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  • AUDIENCE

Our Selfish Genes – A Theory That Changed The Way We Look At Life

IDEAS Posted: June 1, 2016 11:32 am

“Genes aren’t what they used to be. In 1976 they were simply stretches of DNA that encoded proteins. We now know about genes made of DNA’s cousin, RNA; we’ve discovered genes that hop from genome to genome, inserting themselves into a new host to be replicated there. And what by far the larger part of the genome is doing for much of the time is still something of a mystery.”

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Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 05.29.16

Who Gets To Tell Other People’s Stories? Locating The Line Between Empathy And Exploitation

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Posted: June 1, 2016 6:30 am

Anna Holmes: “Here’s how I see it: Empathy is the ability to respect and maybe even understand another’s point of view, revealing larger truths about ourselves and others. Exploitation is the use of another’s experience for personal gain.”
James Parker: “To the degree that you are using a person, a character, simply to propel your plot or give shape to your ideas, to that same degree you are denying this character his or her full reality – and your story will suffer accordingly. Where empathy stops, in other words, exploitation starts.”

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Read the story in New York Times Book Review Published: 05.29.16

You’ll Probably Marry The Wrong Person, So The Best Approach Is Pessimism

IDEAS Posted: May 31, 2016 1:00 pm

Alain de Botton: “This philosophy of pessimism offers a solution to a lot of distress and agitation around marriage. It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage. The failure of one particular partner to save us from our grief and melancholy is not an argument against that person and no sign that a union deserves to fail or be upgraded.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 05.29.16

How Diane Arbus Pulled Herself Out Of Absolute Misery To Become The Photographer We Know

PEOPLE Posted: May 31, 2016 11:00 am

“Diane Arbus was teetering on the edge of a breakdown. In 1956, she tearfully dissolved the decade-long fashion-photography enterprise that she had been conducting successfully but stressfully with her husband, Allan. Her misery was longstanding. Fashion photography is built on artifice. Diane needed, temperamentally and philosophically, to poke through pretensions and masks to expose the hidden truth.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 05.29.16

Look Out – Here Come The Art Robots!

IDEAS Posted: May 31, 2016 7:45 am

“If you want your robots to get good, they’ve gotta learn—and make—art. And they’ve gotta learn—and make—funny, weird, sometimes stupid stuff.”

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Read the story in The Daily Beast Published: 05.29.16

After 61 Years, Violinist Retires From San Diego Symphony

MUSIC Posted: May 31, 2016 6:00 am

“In 1955, a teenage violinist from Hoover High School played her first concert with the San Diego Symphony. On Sunday, after 61 years with the orchestra, she played her last.”

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Read the story in San Diego Union-Tribune Published: 05.29.16

If This Is True About London, What Does It Mean For That City’s Arts?

ISSUES Posted: May 30, 2016 8:00 am

“If I asked what is the most corrupt place on Earth, you might say it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the south of Italy. I would say it is the UK. It’s not UK bureaucracy, police, or politics, but what is corrupt is the financial capital.”

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Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 05.29.16

The Monument To Fallen U.S. Soldiers Before They Actually Fall

IDEAS Posted: May 30, 2016 7:45 am

“To many, a memorial with nearly half of its space reserved for upcoming conflicts is an eerie statement that such conflicts and casualties are an inevitable wave on the horizon.”

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Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 05.29.16

Will The Geffen Hall Renovation At The Lincoln Center Ever Come To Pass?

MUSIC Posted: May 30, 2016 7:00 am

“While officials have described the plan as likely to cost around $500 million, Ms. Farley said that the actual figure could be different. ‘It’s a number that passes the sanity test — it’s not a budget,’ she said. ‘You don’t know what it’s going to cost until you know what it is.'”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

Fighting Through The ‘Traditional’ Noise To Get Unconventional Characters In Movies

MEDIA Posted: May 30, 2016 6:00 am

Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast and Maleficent writer Linda Woolverton on working at Disney: “I wasn’t wanted. … And I was a girl. They were, like: Who the hell are you?”

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 05.29.16

Choreographing A Dance Party So It Looks Like It Just Kinda Happened

DANCE Posted: May 30, 2016 5:45 am

“The video features about a dozen dancers for whom the term ‘backup’ doesn’t apply. They are front and center.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

When Life Is Truly Terrible, Writing Dystopias Might Not Feel So Fictional

WORDS Posted: May 30, 2016 5:45 am

“Five years after the popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere, a bleak, apocalyptic strain of post-revolutionary literature has taken root in the region.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

The Organizers Of Cuba’s First Electronic Music Festival Pulled Off A Massive Feat Of Logistics

MUSIC Posted: May 30, 2016 5:30 am

“Nobody would ship there, so we either had to source everything locally or take it as check-in luggage on the plane. We had to be extremely frugal with what we were taking out to Cuba, but even then our small core team ended up taking 745 kg of additional check in luggage on top of our personal suitcases, including a 92-kg Roland M-5000 mixing desk.”

