See, this is why research funding is so important: “Not familiar with YInMn? Don’t worry, it’s pretty new to the color scene. The pigment was discovered by accident in 2009 at Oregon State University in a chemistry lab run by Mas Subramanian, a professor in materials science, and his graduate students. Accident or not, Crayola liked the new hue.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Gustavo Dudamel Dedicated Saturday’s LA Phil Concert To A Slain 17-Year-Old El Sistema Violinist
Before conducting the heck out of Schubert’s First Symphony, written when he was of a similar age to the student who was killed, Dudamel “said the violence in Venezuela is unacceptable, and he dedicated the concert to the slain student and to all the victims of violence. ‘We play for all our children,’ he concluded, ‘to build a better future for them with peace and love.'”
Sarasota Ballet Downsizes By Not Renewing Contracts For A Third Of Its Dancers
Wait a second. ED Joe Volpe “insisted the company had been planning to ‘reorganize’ since he took over more than a year ago — long before the union’s arrival — and that the downsizing is simply part of that restructuring. He also denied the reduction had anything to do with financial distress and said it is ‘completely unrelated’ to a new 10-year contract that director Iain Webb signed in late March.”
Book Lovers May Not Be Thrilled To Learn George R.R. Martin Has Turned His Attention To Four Game Of Thrones Spin-Offs
On the other hand, “some might wonder why we even need the books at this point, since the series will keep chugging along to its conclusion in 2018.”
The Architect And ‘Famously Sharp Dresser’ Whose Archive Was Destroyed In The L.A. Riots
Paul Revere Williams received a posthumous American Institute of Architects Gold Medal this weekend, but there’s so much more to his story: “Battling the sort of prejudice that not only shaped his roster of clients but was entrenched in the built landscape of the city itself — whites-only covenants meant that he was banned from living in many of the neighborhoods where his most impressive houses went up — Williams never had the luxury of thinking of architecture and race as separate. His career was one long negotiation between the two.”
The Maine Of Elizabeth Strout, And The Elizabeth Strout Of Maine
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge “dislikes it when people refer to her as a ‘Maine writer.’ And yet, when asked, ‘What’s your relationship with Maine?’ she replies, ‘That’s like asking me what’s my relationship with my own body. It’s just my DNA.'”
How Did F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost Stories’ Get Found And Published?
“Most of the stories come from the 30s, that dark decade for him, for America and for the world. Why weren’t they published when they were written? Did Fitzgerald himself like them, and try to get them into print? What did editors think of them? What else was he doing, and what else was on his mind, as he wrote?”
Why Is Rose Gold The Cool Gold? A Short History Of Color
“From the mid-nineteen-fifties to the early seventies, Kodak supplied commercial photographers who bought its film with so-called Shirley cards, images of women—always Caucasian—that were printed on card stock and used as the standard for lighting in studios. … The protocol was eventually updated to include black, Latina, and Asian models – but not for the same reasons that made Crayola retire its ‘flesh’ crayon. Rather, it was complaints from furniture manufacturers.”
The Whitney Biennial Catalog, Reviewed By An Artist
Stephen Persing: “He knows his stuff, and his enthusiasm is infectious, but it nearly carries him (and us) away on Brobdignagian sentences that are roller-coaster rides of clauses and often unsupported concepts.”
If We’re Going To Have An Internet Of Things – And We Are – It Needs A Code Of Ethics
A leading computer ethicist: “We’re just at the tip of the iceberg in what is arguably going to be a brave new world. And it’s highly heterogenous: We’ll be seeing a lot more autonomous systems, we’ll be seeing enhanced humans and smart systems, devices, and organizations. When you put all of those together, and you start thinking about how to bring out the best of the Internet of Things rather than the worst of the Internet of Things, governance is really the key.”