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Archives for December 2017

Breaking Out Of The Same Old Book Choices And Recommendations

AUDIENCE, WORDS Posted: December 29, 2017 12:36 pm

I love books that make me backtrack my own declarations of preference, ones that catch me off-guard, surprise me, keep me on my toes. I want stories that don’t fit into easy boxes, ones that defy their own ostensible categorization, that make those who recommend them stumble, before finally saying, “Just trust me.” The problem, of course, is that in most cases, we aren’t offered this kind of tailored option.

AUDIENCE, WORDS Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in NPR Published: 12.28.17

George C. Wolfe And Joe Mantello Talk About Directing

THEATRE Posted: December 29, 2017 12:04 pm

“George C. Wolfe and Joe Mantello go back to the 1990s, when Mantello, as a young actor, starred as Louis in Wolfe’s Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. In the years that followed, Mantello found himself acting less and directing more. Now, they’re formidable colleagues in their prime, as well as great friends, to boot. In the latest edition of TheaterMania‘s Artist to Artist series, Wolfe and Mantello discuss what their successes and failures mean to them, how they approach actors in the rehearsal room, and what it takes to maintain a level of joy that carries them through adversity.”

THEATRE Published: 12.18.17

Read the story in TheaterMania Published: 12.18.17

Five Ways Technology Is Changing The Music Experience

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Posted: December 29, 2017 11:34 am

“3D mapping manipulates the look and feel of a 3D object. It’s been done on castles to make them look like they’ve fallen down. Now people can experience being on the stage with the artists. Or the gig could move off the stage. We are a generation spoiled with possibilities.”

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in BBC Published: 12.28.17

Ridley Scott Explains How He Rescued ‘All The Money In The World’ From The Kevin Spacey Disaster

MEDIA Posted: December 29, 2017 11:01 am

Kyle Buchanan: “I met with Scott recently in Beverly Hills to discuss how he did it, and what I found was a filmmaker who has the stamina of a man half his age and an octogenarian’s give-no-fucks bluntness.”

MEDIA Published: 12.26.17

Read the story in Vulture Published: 12.26.17

The Least Powerful People In The Art World

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2017 10:24 am

Every year the list of most powerful in the art world is read with interest. But who are the least powerful?

VISUAL Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 12.28.17

Colonial America’s Most Notorious Poet Was An Enslaved Teenage Girl

WORDS Posted: December 29, 2017 10:02 am

Phyllis Wheatley was abducted from the West African coast and sold to a Boston couple at roughly age seven. Their daughter taught the young slave to read, and within two years, Phyllis fluently read and wrote English and started learning Latin. When she was 18, her owners took her to London to publish a book of her poems, and – once disbelieving publishers and others were convinced that Phyllis had written them herself – she became famous on both sides of the Atlantic.

WORDS Published: 12.21.17

Read the story in Smithsonian Magazine Published: 12.21.17

When People Claim They’re Defending Against A ‘War On Christmas’, What Exactly Is It They’re Fighting For?

IDEAS Posted: December 29, 2017 9:03 am

Adam Gopnik: “Christmas has always been a happily mixed-up holiday for mixed-up people and confused cultures. It is, at its roots, the very model of a pagan-secular-synthetic festival as much as it is a religious one – just the kind, in fact, that the imaginary anti-Christmas forces are supposed to favor.”

IDEAS Published: 01.01.18

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 01.01.18

As Broadway Has Become More About Tourists, Musicals Have Crowded Out Plays

AUDIENCE, THEATRE Posted: December 29, 2017 8:31 am

For decades, the theaters of Broadway — now numbering 41 — were the moneymaking breeding ground for these plays. But what was once the rule on Broadway is now the rare exception. And the traditional for-profit, new Broadway play is disappearing almost as surely as the dodo.

