It’s time to give someone else a chance. He has done an incredible job and gotten done what he set out to do.”

VISUAL Published: 01.02.14

Read the story in The Cincinnati Enquirer Published: 01.02.14

West End Theatre Where Ceiling Collapsed Closed For Additional Week

THEATRE Posted: January 3, 2014 1:03 am

“Performances of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre have been cancelled for an extra week until January 11.” The auditorium ceiling at the Apollo fell in mid-performance on December 19.

THEATRE Published: 01.02.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 01.02.14

Will the Closing of “Spider-Man” Hurt Nearby Businesses?

THEATRE Posted: January 3, 2014 12:58 am

“When Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark goes dark for good at the Foxwoods Theater [in Manhattan] on Saturday, just how much dimmer – and for how long – will the immediate neighborhood be?”

THEATRE Published: 01.03.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 01.03.14

Is the Future of Printed Books as Luxury Art Objects?

WORDS Posted: January 3, 2014 12:57 am

“As e-books are stripping down to the bare-bones of what is actually book-like, physical books are growing more sumptuous and fetishistic.”

WORDS Published: 12.29.13

Read the story in Salon Published: 12.29.13

Winton Dean, World’s Top Handel Scholar, Dead at 97

PEOPLE Posted: January 3, 2014 12:55 am

He was known as an astute critic and a historian of Beethoven and Bizet, it was “his series of books on Handel … completed when he was 90 – that indelibly lingered and really mattered.”

PEOPLE Published: 01.01.14

Read the story in The Herald (Scotland) Published: 01.01.14

The Hidden Workshop of Expert Piano Craftswomen

MUSIC Posted: January 3, 2014 12:53 am

A visit to an out-of-the-way atelier in Florence where an all-female team restores historic fortepianos.

MUSIC Published: 01.01.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 01.01.14

The Turing Test And Spike Jonze’s “Her”

MEDIA Posted: January 3, 2014 12:52 am

“To those who would argue that a computer’s demonstration of humanlike behavior is hardly enough to make it legitimately ‘conscious’, Turing responds that the same can be said of human behavior … Belief in the minds of others is just as much of a leap as love is. Following Turing’s logic, Twombly is not a solipsist for getting emotionally involved with his O.S.; he’d be a solipsist not to.”

MEDIA Published: 01.01.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 01.01.14

Why Is “No” Among a Child’s First Words?

IDEAS Posted: January 3, 2014 12:49 am

“The seemingly simple word has a nuanced series of functions that children somehow master early on. In fact, no is among the top 10 or so words that English-speaking babies say when first beginning to talk … By the way, yes doesn’t even crack the top 20.”

IDEAS Published: 12.30.13

Read the story in Slate (podcast) Published: 12.30.13

South Africa Shrugs as Performance Artists Try to Turn It Avant-Garde

ISSUES Posted: January 3, 2014 12:48 am

“Performance artists confront an extra dose of bewilderment in South Africa, a nation less accustomed to the whimsical world of public and performance art than the U.S. or Europe.”

ISSUES Published: 12.27.13

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 12.27.13

The Sweet Science of Punch Sound Effects

MEDIA Posted: January 3, 2014 12:46 am

“What is the sound of one hand punching? It depends what movie you’re watching.” It could be a human body part, a turkey, pizza dough, a watermelon, or dry pasta shells.

MEDIA Published: 01.02.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal (includes sound files) Published: 01.02.14

Postcards From Antartica’s Poet-in-Residence

WORDS Posted: January 3, 2014 12:44 am

“The National Science Foundation sent Jynne Dilling Martin to Antarctica this winter (the austral summer) as an artist-in-residence. [Here] are two poems she wrote from there.”

WORDS Published: 01.02.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 01.02.14

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