“Situations like this are very complicated. There’s the safety of the work, there’s the protection of the work. You know, how do you sustain a collection? How do you have it support itself as a collection?”
The Roots Of Urban Planning In The Gardens At Versailles
Is It Fanfic If A ‘Real’ Writer Does It?
Alexander Payne’s Issue With Fathers
Says the director of this fall’s Nebraska (and of The Descendants, Sideways, and Election), “I think many of us have experiences with fathers who … are loving, they are nice, but somehow they’re on another planet and you wonder your whole life, ‘What is that planet that my father is on?’.”
Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain
Price For Norman Rockwell Smashes Record
The Truth About The Left Brain/Right Brain Relationship
Serbian Composer Djuro Zivkovic Wins Grawemeyer Prize
“Zivkovic, who is also active as a violinist, has a mystical bent. He characterizes his winning piece as an “instrumental cantata” inspired by the religious music of J.S. Bach and especially the Philokalia (love of the beautiful), a collection of ancient Eastern Orthodox texts.”
Elizabeth Streb Pushes Dance With Physics
“I force myself on scientists and try and ask some odd questions about quantum physics and particle physics and what would happen if you morphed up those extra six dimensions from superstring theory and put them on the body, what would the body look like? Or – I mean, what does it mean to go in the fifth direction, the sixth direction, the seventh direction.”