“Researchers are starting to see swarms as living entities with senses, motivations and evolved behaviour. … This does not simply tell us about flocking birds, shoaling fish, swarming locusts, and the like. It has implications for how we understand all sorts of collective action.”
Tag: 02.04.14
Last Weekend’s Worldwide Box Office Champion: You Probably Haven’t Even Heard of It
And if you’re in the States, you can’t see it until next fall. Yet it took in $46 million its opening weekend and will probably make a lot more just this month.
The Balanchine Muse Struck Down by Polio
Leonard Lopate interviews the director of a new documentary about Tanaquil Le Clercq, the New York City Ballet star who inspired George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins (and married Mr. B.), only to be paralyzed by polio at age 27.
The Wrong Way to Talk About Violence in Movies
“Harvey Weinstein wants less carnage in films. But ‘less’ and ‘more’ aren’t helpful terms when answering questions of how on-screen mayhem influences real-world mayhem.”
Are There Only Four Basic Emotions?
The existing scientific consensus has been that there are six, but a new study based on facial expressions suggests that there are only four, with the remaining two products of the others. Yet some observers, including commenters on this article, question the entire basis of the new research.
Dallas Museum Gets Major Collection of Islamic Art
“The Keir Collection, amassed over decades in Britain by Edmund de Unger, a Hungarian real-estate magnate who died in 2011, will go to Dallas for at least 15 years beginning in May, under an unusual long-term renewable loan that will give the museum the right to lend pieces to other institutions.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.04.14
Pushing Into the Upper Room
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-02-04
Pete Seeger, Llewyn Davis, and Sisyphus
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-04
‘Dirt Always Wins’ (Part Three) — The White Goddess
Source: Out There | Published on 2014-02-04
Essential Viewing: Ethan Stiefel’s “Giselle” for Royal New Zealand Ballet
Source: Fresh Pencil | Published on 2014-02-04
Prominent Russian pianist, 48, is found dead on the street near his home
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-04
In This Exhibition, Technology Really Works
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-04
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Study Refutes Paul Ryan’s Unsubstantiated Claim Against Public Arts Funding
“Rep. Paul Ryan grabbed headlines last year when the House budget committee he chairs released a report claiming NEA grants are a “wealth transfer” from the poor to the rich.” A new study finds that this is not true.
The Chinese Art Market Doesn’t Add Up (Where’s The Money?)
“Money-laundering, tax evasion and the illicit transfer of cultural heritage objects could be factors explaining large discrepancies that have emerged in an analysis of art shipments between China and the US.”
Love The Artist, Not The Man?
“Whether separating art from artist is right or wrong is a question that provokes too many headaches to answer succinctly—but the ability and proclivity to do so is an inevitability of participating in modern culture.”