Tag: 03.30.21
How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas
"Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas. We are unable to change...
A Computer Code Written In Cree
My desired output for this language is graphical based. I originally envisioned it as a kind of “Processing for Indigenous Languages”. Where the output...
How The Values Of Theatre Move Forward
"The American theatre is a very slow-moving ship, especially when I think about how quickly culture moves, and particularly now that we are in...
Canadian Theatres Use Lockdown To Upgrade
Venue operators are using their enforced downtime to scrub, buff and do major reconfigurations. In some cases, the work was commissioned and started before...
Museums’ Secret Weapon For COVID Safety: Really Good HVAC
The standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning at North American and European museums tend to be quite high: minimizing airborne dust and maintaining...
We’ve Got Robot Artists. Now We May Get Robot Art Critics.
"For human art lovers, learning which style or category a piece of art falls in is a relatively straightforward and objective task. Like the...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Lead Restorer Of Sistine Chapel, Dead At 92
From 1980 to 1994, he led a team of workers who carefully washed away, frequently with plain soap and water, centuries' worth of dust,...
How COVID Has Decimated Seattle Arts
As of January, 56% of the organizations surveyed still had staff furloughed or laid off due to the pandemic. That’s a decrease from the...
Notes on Outsiders: Carl Weissner’s German Essays and Reportage
To get the drift of Aufzeichnungen über Aussenseiter, I’ve been typing pieces of text into Google Translate. It’s a helluva time-consuming job, but it’s...
How (And Why) We Forget Most Things In Life
An efficient memory system involves “a finely orchestrated balancing act between data storage and data disposal.” To retain an encounter, deliberate attention alone will...
The Science Of Loneliness
One review of the science of loneliness found that people with stronger social relationships have a 50 per cent increased likelihood of survival over a set...
San Francisco Opera Pilots Virtual Tool For Real-Time Collaboration
Aloha's ultra-low latency service connects artists remotely, effectively eliminating the lag time that interrupts the creative flow. This allows artists to collaborate and play...
At The Opera In Barcelona — Indoors, With 1,000 Other People
There were staggered arrival times, temperature takers at the entrance, plenty of hand sanitizer, mandatory masks (a few of them fabu-fied with sequins). Every...
A Hollywood Boycott Of Georgia? Studios Aren’t Saying A Word
Several prominent individuals in the industry have spoken out against the restrictive election laws just passed by the Georgia legislature and signed by Gov....
New Initiative Will Give Cash Aid To Independent Bookstores Hurt By Pandemic
"The Survive to Thrive grant program, created by Ingram Content Group chairman John Ingram, hopes to raise a total of $2 million by the...
A Lavish ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Is Coming To Broadway And The West End
George R.R. Martin, who wrote the Song of Ice and Fire novels on which the megahit HBO series was based, is working with playwright...
Is The NFT Market A Classic Bubble?
As prices for the digital artworks soar, with payments made in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, some observers are throwing around words like "tulipmania." Says...
Spanish Police Seize Forged El Greco, Goya, And Modigliani Paintings
"The counterfeit canvases came from a non-specialist collector based in the province of Toledo who had intended to sell the works as originals. …...
Antonio Pappano To Leave Royal Opera House For London Symphony
The Italian-British conductor has been music director at Covent Garden since 2002; at the end of the 2023-24 season, he'll move three miles or...