Leonardo da Vinci Notebook Coming to Smithsonian

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, via Associated Press A page from the notebook.

WASHINGTON â€" Four centuries before Orville and Wilbur Wright pioneered human flight, Leonardo da Vinci was studying the flight patterns of birds, drawing his observations in a notebook along with descriptions of how humans could learn to fly. The notebook will come to the United States next month at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

The museum announced Thursday that it would display Leonardo’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” from Sept. 13 through Oct. 22.

The codex, from about 1505, contains 18 pages of Leonardo’s study of birds and his descriptions of how humans could one day take flight. In it, Leonardo “explores aerodynamics, recognized the need for control, stated the importance of lightweight structures and even hinted at the force Newton would later define as gravity,” Peter Jakab, chief curator of the Air and Space Museum, said in a video.

“Centuries before any real progress toward a practical flying machine was achieved, Leonardo expressed the seeds of the ideas that would lead to humans spreading their wings,” he said.

The document will be shown near the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer. Digital interactive stations will allow visitors to browse its pages.

The notebook has been shown in the United States once before, at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008. The Smithsonian has the Codex on loan from the Royal Library of Turin as part of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, via Associated Press A page from a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci’s that will be displayed at the Smithsonian.

Judge Upholds Green Day’s Right to Use Artist’s Image for Concert

Chad Batka for The New York Times Green Day performing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the rock band Green Day had not infringed the rights of illustrator and street artist Dereck Seltzer when it incorporated his artwork “Scream Icon” without permission in a video backdrop at its concerts during its 2009 21st Century Breakdown tour.

Experts say the ruling may make it easier for musical performers to use other artists works to improve the experience of fans at their concerts.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in California, said the use of the image was an example of “fair use.”

Scream Icon - a black-and-white image from 2003 that depicts the contorted face of a shrieking woman â€" was used during the Green Day song “East Jesus Nowhere,” spray-painted over with a large red crucifix.

The video version had been adapted from a photograph of a tattered copy of Mr. Seltzer’s work posted on a brick wall on a corner of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

As well as the addition of the red cross, the contrast and color of the work was altered in the video and black streaks were added down the right side of the woman’s face, the court said, but Scream Icon was still clearly identifiable throughout the roughly four minute video.

Mr. Seltzer complained, and then after the band apparently offered him concert tickets as settlement, he sued in 2010.

But a year later, a federal district judge in Los Angeles rejected his claims of copyright infringement and violations of the Lanham Act, a 1946 federal law that prohibits trademark infringement and false advertising. On Thursday the appeals court affirmed that earlier decision.

“The purpose and character of the use was transformative and not overly commercial,” wrote Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain in the opinion for the court’s three-judge panel.

“With the spray-painted cross, in the context of a song about the hypocrisy of religion, surrounded by religious iconography,” the judge added, the video backdrop using Scream Icon conveys “new information, new aesthetics, new insights and understandings” that were distinct from the original piece.

However, the court overturned the award of legal fees to the band of $201,012.

Even though Mr. Seltzer had lost his challenge, he had not been “objectively unreasonable” in suing, the court decided.

Elina Garanca Withdraws From Met Opera Performances

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Elina Garanca in “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera in 2010.

The mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has withdrawn from the performances she was scheduled to sing at the Metropolitan Opera during the 2013-14 season because she is pregnant. The child, Ms. Garanca’s second, is due in December.

Mr. Garanca was to have sung Octavian in three performances of Richard Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier,” in November, and Charlotte in Richard Eyre’s new production of Massenet’s “Werther,” which opens on Feb. 18.

Alice Coote will take over Ms. Garanca’s performances as Octavian on Nov. 22, 25 and 30. Two other singers were already scheduled for the rest of the run: Daniela Sindram on Dec. 3, 7 and 10; and Géraldine Chauvet on Dec. 13.

Sophie Koch, a French mezzo-soprano, will make her Met debut as Charlotte, and will sing all the performances in the run, the last of which, on March 15, will be transmitted live to movie theaters as part of the Met’s “Live in HD” series.

Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ Will Close New York Film Festival

Warner Brothers Pictures Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from “Her,” a new film by Spike Jonze.

If you can’t get a date for the closing night of the New York Film Festival you can always bring your laptop. The Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Thursday that the closing-night gala selection for this year’s festival would be “Her,” a new feature written and directed by Spike Jonze about a man who becomes smitten with his computer’s operating system.

