Jim Mitchell “served five years as executive director of the Arkansas Arts Council … [and] has direct management experience in every major arts discipline including dance, opera, symphony and theater, as well as capital campaign and strategic planning experience.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Looted Egyptian Antiquities Now Recovered And On Display In Cairo
“Around 200 stolen artefacts, recovered since Egypt’s 2011 revolution, are now on show at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in an exhibition that runs for three months. Most of the objects were recovered abroad, while some 60 were seized in Egypt before they could leave the country.”
How They Made A High-Tech Replica Of King Tut’s Tomb
In order to protect the actual 3,300-year-old tomb from the wear and tear of thousands of tourist visits, a team used high-resolution laser scanning and digital photography, high-density polyurethane and resins, and high-definition printers to “rematerialize the physical site”.
Chinese Museum Shut Down Over Thousands Of Fake Items
“Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine.”
Why Do People Persist In Believing Things That Just Aren’t True? And Is There Any Way To Convince Them?
“When there’s no immediate threat to our understanding of the world, we change our beliefs. It’s when that change contradicts something we’ve long held as important that problems occur.” So one researcher may have worked out an unexpected way to break through.
American Schadenfreude (Not Exactly An Oxymoron, But ….)
“What I find interesting is that no such word or phrase exists in American English. … Certainly, there is no piecing together ‘shame’ and ‘joy’ to make ‘shamejoy,’ as in German. Shame and joy are antithetical, distant, never meant to share the same bed. That’s because schadenfreude does not square with America’s national obsession with the comeback story.”
This Actor Makes A Living Getting Killed By Samurai
“Seizo Fukumoto has been stabbed, slashed and sliced with Japanese swords for over 50 years. He is one of the top kirareyaku actors, stuntmen who specialize in being killed by the hero samurai in period movies and TV shows. A true kirareyaku is one who can make viewers cringe in their seats, … Mr. Fukumoto said.”
‘Glorious Leader!’, The New Kim Jong Un Video Game
“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea commands you to know that the capitalistic pigs at Moneyhorse LLC, are developing Glorious Leader!” In the guise of Kim III, players can shoot down US paratroopers, face down an American tank in front of the Juche Monument, ride a narwhal through a mined harbor, and meet Dennis Rodman on a basketball court. (includes trailer)
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Can Conservatives Actually Do Comedy? (And What Do They Find Funny, Anyway?)
Frank Rich: “It’s an article of faith on the right that conservative comedians, like conservative entertainment-industry workers in general, are either blacklisted by Hollywood’s liberal mafia or are in daily danger of being so, thus giving the left a near monopoly on comedy as practiced in the vast cultural swing district of American television. … Still, the hysteria of the anti-Colbert claque made me look at the right’s case again.”