Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30PM[SHARE]Leawood, Kan.-based AMC and the entertainment subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund have signed a deal to operate cinemas in the kingdom, with up to 40 locations expected to op…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:01PM[SHARE]America's geography continues to be reshaped by a polarized pattern of socioeconomic sorting. This process is driven by a selective population shift of the most affluent, the best-educated, …
SOURCE: www.citylab.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Few writers come close to possessing the power and influence advice-givers wield. They literally tell people what to do! And people listen! Even though they often aren't licensed to be givin…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 04:31PM[SHARE]Despite centuries of research, nobody fully understands how the convoluted mesh of biological tissue inside our heads produces the experiences of our everyday life. Gazillions of electrical,…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 04:03PM[SHARE]People are usually sure that they're living within a particular culture, but typically wonder if what they have is a civilization. It's been that way since the days of Madame de Staël and…
SOURCE: www.vqronline.org at 03:33PM[SHARE]We arrive ready to interact with other humans and our culture. The real genius of human babies is not simply that they learn from the environment " other animals can do that. Human babies ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PM[SHARE]Just as the advent of the commercial recording industry (and, later, the evolution of analog recording formats, from wax cylinders to 78-r.p.m. disks and long-playing vinyl records) changed …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:31PM[SHARE]To find out, we examined the educational histories of 100 curators who specialize in contemporary art at 69 fine art museums in 32 states. We found that there is no one way to become a curat…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]"Much of the public conversation about important issues in the music business seems light in nutritional value, or narrowly focused on the concerns and actions of a handful of superstars. If…
SOURCE: nmbx.newmusicusa.org at 12:30PM[SHARE]Scientists studying the site have been able to present some remarkable theories. For one, we haven't found any direct evidence of a king. The city's extensive mural paintings contain no obvi…
SOURCE: slate.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Much of the analysis that followed focused on the show's politics: Star Roseanne Barr is an eager champion of debunked right-wing conspiracies, and the premiere's storyline hinged on her cha…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]What is it about dance, a non-verbal art, that allows it to do what words cannot? Is it that it is physical/gestural rather than verbal, or instead that it is characteristically artistic…
SOURCE: www.3quarksdaily.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Italy's far-right Lega party, which won almost 18% of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party h…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Geoffrey C. Bunn argues that the history of the lie detector doubles as the history of an attempt to contend with the rise of mass culture: the machine, as a manifestation of a widespread de…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 04:29PM[SHARE]The vital signs of classical music all tend in the wrong direction, says Joseph Horowitz. The conductors fly in and leave. The musicianship is superior but dull. The composer is long dead, a…
SOURCE: www.neh.gov at 04:02PM[SHARE]AI researcher Robbie Barrat decided to see what would happen when he fed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) thousands of nude portraits from a dataset and then trained it to create…
SOURCE: www.cnet.com at 03:31PM[SHARE]"Virtual reality confounds the idea of the 'mind-body problem,' the relationship between the conscious mind and physical body that's remained a staple of the philosophy of mind since Aristot…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]To assess their creativity, all students performed a series of problems from the Alternative Uses Task, a common measure of creative ability in which one is asked to come up with novel us…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]"One reason for this is that they do not appear on stage. Unlike conductors, who stand in front of an orchestra and wave a baton, they are invisible artists whose work is done when the curta…
SOURCE: Commentary Magazine at 12:31PM[SHARE]According to Sir Brian Vickers, a major reason he has not yet found a home for his complete edition of works by Thomas Kyd is that his "reputation as a scholar has been damaged by a string o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
The free-to-play Fortnite: Battle Royale has become a cultural sensation with a wide-ranging playerbase. How do we know? Because professional sports players won't stop mimicking the game's w…
SOURCE: www.engadget.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Egyptian mummies pose a unique challenge because the desert's scorching climate rapidly degrades DNA. Earlier attempts at obtaining their ancient DNA either failed or produced results contam…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PM[SHARE]Today's Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is in large measure Tovey's creation, having brought in more than half the players and significantly raised performance standards, as anyone could testif…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:32PM[SHARE]They anointed themselves the "most accessible orchestra on the planet," and have gone some ways toward justifying that superlative. Tickets are cheaper than at other orchestras; my press sea…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:02PM[SHARE]By rewording the ads to appeal to the respondents' underlying psychological disposition, the researchers were able to influence and change their opinions. According to Sumner, "Using psychog…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:01PM[SHARE]"Our staffs increasingly reflect the communities in which we operate. Â But our Boards do not. Â Larger, euro-centric mainstay arts organization boards are largely composed of an elite g…
SOURCE: blog.westaf.org at 03:32PM[SHARE]"Whenever a fact contradicts one of our beliefs, we are prompted to restore consistency by revising some of the beliefs in our web. But in choosing what to revise, we are no longer guided by…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 03:01PM[SHARE]"That night, it didn't take long for some rather prominent coughing to break out, before the crowd let loose with less subtle forms of protest: boos and catcalls, the agitation growing over …
SOURCE: theamericanscholar.org at 02:31PM[SHARE]Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity seeks dynamic, people-oriented and assertive Managing Director to oversee the curation, executive production, quality control, and overall mission alignm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]The Las Vegas Philharmonic is in its 19th season and has established itself among the nation's leading regional orchestras. The mission is to perform music that enriches, educates, and helps…
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