AUDIENCE, THEATRE Published: 12.27.17

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 12.27.17

How Airline Safety Videos Evolved From Boring Instructionals Into Comic Extravaganzas

MEDIA Posted: December 29, 2017 8:04 am

It all started with Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic (“make flying fun again”), which used hand-drawn cartoons. “In the ensuing years, airlines have pulled out nearly every gimmick imaginable to make their safety video a YouTube sensation. A Qatar Airlines video takes place at an FC Barcelona match, an El Al video takes the form of a cringeworthy Devo tribute, and … even sedate, legacy brands like British Airways, Singapore Airlines, United, and Air France have succumbed to the trend in recent years, with tasteful videos that offer their own unique spin on the genre.” Then there’s the undisputed champion, Air New Zealand …

MEDIA Published: 12.22.17

Read the story in CityLab Published: 12.22.17

Nightmare First Date Ends With $1 Million Worth Of Art Destroyed In Drunken Rampage

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2017 7:36 am

Texas attorney Anthony Buzbee probably thought his evening was going well when he brought 29-year-old blonde Lindy Lou Layman to his $14 million mansion. But she got overly inebriated, and when he tried to send her home in an Uber, she hurled two sculptures across the room, ripped three paintings – including two original Warhols – off the wall, and poured some as-yet-unidentified liquid on them.

VISUAL Published: 12.27.17

Read the story in BuzzFeed Published: 12.27.17

How Spalding Gray Became An Actual Paint Color

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2017 7:05 am

Reporter Judith Newman recounts a story that takes in the late monologuist, a Cleveland architect, his Weimaraner, his clients, Sherwin Williams, and, in the end, Gray’s widow and old house.

PEOPLE Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in New York Times Published: 12.28.17

You Can Now Read The Editor’s Savage Notes On Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cancelled Book

WORDS Posted: December 29, 2017 6:34 am

Thanks to Milo’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against Simon & Schuster for withdrawing publication of his book Dangerous, the draft manuscript with comments by editor Mitchell Ivers is now public record. So the Internet is having a high old time with it, and you can join in. (Our personal favorite note: “Beauty regime moved to box at end of chapter, after Nietzsche section.”)

WORDS Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in BuzzFeed Published: 12.28.17

‘We Should Do Nothing’: An Archaeologist Argues Against Rebuilding Palmyra

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2017 6:18 am

In an extensive Q&A that also covers the history of the ancient Syrian city, its destruction by ISIS, the lack of an international or UN intervention to save it, and the trade in looted antiquities, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, an archaeologist who worked at Palmyra for three decades, makes his case for what the West should and shouldn’t do at the site now that the shooting there is over.

VISUAL Published: 12.22.17

Read the story in Eurozine Published: 12.22.17

The Ten Worst Parts Of Being An Arts Fundraiser

ISSUES Posted: December 29, 2017 6:03 am

Karen Brooks Hopkins, longtime president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): “As fundraisers, we are constantly told to look at the bright side: If at first you don’t succeed; smile though your heart is breaking, etc. But as a former president and chief fundraiser for a large multidisciplinary arts organization, I have decided, in the spirit of the season, to present my ‘bottom 10 list’ delineating the worst, most excruciating parts of the job.”

ISSUES Published: 12.20.17

Read the story in Inside Philanthropy Published: 12.20.17

Nine Top Architects Share Their Dream Projects to Improve (or Save) New York City

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2017 5:47 am

These dreams range from the very-much-doable (Norman Foster extending Madison Square Park) to the interesting-but-unlikely (requiring the new super-tall apartment towers to provide public space) to the good-but-too-expensive (elevated bike lanes) to the insane (damming and draining the East River and using the riverbed as farmland) to why-aren’t-we-doing-this-already? (a “cultural Airbnb” offering vacant storefronts for temporary use as performance or art venues).

VISUAL Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in New York Magazine Published: 12.28.17

Look At How The Met Opera Put Together It Big New Production Of ‘Tosca’

MUSIC Posted: December 29, 2017 5:32 am

Sure, the casting may have been ill-starred, but backstage, in the “opera factory, … the company’s army of artists and artisans started work nearly a year before its opening night, on New Year’s Eve.” Photographer Todd Heisler and reporter Michael Cooper give us a look at what the troops have been whipping up.

MUSIC Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in New York Times Published: 12.28.17

Rose Marie, 94, Comic Actress And Singer Who Had 90-Year Career

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2017 5:16 am

She began working as a singer at age 3, had a national radio show at 5 (she went on a national vaudeville tour at 7 to prove she wasn’t really an adult), and had a decades-long television career that included three Emmy nominations for playing comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show and nearly 20 years as a favorite on Hollywood Squares. She was doing voiceover work as late as this year, and a documentary about her came out just last month. (Fun fact: she says her father was an arsonist for Al Capone.)

