Jim Wilson/The New York Times A tribute in the Mexican folklórico tradition, commemorating the bicentennial of Mexico and the centenary of the revolution. SAN FRANCISCO — Go to dance and see world culture. Midway through, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival has addressed the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, shamanism in Korea, the Indian [...]
Day X Exists, a Web game, was created to promote the movie “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie and due on July 23. LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures has been hard at work on a project with a complex script about spies and terrorists, filming on location and using props that include a rented airplane. Is it [...]
WHERE have all the show tunes gone? Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A scene from “American Idiot,” based on the 2004 album of the same name by the band Green Day. On Broadway, though it took decades, rock has been transformed from nemesis to novelty to mainstay. Electric guitars onstage, not mini-orchestra-pit bands, drive [...]
The mobile scanner at work on a test wall. A software system reveals the structure of the concealed paintings. (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer IWS) ScienceDaily (May 6, 2010) — Painted-over murals were thought to be irretrievably lost because conventional methods are seldom suitable to rendering the hidden works visible without causing damage. Research scientists now aim [...]
The collection includes 1905 work Arbres a Collioure, by Andre Derain. A collection of paintings by artists including Picasso, Cezanne and Derain, which lay undiscovered in a vault for 40 years, will be sold in June. Some 141 paintings belonging to dealer Ambroise Vollard were put in a French bank following his death in 1939 [...]
By now I'm sure you're familiar with all the inane blather being spewed about the iPad. Questions such as "Will it replace a laptop?" and "Is it the end of netbooks?" have been beaten to death in columns and reviews across the Web. Who cares? Could there be more meaningless questions to analyze? There will [...]
Jack Kirby/Ruby-Spears Productions “Roxie/Bad Guys” by Jack Kirby, who created a number of characters in the 1980s that have yet to come to light. More Photos The characteristics of a Jack Kirby illustration are easily distinguished: extravagantly costumed heroes and nefarious villains locked in titanic struggles; foreshortened fists, feet and muscles that seem to pop [...]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2010) — Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the world's largest multi-disciplinary computing grid, supporting the research of thousands of scientists and bringing together to the processing power of hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The grid and the software that glues it all together, known as middleware, is designed to run [...]
Best-case scenario: A dog runs into the frame just as you snap the shutter. Worst-case: You have a really bad breakup. But one way or another, you're eventually going to want to remove something or someone from a digital photo. Even if you're well versed in Photoshop, you may either not possess quite the skills [...]
(Reuters) – A big-budget Broadway musical adaptation of the classic celebration of eccentricity and morbidity, "The Addams Family," was panned by critics on Friday as bland and boring. The production, which opened on Thursday, stars Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. It derives from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons that also inspired [...]
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