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    IDEAS

    • A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”

      The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least two centuries further, probably more. – BBC

    • Our Connection Between Athletics And Writing

      The intensity of the workout was necessary to take her out of her head, so that she could write from a different place—“an embodied place, because writing is not just intellectual; it’s emotional connection, sensual connection,” she explained. “We exist in the world.” – The Atlantic

    • The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe

      The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History has mostly overlooked them in favor of the famous men around them, but we now know that they were highly trained, ferociously talented, and deeply ambitious. – Early Music America

    • London’s Gallery Commune Proves Sharing Is Caring

      Ten years in, Condo’s cooperative model has emerging dealers singing Kumbaya while actually making money. Who knew that playing nice could be the art world’s best-kept business secret? — Artnet News

    • Museums Having Identity Crisis, Film at Eleven

      Another year, another promise to “redefine” art institutions. But this conversation with curator eunice bélidor and administrator Dejha Carrington might actually cut through the usual reform rhetoric to examine what museums are really for. — Hyperallergic

    ISSUES

    MEDIA

    MUSIC

    • A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”

      The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least two centuries further, probably more. – BBC

    • Our Connection Between Athletics And Writing

      The intensity of the workout was necessary to take her out of her head, so that she could write from a different place—“an embodied place, because writing is not just intellectual; it’s emotional connection, sensual connection,” she explained. “We exist in the world.” – The Atlantic

    • Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book

      “I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and things like that. But in terms of books, this” — Departure(s) — “is my last.” – The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)

    • The Private Museums Grappling With America’s Real History

      The Legacy Museum, which opened almost eight years ago, is perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum. Crucially, however, it is completely privately funded, receiving no state or federal financial support. – The Atlantic

    • The Poverty Of Being A Novelist

      I’m a novelist, and I was paid £1,000 and £500 respectively for my last two books. The latter was shortlisted for an international literary award. That’s £1,500 earned in 10 years. – The Guardian

    PEOPLE

    • A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”

      The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least two centuries further, probably more. – BBC

    • Our Connection Between Athletics And Writing

      The intensity of the workout was necessary to take her out of her head, so that she could write from a different place—“an embodied place, because writing is not just intellectual; it’s emotional connection, sensual connection,” she explained. “We exist in the world.” – The Atlantic

    • The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe

      The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History has mostly overlooked them in favor of the famous men around them, but we now know that they were highly trained, ferociously talented, and deeply ambitious. – Early Music America

    • London’s Gallery Commune Proves Sharing Is Caring

      Ten years in, Condo’s cooperative model has emerging dealers singing Kumbaya while actually making money. Who knew that playing nice could be the art world’s best-kept business secret? — Artnet News

    • Museums Having Identity Crisis, Film at Eleven

      Another year, another promise to “redefine” art institutions. But this conversation with curator eunice bélidor and administrator Dejha Carrington might actually cut through the usual reform rhetoric to examine what museums are really for. — Hyperallergic

    PEOPLE

    • A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”

      The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least two centuries further, probably more. – BBC

    • Our Connection Between Athletics And Writing

      The intensity of the workout was necessary to take her out of her head, so that she could write from a different place—“an embodied place, because writing is not just intellectual; it’s emotional connection, sensual connection,” she explained. “We exist in the world.” – The Atlantic

    • The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe

      The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History has mostly overlooked them in favor of the famous men around them, but we now know that they were highly trained, ferociously talented, and deeply ambitious. – Early Music America

    • London’s Gallery Commune Proves Sharing Is Caring

      Ten years in, Condo’s cooperative model has emerging dealers singing Kumbaya while actually making money. Who knew that playing nice could be the art world’s best-kept business secret? — Artnet News

    • Museums Having Identity Crisis, Film at Eleven

      Another year, another promise to “redefine” art institutions. But this conversation with curator eunice bélidor and administrator Dejha Carrington might actually cut through the usual reform rhetoric to examine what museums are really for. — Hyperallergic

    THEATRE

      VISUAL

      • How We Lost The Art Of Paying Attention

        Most of us are by now familiar with the broad mechanisms of the “attention economy” – the hijacking and monetising of consumer attention through addictive channels. The ravages of this system are ever more apparent. – The Observer

      • The Death Of The 20th Century Mono-Culture (And What It Means)

        The implications for the battered-and-bruised entertainment industry are obvious. The impacts on our culture are just starting to fully materialize, but will be more significant. Instead of pulling us together, pop culture is another force dragging us apart. – The Wall Street Journal

      • We Think Time Always Moves Forward. This Is A Relatively New Concept

        This picture of time is not natural. Its roots stretch only to the 18th century, yet this notion has now entrenched itself so deeply in Western thought that it’s difficult to imagine time as anything else. And this new representation of time has affected all kinds of things, from our understanding of history to time travel. – Aeon

      • What If AI Changes The Very Nature Of Our Attention?

        What if the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t designed to feed that addiction — but to fundamentally change it? What if the future of AI demands young people’s attention, curiosity, and creativity in ways we haven’t experienced before? – Big Think

      • Research Paper: How AI Is Destroying Institutions

        If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence. Authoritarian leaders and technology oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity. – Gary Marcus

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