“Mainstream economics is built on the premise that the economy is a machine-like system operating at equilibrium. … The system might experience shocks, but the result of all these minute decisions is that the economy eventually works its way back to a stable state. … But why not look at the economy in terms of the messy complexity of natural systems?”
Author: Matthew Westphal
How An East Village Funhouse Became A Show Business Empire: The Blue Man Group At 25
“They are bald, blue and earless. They do not talk. They play with their food (and their paint), perform wild music on instruments of their own devising and are the centerpiece of an international entertainment empire with 550 full- and part-time employees and annual revenues of $100 million. But perhaps the most striking thing about the men of Blue Man Group … is how comprehensively they have moved from the fringes to the mainstream, and beyond.
How Disney Worked Real Polynesian Culture Into ‘Moana’ – And Made It Fit Into Disney Archetypes At The Same Time
New York Times music writer Nate Chinen, who grew up in Hawaii, picks out the traditional elements and scrutinizes the ways in which Disney used and adapted them (and yeah, maybe co-opted, too).
It Wasn’t Just The Invention Of Artificial Light That Changed The Arts – It Was Artificial Darkness As Well
After all, theaters and concert halls weren’t darkened before the 19th century, and photography depended on darkness (and not only to develop film). What’s more, once artificial light was available, darkness itself could become an artistic tool.
William Christenberry, 80, Photographer Who Captured Alabama’s Lushness And Decay With A Kodak Brownie
“The small photographs for which he became renowned evoke a vanishing world populated almost solely by dilapidated buildings, rusting automobiles, advertising signs, graves and vegetation growing out of control.” As historian and former NEH chair William Ferris put it, “What Faulkner has done in his fiction, Christenberry has done in his photography.”
I Am On The Professor Watchlist (Which Is Now A Thing)
“Honestly, being a black man, I had thought that I had been marked enough,” writes George Yancy, a philosophy professor at Emory who is one of a couple hundred individuals that “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom,” according to a website launched by conservative youth group Turning Point USA.
How To Calculate Return On Investment In Arts Marketing
Carol Jones, consultant at Britain’s The Audience Agency, offers what she sees as a simple formula for measuring and assessing success.
British Army To Form New Unit Of Monuments Men And Women
The looting and destruction of art, architecture, rare manuscripts, and ancient heritage by ISIS (among other evildoers) has moved the U.K. Ministry of Defence to set up a present-day version of the heroic archaeologists and art historians (don’t you love that phrase?) who saved and identified countless treasures at the end of World War II.
Sexual Assault Alleged In Lawsuit Against Royal Winnipeg Ballet
“The 35-year-old [plaintiff] accuses former dance instructor and photographer Bruce Monk of sexual assault, child exploitation and human trafficking, among other offences.” Monk allegedly pressured the young woman to pose for nude photos when she was 16.
Off-Broadway’s New Latino Theater Project In Action
In May, Jacob Padrón launched The Sol Project to help develop Latino/a theater artists and get their work produced at major Off-Broadway and regional companies. Laura Collins-Hughes looks at how, now that it’s up and running (the first of Sol’s 12 plays is already in previews), the Project works.