“Her” stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a character described as “a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people,” the Film Society said in a news release. “Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship,” the release continues, “he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right.” The film also stars Rooney Mara and Amy Adams, as well as Scarlett Johansson, who provides the voice of “Samantha,” the operating system. “Her” will receive a theatrical release from Warner Brothers on Nov. 20.

In a statement Kent Jones, the director of programming and selection committee chair for the New York Film Festival, offered few additional specifics about “Her.” “To discuss even a little bit of the plot - let’s just say that it’s about lonely people and artificial intelligence - is to deprive first-time viewers of the opportunity of discovering it themselves,” he said.

This year’s New York Film Festival will run from Sept. 27 through Oct.13. Its opening-night selection is “Captain Phillips,” the thriller starring Tom Hanks, and its centerpiece selection is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Ben Stiller.

Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ Will Close New York Film Festival

Warner Brothers Pictures Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from “Her,” a new film by Spike Jonze.

If you can’t get a date for the closing night of the New York Film Festival you can always bring your laptop. The Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Thursday that the closing-night gala selection for this year’s festival would be “Her,” a new feature written and directed by Spike Jonze about a man who becomes smitten with his computer’s operating system.

“Her” stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a character described as “a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people,” the Film Society said in a news release. “Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship,” the release continues, “he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right.” The film also stars Rooney Mara and Amy Adams, as well as Scarlett Johansson, who provides the voice of “Samantha,” the operating system. “Her” will receive a theatrical release from Warner Brothers on Nov. 20.

In a statement Kent Jones, the director of programming and selection committee chair for the New York Film Festival, offered few additional specifics about “Her.” “To discuss even a little bit of the plot - let’s just say that it’s about lonely people and artificial intelligence - is to deprive first-time viewers of the opportunity of discovering it themselves,” he said.

This year’s New York Film Festival will run from Sept. 27 through Oct.13. Its opening-night selection is “Captain Phillips,” the thriller starring Tom Hanks, and its centerpiece selection is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Ben Stiller.

Aug. 8: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April »

Events by candidate

Albanese

Carrión

Catsimatidis

De Blasio

Lhota

Liu

McDonald

Quinn

Salgado

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

11 a.m.
Announces endorsement of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a union representing 13,000 active and retired sergeants of the New York City Police Department, outside City Hall.

12 p.m.
Attends a Police Athletic League lunch, where the New York Yankee Mark Teixeira will be appearing, at the Mutual of America building on Park Avenue. The two have met at least once before when the baseball player had dropped in on the candidate at his campaign headquarters on June 21.

5:30 p.m.
Attends reception for Resident magazine, which profiled the candidate and his wife in a glowing cover story titled, “A True New Yorker,” in its August issue, at Desmond’s Steakhouse on Seventh Avenue.

7 p.m.
Attends the New York State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce business reception, at Casa Puebla in West Harlem.

8:15 p.m.
Attends the August meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans at the Women’s National Republican Club, on 3 West 51st Street.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

7:45 a.m.
Speaks at Islamic Leadership Council’s South Brooklyn Eid Prayer, at Caesar’s Bay Plaza in Brooklyn.

10 a.m.
Speaks at Eid al-Fitr celebration marking the end of Ramadan, at Claremont Park in the Bronx.

11:30 a.m.
Continues his emerging industries tour with a visit to Broadway Stages, a Brooklyn production studio for the film and television industry that William C. Thompson visited last week, on Meserole Avenue.

5 p.m.
Greets afternoon commuters at the 96th Street subway station on Broadway.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets commuters during the morning rush at the Bay Parkway subway station in Brooklyn.

7:50 a.m.
Celebrates Eid, the end of Ramadan, with the Arab American Muslim Federation and the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, at Caesar’s Bay in Brooklyn.

8:45 a.m.
Attends his second Eid, celebrating the end of Ramadan, at Masjid Al-Hikmah in Astoria, Queens.

9:15 a.m.
Stops in at his third Eid, celebrating the end of Ramadan, at Masjid Dar Al-Dawa in Astoria, Queens.

10 a.m.
Attends his fourth Eid of the day, observing the end of Ramadan, at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York on the Upper East Side.

11:45 a.m.
Visits with senior citizens at the Elmcor Lefrak Senior Center in Corona, Queens.

