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Here Are The Top E-Books For 2017 On Apple’s Bookstore

WORDS Posted: January 9, 2018 8:32 am

Topping the fiction chart was John Grisham’s Camino Island, followed by The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Grisham had three books among the top 20 selling fiction books in the year, withThe Rooster Bar landing at #16 and The Whistler at #18.

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WORDS Published: 12.29.17

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We Keep Trying To Get Rid Of Paper. But We’re Addicted To It

IDEAS Posted: January 4, 2018 9:31 am

Paper has played “an essential role in the development of mankind”. And yet, for decades, civilisation has been trying to develop beyond paper, promoting a paper-free world that will run seamlessly, immaterially on pixels and screens alone. How did paper get here? Where does it go next? For that matter, why is paper – which does its job perfectly well – compelled to keep innovating?

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IDEAS Published: 12.29.17

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San Francisco’s Skyline Is Being Taken Over By Tech

VISUAL Posted: January 2, 2018 1:33 pm

“Skyscrapers tell a different story. They are the pyramids of our civilization, permanent monuments of our existence. They show who is in charge and what they think about themselves. Salesforce Tower is breaking a San Francisco height record that stood for nearly half a century.”

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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Some Of The Best Dancers In New York Work For The NBA

DANCE Posted: January 2, 2018 9:03 am

“Sure, New York City is home to lots of dance troupes, but if you’re a dance fan these two groups may not even be on your radar. Don’t be a snob. The Brooklynettes and the Knicks City Dancers perform intricate choreography during the breaks between quarters of pro-basketball games, in arenas with 360-degree views. And they are not messing around.”

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DANCE Published: 12.29.17

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‘Quite Simply The Greatest Theatrical Poem Ever Written’: Michael Billington On ‘Macbeth’

THEATRE Posted: January 2, 2018 6:34 am

“If Macbeth continues to obsess us, it is because it seems both modern and timeless. We see all around us today the corrosive folly of overweening ambition and the insecurity that breeds tyranny. But Macbeth can never be reduced to a set of moralistic, crime-does-not-pay platitudes. It … has a language that eats into the soul.”

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THEATRE Published: 12.29.17

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‘The Biggest Art Travesty Of 2017’: Indianapolis Museum Of Art Turning Itself Into ‘Newfields’

VISUAL Posted: January 2, 2018 6:18 am

Following up on his contribution to CityLab‘s “Your Entire City Is an Instagram Playground Now” (last entry), Kriston Capps goes on a tweetstorm: “[In] the IMA’s rebrand as Newfields – an experience park – … the IMA’s board and director turned their backs on the museum, its curators, its collections, its accumulated knowledge, its history, and its legacy.”

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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Hero Dogs Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Smuggled Antiquities

VISUAL Posted: January 2, 2018 5:32 am

“Vets at the Penn Vet Working Dog Centre in Philadelphia are to train canines to sniff out illegally trafficked antiquities, in partnership with the city’s Penn Museum and the non-profit organisation Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research.”

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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The Instagrammable City – A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come

IDEAS Posted: January 2, 2018 4:29 am

Don’t do this, cities. Or maybe do do this, if you’re a marketer. But wow, what a tool of gentrification Instagram has become. For instance, in a Northeast D.C. neighborhood that is experiencing rapid gentrification: “The murals are fine ones; the splashes of color are nice. But most are very clearly Instagram bait in the service of developers.”

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IDEAS Published: 12.29.17

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Callas Singing ‘Tosca’ Is The Best Opera Recording Ever, And Here’s Why

MUSIC Posted: December 31, 2017 10:00 am

Anthony Tommasini: “Even though it was done under studio conditions, Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano (as the idealistic Mario) and Tito Gobbi (as the villainous police chief Scarpia) are thrillingly alive and subtle for the towering maestro Victor de Sabata and the forces of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. It’s hard to think of a recording of any opera that nails a work so stunningly, that seems so definitive.”

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MUSIC Published: 12.29.17

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There Was, Last Week In Manhattan, And Briefly, A Four-Story Mural Of A Penis

VISUAL Posted: December 31, 2017 8:30 am

The piece, by artist Carolina Falkholdt, had been commissioned, but it didn’t last long. “The painting appeared on the wall of a building on Broome Street, between Forsyth and Eldridge Streets, on Christmas Eve. By Wednesday afternoon, it was being painted over, and by Thursday it had completely disappeared.” (Read much more about the mural’s background and planned focus in this Hyperallergic piece.)

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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If Digital Life Is Getting You Down, Get To A Live Theatre Show, Fast

THEATRE Posted: December 31, 2017 7:00 am

Playwright Ayad Akhtar: “I am not hopeful about where we are as a nation — as a species (if I can be so presumptuous). I’m not hopeful, because I am increasingly of the mind that even my hope is being monetized. That which is most enduring, most noble, most human about me — my urge for something brighter, more vivid, more loving, more alive — all of this is being used against me.”

