According to one just-released study, original residents gain more from gentrification than the traditional neighborhood narrative lets on. And the harms of gentrification, while hard to fully gauge, may not be so severe for original residents, especially for those who stay but even for those who choose to leave. What if the conventional wisdom about gentrification is kind of wrong? – CityLab
Prospect Magazine’s List Of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers
“The urge to rank and measure might itself seem anti-intellectual—more Top Trumps than top scholarship. But the aim is not to chase a chimera still less to deliver the results of some supposedly objective IQ test. Rather it is simply to honour the minds engaging most fruitfully with the questions of the moment.” – Prospect
Study: Smartphone Users More Comfortable Expressing Emotions With Emojis Than In a Phone Call
The majority of respondents (65%) said they are more comfortable expressing their emotions through emojis than a phone call. That number rises to 83% among Gen Z users, who represent the largest segment of media audience, according to the 2017 Nielsen Total Audience Report. – Hyperallergic
What Musicians Are “Terrified” Of In 2019
Basically – burnout. The need to be on all the time. It’s not just performances, it’s the living life in public on social media, creating a persona and constantly interacting with a public you hope you have. – BBC
Because Of Aggressive Theatregoers, Ushers In London Have Started Wearing Body Cameras
“It is thought that having visible cameras that are clearly recording situations will help staff feel more empowered, and reports from West End trials found that aggressive individuals had backed down when seeing themselves being recorded.” – The Stage
Hollywood Is Making Fewer Comedies. Should We Care?
Call-out and outrage culture make it harder for comedies to pass muster with the vigilantes of social media. – Philadelphia Inquirer
Are Dancers Today So Versatile That They’re Losing Their Individuality?
Nancy Wozny: “We used to be able to tell a dancer’s ancestry — be it Graham, Cunningham or Balanchine — by their movement.” No more: “I’ve always felt my gift to the field is being able to put into words how an artist moves differently than the person next to them. … I am finding it harder these days to define a dancer’s kinetic signature, which is my signature as a dance writer.” – Dance Magazine
PBS Launches Native Alaskan Kids Show
The show that the producers dreamed up, called “Molly of Denali,” ended up becoming a PBS cartoon about a 10-year-old Athabascan girl with a video blog about life in rural Alaska. PBS says it is the first nationally distributed children’s series with a Native American lead. – The New York Times
National Film Board Of Canada Delays Strategic Plan As Critics Look For More Oversight
Critics have alleged the film board’s production funding has decreased since 2002, and that spending on non-filmmaker salaries and institutional, legal and human resources services has increased. – Toronto Star
Just Moving Mona Lisa From One Room At The Louvre To Another Is A Tricky Matter
It’s really no more difficult than moving any other painting its size, but even so, the process involves careful scheduling and a dry run with a dummy painting. – BBC
Winners And Losers In This Year’s Emmy Nominations
It looks like HBO’s back, piling up a whopping 137 nominations to Netflix’s 117, with Game of Thrones, Chernobyl and Barry among the big leaders (but with Veep rather far down the list with only nine nominations, including comedy series). – Hollywood Reporter
Martha Plimpton Does Something Very Few Actors Ever Do — Quit Steppenwolf Theatre
“Why would anybody want to go? It’s inarguably among the most prestigious collections of stage actors in the world and yet membership comes with no formal minimum participation requirement. … However, two sources close to Steppenwolf said that there was no love lost between the actress and the current artistic administration, although Plimpton had wanted to keep her action as private as possible.” – Chicago Tribune
Metro-DC-Based National Philharmonic Says It’s Out Of Cash And Is Closing
The freelance orchestra, based at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs, was founded in 1983 and performed two to three dozen concerts a year. The announcement said that the orchestra would need an additional $150,000 to save the upcoming season, and its president told Anne Midgette, “The National Phil would be delighted if a donor would come forward or funding were to come through for its operations.” – The Washington Post
Frieder Burda, Who Founded Museum For His Collection Of German Expressionism, Dead At 83
“Titled the Museum Frieder Burda, the space [in Baden-Baden] has displayed works by artists Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Richter, and Pablo Picasso. The museum was also notably the first to display Banksy’s self-destroying artwork, Love is in the Bin (2018). – ARTnews
Scarlett Johansson Says Her Comments On Casting Were Taken Out Of Context
In a recent interview with As If magazine, she said actors should be allowed to play any person “because that is my job and the requirement of my job”. On Saturday, Johansson said those comments were subsequently edited in other publications for “clickbait”. – The Guardian
Wendy Whelan Comes Back To New York City Ballet, This Time As A Boss
And here’s the dynamic she means not to recreate: “In my whole 30 years in New York City Ballet, I rarely interacted with my boss except on the stage. I never knew where I was in his eyes or other people’s eyes, so I was just guessing, along with everybody else.” – Vogue
A History Of Celebrity (Why We Care)
Celebrity distinguishes itself from other forms of public approbation because it centres on the individual personality. Celebrities reflect our personhood – they show us who we are. But they also charm us with illusion, showing us whom we want to be. – Aeon