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DANCE
IDEAS
- Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature
Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out of joint. – The Walrus
- TV Pitchman Ron Popeil, 86
Mr. Popeil’s mastery of television marketing, dating to the 1950s but spanning several decades, made him nearly as recognizable onscreen as the TV and movie stars of his era. – The New York Times
- Cautionary Tale: How A Music Festival Went Horribly Wrong
The new HBO film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage offers a chilling demonstration of how greed, cultural rot, and the vagaries of crowd behavior can make a concert into a generation-defining thing for all the wrong reasons. – The Atlantic
- Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination
To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like based on our past experiences. This means that our perception of the outside world is strongly influenced by what we believe. – Nautilus
- How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84 percent of respondents felt certain that the Earth is round. – LitHub
ISSUES
- Virtual Docents — The Best Museum Idea To Come Out Of The Pandemic?
The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum developed a way to provide guides when COVID kept them from coming in: visitors can stop at strategically placed monitors and talk with offsite docents in real time. Folks on both sides of the screen seem to love it. – Slate
- 2,500-Year-Old Etching Of Last King Of Babylon Discovered In Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists found the 6th century BC rock carving of King Nabonidus, along with 26 lines of cuneiform, in the north of the country. – Smithsonian Magazine
- Enough With The Era Of Visionary Museum Directors
That era should be over. The director’s job is to set clear priorities for staff, to mentor, coach, and be clear-sighted about what is next; to leverage the expertise of the board; to make hard choices when needed. – Hyperallergic
- Design Museum Gets Its 11th Director Since 2013
Some employees said that a carousel of different directors bringing new approaches has exhausted staff, strained relationships with some artists and damaged trust in the board. Former directors described the institution’s woes as reflective of bad board governance. – The New York Times
- Why Critics’ Opinions Matter
“I’ll claim that my response to art is more complex than the average museumgoer’s because it’s my professional responsibility—and passion—to be as well informed as I can about what I’m looking at (and where, when, and why I’m looking at it).” – Vasari 21
MEDIA
- Survey Of LA Artists Documents Instability
The results of the survey are a snapshot of the art community’s struggle for financial stability even before COVID-19 shut down galleries and museums across the city. – Los Angeles Magazine
- Which Countries In Europe Are Using “Vaccine Passports” For Arts Venues, And How
“Countries across Europe are extending the use of so called vaccine passports or health passes to allow for entry into bars, cultural sites or sporting events, but some countries are employing them more than others. Here’s what you need to know.” – The Local
- Report: Worldwide Building Of Arts Facilities Was $5.9 Billion Last Year
Despite last year’s dip, there’s reason to think that the cultural sector is coming back strong. Even amid global uncertainty about travel, cities doubled down on investment in cultural attractions. – Artnet
- Young People Are Using France’s Culture Pass To Buy … Manga
Granted, the program was only just gearing up when the pandemic closed arts venues, but officials’ hopes that 18-year-olds would use their few-strings-attached €300 to sample high culture are being punctured by reality. – The New York Times
- ‘Total Public-Led Reboot’ Necessary For Arts Sector In Australia To Survive COVID: Study
“Australia’s arts and cultural sector needs a reconstruction program of substantial, coordinated and sustained public investment if it is to survive, let alone ‘snap back’, after the COVID shutdown that has shredded the plans and budgets of arts organisations and artists.” – The Guardian
MUSIC
- Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature
Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out of joint. – The Walrus
- How A Newspaper Gardening Column Became A Chronicle Of Climate Change
When Jeff Lowenfels began writing for the Anchorage Daily News in 1976, he had not expected that one day one of his readers would grow okra there. (The pod is native to Africa.) – The New York Times Magazine
- US Seizes “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet”, Will Return It To Iraq
The 3,500-year-old artifact, covered with cuneiform writing from the “dream” section of The Epic of Gilgamesh, is part of the enormous collection of objects acquired by Hobby Lobby founder Steve Green that turn out to have been illegally looted. – Artnet
- Epic Labor Battle At Sydney Bookstore
Such disputes reflect a growing recognition across the publishing industry that the prestige and attractiveness of working in and adjacent to creative and cultural sectors – and the passion of its workers – can also form the preconditions for low wages and insecure work. – The Guardian
- The Man Who’s Saving Rohingya Folk Tales
Mohammed Rezuwan is himself one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya driven out of Myanmar by that country’s military and mobs. He now travels around the refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, recording and translating his people’s traditional stories. – PRX’s The World
PEOPLE
- Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature
Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out of joint. – The Walrus
- TV Pitchman Ron Popeil, 86
Mr. Popeil’s mastery of television marketing, dating to the 1950s but spanning several decades, made him nearly as recognizable onscreen as the TV and movie stars of his era. – The New York Times
- Cautionary Tale: How A Music Festival Went Horribly Wrong
The new HBO film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage offers a chilling demonstration of how greed, cultural rot, and the vagaries of crowd behavior can make a concert into a generation-defining thing for all the wrong reasons. – The Atlantic
- Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination
To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like based on our past experiences. This means that our perception of the outside world is strongly influenced by what we believe. – Nautilus
- How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84 percent of respondents felt certain that the Earth is round. – LitHub
PEOPLE
- Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature
Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out of joint. – The Walrus
- TV Pitchman Ron Popeil, 86
Mr. Popeil’s mastery of television marketing, dating to the 1950s but spanning several decades, made him nearly as recognizable onscreen as the TV and movie stars of his era. – The New York Times
- Cautionary Tale: How A Music Festival Went Horribly Wrong
The new HBO film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage offers a chilling demonstration of how greed, cultural rot, and the vagaries of crowd behavior can make a concert into a generation-defining thing for all the wrong reasons. – The Atlantic
- Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination
To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like based on our past experiences. This means that our perception of the outside world is strongly influenced by what we believe. – Nautilus
- How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84 percent of respondents felt certain that the Earth is round. – LitHub
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination
To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like based on our past experiences. This means that our perception of the outside world is strongly influenced by what we believe. – Nautilus
- How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News
When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84 percent of respondents felt certain that the Earth is round. – LitHub
- Lessons From Shared Crises: Community Connection Matters
As the Blitz and other collective crises have taught us, resilience is not a given and has to be managed with an understanding of peoples’ fears and wishes, including their need for connectedness. – Psyche
- Our Habits Aren’t Just Mindless — They Actually Help Make Us Smarter
Even our most mundane habitual routines actually display a great deal of intelligence. Indeed, they are often intelligently context-sensitive and flexible in such a way as can support and structure our goals and projects. – Psyche
- Why Do We Go To War? It’s Quite Simple, Really
There are only three such impulses: greed, self-defense, and ideas or emotions. – The Nation