“Moving quickly to fill the leadership void,” company executive director Lourdes Lopez said that Morphoses “would adopt a ‘curatorial model’ in which the company would invite artists from various disciplines to take on the role of resident artist for one season.”
Tag: 02.25.10
Embattled Indian Painter Offered Sanctuary In Qatar
“Renowned Indian artist MF Husain, under attack from hardline Hindus for his paintings of nude Hindu goddesses, has been offered Qatari nationality. … It is not clear whether he will accept the honour.”
How Would Garcia Lorca Play Out In Punjab?
“After transforming Wuthering Heights into a Bollywood-style musical last year … British Asian theatre company Tamasha will stage a Pakistan-set interpretation of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Hampstead Theatre later this year, as part of their 21st anniversary season.”
Stolen Descartes Letter Turns Up At Haverford
“It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry. Now one of those purloined letters has turned up at a small private college in eastern Pennsylvania.”
As The Past Gets Digitized, Does It Become More Perishable?
Newspaper archives migrate online, and people start demanding changes in old articles about them. Books, old documents and recordings get digitized, but what happens when new software can no longer read them? Who pays to store and maintain all the digitized information on servers, and what happens when those servers shut down?
‘What Is The Point Of Dustjackets?’
“The clue can’t be in the name: on the shelf, the most dust-prone part of a book is the top, which a jacket doesn’t cover. … Decoratively, too, they are a recipe for disappointment. … That, at least, is how it has always seemed to me – and some in the book trade appear to be reaching the same conclusion.”
Tattoo Removal Technique Used In Art Preservation
“A laser technique best known for its use to remove unwanted tattoos from the skin is finding a second life in preserving great sculptures, paintings and other works of art … The technique, called laser ablation, involves removing material from a solid surface by vaporizing the material with a laser beam.”
In Reversal, UK’s Biggest Cinema Chain Will Show Alice
“The agreement was announced just hours before Tim Burton’s 3D movie was due to have its world premiere at Odeon’s Leicester Square flagship, in the presence of Prince Charles.” Odeon had been the sole holdout in a boycott of the film over “Disney’s plan to shorten the theatrical run by bringing forward the DVD release date.”
Is Google A Content Provider After All?
The conviction of three Google executives in an Italian court “could have sweeping implications worldwide for Internet freedom: It suggests that Google is not simply a tool for its users, as it contends, but is effectively no different from any other media company, like newspapers or television, that provides content and could be regulated.”
Hollywood Appeals Piracy Ruling Exonerating Aussie ISP
“The closely-watched case, which involved major studios such as Warner Bros, Disney, Paramount, Columbia and Twentieth Century Fox, was seen as an ambitious attempt to force ISPs to act against piracy.”