http://www.artsjournal.com Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/savion_glovers_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/savion_glovers_1.shtml dance Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:30 -0800 "A tooth and two fingers of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian astronomer, physicist, inventor and mathematician, have re-emerged from a lost wooden case, Florence's authorities [have] announced."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/now_hes_really.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/now_hes_really.shtml people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:02 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/high_tech_tromp.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/high_tech_tromp.shtml visual Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:41:54 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_nutcrackers.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_nutcrackers.shtml dance Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:33:50 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_having_an_e.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_having_an_e.shtml issues Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:03:49 -0800 Critic Armond White wrote, "Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious." Responds the novelist Sapphire, "With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_precious_ghe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_precious_ghe.shtml media Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52:58 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/simon_rattle_an.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/simon_rattle_an.shtml music Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:51:56 -0800 "His 19 'Above' books, each with about 150 photographs, include neighborhood-by-neighborhood overviews of Paris, London, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and Seattle." (He covered his hometown with four volumes of Above San Francisco.) "Then there are the volumes showing the natural wonders of places like Yosemite, Big Sur and Hawaii."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/robert_cameron.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/robert_cameron.shtml people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:39:55 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_book_of_ome.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_book_of_ome.shtml publishing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:38:48 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/muhammad_ali_me.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/muhammad_ali_me.shtml theatre Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:37:22 -0800 Surveying the history of artists' attempts to fool their viewers, from Ancient Rome through Giotto and the Flemish masters to American tricks with pictures of money and sculptors who made rock look like bronze and porcelain resemble wood.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_limits_of_v.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_limits_of_v.shtml visual Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:35:58 -0800 "IBM announced this week that it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. At just 4.5 percent of a human brain, the computer can sense, perceive, act, interact and process ideas without consuming a lot [of] energy."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/artificial_feli.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/artificial_feli.shtml ideas Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:14:09 -0800 18-year-old participant Lauren Lovette: "[Peter Martins] was looking at me as I was sitting there, and I was like: Are you expecting me to say something? Are you reading my mind right now? Stop staring at me. O.K., fine! I really wanted six [dancers to work with]. I'm so happy he gave that to me."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/inside_school_o.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/inside_school_o.shtml dance Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:08:21 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_of_o_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_of_o_1.shtml media Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:53:55 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_highend_man.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_highend_man.shtml music Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:51:01 -0800 Stephen King looks at the short story master, the appalling treatment he gave the wife who made his career possible, the appalling treatment axe-wielding editor Gordon Lish gave his prose, and the alcoholism underlying it all.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/raymond_carver.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/raymond_carver.shtml people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:47:13 -0800 "Oxfam has attempted to patch up its differences with secondhand booksellers." A trade group "had said that Oxfam's voluntary staff, donated stock and business-rate reductions allowed it to undercut rivals, forcing some secondhand booksellers out of business and taking trade away from others."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/oxfam_tries_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/oxfam_tries_to.shtml publishing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:38:06 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/should_a_critic_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/should_a_critic_2.shtml theatre Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:29:40 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/financial_crisi_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/financial_crisi_1.shtml visual Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:14:02 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/elisabeth_sders.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/elisabeth_sders.shtml people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:04:59 -0800 With dozens of animators pitching in through a specially built Facebook application, the slick clip from the crowdsourcing specialists at Mass Animation is a rare "art by committee" success story.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/crowdsourced_an.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/crowdsourced_an.shtml ideas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:14:20 -0800 "Digital downloading and distribution, illegally or otherwise, has had a greater effect on the recording industry than anything in its history. As the legal variety grows rapidly, driven most significantly by iTunes, so those old-school players are having to adopt radical new business plans to compete in the brave new world of music."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_downloading_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_downloading_1.shtml music Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:32 -0800 Some "60 exhibitors from last year's Art Basel Miami Beach are not returning, including Berlin's Arndt & Partner, London galleries Waddington and Maureen Paley, and New York's Per Skarstedt. Fair organiser have added 65 new exhibitors, including some who had previously been turned away. The 2009 edition now boasts 266 dealers from 33 countries. Another big change is the fair's physical appearance..."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/art_basel_miami_5.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/art_basel_miami_5.shtml visual Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:04:31 -0800 "According to an online petition entitled "When the Night Quietly Dies," which was organized by a group from the techno and electronic music scene, the City of Lights is in danger of becoming the "European Capital of Sleep." Among the complaints listed in the petition are the closure of leading bars, strict rules on noise and smoking regulations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/has_paris_night.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/has_paris_night.shtml issues Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:33 -0800 Forbes has made a list based on studios' return on investment.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/hollywoods_ten.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/hollywoods_ten.shtml media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:36:41 -0800