“How is universal music possible? Is not music, like language, born of culture and environment? Is not each musical style a unique expression of place and experience?”
Author: Douglas McLennan
Lawyer Sues His Co-Owner Of A Painting He Believes Is An Important Jackson Pollock
“I felt sincere about selling this masterpiece,” Pierce O’Donnell said in a recent interview. He believes it is one of the “great art finds of the 21st century. Unfortunately, she has frustrated every effort to sell it.”
Does The Nobel Committee Have A Bias Against American Writers?
“While the Nobel committee has yet to set a date for any announcement for a literature prize this year (they’ve skipped a few years previously), it does seem unlikely that phones will ring in the homes of Joyce Carol Oates, Don DeLillo, or any other U.S. author.”
Think You’re A “Visual” Learner? Turns Out Learning Styles Aren’t Really A Thing
“In this study, researchers asked people their preferred way of taking in new information: Would they rather read? Or do images seem to do a better job of helping new facts take root within their brains? The researchers then showed them 30 pairs of words and 30 pairs of images; later, the experimenters tested how well the volunteers remembered those words and images. Their professed favorite learning style made no difference in how well they remembered either the words or the pictures.”
Are We All Living In A Giant Simulation? (Don’t Scoff Just Yet!)
“If one progresses at the current rate of technology a few decades into the future, very quickly we will be a society where there are artificial entities living in simulations that are much more abundant than human beings.”
Is This The World’s Busiest Choral Conductor?
“These days the world’s most sought-after choral conductor may well be Simon Halsey, who has racked up plenty of frequent flier miles in recent years bouncing among posts in his native Britain, Germany and elsewhere in Europe — and working around the world with leading orchestra conductors, especially Simon Rattle, with whom he has collaborated for decades.”
Lisbon Opens A Flashy New Museum That Aims To Be Like No Other
One local architect describes it as “an aquarium without the fish” and it’s a shrewd observation.
These Musicians Make Music With Their Brainwaves
“This program directly accesses the brain via electroencephalogram (EEG) technology, allowing four severely motor-impaired people to create the musical piece in real-time by choosing between four different musical phrases.”
Scientists Recreate Artifacts Destroyed In Syrian War Using 3D Scans
“The Italian models are one-to-one reconstructions based on extensive documentation of various kinds. After being created using 3-D printing techniques, the reproductions were then covered with a layer of plastic material mixed with stone powder and finished by hand to replicate the original as closely as possible.”
St. Louis Artists Stage Protest Of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
More than 20 artists have withdrawn from this weekend’s Open Studios STL presented by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The moves come amid criticism of a racially charged exhibit at the museum, although a museum spokesman says it has received a variety of reasons for the withdrawals.