Creating A Practice Of Public Philosophy
Public philosophy isn’t simply popularizing philosophical ideas (though it typically involves that). It is more often a matter of instigating a kind of thinking,...
Does A “Big” Book Equal A Necessary Book?
"In the marketplace of books, it can be hard to find that next, necessary book. I keep a list of what to read next...
What Should We Expect From Artificial Intelligence?
Human consciousness depends on a body that developed through evolution. If we want to create AI that is conscious in the same way we...
Gen Z’s Say Movies, TV Are Fifth On Their Entertainment Preferences
About 26% of Gen Z said video games are their top entertainment activity, and 87% of those in the age bracket said they play...
This Year’s Oscars — Disaster In The Making?
There may be fundamental problems with the way the Academy Awards connect with contemporary Hollywood films and their audiences. “For some time the movies...
Jazmin Morales Talks About Being an “Intrapreneur”
The Assistant Director of the Colburn School’s Center for Innovation and Community Impact shares the impact of Colburn’s EDI initiatives and strategies on being...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today
The pertinence of A Soldier’s Tale today is self-evident. It is a COVID diversion: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a...
How The Republican Party Buys Books In Bulk To Boost Its Candidates (And Get...
Four party-affiliated organizations, including the Republican National Committee, collectively spent more than $1 million during the past election cycle mass-purchasing books written by GOP...
Composer Wayne Peterson, 93 — Was At The Center Of A Pulitzer Prize Controversy
For 30 years, Mr. Peterson had been a composer, pianist and professor at San Francisco State University, respected by most musicians who knew his...
On What It Takes To Be A Ballerina
“We dancers bonk up against the insanity of pining after someone else’s pair of legs day after day, but with age and maturity and...
Choreographer Liam Scarlett, 35
He was a star British choreographer who staged a prodigious number of works and was assured a major international career. But "after allegations of...
The Dueling Bob Dylan Bios By Authors Who Hate Each Other
“It’s not really polite to tell other writers they’re bad writers, because they tend to fling it back to you. In response, I would...
Would It Kill Spotify To Pay Musicians A Penny Per Stream?
And would a penny per stream be a little more fair? After all, "Spotify increasing royalties to a penny per stream would send a...
The Tricks To Playing Drunk
It's not the 1960s anymore (not by a long shot), so actors usually don't play drunk by getting drunk. Instead, consider Aubrey Plaza's technique...
Why Andrew Cuomo Can’t Let A Penn Station Development Go
Well, it's obvious, right? The New York governor "is currently resisting calls to resign over allegations of sexual harassment. So what better way to...
The Project That Is Mapping Anti-Racist Street Art
In 2020, after the death of George Floyd at the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin, "a team of researchers from the University of...
Many Theatres Have Survived The Pandemic So Far – But The Future Is An...
Ironically, bringing audiences back may be the issue. "While this year looks fairly stable, a greater threat may still lie ahead. The emergency infusions...
In The Age Of Instagram, You Probably Do Judge A Book By Its Cover
One of the big literary events of last week? The cover reveal for Sally Rooney's new novel. "In recent years, book cover design has...
What It’s Like To Edit A Legendary Beat Poet
Michael McClure's final editor, Garrett Caples: "As any editor can tell you, turning a manuscript into a book is an affair in itself. Michael’s...
Carol Prisant, Elegant Writer About Design For The World Of Interiors, 82
Prisant was a 51-year-old antiques dealer with no professional experience writing when she wrote to the autocratic editor of the British magazine The World...
Teens Use The Arts To Document Their Pandemic Times
If you want to know how young people are experiencing the pandemic, the assault on the Capitol Building in January, vaccinations, and more, what...
Daniel Kaluuya’s Rise To Movie Stardom Came From Talent, And Britain’s Public Funding For...
Kaluuya grew up on a council estate - the rough equivalent to "the projects" in the United States - the son of Ugandan immigrants...
Product Placement, AKA Advertising, Is Coming To Classic Films
This doesn't seem like a great idea, but then again, who asked the audience? "Items can be digitally added to almost any movie or...
Asian American Artists Say The Times Require They Must Also Now Be Activists
Artist Kenneth Tam started to keep a spreadsheet as microaggressions arose at the beginning of the pandemic. Then the micro became far too macro....
The Redesign Of The Hirshorn Sculpture Garden Has Hit A Wall
A rock wall, and a water feature as well, to be precise. "This is a debate in which everyone is a little right, and...
