Carlo Parodi, founder of the Giacomo Casanova Foundation (and, not incidentally, CEO of the winery Casanova Prosecco), plans to site the museum in six rooms at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Venice – and also hopes to create a temporary pop-up museum that would travel to such cities as Paris, Tokyo, New York, Beijing, and London.
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Ingenious Distribution System Cubans Use To Replace The Internet They Can’t Access
“Cuba has one of the lowest rates of internet usage in the Western Hemisphere, and access to media is strictly restricted – but that doesn’t stop Cubans from watching Game of Thrones. Their secret is El Paquete Semanal (‘The Weekly Packet’), a clandestine in-person file-sharing network that distributes hard drives and flash drives full of media.”
Is Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Mass’, Ultimately, Even A Piece Of Music? Maybe Not – And That Doesn’t Matter
“[The work] is hung on a musical frame. But more saliently to most audiences, perhaps, it is religious, it is social, it is political. … Maybe the technical term for it all is simply this: groovy.” Peter Dobrin considers the new recording of Mass, released for the Bernstein centennial, by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra (and a whole lot of others).
Fake News And B.S. Really Can Mess With Your Brain – But Satire Can Combat The Damage
“Research that shows that the brain has to first accept a lie as true, only to analyze it, then refute it. Over time, the brain tires of that process and slowly starts to accept the lies as true. … What is most interesting is that processing falsehoods and processing certain types of satire appears to follow a very similar cognitive path.” Sophia McLennen looks at how this works, and argues that this is why the right hates political satire so much. (And satire worked so well in Weimar Germany, right?)
Huge Network Trafficking In Fake Native American Art Busted By Federal Investigators
“The investigation was named Operation Al Zuni after Al Zuni Global Jewelry, a well-known business in Gallup, New Mexico, owned by Nashat Khalaf, a Palestinian immigrant and prominent Indian arts dealer. … The Indian Arts and Crafts Board estimated in 2016 that the retail value of the 350,000 pieces of jewelry seized during [a large 2015] raid exceeded $35 million.”
*Really* Getting Inside The Music: Brian Eno Creates Immersive 3-D Music Installations
“Little colored bubbles float ever higher, growing larger as they rise toward the sky. People drift into a circle of six towering screens, wearing high-tech 3-D holographic visors, like moon-walkers taking their first steps in an alien atmosphere. They reach out their arms and use their thumbs and forefingers to pinch the air in front of them. Each time they do, new bubbles appear, and each one emits a single, precise musical tone. The tones combine and dissipate; there is the sound of crickets chirping, and waves of white noise. This is Bloom: Open Space.”
Mario Vargas Llosa Says That Freedom Of The Press Is Why Mexico’s Journalists Are Getting Murdered
“The fact that more than 100 journalists were murdered is, in [large] part, to be blamed on the freedom of the press today,” the Nobel-winning Peruvian author told a radio interviewer, “which allows journalists to say things that were not permitted previously. Narcotics trafficking plays an absolutely central part in all of this.” Mexicans, as one might expect, are not happy about this.
Every Winner Of This Year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards Is A Woman
“Joan Silber took the fiction prize for her novel Improvement. … The nonfiction prize went to Frances FitzGerald for her book The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, a sweeping history of the Evangelical movement from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election. Layli Long Soldier won the poetry prize for her acclaimed collection Whereas. The autobiography prize went to Xiaolu Guo for her book Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China. The prize in criticism went to Carina Chocano for her essay collection You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages. The prize in biography went to Caroline Fraser for her book Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.”
Weinstein Co. Declares Bankruptcy
“The company may yet be able to reorganize and continue to produce TV shows and films under new ownership. Lantern Capital put in a ‘stalking horse’ bid, which provides a floor for a bankruptcy auction. … The company also announced that it has released its employees from their non-disclosure agreements, as part of an ongoing negotiation with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.”
Uh-Oh – Barnes Foundation Isn’t Considering Selling Any Art Off, Is It?
That’s a worry some people have since the museum – now firmly ensconced in Center City Philadelphia rather than at Alfred Barnes’s old home in an inner suburb – has hired a collections assessor. But the Barnes’s CEO insists that nothing is for sale, and that the assessor is examining items that were never at the museum.