12:25 p.m.
Visits with senior citizens at the Elmcor Senior Citizen Center in East Elmhurst, Queens.

5 p.m.
Greets afternoon commuters at the Pelham Bay Park subway station on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx.

7 p.m.
Presents award at the New York State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce business reception, at Casa Puebla in West Harlem.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

8:45 a.m.
Attends a prayer service marking the end of Ramadan, at the pedestrian mall on 37th Road in Jackson Heights, Queens.

10:45 a.m.
Tours small businesses on Staten Island with a stop at the Original Giuseppe’s Pizza, on Amboy Road.

6:45 p.m.
Attends the New York State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce business reception, at Casa Puebla in West Harlem.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Introduces herself to riders of the No. 1 train during the morning rush, at 191st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights.

10 a.m.
Participates in City Council oversight hearings aimed at examining the contract dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable that has left millions of New Yorkers without access to CBS and Showtime television programs, at the Council’s downtown chambers.

11 a.m.
Holds news conference, together with parents, to announce proposal aimed at increasing the ability of parents and grandparents of children with special needs to engage more fully with the public schools, outside City Hall.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

9 a.m.
Attends an Eid al-Fitr, celebrating the end of Ramadan, at the Bait Mamur Masjid and Community Center in Brooklyn.

12:10 p.m.
Visits with senior citizens from the Senior League of Flatbush, at the East Midwood Jewish Center on Ocean Avenue.

1:15 p.m.
Visits the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, Brooklyn’s largest food pantry, at 2010 Fulton Street.

7 p.m.
Joins Gowanus residents at a rally springing from community concerns about safety, schools and transportation, at the Carroll Street Bridge in Brooklyn.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

11:30 a.m.
Visits with senior citizens at the Rosetta Gaston Senior Center in Brooklyn.

1 p.m.
Visits the Fortune Society, a nonprofit that helps former inmates, where he will share his plan for reducing crime and reorienting enforcement in the post-Ray Kelly era as part of his “Big Thought Thursday” series. Organization located on Northern Boulevard in Queens.

6 p.m.
Goes door-to-door in effort to canvass voters, at 131 St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

8 a.m.
Greets express bus riders in Bay Ridge and calls on the M.T.A. to slash express bus fares to $2.50 to help commuters frustrated by repairs to the R train, at Shore Road in Brooklyn.

10 a.m.
Tours the Children at Play Early Intervention Center on Staten Island and unveils his education plan to create the “Smartest City in the World,” at 40 Merrill Avenue.

6:30 p.m.
Mingles with Bon Journey concertgoers at the Waterfront Concert Series, Astoria Park lawn, Queens.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

5 p.m.
Has private briefing with youth leaders from Resilience Advocacy project, at campaign headquarters on West 30th Street in Manhattan.

7 p.m.
Attends the New York State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce business reception, at Casa Puebla in West Harlem.

George T. McDonald
Republican

8 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

10 a.m.
Meets with the Hispanic Ministry Association, in the Bronx.

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Two More Conductors Join the Injury Roster

With two more conductors sidelined, here and in Europe, just weeks after Andris Nelsons and Christoph Eschenbach bowed out of Tanglewood performances, the classical music world is compiling an injury list that rivals Major League Baseball.

James Conlon has withdrawn from engagements at Ravinia, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, and in La Jolla, Calif., because he is having surgery to remove an inflamed section of his colon caused by diverticulitis. These include two performances of Britten’s “Burning Fiery Furnace” at Ravinia, where Mr. Conlon is music director, both scheduled for Aug. 17, and a concert of Britten’s orchestral music, with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at Trinity Episcopal Church in La Jolla on Aug. 23.

The Ravinia concerts have been canceled. The Los Angeles Opera, which is presenting the La Jolla concert as a part of a Britten festival, has not announced whether Mr. Conlon (who is also the opera company’s music director) would be replaced.

Mr. Conlon’s spokeswoman, Constance Shuman, said that Mr. Conlon’s surgery required four weeks recuperation time, and that he was expected to recover in time to conduct Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 11.

In Lucerne, meanwhile, Pierre Boulez, who is the artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Academy, has withdrawn from festival concerts on Sept. 7 and 9 because of a fractured shoulder. He is, however, expected to be present for the rehearsals, as well as for discussions that introduce the concerts (one of which includes a commissioned work by Dieter Ammann and a work by Mr. Boulez; the other includes music by Webern, Stravinsky and Bartok). The Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado will lead those performances in Mr. Boulez’s place.