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 05.29.16

Music Across The (Uncrossable) Border Fence

MUSIC Posted: May 30, 2016 5:15 am

“The fandango at the border did not start out as an overtly political act. But through the years, as the national debate over immigration has become ever more divisive and as violence in Mexico has continued, the event’s symbolism has deepened and grown more bittersweet.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

The Social Justice Architecture Of The Venice Biennale

VISUAL Posted: May 30, 2016 5:00 am

“If ‘humanitarian architecture’ sometimes turns out not to be humanitarian, it is not always architecture either. In the urge to do good, or to be seen to do good, architects can forget their skills of making spaces and buildings that are desirable to inhabit.”

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Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 05.29.16

Frank Modell Was A Cartoonist For The New Yorker For More Than Half A Century

PEOPLE Posted: May 30, 2016 4:45 am

Modell, who just died at age 98, “had no illusions about the role his cartoons played at The New Yorker, well known for its long articles: to break up ‘great slabs of type,’ as he put it.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

What Happens To The United States When The Engine Of Mobility Starts To Sputter And Fail?

IDEAS Posted: May 30, 2016 4:30 am

“‘We have gone backwards,’ said Frederick R. Brodzinski, a senior administrator and adjunct professor in computer science who plans to retire in September after 30 years at the university. ‘Morale is horrible on campus. There are too many highly paid administrators, and there’s a lack of clear leadership. We have stepped down on the ladder that we were climbing for about 10 years.'”

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How Hamilton Is Like The World Cup

THEATRE Posted: May 30, 2016 4:00 am

“The thing about seeing Hamilton RIGHT NOW at its peak moment is that even before it begins, the entire theater is filled with wonder. Every single person would rather be here than anywhere else in the world. As a sportswriter, I often feel that sort of energy at the biggest events, at the Masters or the Super Bowl or the Olympics, but it’s even more pronounced in this theater. “

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Read the story in Joe Posnanski Published: 05.29.16

Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.29.16

AJBlogs Posted: May 29, 2016 10:02 pm

Stories Only Dance Can Tell
Juliette Mapp and Beth Gill present brave new works in New York. Juliette Mapp’sLuxury Rentals. (L to R): Levi Gonzales, Jimena Paz, Kayvon Pourazar, and Juliette Mapp. Photo: Ian Douglas, courtesy of Danspace Project… … read mor
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-05-29

 

Opening arguments
When Emma Rice was appointed artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe earlier this year, it seemed an inspired choice. Irreverent, populist, she was director of Kneehigh. a company with a ballsy, outward-facing performance style splashed… … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-05-28

Shakespeare: The Miniseries
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I report on the premiere of Chicago Shakespeare’s Tug of War: Foreign Fire. Here’s an excerpt. * * * It’s become common—even fashionable—to mount Shakespeare’s history plays in… … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-05-27

 

An Analytical Cornucopia, Wanted or Not

Over the last eleven years, I’ve given at least seventeen keynote addresses and conference papers, and in recent weeks I’ve managed to post all but two of them (those two rather redundant, given my other… … read more
AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2016-05-26

The Tosca effect
Implausible things in opera staging, things any TV show gets right, things that can mar even opera productions that, overall, are quite good — that was the subject of my previous post. This weakens us,… … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2016-05-26

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This Week in Audience: Is My Experience Cannibalizing Yours Edition

AUDIENCE Posted: May 29, 2016 11:26 am

“Should we be investing in festivals rather than more arts buildings? Google’s hi-rez art cam is ingesting art from the world’s great museums. Some evidence that live-streaming might be hurting live audience box office. Some doubts about streaming as the future of how we get music. And the futility of chasing millennials.”

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Read the story in ArtsJournal Audience Published: 05.29.16

Five Highlights From Last Week’s AJ, Endless Arts Planning Edition

TOP STORIES Posted: May 29, 2016 10:22 am

“When arts planning becomes the point rather than the process. Why your creativity may be dependent on being bored. Are MFA degrees a waste of time if you want to be an artist? Broadway breaks more records. And three new ways to see traditional art.”

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Read the story in Douglas McLennan | diacritical Published: 05.29.16

A Centuries-Old Folk Theatre Tradition In India Is In Decline, And Actors Struggle To Survive

THEATRE Posted: May 29, 2016 9:40 am

“This theatre style usually consists of four-hour-long, high-energy plays featuring loud music, harsh lighting and extravagant props played out on giant stages under open skies.”

