Future festival to highlight science
An image of “Winky Dink and You,” right, is displayed at the Jewish Museum in New York for the exhibition “Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television,” running through Sept. 20.
WASHINGTON >> IBM’s Watson computing system will be making a visit to Washington for the Smithsonian’s “The Future Is Here” Festival, and organizers plan to demonstrate a real hoverboard inspired by the movie “Back to the Future.”
Smithsonian magazine announced plans Thursday to stage its third annual future festival May 14-17. The four-day event highlights some of the newest thinking about science, technology and engineering from experts and visionaries.
The festival will open with a screening of “Back to the Future” at the National Museum of American History. This is the 30th anniversary of the film, and fittingly, 2015 is the future in the movie.
This year’s festival will feature numerous scientists, writers and technology experts.
For schedule and ticket information, visit smithsonian.com/future.
Malibu launches first bicycle lane
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MALIBU, Calif. >> Malibu, the city best known for celebrities and surfers, is making way for bike riders.
City News Service says officials Wednesday celebrated the opening of the city’s first dedicated bike lane.
The 6-foot-wide lane runs for 2 miles along Zuma Beach and parallels the scenic Pacific Coast Highway. It’s open to bikes only.
Improvements also were unveiled to a 7-mile stretch of PCH that allows both bikes and cars.
Biblical museum loses its home
NEW YORK >> New York City’s Museum of Biblical Art has announced it will close in June after failing to find a new home.
The museum, which opened in 2005, is in the American Bible Society building in Manhattan. It has paid only $1 for the space.
The building was sold this year, and the society is moving to Philadelphia.
The museum is currently exhibiting its most successful show — sculptures by Donatello from the Duomo museum in Florence.
Officials say they’ve been unable to raise enough funds to relocate to another space.
The museum, a secular institution that examines the Bible’s influence on Western art, has no permanent collection or endowment.
One of its many exhibitions looked at the ecclesiastical work of glass maker Louis Comfort Tiffany.
