Thursday, May 3, 2018
If Sotheby's were a hospital, his department would be "the E.R. or a clinic." One analysis is like an M.R.I., and another is like a CT scan. He described analyses as "noninvasive." Mr. Marti…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Noah Charney's premise is fairly uncontroversial: He argues that our understanding of art history is skewed by survivorship bias and that to understand the art we still have, it's critica…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 01:06PM[SHARE]The channels occupy a precarious space between YouTube's algorithm and its copyright policing, drawing comparisons to the unlicensed pirate radio stations of the 20th century, recre…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Information technology and its effect on the way we think and feel is a crucial issue in our time. In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Lyotard wrote, "It is con…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Ultimately, to challenge Facebook, Google, and the many unknown players of the data economy, we must devise new business models and structural incentives that aren't rooted in manipulation a…
SOURCE: longreads.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]The museum advertised for a successor with "a highly developed EQ", and Hollein seems to fit the bill. In San Francisco, as in Frankfurt, he is credited with energising curators, pushing the…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Viewed in a vacuum, Infinity War is meaningless. As a standalone film, it's a mess. Characters pop up for one scene and then vanish again completely. Nobody has any meaningful screen time. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]MoviePass has taken the sector by storm, attracting nearly 2 million new subscribers over the past year. But as its executives claim to be sending droves of new customers to theaters, MovieP…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PM[SHARE]"On a personal note, I would like to announce my upcoming retirement as classical music critic of the Chicago Tribune. When I step down July 1, I will have held this position at the paper fo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Northwestern University's MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program develops leaders in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"We've created a scammy society where we concentrate wealth in ways that are petty and not helpful, and we've given them a world of far fewer options than we had. There's nothing I want more…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 02:12PM[SHARE]Intoning lines from a piece called "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" was probably not the best way to assuage concerns that shareholders might be making hay on the back of higher…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]Horne carries her 84 years the way others carry 60. Her mind is sharp, likewise her memory, and her speaking voice retains its unmistakable metal. Dwelling on the past is not her style. "I d…
SOURCE: www.beyondcriticism.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Popular YouTubers, some as young as 12, are being paid to personally endorse the service. In some of the videos YouTubers say if you cannot be bothered to do the work, EduBirdie has a "super…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]The new Guide for Grand Parisians "is a guide to the present and the future," says Rémi Babinet, the president both of BETC and of the Endowment for Art and Culture of the Grand Paris Expre…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 05:36PM[SHARE]Faced with the prospect of paying off $500 million in debt"while tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon enter the speaker market"Gibson was forced to file for Chapter 11. Luckily, this d…
SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]I don't want to sound like an old stodgy codger (even though I am an old stodgy codger) but it seems to me that this lack of narrative finality really hampers the genre. Like video games the…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]"Volunteer adjuncts" " it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing w…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]In early 2018, We Have Voice began painstakingly crafting the Code of Conduct via meetings, email and Google Hangout sessions, with members collaborating from the far-flung locations where t…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:24PM[SHARE]The Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, Virginia, invites nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director.Â
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Its latest online collection, "Open Heritage," features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, from the ancient Mayan metropolis of Chichen Itza in Mexico to the pr…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Thirty Broadway productions were eligible for prizes, the smallest number in more than a decade. This year's Tony Awards will take place on June 10 at Radio City Music Hall and will be broad…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM[SHARE]"It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business," Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter t…
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
The Vatican Secret Archive isn't much use to modern scholars, because it's so inaccessible. Of those 53 miles, just a few millimeters' worth of pages have been scanned and made available onl…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 06:33PM[SHARE]Internationally, Infinity War dislodged Jurassic World ($316.7M) at No. 2 (that movie also had China at open). In comps that did not include China at the bow, Infinity War's overseas start b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:24PM[SHARE]Burning Man is far, far, far from perfect. It's still mostly hedonistic (with some awesome exceptions) and corny at times. It's very white (The Root and The Guardian have both done great int…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 05:24PM[SHARE]This August will mark Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. The centenary celebrations started last August and are worldwide. The Bernstein estate counts more than 2,000 events on six continen…
SOURCE: www.weeklystandard.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]Walker State Prison, home to about 400 inmates, is unique among Georgia prisons. In 2011, the facility became the testing ground for the Georgia Department of Corrections' new Faith and Char…
SOURCE: www.apnews.com at 03:12PM[SHARE]Behind the aphorism's sudden ubiquity lies a long and surprising history"one that yields a fresh perspective on our present technocultural moment. It suggests that Facebook's business model …
SOURCE: slate.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]At the beginning of the 21st century, a new world is emerging. Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The decision to do this rests very strongly on my commitment to rewrite the postwar canon," Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford told artnet News. And while institutions sel…
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