Thursday, April 12, 2018
Cannes earlier banned any films without theatrical distribution in France from its Palme d'Or competition. That essentially rules out Netflix movies, which are released either day-and-date "…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:01PM[SHARE]These days, virtually every aspect of day-to-day life is fed into corporate databases and used to predict and influence all kinds of behavior. Surveillance corporations don't just respond to…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 05:29PM[SHARE]Neurologists and psychiatrists admit they still don't fully understand OCD or how it works. The condition can't be cured, but it can be managed, dialing down the barrage of obsessive thought…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:01PM[SHARE]Even the term 'immersive' has become overused. It is being used to flog everything from fine dining to frozen roast potatoes. Some theatre companies liberally sprinkle their marketing copy w…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]I believe that art has its own life, independent of the people who make it. And I know that artists are, at least as much as the rest of us, complex creatures. I don't enjoy damning anyone. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]Whereas several Eastern European countries have laws that limit free speech about the Holocaust, including Poland, Ukraine and Latvia, the bill targeting the sale of critical books "would be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM[SHARE]It's not just men, often of a certain generation, who seem unsettled by this newfound determination to speak out " demonstrating cultural leadership while doing so. I've heard some women in …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]The crew defines "ill-ability" as "creating advantages from disadvantages" and "an adaptation of power, strength and creativity." It's clear from the video what they mean: The crew isn't jus…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]"When I think about the writers and books I have worked with, it's the dialogue about shape that I most remember. A draft of a story in which a kind of sonic boom goes off at the beginning d…
SOURCE: www.pw.org at 12:31PM[SHARE]Outsiders have long been curious how admissions decisions are made. Most of the time this desire for transparency stems from a desire for fairness: Given how few acceptances elite institutio…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 11:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
"I no longer believe that the Internet can be saved: it's too late. The arguments that it can be saved by a bill of rights-style Magna Carta or through more specific regulation are too littl…
SOURCE: mondediplo.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]The rise has been fuelled by the growth of psychological thrillers and the success of big names like Lee Child, James Patterson and Dan Brown. Last year, 18.7 million crime books were sold -…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]Casa Verdi is "a sumptuous neo-Gothic mansion built in central Milan by Verdi. Completed in 1899, the building was created as a sanctuary for musicians who found themselves poverty-stricken …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito is the most viewed YouTube video of all time, with more than 5bn views, but temporarily disappeared from the site and had its hold image replaced by a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PM[SHARE]UK record labels enjoyed a 10.6% surge in earnings in 2017 to £839m, thanks to the digital popularity of a new generation of artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Dua Lipa and Stormzy.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:29PM[SHARE]Today, recommendation engines are perhaps the biggest threat to societal cohesion on the internet"and, as a result, one of the biggest threats to societal cohesion in the offline world, too.…
SOURCE: www.wired.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Much of the media focus has been on the size of the salary gaps. But what really tells the story about ingrained gender inequality is the disparity in bonus pay (men receive 67% more than wo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PM[SHARE]The fundraising goal is gutsy for an organization of the Holocaust Museum's size and relative youth. Its operating expenses were $116 million in 2016, according to tax filings that reported …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:32PM[SHARE]One of the biggest stories in the art world in the past two or three years has been the rapidly growing number of female artists who are getting solo shows, career surveys and retrospectives…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PM[SHARE]"Some say the gap"between nerve cells and life, the brain and the mind, objective reality and the subjective"will never be understood, because such understanding is beyond our human capacity…
SOURCE: www.zocalopublicsquare.org at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Julia F. Christensen, a neuroscientist at the The Warburg Institute at the University of London who studies people's responses to dance choreography, argued that many of us have been turned …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PM[SHARE]The census of American libraries spans a wonderful diversity of institutions, from modest municipal book rooms and mobile libraries to the grand collections of such hallowed places as the Mo…
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 05:28PM[SHARE]There is an expectation of what the Irish novel should look like, the themes explored and the style in which it's delivered. And it's not that our present day authors are moving away from tr…
SOURCE: The Irish Times at 05:01PM[SHARE]The Harry Potter play, based on a new story by author J.K. Rowling in collaboration with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, announced Monday that it had set a Broadway record for the strongest pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:31PM[SHARE]"There are two very different phenomena at play here, each of which subvert the flow of information in very distinct ways. Let's call them echo chambers and epistemic bubbles. Both are socia…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 03:33PM[SHARE]The reference to modern physics reminds us of a commonly cited fact " that philosophy came first and gave birth to science " that could in its own way seem to delegitimise or quickly answer …
SOURCE: aeon.co at 03:01PM[SHARE]Over the past months I spoke with 20 gatekeepers in the fiction world"agents, editors and publishers"to see whether they anticipate a change in the types of stories that shape the American n…
SOURCE: www.politico.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]The 33 creditors listed range widely, including Artforum magazine, New York "global cultural communications company" Sutton PR, and the biennale's own accounting firm, Dagenais, Lapierre, Si…
SOURCE: canadianart.ca at 02:01PM[SHARE]Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. Like the proverbial court j…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM[SHARE]The interim artistic director at the Alley Theatre is weighing the best response to the query of, "What will be Gregory Boyd's legacy?" Boyd, who left in January, helped grow the company's r…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]Just because an academic field is timeless doesn't mean it should never change. If the humanities are ever to enjoy a true resurgence, it will come as a result of a reinvention that embraces…
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