Our mental worlds are lively with such experiences of absence, yet it’s a mystery how the mind performs the trick of seeing nothing. How can the brain perceive something when there is no something to perceive? - Aeon
Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown of programming by format further highlights this disparity: women choreographed 30.2% of full-length works and 32.3% of mixed-bill works. - Dance Data Project
Well before subscriptions became the norm for streaming media, satellite radio companies Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio convinced radio listeners to become radio subscribers at the turn of the new millennium. - The Conversation
“Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism and the American dream, … all those mediocre movies and bad plays. Here’s the story of how The Great Gatsby has endured — and why we keep misreading it.” - Vox
For hundreds of years, we—broadly speaking, these books’ Anglophone-ish audience—have been reading too much into Greece. There were the philhellenes, like Nietzsche, who believed the ancients to be “the only people of genius in the history of the world.” - LA Review of Books
It is thought that about 90 per cent of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies, although some self-publishing writers have become successful, notably Colleen Hoover. - The Times (UK)
“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce.” - The New York Times
The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has undertaken a major drive to organize those stage crews. - The New York Times
Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans co-governed by their unions, use of labor group-administered insurance among recording artists is spottier. - The Hollywood Reporter
Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his agenda as a playwright. - Los Angeles Times
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more resources on locally produced and focused content. ... While it does not mean an elimination of NPR-produced content, there will be much less of it.” - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for Bucky the Surfer Boy.” - AP
In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on their applications not to use grant money to “promote gender ideology.” The NEA has not, however, revoked the new criteria making organizations which do so ineligible for grants. - Artnet
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the gift will help revive the city’s dance industry after the coronavirus pandemic.” - The New York Times
