“According to a complaint filed on Thursday in California state court, [CEO Tim] Cook and other senior Apple figures bear ‘responsibility for ensnaring Apple in a multi-year anticompetitive scheme’ that resulted in a highly-publicized trial and a proposed $450 million payout … The shareholders claim that Cook and others … breached their fiduciary duty to the company and engaged in ‘waste of corporate assets’.”
Save The Footnote!
Nathan Heller: “Online, explicit source citation tends to be redundant: you don’t need notes, because, ideally, you can click to an original source. In this context, the removal of back matter makes some kind of sense. But publishers aren’t taking endnotes off the Web. They’re putting them on the Web. Instead, back matter is starting to vanish from books, the one place where it’s still very much needed.”
We Used To Describe The Brain In Metaphors (Now It’s All Electrical Impulses And Neurons)
“What’s emerging from these studies isn’t just a theory of language or of metaphor. It’s a nascent theory of consciousness. Any algorithmic system faces the problem of bootstrapping itself from computing to knowing, from bit-shuffling to caring.”
Royal Ballet Dancers Become Canvas For Chris Ofili
The Turner Prize winner personally paints the leotards of all six dancers in Unearthed, a collaboration with choreographer Aakash Odedra that mixes ballet with kathak (North Indian dance) to retell the story of Prometheus and the creation of the first man from clay.
How Do You Rhyme In Sign Language?
“Since rhyme is based on the repetition of portions of words, the portions of words that get repeated don’t necessarily have to be sounds. They could also be movement, hand shape, location, palm orientation, or other components of signs.” (Includes video clips and a bonus: “finger fumblers”, the sign-language equivalent of tongue twisters.)
China Finally Gets Its Own Fine Art Photography Fair
“The big question is whether that curiosity will translate into sales as the market for fine art photography in China is still developing. Many visitors just seemed excited to see so much quality photography in one place.”
Historical Fiction Often, And Easily, Beats Historical Fact
“Not certainty but the kind of uncertainty that encourages us all to struggle with our convictions to some point of moral balance, played its part in engaging me emotionally with the past.”
The Pop Artist Who Made Her Art ‘Ooze’ To Make Fun Of Her Male Peers Has Died
Marjorie Strider added sculptural components to “paintings of plants and vegetables but also bright triptychs of bikini-clad women, adding what she called ‘build-outs’ to make the breasts and bottoms of the women emerge realistically out of the image, a challenge to the passive gaze.”
Who’s Responsible For Bad Architecture?
The winners of a prize for worst architecture squabble about who’s to blame, but “whichever party bears ultimate responsibility, these decisions have real consequences for city-dwellers.”
A New Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Work Could Keep It Out Of Museums For Years
“The legal case to determine whether Mr. Baille is Maier’s closest relative has now set in motion a process that Chicago officials say could take years and could result in Maier’s works’ being pulled from gallery inventories and museum shows until a determination is made.”
Making Theatre (And Other Forms Of Art) About #Ferguson
“This tragedy will bring a wellspring of creativity in spoken word, dance, film, and stage. I hope to see more workshops of this kind come to St. Louis with more frequency. Workshops like this should be done on a regular basis to keep artists in touch with the community at large, our artistic counterparts, and colleagues.”
The Idea Of The Ideal Bust
“The bust, in short, is really a form of sculptural shorthand. A bust hints to the body, gestures to the existence of a full person without considering the rest necessary. The bust suggests that, in essence, human beings are heads with just enough fleshy stuff underneath to do the dirty work.”
Placido Domingo Extends Contract At L.A. Opera Through 2019
“I don’t know if I will be singing… who knows how long I will be singing,” he said. But “I think the public likes it and the board likes it. So we will see.”
Garth Brooks, One Of Country’s Big Stars, Launches His Own Brand Of iTunes
“Other artists, he said, can choose from among a variety of options, such as selling individual tracks, albums only, streaming only or downloading only. ‘The difference is,’ Brooks said, ‘is that the copyright owner gets to make that decision.'”
Actors’ Equity Adds An Audition Space In Los Angeles
“The plush space is meant to host auditions for Broadway touring productions, which the union has been working to get moved from New York to its regional centers in Chicago and Los Angeles.”
One Last Monet Found In Suitcase Art Hoarder Left At Hospital
“The task force handling the art trove say the latest find is a light-blue landscape painted on paper, which may have been produced in 1864. It appears to have similarities to Monet’s piece View at Sainte-Adresse, dated 1867.”
Robert Spano Pleads For Musicians In Letter To Atlanta Symphony
“Mr. Spano took a step that music directors rarely take, and weighed in on the negotiations. He and Donald Runnicles, the orchestra’s principal guest conductor, wrote a letter in which they said, ‘We ask the board and management to acknowledge the sacrifice the musicians have already made, and to examine other ways and areas to establish sustainability.'”
So You’re Having An Artistic Crisis …
“Now is not the time to compare yourself to others. Personally, I have found that spending too much time reading about the fantastic lives and careers of my friends and colleagues, as presented on Facebook, makes me feel boring and inadequate. If it makes you feel similar, take a break from it.”
Remember The (Extremely Slow) Travels Of L.A.’s Most Famous Art Boulder?
Now there’s a movie: “Pray’s doc is at its grooviest when you can simply watch the surreal sight of a giant shrink-wrapped boulder moving through the streets of L.A. at night, like the world’s most ginormous frozen turkey.”
Whatever Happened To The Poets Of Protest?
“Could it be that modern poetry has lost its vibrancy? I ask: has poetry ceased to penetrate our national consciousness because we are no longer stirred by what’s being said? When was the last time a poet made enough noise to be threatened with censorship?”
Franz Welser-Möst Suddenly Quits Vienna State Opera Over Artistic Differences
“The resignation, reportedly tendered via letter to Vienna State Opera artistic director Dominique Meyer, was said to be effective immediately and leaves the company without a conductor for several new and revived productions in the 2014-15 season.”