“In lawsuits obtained by Page Six,” Alex Komolov, owner of the Alskom Gallery “claims David Segal and Mohamed Serry tricked him into buying $30 million worth of fraudulent Monet, Vlaminck, Picasso and Manet paintings, among other antiques, between 2007 and 2009.”
Month: July 2016
Freud Was Right About A Few Things, Says Neuroscience
“While Freud’s concept of the superego played a more ethical role, encouraging the id and ego to follow moral rules, [the] Id-Ego-Superego structure roughly matches onto the Unconscious-Conscious-Metacognition structure of the mind studied in neuroscience today.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.12.16
Responding to Pain
Communities are hurting. What is your arts organization doing in response? The answer to this question is a powerful indicator (forgive me: “metric”) of the depth and quality of institutional commitment to and capacity for engagement. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-07-12
Shiner Whiner: Warhol Museum’s Director Joins the Flight from Museum to Market
Should museum directors and curators parlay their nonprofit contacts into for-profit pursuits? … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-07-12
Other Places: Bill Crow on Dave McKenna
Bassist Bill Crow’s column “The Band Room” is an event New York musicians look forward to each month. … In the current issue, he remembers a pianist whose artistic scope, adaptability, swing and idiosyncratic personality made him a favorite of a wide variety of musicians and listeners. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-07-12
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Its Funding Ending, The World Monuments Fund Scales Back
“Since its founding, the fund has helped with many projects, including the repair of buildings damaged by flooding in Venice; the restoration of the Ochavo Chapel inside the 13th-century Toledo Cathedral in Spain; and a 10-year effort to restore the 18th-century Qianlong Garden within Beijing’s Forbidden City.”
How Pokemon Go Took Over The World In A Week (And What It Means)
“If Pokémon Go does represent a sea change in augmented reality, then it’s one that’s going to force us to rethink our approach to designed spaces, public and private. So many of the places people gather center on communal tragedy or reverence: funerals, war memorials, religion. What do you do when someone whips out their phone to catch a Geodude at the Holocaust Memorial? Or, as is apparently already happening, Auschwitz? Games, with the weight they bear—of play, of fun—might have once seemed inappropriate for those places. But now those places are squares on the game grid.”
TV Viewing By Young People Down By 27% Since 2010
Viewing fell by 27% among 16-24 year olds and children, while it fell only 5% in the 55-64 age category in the same time period. Ofcom said its report highlighted “a widening gap between the viewing habits of the youngest and oldest audiences”.
We Assume Meritocracy Is The Proper Order Of The World (But What If It’s Not?)
“The basic idea—that we should rank candidates for power according to some desirable quality, then pick the best of them—seems too obvious to have needed inventing, but invented it was, and (at least in the West) not so long ago. If we go back to the occasion of its first appearance in the English-speaking world, we will find a group of men who opposed it, not just because they did not think it would work in practice, but because they disagreed with it in principle.”
Cautionary Tale? Why Did Google Delete A Literary Critic’s Blog?
In the weeks since then, Cooper has been updating readers with progress on the case via Facebook. So far, there hasn’t been much change in the situation: as of July 5th, Cooper wrote, “there are now three separate and simultaneous ‘internal investigations’ into the situation going on at Google.”
An Indian High Court Rules For Literary Tolerance, Defending Writer
This decision sends a strong message at a time when freedom of expression is under threat from government attempts to muzzle dissent, and from self-appointed morality enforcers affiliated with conservative groups.
Inside Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Final ‘Hamilton’
“In the ticketholders line were the people who had gone to extremes or paid thousands of dollars just to see the production that night. One attendee said she’d paid $3,500 for the chance to catch the show a second time before the original cast left, while others in the line had camped out overnight for cancellations. Here and there were the lucky winners of the day’s ticket lottery. “I’m the unicorn!” one of them declared happily.”