In a show whose segments are punctuated by dollar amounts, there’s actually a quiet, persistent suggestion to direct our aspirations somewhere else: history, family, sentiment, even love. - The Atlantic
“Scientists have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences." But these "are poor guides for understanding how brains are structured or how they work.” - Quanta
It’s a truism that high culture, as it used to be known, has been steadily losing its authority since the rise of mass culture in the early twentieth century. - New Criterion
"Like Marcel, we've spent decades building our models of the world, and like him we're starting to see them for the gimcrack that they are. We're beginning to sense just how much effort is involved in holding a person together." - Literary Hub
Most authors have day jobs, which is nothing new; Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. The difference in 2021 is that traditional side careers are less viable and also less “side.” - Vanity Fair
Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like to claim that today's groundbreaking shows deal provocatively with difficult social issues — but some of the ground has been broken before. - BBC
If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. - The Atlantic
From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep, Anna Meredith's Four Tributes To 4am, and Craig Armstrong's new Nocturnes for two pianos, here are suggested soporifics for the stressed-out. - BBC
During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers' rooms, archives and, for example, the reception rooms for objects. - Finnish Museums Association
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture that were crucial to their images while letting body parts in the background remain vague in a way that photography can't do. - Forbes
From William Grant Still, William Dawson, and Florence Price to expatriates working there today, African-American composers whose music has been quickly forgotten here have looked to audiences across the Atlantic, where "they listen to my music instead of looking at me." - The New York Times
In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project called La Barraca de Cine is bringing a screen and projector to any village that has no movie theater. - The Guardian
"As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he's gleaned from nearly four decades at the front of the studio" of the much-admired Philadelphia ballet academy. - Dance Magazine
