“Some insist that ‘hard A.I.’ (with human-level intelligence) can never exist, while others conclude that it is inevitable. But in many cases these debates may be missing the real point of what it means to live and think with forms of synthetic intelligence very different from our own. … A mature A.I. is not necessarily a humanlike intelligence, or one that is at our disposal.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
What Philly Cheesesteak Does To The Brain (The Science Of Appetite)
And then there’s scrapple. The researcher’s name for the appeal of these two Philadelphia delicacies is dynamic contrast. (podcast)
Heart Of A Ballet Superstar: Wendy Whelan At 47
“She was, and is, longer than most. More angular. Like calligraphy, critics said. And that’s just the start. They go crazy for her work ethic. Her astounding strength. Her rapturous, incandescent spirituality. So have choreographers. … Last fall, at 47, Whelan left the New York City Ballet. But she’s still dancing.” (audio; includes video clips)
Robert De Niro To Direct Stage Musical
Along with theater veteran Jerry Zaks, the Oscar-winning actor will direct a musical adaptation of Chazz Palmintieri’s play A Bronx Tale, a film version of which De Niro directed in 1993.
Mexico City Museum Cancels Exhibition Because Artist’s Work Is Too Bloody
“Anticipating that [Hermann] Nitsch’s disturbing oeuvre might upset Mexicans already alarmed by the bloodshed ravaging their country, the Museo Jumex … abruptly canceled an exhibition that was scheduled to open this week. The pre-emptive decision by the Jumex Foundation, which runs the museum, has been denounced by collectors, curators and art critics as an embarrassing act of censorship by a group striving to establish itself in the international art circuit.”
Bruce Sinofsky, 58, Documentary Filmmaker
He is best known for the series of three Paradise Lost films he made with co-director Joe Berlinger about the West Memphis Three, defendants in a controversial Arkansas murder case.
U.S. Officials Return Tiepolo Painting and Etruscan Bronze to Italy
“Federal law enforcement authorities in New York announced Tuesday that they had returned to Italy two pieces of that country’s cultural heritage stolen decades ago before being brought to the United States: a painting attributed to the 18th-century artist Giambattista Tiepolo and an ancient Etruscan bronze statuette of Herakles.”
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Superstars have always been with us
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From “Griddle Griswold” to “Twister Griswold”: New Outreach by Cleveland Museum’s Playful Director
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-24
The Future of the Arts
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Elling And Iyer At The PDX Festival
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Hail to college jazz radio stations like WHPK
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-02-24
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Early Music Leader Philip Pickett Gets 11 Years’ Prison For Rape
The founder and director of the New London Consort and Musicians of the Globe (the resident ensemble at Shakespeare’s Globe), with a discography of 48 titles, Pickett was convicted of assaulting several of his students at the Guildhall School.
René Magritte Was A Comedian
“A good comic can take something mundane and familiar and make you see it an unexpected way, whether it’s Dave Chappelle talking about ‘grape drink’, or Louis CK ranting about his four-year-old daughter. Magritte will do the same by sticking a silk mask on an apple. Or having a cloud enter a room by a door.”