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A ‘Surprise Book’ And A Switch In Narrative Styles For Author (And Bookstore Owner) Louise Erdrich

WORDS Posted: May 29, 2016 8:55 am

“I think we’re at a really interesting place in literature. And probably in our cultural life, too. So we’ve had maybe thirty or forty years of reliable birth control in this country, right? And that has changed everything.”

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Read the story in The Rumpus Published: 05.29.16

Spotlight On The Curator As David Hockney Paints A Portrait

VISUAL Posted: May 29, 2016 7:55 am

“There are moments when your thoughts slide elsewhere. Then you have existential thoughts. If I’m not concentrating on me, will I look less like me? It does make you think about what you represent in a way that you never do if you’re having a photograph taken.”

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What Does Hamilton’s Lafayette (And Jefferson) Do On Sundays?

PEOPLE Posted: May 29, 2016 7:40 am

“When the 34-year-old rapper and actor, who grew up in Oakland, Calif., moved here about two and a half years ago for a little show called ‘Hamilton,’ he probably figured there would be plenty of time for exploring. He was wrong.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.29.16

Why The U.S. Needs That Remake Of Roots [VIDEO]

MEDIA Posted: May 29, 2016 6:40 am

Blame 40 years of relentless pop culture parodies.

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Read the story in Slate Published: 05.29.16

Taking The Nabokov Tour Of The American West

PEOPLE Posted: May 26, 2016 1:00 pm

“On his cross-country trips chasing butterflies and researching Lolita, the Russian-born novelist saw more of the United States than did Fitzgerald, Kerouac or Steinbeck.”

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  • The pandemic process
    A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. Here’s American Theatre’s “official” summary of the proceedings:  This month, as the scale of the economic devastation facing arts professionals continues to... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Classics for free
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review two theatrical webcasts drawn from important New York productions of the past by the Hunter Theater Project and Shakespeare in the Park. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Sometimes you have to dig to find the best theatrical webcasts, while others are hiding... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Replay: Laurence Olivier in Uncle Vanya
    A scene from the 1963 film of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Olivier, Rosemary Harris, and Michael Redgrave: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Replay: Laurence Olivier in... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Almanac: Chekhov on friendship between men and women
    “A woman can be a man’s friend only in this sequence: first an acquaintance, then a mistress, and after that a friend.” Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya Continue reading Almanac: Chekhov on friendship between men and women at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Capitol Offense: Metropolitan Museum Blasts “Domestic Terrorism” by “Treasonous Rioters”
    Throwing caution to the winds, the Metropolitan Museum today went beyond the more measured words of a few other museums in its angry call to “bring to justice those responsible” for the “criminal actions” at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The Met’s official Statement on Capitol Desecration, signed by Daniel... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Let’s Talk About Literary Exposure
    Some would call it visibility. If you’re talking books, how about millions upon millions of Youtube views for a reading from Supervert’s "Necrophilia Variations.' A dozen years ago when that video had two million views, I called it “viral reading.” Three years later, on Dec. 30, 2015, the video had... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Almanac: Will and Ariel Durant on revolution
    “The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.” Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History Continue reading Almanac: Will and Ariel Durant on revolution at About Last... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Snapshot: James Earl Jones in Fences
    James Earl Jones appears in a scene from the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences, performed on the 1987 Tony Awards telecast: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Snapshot: James Earl Jones... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-13
  • Almanac: Disraeli on politics
    “Finality is not the language of politics.” Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (February 28, 1859) Continue reading Almanac: Disraeli on politics at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-13
  • Connect
    The viability of our industry depends upon developing relationships–making connections–with many new communities. The bases for success are respect and humility.... Read more
    Source: Engaging Matters Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Jim Haynes, RIP
    Brad Spurgeon memorializes him: "End of an Era, but not of a Philosophy of Life." I never met Jim. But he was extraordinarily welcoming when we corresponded by email about the strange case of Orwell's typewriter.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Lookback: the first performance of Satchmo at the Waldorf
    From 2011: For the most part I’ve only talked about it in passing on this blog, but a year ago I started writing a one-man play about Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser, his longtime manager. (The same actor plays both parts.) The play, which grew out of the research I... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Almanac: Chekhov on dying
    “It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.” Anton Chekhov, “On the Road” (trans. Constance Garnett) Continue reading Almanac: Chekhov on dying at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Sometimes bigger really is better
    In my latest Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I write about the appeal of widescreen films. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * We’ve all heard about the perilous state to which movie theaters have been reduced by the pandemic and how in-home streaming is the wave of the future. But is that necessarily so... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-11
  • Remember These Headlines
    The New York Times (digital edition front page) Jan. 7. 2021 The Washington Post (digital edition front page) Jan. 7, 2021... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-07
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