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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.

Court Gives Verdict In Suit Against Facebook For Censoring Courbet’s ‘Origin Of The World’

“French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas … says the social media giant closed his account in 2011 because he posted L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866), [the history-making] explicit full-frontal female nude.” The French judge did rule that French users could sue Facebook in France rather than California, but was less than sympathetic to Durand-Baïssas’s claims for damages.

Mayor Of Tehran Forced To Resign After Attending Dance Recital

“The mayor, Mohammad Ali Najafi, attended a celebration last week amounting to an Islamic version of Mother’s Day. There he encountered six [grade-school-aged] girls dancing in traditional costumes and throwing the rose petals in honor of a female saint.” Islamist hardliners were predictably outraged: said one mullah: “One cannot argue that these were children. They were young girls who incited arousal. They made the most atrocious movements. This cannot be justified.”

England’s Arts Funder Creates New Grants Program For Individual Artists

“Arts Council England (ACE) has launched a £14.4m fund for individual artists and creative practitioners in the early- and mid-stages of their creative careers. …Grants of between £2k and £10k will be available to individual creatives, or small groups of collaborators, to support research, the creation of new work or development of future ideas, training, networking or mentoring, or travel.”

The Ballerina Who’s Taught 100,000 Peruvian Slum Children Hip-Hop Dance

“Vania Masías vividly remembers the first time she saw acrobats somersaulting at a traffic light on a visit to her home city in 2004. She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a ballet dancer in Europe – but before long, she would leave it all behind it to nurture the raw talent she found in the streets of [Lima,] the Peruvian capital.”