Farewell to Big Nick’s Burger Joint

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Nick Imirziades, right, owner of Big Nick’s Burger & Pizza Joint on Broadway, with a customer in February.

Dear Diary:

My phone rang on July 29. An old friend told me that I could forget going to Big Nick’s Burger & Pizza Joint for lunch, as it had closed suddenly the day before. I was in shock. I went over there, and they were indeed closed, the burger joint’s door sealed off from the public and a big sign, “Lost our lease after 51 years, thank you,” etc.

I hoped to see some of the people I had come to know over the 47 years I had been going to Nick’s, but the men coming out with boxes were nobody I knew. I was dazed, but went about my business.

An hour later, on my way back, I walked again to 77th and Broadway and there was Nick Imirziades, Big Nick himself, standing out front. People were grabbing his hand and hugging him, mournful not only for that well-worn restaurant, but also because of what is happening to our neighborhood. All the character, the bohemian aspect, its unique charm is disappearing.

Nick’s face was very tired. “Nick,” I said, “I have been coming here since about 1966. I am so sorry.”

“You old timer, I always called you a pioneer customer,” he said. We laughed. People wanted to talk to him, so I gestured I would go. He put his hand out once again, and I grabbed it to shake it once more, but he seized me and hugged me.

It was one of those moments, two aging men who have seen something they shared for a long time come to an end. He made such a difference on the Upper West Side scene and a million memories for tourists and neighbors to treasure.

I hope he finds a new space.

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New York Today: Lincoln’s Messenger

The Green-Wood Historic Fund The family plot of Abraham Lincoln’s favorite telegraph operator will get some much-needed attention today at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

As you read this on a screen, let’s pause for a second to recall an earlier technology that was equally influential: the telegraph.

Charles Tinker was Lincoln’s favorite telegraph operator.

“I have always had a curiosity to see the telegraph work,” Lincoln, then a lawyer, told Tinker in 1857. “I wonder if you would explain it to me.”

During the Civil War, Lincoln visited Tinker daily to get the latest dispatches from the battlefields.

Tinker has been all but forgotten, but at 11 a.m. on Thursday, a small army of volunteers will gather around his monument at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

The volunteers â€" visiting preservationists from France and high school students from Brooklyn â€" will dig out and reset the gravestones of Tinker’s children, including his son Arthur Lincoln Tinker.

Here’s what else you need to know for Thursday.

WEATHER

Rain likely, and maybe a thunderstorm, with a high around 83. Clammy when it’s not raining. Same deal tomorrow, too. Keep the umbrella handy.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit: No major delays. Click for latest M.T.A. status.

- Roads: O.K. so far. Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is suspended today and Friday for Id al-Fitr. Meters remain in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

- In the mayoral race, Anthony Weiner speaks about his crime plan at the Fortune Society, which helps former inmates. William C. Thompson Jr. attends a rally in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

- Bill de Blasio and Joseph J. Lhota take part in events marking the end of Ramadan. John Catsimatidis receives a union endorsement.

- Eliot Spitzer, the comptroller candidate, has a breakfast with clergy in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

- A day after results from new tests showed sharp declines, the schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, attends a teacher training season on new standards with the state education commissioner.

- Missing CBS on your TV? The City Council is holding hearings into the fight between CBS and Time Warner over cable fees.

- What the East Village needs: a squeaky dog pit. The celebrity designer Nate Berkus is turning Tompkins Square Park into a play space for dogs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. [Free]

- More than 2,000 children will compete in the City Parks Foundation’s track and field championships on Randall’s Island.

- A lunchtime concert by the psychedelic-soul pioneer Shuggie Otis at MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn. [Free]

- Jacobus Van Cortlandt won’t mind: learn to salsa dance to live music on the lawn of the Van Cortlandt House Museum in the Bronx. 6:30 p.m. [Free]

- Fans of Bon Jovi and Journey, rejoice. “Bon Journey” will pay tribute to the musicians on the lawn at Astoria Park in Queens at 7:30 p.m. [Free]

- Outdoor movies, weather permitting: “Roman Holiday” at Brooklyn Bridge Park at dusk. “Oz: The Great and Powerful” at Prospect Park’s Long Meadow at 8 p.m. [Free]

Nicole Higgins DeSmet and E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.

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