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MOST RECENT- When Good People Do Bad (And Why) February 22, 2019You might wonder how people who seem so good by occupation could be so bad in private. The theory of moral licensing could help explain why: When humans are good, it says, we give ourselves license to be bad. – NautilusNautilus
- Museums Are Being Criticized For Taking Money From Robber Barons (And The Like). What To Do? February 22, 2019Obviously, take the lead, realize there’s a problem as standards change. Instead, protests driven by social media are shaming some of the world’s most venerable cultural institutions, and they’re looking pretty bad. But there’s a balancing act to consider, writes Adrian Ellis… – The Art NewspaperThe Art Newspaper
- A Jiffy Lube Owner Talks About His Business’s Relationship With The Arts February 22, 2019Steve Sanner: “Small business owners like me don’t often view the arts as an area in which we can make a real difference. Even our “stretch” sponsorship levels are overshadowed by the huge dollar amounts that wealthy individuals, banks, law firms, and insurance companies can generate. For us, philanthropy is difficult to plan for, so […]Americans for the Arts
- Remembering Composer Dominick Argento February 22, 2019Argento was always a force apart. He belonged to no compositional school, preferring a distinctly eclectic language that appealed both intellectually and emotionally to his audiences. At a time when most of the celebrated American composers were based on either the East or West coasts, where they could work together and help promote one another’s […]Washington Post
- Will AI Ever Be Artists? Be Creative? Produce Art? A Philosopher Argues No February 22, 2019“Human creative achievement, because of the way it is socially embedded, will not succumb to advances in artificial intelligence. To say otherwise is to misunderstand both what human beings are and what our creativity amounts to.” – MIT Technology ReviewMIT Technology Review
- Machines Can Now Write Compelling Fake Stories. Soon We Won’t Be Able To Tell What’s Real February 22, 2019Jack Clark says it may not be long before AI can reliably produce fake stories, bogus tweets, or duplicitous comments that are even more convincing. “It’s very clear that if this technology matures—and I’d give it one or two years—it could be used for disinformation or propaganda,” he says. “We’re trying to get ahead of […]MIT Technology Review
- Robert Rauschenberg Once Threw His Paintings Into A River Because A Critic Said So February 22, 2019The artist’s 1953 exhibition in Florence wasn’t well-received by the conservative public of the city: one critic was appalled at the art’s “barbaric metaphysics” and another called it “psychological garbage and that it must be thrown into the Arno.” So, when the show was over and Rauschenberg saw how much it would cost to ship […]The Daily Beast
- The Troubled Oscars – A Timeline February 22, 2019Have we ever seen a more chaotic lead up to an awards telecast? A host is announced, then revoked. Categories are added, then rescinded. Awards are to be televised, then not. Then televised again. It’s enough to make you think the Academy doesn’t know what it’s doing. At the least, it shows a collapse in […]The New York Times
- Explaining ‘The Satanic Verses’ — Any Why We Won’t Be Seeing Anything Like It For A While February 22, 2019“The increasing prominence of radical Islam, or Islam as a political force, is obviously one factor. The other factor, especially in the West, is the increasing emphasis on culture and ethnicity, religion included, as a means of self-definition. … Rushdie’s satirical look at religion comes across quite differently when Islam is conceived of as an […]Aeon
- Ah, The Scourge Of Jukebox Musicals… Except… They’re Really Fun! February 22, 2019The critics aren’t wrong: We really do want that crisp, new snap. But Broadway has deep roots in vaudeville — no story, just acts — so audiences are right: We’ll always crave performances that revel in that singing, dancing beat. – Washington PostWashington Post
- Using The Oxford Comma Makes You A Hotter Prospect On Tinder February 22, 2019“On an internet occupied by as many finger-wagging ‘grammar Nazis’ as slovenly texters who prefer emoji to verbal displays of emotion, the Oxford comma has become a cause célèbre. This is especially true on dating apps, where many users have deemed the punctuation mark something they ‘can’t live without’ — a designation that’s put it […]GQ
- The Blazing Talent (And Mental Illness) Of Pianist Oscar Levant February 22, 2019“To read about Levant is to be struck by how his seeming compulsion to blurt the details of his mental illnesses into the nearest microphone foreshadowed the modern-day “oversharers” who chronicle each twist and turn of their private lives. Even so, there was more to him than his madness, and the story of his career […]Commentary
- What Went Wrong At Ireland’s Two National Orchestras, And How To Fix It February 22, 2019An investigation last year found that the national broadcaster’s two orchestras, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, were under-utilized, underfunded, and plagued by low morale and mistrust. RTÉ National Symphony general manager Anthony Long talks with a reporter about how things got to such a pass and what’s being done to […]Journal of Music
- What Netflix Has Discovered About International Tastes In An Era Of Nationalism February 22, 2019Netflix’s strategy is fundamentally different. Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience. A list of Netflix’s most watched and most culturally significant recent productions looks like a Model United Nations. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
- ‘Empire’ Producers Write Jussie Smollett’s Character Out Of Script February 22, 2019“While these allegations are very disturbing, we are placing our trust in the legal system as the process plays out,” said a statement from the series’s producers at 20th Century Fox. “We are also aware of the effects of this process on the cast and crew members who work on our show and to avoid […]Washington Post
- Jussie Smollett’s Alleged Hate-Crime Hoax Won’t Change A Damn Thing February 22, 2019Evan Urquhart: “A hoax like this would never have worked if we weren’t already divided about how seriously to treat hate crimes and whether victims should be believed — too divided for an isolated incident to make things worse.” – SlateSlate
- What Does The Jussie Smollett Saga Reveal About 2019 America? Victimhood Chic February 22, 2019John McWhorter: “Smollett doesn’t need the money he would get from a court settlement, and he isn’t trying to deny someone higher office. So why in the world would he fake something like that attack — if he did indeed fake it? The reason might be that he has come of age in an era […]The Atlantic
- Actor Jussie Smolett Charged With Felony For Staging Hate-Crime Attack February 22, 2019The 36-year-old actor, a star of the Fox series Empire, received an outpouring of national attention and sympathy after he was reported to have been violently attacked in Chicago by two white men shouting anti-black and anti-hay epithets. After the police found and interviewed the ostensible attackers, who turned out to be two Nigerian-American brothers, […]Vulture
- Nine Months After #MeToo Resignation, Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera Names New CEO February 22, 2019Last May, company general director William Florescu resigned because of what the Board described as because of “violation of the Florentine Opera’s policies and prohibitions concerning sexual misconduct.” His successor, the company’s first female leader, is Maggey Oplinger, currently director of community partnerships at the Milwaukee Symphony. – Milwaukee Journal SentinelMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Alaska Governor’s Budget Eliminates All Public Broadcasting Funds February 22, 2019“Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) … proposed no state support for public broadcasting in his budget released last week, and on Wednesday, Dunleavy introduced legislation to eliminate the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission, which distributes state grants to TV and radio stations across Alaska.” – Anchorage Daily NewsAnchorage Daily News
- When Good People Do Bad (And Why) February 22, 2019