The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the Ivy League to fix it. Instead, let’s agree that we also need leaders who flourished in local community colleges, regional universities, apprenticeships. - The Atlantic
"(Chuckles) ripple through the crowd when Nicole Kidman laps up milk from a saucer on her hands and knees in Babygirl, when Lily-Rose Depp contorts herself inhumanly in Nosferatu, when Mikey Madison is bound and gagged in Anora, when Daniel Craig is shooting heroin in Queer." - The New York Times
VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses users in a realistic simulation of the space. - The Conversation
Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak trees overhead. They look for embers. - The Wall Street Journal
"A group of civic, business and community leaders calling themselves 'Team Culture' wants to reimagine major parts of downtown — filling vacant, often shadowy spaces with light and art." - Chicago Sun-Times
Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that generate predictions of what is actually out there and how it will respond to our actions. - The Guardian
Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with works by Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, John Baldessari and Kenny Scharf. - The New York Times
All of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture of shape-shifting, literal-minded screen-saver art. - The New York Times
The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's in central Philadelphia could simply mothball it. Peter Dobrin has a suggestion for the space that could keep the public coming in to listen. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing just below the Brooklyn Bridge, the floating concert hall welcomed chamber-music cognoscenti and curiosity seekers alike since Olga Bloom, a violinist and violist, launched the venue in 1977. - Night After Night
There will never be an end to manipulation by image. All we can do is understand its past in the hope of being able to read its future when it comes. - Hyperallergic
There is a particular ugliness, a virulent ignorance, to the reaction in this case that speaks to a broader sense of unease in the culture. Call it anti-artist or anti-imagination or even anti-success, but it boils down to this... - The Globe & Mail
"Digital audiobooks accounted for 70 percent of adult audio circulation and 56 percent of youth audio circulation in libraries queried in the time frame of the survey. Circulation patterns showed significant variation according to community size." - Publishing Perspectives
"Getty Trust CEO Katherine Fleming described the scene on the ground and how she and her staff worked from a conference center-turned-war room at the Getty Center in Brentwood, about 10 miles away — all while 16 staff members remained at the Villa to implement emergency protocols." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"I can't continue seeing the children of Iranian oligarchs come to spend their holidays in France, even become naturalised," she wrote, "while at the same time young dissidents have difficulty in obtaining a tourist visa to come to see what the country of the Enlightenment and human rights looks like." - AFP (Yahoo!)
