“Scientists have known that newly acquired, short-term memories are often fleeting. But a new study in flies suggests that kind of forgetfulness doesn’t just happen. Rather, an active process of erasing memories may in some ways be as important as the ability to lay down new memories.”
Tag: 02.19.10
In Three Nations, The Downturn’s Effect On Arts Funding
In this economy, “the list of US cultural casualties is large and growing,” while Irish arts have seen major cuts, and France’s “cultural powerhouses boomed” even as “lesser-known institutions, often outside Paris, had their funding slashed.”
Man Charged With Threatening In Poem To Kill President
“A federal public defender for Johnny Logan Spencer Jr. said in court Friday that while the poem might be offensive, it has not incited violence and should be protected under the Constitution as a work of art. … Spencer’s poem describes an assassin’s mission to kill a president who is black.”
Why Couldn’t Americans Come Up With A Good Play About Enron?
David Cote: “In early April, previews start for the Broadway run of Enron, [British] writer Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold’s apparently brilliant anatomy of our nation’s biggest corporate scandal. But the excitement over this transfer from the West End is mitigated by shame that no one here had thought of it first.”
How Akram Khan Describes His Dance (Not As Fusion)
“For me, it has a lot to do with mathematics, not just the vocabulary and gestures of the dance, but the energy. I call it a confusion between kathak and contemporary. There’s no such thing as fusion in dance, such as in food, where two ingredients fuse together. My body got confused when I ventured into contemporary dance. My work comes out of that chaos of the body.”
LACMA Announces Three Inaugural Shows For New Resnick Pavilion
“[The museum] said Friday that the three exhibitions would be ‘Eye for the Sensual: Selections From the Resnick Collection,’ ‘Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915’ and ‘Olmec: Masterworks of Ancient Mexico.’ The museum said the shows would ‘highlight the diversity of the museum’s encyclopedic collection and programming’.”
A New Video Art Installation Made For LAX
“A new public art project involving video creations by 17 artists and art teams is currently being unveiled at Los Angeles International Airport. … Artists were asked to create site-specific works that would appear on video screens mounted on a wall or suspended from a ceiling.”
In Art World, A Bear Market For Alan Greenspan Portraits
“[Artist Erin] Crowe produced colorful, whimsical canvasses that highlighted Mr. Greenspan’s wrinkled forehead, pursed lips, droopy ears, hand gestures and oversize glasses.” One of her Greenspan portraits sold for $150K at a charity auction; now its owner keeps it under the bed. Another purchaser now snipes that he should use the painting as a dartboard. (Crowe, meanwhile, has moved on to painting Ben Bernanke.)
British Author’s Estate Sues JK Rowling For Potter Plagiaism
“The estate of the late Adrian Jacobs on Wednesday added Rowling as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in June against Bloomsbury Publishing PLC for alleged copyright infringement, according to a statement released by the estate’s representatives, who are based in Australia.”
Canadian Association Of Broadcasters To Shut Down
After reviewing its strategy, the organization concluded that local TV operators wouldn’t be able to find a common ground with the cable companies.