The current distinction between creators and influencers has much more to do with what platform a person gains her fame on than her gender. – The Atlantic
Author: Douglas McLennan
A Conservative Writer Makes An Anti-Market Argument About Jeff Koons
Matthew Scully: “Actually, if there’s political insight to be gleaned from all this, it probably has more to do with inflatable reputations, gullible audiences, and the spell of progressive groupthink — problems that grow only more hopeless with money.” National Review Online
The Future Of Opera Is Small
As in small companies. More and more small companies are appearing not as smaller echoes of larger companies, but as viable alternatives that allow artists more creative possibilities. – Washington Post
Was 1999 The Best Year Ever For Movies?
Brian Raftery makes a persuasive, entertaining case for the enduring impact of a passel of classics, from “American Beauty” to “American Movie” to “American Pie.” Among them: “The Matrix,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Three Kings,” “Being John Malkovich,” “The Best Man,” “The Insider,” “The Virgin Suicides,” “Magnolia” and “Election.” – The New York Times
Sound Wars: Where Silence Isn’t Silent And Sound Battles Sound
There are days when sitting in a room that noiseless sounds appealing. But some people are so unaccustomed to such levels of quiet that, after just a few minutes inside the chamber, they become disoriented. – The New Yorker
The New LACMA – A Museum For No One
The museum has been through three contentious redesigns before, but the thing it needed all along was more room. Its collection—which includes pre-Columbian relics, as well as modern showpieces like Chris Burden’s Urban Light—was already bursting its four current buildings at the seams. Now, it will be squeezed into a space two-thirds the size. – The New Republic
Classic Fiction Is Confessional – Tell Your Secrets. But In The Social Media Age…
…what if the opposite is true? That your secrets, the things only you know about yourself, are in fact the most trivial, most banal things about you? In a society where many of us who don’t qualify as public figures spend a lot of time projecting our lives and our personalities in public, the biggest secret of all might be that, in whatever privacy we have left, we don’t have any secrets. – Book Forum
Protests Over Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre Company Response To Systemic Abuse
Protesters said the sexual abuse 35 to 45 years ago was far more widespread than the number of current suits would indicate. They described a culture within the theater in which sex between adult staff and teenage students was an “open secret.” – The Star-Tribune (MPLS)
The Baltimore Symphony’s Finances Are A Mess. Who’s Fumbled What?
Lawmakers thought they were buying the orchestra enough time to re-examine its costs, raise more money for its endowment and develop a sustainable fiscal structure that would not entail sacrifices on this scale for the musicians. If that wasn’t the case, the BSO management should have said so before Thursday. – Baltimore Sun
US Will Now Require Visa Applicants To Reveal Their Social Media Accounts
Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting – such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups – would need to hand over this data. But now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed. – BBC