Friday, March 23, 2018
"In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding - eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful o…
SOURCE: www.pri.org at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
"Will robots become self-aware? Will they have rights? Will they be in charge?" Stephan Talty offers five potential scenarios from a future when AI surrounds us.
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]"It is difficult to envisage a world in which every recording was practically unique: popular recordings are defined by their reproducibility." Yet, in the early days of Edison's phonograph …
SOURCE: www.historytoday.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]"If we could fully understand the impact of arts and culture on wider society, would this change arts strategies and policies? Jonathan Vickery charts the progression of thinking on the 'spi…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 01:02PM[SHARE]"A potent, short-lasting compound that has been found throughout the plant kingdom" - notably, in ayahuasca - "DMT can induce the sensation of leaving the body, producing profound changes in…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 11:04AM[SHARE]"'To see what is in front of one's nose,' George Orwell said, 'needs a constant struggle.' ... What about the hidden truths, the buried drives and desires? The things that lie beyond distant…
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 10:36AM[SHARE]In the wake of the last Florida school shooting, and as a lead-up to this weekend's March for Our Lives, here's a conversation with Villanova University research psychologist Patrick Markey,…
SOURCE: waypoint.vice.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]After debuting at age 19 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and later conducting under three different titles (including acting music director for one season) at the Chicago Symphony, he became…
SOURCE: www.tampabay.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Dreamer, with music by Jimmy López (the opera Bel Canto and text by Nilo Cruz (a Pulitzer winner for the play Anna in the Tropics), was commissioned two years ago by Cal Performances in B…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AM[SHARE]When director Philippe Vergne sacked chief curator Helen Molesworth last week, he reportedly told a board member that Molesworth had been "undermining the museum". "One avenue that has gone …
SOURCE: www.artnews.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Guards in New York City's museums spend most of their shifts on their feet - usually four to eight hours at a time. They should also be able to carry as much as 25 pounds, trudge up and dow…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Montreal's Just For Laughs Group has been acquired by a group of investors led by ICM Partners and Howie Mandel. The acquisition covers the annual comedy festival held in July in Montreal a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Avruch played Bozo the Clown [on the eponymous children's television show] from 1959 to 1970, a clown character particularly popular in the U.S. in the 1960s because of widespread franchisi…
SOURCE: uk.news.yahoo.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]Hope Not Hate, Britain's largest anti-racism organization, undertook an investigation and campaign calling attention to racist and anti-Semitic tracts, Holocaust denial books, bomb-making ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Called De Letters van Utrecht, the 'social sculpture' is constantly evolving and continues to expand every Saturday afternoon when one of 22 stone carvers from a local guild chisels a singl…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
"In this episode of Watch Smarter, Slate's video series about hidden tropes in pop culture and beyond, we trace the surprising history of cartoon sounds we all know but have never quite unde…
SOURCE: slate.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]"Chad Smith, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's chief operating officer, ... will take over in Ojai for Thomas W. Morris, who is retiring in 2019 after 16 years in the position. Smith will conti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PM[SHARE]Linguist John McWhorter gives a rundown of what we know about how Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow spoke. (podcast)
SOURCE: Slate at 01:01PM[SHARE]Happiness studies and positive psychology, which started seriously taking off in the 1990s, are "scholarly fields that combine Eastern religions, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and beha…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Because the brain grades on a curve, endlessly comparing the present with what came just before, the secret to happiness may be unhappiness. Not unmitigated unhappiness, of course, but the …
SOURCE: nautil.us at 10:35AM[SHARE]"On magazine covers and in newspaper pages, Mr. Grossman chronicled and caricatured a half-century's worth of politicians, pop-culture figures and social issues. He had a knack for causing a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04AM[SHARE]"The F-word isn't usually used to describe a dance by Merce Cunningham. But after Rashaun Mitchell watched members of the Stephen Petronio Company rehearse the sextet from Signals, a rarely …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:17AM[SHARE]No, they're not previously unknown Native American art, we're afraid. They're first- and second-century Greco-Roman works from Antioch, and five of them were among the first pieces acquired …
SOURCE: www.tampabay.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]"Launching March 20, just in time to catch the spring wave of big Broadway openings that began last week with Escape to Margaritaville and continues this week with Frozen and Angels in Ameri…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:46AM[SHARE]"For almost 50 years, the artist Pablo Picasso's wild vision for a massive 102ft high public monument" - titles Bust of a Woman - "which was to have been the world's tallest concrete sculptu…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Alexandre Paulikevitch is one of the few male baladi dancers in the Middle East. He learned how to dance from watching Egypt's black and white movies and now performs as a soloist, challeng…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Saudi Arabia has long been known as one of the world's most conservative places ... Concerts and theater were largely banned, and even the notion of fun was often frowned upon as un-Islamic…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:44AM[SHARE]"Ms. Westphal's canvases - which included quilts, kimonos, dresses and baskets - reflected her life and her world travels, and were distinguished by her pioneering use of heat-dying processe…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
America's (and Twitter's) favorite dictionary defines dumpster fire as "an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or occurrence." Abby Ohlheiser investigates the history of the term and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:04PM[SHARE]Carlo Parodi, founder of the Giacomo Casanova Foundation (and, not incidentally, CEO of the winery Casanova Prosecco), plans to site the museum in six rooms at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]"Cuba has one of the lowest rates of internet usage in the Western Hemisphere, and access to media is strictly restricted - but that doesn't stop Cubans from watching Game of Thrones. Their …
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