PEOPLE Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 12.28.17

America’s Smallest Museum Wants To Become Its Most Visited – And It Could Succeed

ISSUES Posted: December 29, 2017 5:01 am

Scientist Amanda Schochet and designer Charles Philipp are the founders of MICRO, which creates six-foot-tall pop-up museum kiosks that can be installed in hotel lobbies, transit stations, office buildings – even DMVs and post offices.

ISSUES Published: 12.26.17

Read the story in New York Observer Published: 12.26.17

The Latest Dance Series To Hit Netflix Is A World Tour Of Styles And Genres

DANCE Posted: December 29, 2017 4:45 am

Ashley Rivers talks to Vandana Hart about We Speak Dance, in which Hart travels from Bali to Vietnam to France to Nigeria to Lebanon to watch and meet with dancers – traditional and contemporary – and sees how the art form is used for everything from religious ceremony to political weapon.

DANCE Published: 12.27.17

Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 12.27.17

Kennedy Center TV Broadcast Gets Its Lowest Ratings Ever

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: December 29, 2017 4:30 am

CBS’ broadcast of Kennedy Center Honors clocked its lowest ratings result in people-meter history, dating back to 1987. The Tuesday 9-11 PM broadcast fumbled 28% of last year’s 8.620 million total viewers, to 6.169 million. The demo dive: 30% from last year’s 1.0 rating to 0.7.

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in Deadline Published: 12.28.17

The Year We Fell Out Of Love With Algorithms

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Posted: December 28, 2017 3:01 pm

Algorithms that amplify fear and help foreign powers put a finger on the scale of democracy? These things sound dangerous! That’s a shift from just a few years ago, when “algorithm” primarily signified modernity and intelligence, thanks to the roaring success of tech companies such as Google—an enterprise founded upon an algorithm for ranking web pages.

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Published: 12.27.17

Read the story in Wired Published: 12.27.17

Is The Met’s New Cancellation-Plagued “Tosca” Jinxed?

MUSIC Posted: December 28, 2017 2:32 pm

There have been plenty of star-crossed productions in Met history, including the premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” that opened the Met’s Lincoln Center home in 1966 (amid serious last-minute technical glitches and labor woes) and Robert Lepage’s recent “Ring” cycle (built around a 45-ton set that had a habit of breaking down). But Mr. Gelb said that he had never before had to recast all the leads in a new production. “Luckily, there are only three principal roles,” he said dryly.

MUSIC Published: 12.28.17

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.28.17

How Big Data Is Transforming Social Research (And What’s To Come)

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Posted: December 28, 2017 2:02 pm

“I think the biggest change that is still to come is that much of the tracking and experimentation that we associate with online behavior will increasingly apply to our offline behavior. That is, right now, many researchers are aware that all our behavior online is tracked and subject to experimentation. For example, when you visit Amazon, they are recording and analyzing your browsing behavior, and they are running experiments to improve their business metrics. However, increasingly, more and more of these same things will happen with our off-line behavior because of so-called ubiquitous sensing and the internet of things.”

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Published: 12.22.17

Read the story in InsideHigherEd Published: 12.22.17

UK Considers Fining Universities That Limit Free Speech

ISSUES Posted: December 28, 2017 1:32 pm

In a speech on Tuesday, Jo Johnson, the universities minister, said that universities “should be places that open minds not close them, where ideas can be freely challenged and prejudices exposed. But in universities in America and increasingly in the United Kingdom, there are countervailing forces of censorship, where groups have sought to stifle those who do not agree with them in every way under the banner of ‘safe spaces’ or ‘no-platforming.’ However well-intentioned, the proliferation of such safe spaces, the rise of no-platforming, the removal of ‘offensive’ books from libraries and the drawing up of ever more extensive lists of banned ‘trigger’ words are undermining the principle of free speech in our universities.”

ISSUES Published: 12.27.17

Read the story in InsideHigherEd Published: 12.27.17

Research: Why People Won’t Pay As Much For Digital Goods (Even If They’re Better)

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Posted: December 28, 2017 1:00 pm

“Despite the many advantages conferred by digital goods, comparable versions of physical goods are valued more. When a physical good such as a paper book, a printed photograph, or a DVD is digitized, it loses some of its value to buyers. Our experiments suggest that the key driver of this value loss is not the resale value of the good, or how much it costs to make, or how long it can be used, or whether it’s unique or popular. We find that the key difference is that digital goods do not facilitate the same feeling of ownership that physical goods do.”

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Published: 12.22.17

Read the story in Harvard Business Review Published: 12.22.17

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