“The images of signals flashing across frontal lobes have pushed scientists to re-examine the very way creativity is measured in a laboratory.”
Tag: 05.09.10
A Test Tube For New Opera
“It usually requires a leap of faith for an opera company to present a new piece. VOX offers both impresarios and opera buffs an opportunity to sample new operas in performance.”
A Low-Key Year For Cannes?
“At first sight, this year’s selection seems muted, but Cannes has so established its lead over rival festivals Berlin (worthy and drab) and Venice (glamorous but patchy) that it can afford not to go all out on crowd-pleasers.”
Is The Turner Prize Still Relevant?
“There is the impossible task of drawing up a shortlist in the first place. Unless the judges are full-time professionals, doing the back-to-back biennale circuit, there isn’t much hope that they will all have had the opportunity to see the shortlisted works. And since these are very rarely the ones displayed at Tate Britain, the public has even less chance of seeing what it was the judges so admired.”
Can’t Tell A Book By Its Cover
“Albums are sold across the world inside a universal sleeve, blockbuster films branded in a singular style. But novels, by a convention that nobody in the publishing industry seems fully able to explain, must be re-jacketed from territory to territory. It inspires all kinds of illustrative madness, and makes browsing foreign bookshelves a fascinating – often bewildering – experience.”
Why Patrimony Claims Are Seldom Simple
“[T]he general question, looting and tourist dollars aside, is why should any objects necessarily reside in the modern nation-state controlling the plot of land where, at one time, perhaps thousands of years earlier, they came from? The question goes to the heart of how culture operates in a global age.”