Tim Wu lays out a Turing Test-style thought experiment – and what its results suggest about the kinds of intelligence we’ve gained and lost over a century of technological change.
Archives for January 14, 2014
Actors’ Secrets to Playing King Lear
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.14.13
Fu Lei: A Spirit for the Ages
Source: The Great Flourishing | Published on 2014-01-15
NYT MoMA Critique Isn’t Just About Architecture
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-14
MoMA’s Excoriated Expansion: The Critics Pile On (plus AFAM’s good year)
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-01-14
Three Choreographers Grace a Busy Week
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-01-14
Minnesota Orchestra Lockout Is Over; New Contract Approved
Do Shorthand Reviews Keep You From Attending Theatre?
L.A. Dance Project Gets A Glamorous New Home
“L.A. Dance Project, launched in 2012 by star choreographer Benjamin Millepied, announced Monday that its new home venue will be the Theatre at Ace Hotel, an ornate, Spanish gothic-style auditorium that’s at the base of a newly-opened boutique hotel in a 1927 structure built by Hollywood royalty.”
US Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality
So Much For An Open Internet
“The FCC’s rules were the only thing keeping Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from picking winners and losers online. Musicians and other artists depend on the ability to compete alongside the biggest companies; we know what it’s like when just a few powerful corporations control our access to audiences.”
Fire Destroys 1,300-Year-Old Tibetan Town In Tibet’s Shangri-la
Man Shoots And Kills Man For Texting In Florida Movie Theatre
Audience Data Increasingly Determines What/How Movies Are Made
“Worldwide Motion Picture Group analyses data from a decade of audience research to determine if a script is marketable and how much money it is expected to make. Some screenwriters are worried Bruzzese’s method detracts from the creative process, but he told the BBC he is helping producers make films that audiences want to see.”
So Art Is A Great Investment? (Maybe Not So Much)
“When looked at more carefully as an investment category, art falls short relative to many of the other assets to which it is frequently – and favourably – compared. These include both traditional and alternative investments, whether public and private equity, gold, wine, or residential property. Its lack of correlation to such assets is also questionable.”
Want To Be Successfully Creative? Build A Machine
The Best Music Journalism Of 2013?
Could Traditional College Campuses Be Endangered?
How Do You Organize The Study Of Literature In Ways That Make It Comprehensible?
Julie Taymor – Out From Under The Web
Why Foundations Are Willing To Bail Out Detroit To Save Its Art
Has The Museum Of Modern Art Lost Its Way?
“Disconnected from its past, impatient with the present and tearing into the future under the vague banner of “The New,” it has ceased to be the sui generis institution it had been throughout much of its history. Instead it is virtually indistinguishable from every other museum of modern and contemporary art around the world.”
What’s Sign Language For ‘Sequestration’?
Merely Handling Money Makes Us Less Nice, Says Study
Parliament to Investigate Whether London Gets Too Much Arts Money
Richard Maxwell Wins $20K Spalding Gray Award
The prize, named after the late actor and monologuist, includes a $20,000 commission to create a new theater work (which Maxwell already has planned) to be staged at each of four participating institutions, including P.S. 122 in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
