Monday, October 29, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, October 29, 2012)

(1)- UNTIL DIGITAL ART RULES -- Some artists will persist in making things that are tangibly, compellingly, perhaps even brutally present—physically and psychologically. That is, they will keep making sculpture.

(2)- AHA -- Esthetic schools, judgments, and styles proliferate with fractal abandon. Some have done so officially, others unofficially; some by fiat, others by more mysterious processes of historical emergence.

(3)- ABSOLUTELY WORST SOUNDS --  Neuroscientists find sound of fingernails on a chalkboard isn’t the worst. It’s not even second. The Journal of Neuroscience lists and records the 10 most irritating sounds.

(4)- CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE -- Silvio Berlusconi stands up in an Italian court to insist that "scenes of a sexual nature" (involving an underage prostitute) never took place at his so-called "bunga-bunga" parties.

(5)- SOME ART IS STOLEN; SOME RETURNED -- A Roy Lichtenstein painting is returned after having gone missing more than 40 years ago. "Electric Cord," created in 1961, mysteriously reappears in a New York warehouse.

(6)- TOO BIG TO FAIL; TOO RISKY TO EXIST -- Four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever. They’re too big to regulate. They’re too complex to understand.

(7)- POETRY CONTEST WINNER -- Congratulations to Sarah Crossland of Manassas, Virginia, who has been selected by Boston Review contest judge Matthea Harvey as the 2012 winner of the 15th Annual Poetry Contest.

(8)- DAN BALZ: A BASTION OF PERSPECTIVE -- In today’s cacophonous political climate, the veteran Washington Post political writer’s measured, balanced approach may be more valuable than ever.

(9)- NYCITY’S FINEST FOODS -- here's a look at snapshots of the great dishes profiled leading up to our Village Voice Best Of NYC issue. Enjoy, in no particular order, the slices of pizza, plates of biryani, and hefty sandwiches that really ring your bells.

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