“While it is sadly true that the loss of illustrious theater critics in print hasn’t been offset by the arrival of equally potent voices online, the Internet has helped make the work of critics more accessible. Yet the hue and cry and feverish haste of the Web have had a homogenizing effect. The individual voice has been drowned out in the digital din.”
Month: October 2015
Why Does The Dance World Treat Choreographers As Second Class?
“We have received far less public profiling, far less opportunity to show our work outside the small scale and far fewer offers to upscale our work and be commissioned.”
Was Steve Jobs An Artist?
“Art” is a capacious term. We typically imagine artists to be solitary people creating art by hand. But many artists work in more expansive, disembodied ways.
Can You Teach Better Ways Of Making Predictions?
“The essential insight? Prediction accuracy is possible when people participate in a setup that rewards only accuracy — and not the novelty of the explanation, or loyalty to the party line, or the importance of keeping up your reputation. It is within this condition that the “supers,” the top 2 percent of each group, emerged.”
Study: Prejudice Can Be Altered By Brain Manipulation
“Our usual ideological responses to reminders of death—to cling more tightly to the comforting components of religion, and to “double down on your group values” by denigrating a critical outsider—were far less pronounced when one specific region of the brain was largely de-activated.”
Planning To See A Movie Based On User Ratings? Think Again…
Fandango.com’s rounding methodology, even if it was just an innocent bug, is a good example of why you should be skeptical of online movie ratings, especially from companies selling you tickets.
Ottawa’s Opera Lyra Shuts Down Mid-Season
“In the end, the shortfall in cash flow meant the company could not continue to operate, he said. The board made the decision Tuesday evening, after much discussion, to shut the doors. The company was also still struggling with a debt of more than $500,000, which became increasingly hard to manage.”
Cleveland Orchestra’s Retiring CEO Looks Back
“Indeed, on the eve of his retirement Nov. 30, longtime executive director Gary Hanson likens his departure to jumping off a moving train. For all their enormous impact, he says, his accomplishments weren’t his alone. Neither will the organization fall apart without him. … ‘I’m proud to have had a role,’ [he says]. ‘But I didn’t start it, and no one’s ever going to finish it.'”
That Pay-Us-To-Review-Your-Play Website In L.A.? It’s Not Working Out
“Since an initial burst of summer activity from shows in the Hollywood Fringe Festival abated (festival reviews were discounted [by half] to $75), Bitter Lemons has posted just 12 paid reviews over the past 11½ weeks. … Colin Mitchell, Bitter Lemons’ founder, said Wednesday that there were no additional reviews in the pipeline.”
The Street Artist Who Punked ‘Homeland’ Tells How She Pulled It Off (And Why)
Heba Amin: “This is not necessarily a specific attack on Homeland, but on the inaccuracies in the visual depictions of the region, not just the storylines. And that has consequences on real-world situations. …Obama said this was his favorite show. So when you have a show where Iran and al-Qaida are friends all of a sudden …”