Haidt is like the friend who tells you you’re overreacting before you’re ready to hear it. And he fulfils that role with the glee of the kid who always wins in debate class. - 3 Quarks Daily
The shift to consuming songs as atomised units was depressing for artists too. Cynically, there’s the financial hit sustained when you only get paid for a handful of songs with heavy rotation. But it also forced acts into delivering the narrowest refinement of what audiences expected. - The Critic
Where a photojournalist trades in photographs, a poetjournalist, according to Dworkin, would trade in “newspoems.” He could think of a few examples from the past: Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, say, or O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman’s lament of the assassination of President Lincoln. - NiemanLab
It’s not just fans who are angry. Theatre’s biggest stars regularly rail against high ticket prices, even though they help pay their salaries. - The Guardian
Their convergence at the Public in the mid-2010s would resonate as far more than happy memories: Now each of them has become a Woman With Power, in a beleaguered field in vital need of new inspiration. - The New York Times
"The indictment alleges that Christian Claus, 55, falsely claimed valuable paintings were stolen from his New Orleans residence in order to collect insurance money. … The indictment further accuses Claus of bribing a fellow officer to document the purported theft in the police report." - Tampa Free Press
“Covid, and industry issues that impacted Hollywood product flow, have ushered a period of growth for local and regional films, in some cases with record-breaking results." - The Guardian
"Knaifel was one of the most prominent Russian composers of his generation, both at home and in the West. He played a key role in redefining Russian contemporary music after the fall of the Soviet Union, bringing religious themes to the fore and pioneering a radical minimalist aesthetic of contemplation." - Gramophone
Lisa Nandy, whose most recent position has been as shadow international development minister, will have her work cut out to catch up. She will be keen to make a success of a delicate role that, although it may appear to be low down the governmental pecking order is of huge importance. - The Guardian
"The Brera Modern will be inaugurated this fall, 52 years and 39 Italian governments after it was first envisioned. The new museum, just a few doors from Milan’s Brera Painting Gallery, will house more than 100 contemporary art works that belong to Brera’s collection that have mostly been relegated to storage." - AP
It seems counterintuitive in the age of neuroscience, but I increasingly think that how cognitively impaired you are is a function of the social context in which you find yourself. - The Guardian
"A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade distributor, publishers and distributors alike are moving forward even as damage assessment continues. Approximately 25% of the stranded publishers have found new distributors." - Publishers Weekly
Across that chasm of difference between bats and seals, whales and humans, the unlikeliest new intelligence of computers have been able to discover more that’s similar than might have once been supposed, though even Melville could recognize in the whale a kindred creature “both ponderous and profound." - 3 Quarks Daily
The project will include traffic-calming measures, new street fixtures and lots of lush plantings. The goal: "To get more people excited about South Broad (Street) and to attract more economic development … to give people a reason to come down and visit." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Prosecutors charged director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk over their 2021 play Finist the Brave Falcon, a cautionary tale about Russian women who were lured to marry ISIS militants in Syria and imprisoned upon returning to Russia. The production won two Golden Masks, Russia's highest theatre awards. - BBC