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THEATRE Published: 12.29.17

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The Year-End List Means A Lot More In 2017, And Is More Radical, Than It Ever Was Before

IDEAS Posted: December 31, 2017 6:30 am

Year-end lists go against this year’s tide: “For many Americans, 2017 has amounted to a permanent kind of jet lag: bodily schedules misaligned with social ones. There is so much happening, always. There is so much to know, unceasingly. There is so much that won’t be known. Which is also to say that there is so much that won’t be paid attention to. If one of the functions of the American media is to give order to the world’s messiness, to help people make determinations about what—and who—deserves their attention and care, 2017 was the year in which that ordering function lost some of its stability.”

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IDEAS Published: 12.29.17

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Time Is Running Out (At Midnight) For The 10 Million Dollar Reward For Hints On The Gardner Museum Heist

VISUAL Posted: December 31, 2017 6:00 am

There’s still a little time, and even after the new year, there’s still a pretty big reward: “The stolen paintings are valued at more than $500 million, and the museum has long offered a reward for information that will lead authorities to recover all of the paintings in good condition. The reward was $5 million until May, when it was temporarily doubled. But that $10 million reward – and like Cinderella’s coach – reverts to a $5 million pumpkin on January 1.”

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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An Artist Lost His Life’s Work In California’s Thomas Fire

VISUAL Posted: December 31, 2017 4:30 am

The artist John Wullbrandt and his partner had spent 15 years planning for fire at their California ranch near Carpinteria. When it came, they saved their house and their animals. But his studio? No. “It was burned into oblivion. Wullbrandt knew the studio and shipping containers had wood floors, but he was certain there was metal beneath them. That was not the case. The fire blew underneath and ignited everything inside, turning decades worth of paintings into ash.”

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VISUAL Published: 12.29.17

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Alphabet Mystery Writer Sue Grafton, Dead At 77

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2017 2:29 pm

Husband Stephen Humphrey said Grafton had been struggling to find an idea for “Z’’ while undergoing treatment and losing weight. “Nothing’s been written,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “There is no Z.” He added with a laugh, “Nobody in this family will ever use the letter Z again.”

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PEOPLE Published: 12.29.17

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A Comeback For CDs?

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Posted: December 29, 2017 12:58 pm

“David Bakula, who oversees Nielsen’s industry insights operations, said the changes in digital habits mean the CD is representing a larger share of the declining album sales market. He believes that writing the obituary for the CD is premature as labels look to bolster album sales however they can, while older listeners stick to their usual buying habits.”

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AUDIENCE, MUSIC Published: 12.29.17

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  • Stumbling down memory lane
    In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review George Street Playhouse’s webcast of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * The premise of Theresa Rebeck’s “Bad Dates,” which is being webcast by New... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Replay: Ginette Neveu plays Chausson’s Poème
    Ginette Neveu plays the closing section of Ernest Chausson’s Poème. This rare silent film footage is synchronized with Neveu’s commercial recording of the piece: (This is the latest in a series of arts-... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Almanac: Mary Renault on love and hate
    “In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo Continue reading Almanac: Mary Renault... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on mixed feelings
    “I hope that to be of two minds about some things is not to be neutral.” Flannery O’Connor, letter to Betty Hester, May 4, 1957 Continue reading Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on mixed... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-04
  • Snapshot: Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth
    Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth in an undated film clip from the Thirties. This is thought to be the only surviving sound footage of Kipling: (This is the latest in... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-03
  • Almanac: Rudyard Kipling on the prevalence of obsessions
    “Everyone is more or less mad on one point.” Rudyard Kipling, “On the Strength of a Likeness” Continue reading Almanac: Rudyard Kipling on the prevalence of obsessions at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-03
  • Lookback: on being sworn in to the National Council on the Arts
    From 2005: I am now officially the Honorable Terry Teachout, having been sworn in this morning (together with Gerard Schwarz and James Ballinger) as a member of the National Council on the Arts. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-02
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on inhibited families
    “I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.” Flannery O’Connor, letter to Betty Hester,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-02
  • Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
    The Metropolitan Museum’s premature revelation that it might take advantage of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ relaxed deaccession standards, by selling art to help pay for “care of the collection,” was... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Just because: Flannery O’Connor appears in a 1932 newsreel
    A five-year-old Flannery O’Connor appears in a rare 1932 Pathé newsreel segment about a chicken she taught to walk backwards: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on writers and their childhood
    “I think you probably collect most of your experience as a child—when you really had nothing else to do—and then transfer it to other situations when you write. Flannery O’Connor, letter to... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Afa Dworkin Talks Diversity & Arts Leadership
    Afa Dworkin, President & Artistic Director of the Sphinx Organization speaks about the importance of diversity in the arts and leadership attributes that empower organizational excellence.... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-02-27
  • Joseph Brodsky on the Life of Books
    On the whole, books are less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors. ... Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-26
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
    A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. Maybe the biggest. Because ArtsJournal was down yesterday—I know not why—I couldn’t post this. The world didn't miss it.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Gary Lee-Nova: ‘Oblique Trajectories’
    A survey exhibition of the artist's work over more than four decades. The exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery in Burnaby, B.C., Canada, will run until April 18, 2021.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-23
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