Or, as The Atlantic‘s headline-writer so dispassionately puts it, “How Actors Create Emotions: A Problematic Psychology.”
Drunk Disrupts Dude at Disney
Gustavo Dudamel had to stop the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of John Corigliano’s First Symphony on Friday night when an inebriated latecomer decided – very loudly and a bit violently – that he shouldn’t have to wait for a break in the music to enter the auditorium.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.10.14
Collector Jonathan Demme Joins The Sellers
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-10
Breaching The Fourth Wall
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-03-10
Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-03-10
Jazz Telepathy: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-10
Slipped Disc editorial: Why can’t anyone find the right word for Gerard Mortier?
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-10
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Smithsonian Chooses A New Director
“He brings a record of noteworthy fundraising, having brought in more than $5 billion during his time at Cornell and $1 billion in a previous presidency at the University of Iowa.”
Glenn Beck, Culture Producer?
“Beck has three major motion pictures in development, and they will have a decidedly different outlook from the doom-and-gloom scenarios his Fox News viewers became accustomed to.”
Bloomberg News Quits Arts Coverage
“It is especially inexplicable that Bloomberg News would ignore arts and design when award-winning and insightful architecture and design in its own facilities and terminals has abetted the company’s success. Contemporary art is widely found in the Bloomberg workplace.”
Devastating: The World Heritage Sites That Will Be Lost To Climate Change
“A new study released last week emphasizes the severity of this impact on culture: a whole fifth of the 720 listed UNESCO World Heritage Sites could be lost.”
The Uphill Battle To Build A Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center
“To succeed, it will need to assemble a high-octane board, win over a thusfar noncommittal mayor and explain why the project is vital to New York at a time when a handful of similar theater spaces have opened in recent years, cultural leaders and arts-management experts said.”
Where Are The Real Scholars Of Technology? (It Matters Because The World Is Changing)
“Technology comforts, surrounds, and confounds us. When we argue about MOOCs, hydraulic fracturing, NSA surveillance, or drone warfare, we’re arguing about technology. Unfortunately, the conversation is impoverished by the absence of a robust cadre of scholars who can engage with and critique the role of technology in society.”