Thursday, March 15, 2018
Francois Prost's photograph of the Eiffel Tower looks like it was taken on any given day in Paris. But just outside the frame are clues that the structure in his picture is nowhere near the …
SOURCE: www.wired.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]iHeart, formerly known as Clear Channel, is the nation's largest radio company, with more than 850 stations. It also owns iHeartRadio's music streaming service, a large concert business, and…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PM[SHARE]What is your justification in believing that 2 + 2 = 4? You are justified because you understand the concepts involved. You understand what all the terms in that simple sum mean and that, as…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:02PM[SHARE]The project, to be announced Wednesday by Colburn President and CEO Sel Kardan, also includes a 700-seat studio theater for dance and vocal performance, a 100-seat theater for smaller-scale …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:29PM[SHARE]We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the 'information age', we are moving towards the 'reputation age', in which information will have valu…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 03:03PM[SHARE]"In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Alabama, the estate argued that Mr. Sorkin's adaptation deviates too much from the novel, and violates a contract, between Ms. Lee and the p…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PM[SHARE]One answer is that academe's devastation since the late 1990s has rendered it too grim and vulnerable a target for satirists. The gutting of public universities by right-wing politicians, th…
SOURCE: bit.ly at 01:25PM[SHARE]People think that to appreciate jazz you have to take ten years of music theory. Really, jazz or any kind of improvisational music, when done right, is simply a conversation without words. I…
SOURCE: Forbes at 12:32PM[SHARE]Properly conceived, leisure could be the ultimate social safety net for an era of technologically driven uncertainty. It is potentially a space for bootstrapping new "careers," which may or …
SOURCE: democracyjournal.org at 11:29AM[SHARE]Helmed by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, NCI is a two-week boot camp for early and mid-career arts writers to strengthen their skills. Apply by April 23. Scholarships available, no fee t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption "…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 06:01PM[SHARE]Using the Vulcan printer, ICON can print an entire home for $10,000 and plans to bring costs down to $4,000 per house. "It's much cheaper than the typical American home." It's capable of pri…
SOURCE: The Verge at 05:31PM[SHARE]Seven months after the death of Joan, his wife of almost 70 years, beset with pneumonia, the apparent victim of gross financial malfeasance and surrounded by a panoply of Hollywood charlatan…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 05:02PM[SHARE]That number isn't a shock " Netflix has been clear about the importance of TVs for a long time, and it's why the company has spent a lot of energy working out integration deals with pay T…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]"In the past decade, film criticism has become better than ever, by which I don't mean that every critic writing is better than those of the past but that criticism is better over all"more c…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:57PM[SHARE]Nonprofits generally don't create their own elaborate art to rally more community support. Most have limited budgets, which necessitates putting time, money, and effort into programming firs…
SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]For all categories of information " politics, entertainment, business and so on " we found that false stories spread significantly farther, faster and more broadly than did true ones. Falseh…
SOURCE: mobile.nytimes.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Shaped like an enormous, flattened pyramid, it will challenge the Eiffel Tower for dominance of the skyline. Neighborhood residents violently oppose it. The project's Swiss architects, Jacqu…
SOURCE: www.city-journal.org at 01:33PM[SHARE]Among other provisions, the bill would eliminate the position of state secretary for Education and the Arts, which is currently held by Gayle Manchin, wife of Sen. Joe Manchin (D…
SOURCE: thehill.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Not long ago, the scientists and software developers who pioneered the World Wide Web thought it would democratize publishing and usher in a more open, educated and thoughtful chapter of his…
SOURCE: shift.newco.co at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Director of Facility Operations for Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre (YSD/YRT). Serves as strategic partner to YSD/YRT senior leadership; develops and implements strategies, prior…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Zachary Woolfe: "The centrality afforded to conductors makes them appear indispensable. It inclines institutions to look past obvious problems and try their best to make their relationships …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PM[SHARE]Two of the women have described incidents over the past 10 years in which they were sent to Mr. Meier's New York apartment, where he exposed himself, according to interviews with one of the …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PM[SHARE]They need to allow their audience to narrow to those folks who actually care about movies, and stop trying to appease the viewers who only tune in when massive hits they've already bought an…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:03PM[SHARE]"Many a scholar will have a hard time admitting this point, but, beyond the academy, there's not a single skill set that would be enhanced by reading Virgil. A mechanic or surgeon who reads …
SOURCE: psmag.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]"I don't believe polyphony is dead, but I do think the future of choral music will embrace techniques that preserve the horizontal approach to writing, while maintaining accessibility and no…
SOURCE: nmbx.newmusicusa.org at 04:02PM[SHARE]How can video games be confused for reality when its players view them as escapism and freedom from reality? In their book Rules of Play, scholars Katie Salen TekinbaÅŸ and Eric Zimmerm…
SOURCE: theconversation.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]"Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue," Tom Nichols would write in the preface to The Death of Expertise: T…
SOURCE: www.harvardmagazine.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]HBO Programming President Casey Bloys warned of the growing cost of high-end drama. "As a show goes on they get more expensive and as shows get more ambitious they will get more expensive. M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PM[SHARE]The prestigious and internationally acclaimed Miami City Ballet seeks an Executive Director to partner with the Artistic Director and the Board in setting the overall vision and strategy for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58PM[SHARE]Justin Davidson: "These questions matter because the company's future depends on its prestige and the goodwill of all those who buy tickets, perform there, or give it money. The company and …
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