“When we can’t fit everything in our own heads, we have to outsource information to others. But how do we keep track of who knows what? Commentator Tania Lombrozo shares some recent findings.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Benjamin Millepied Talks About Running The Paris Opera Ballet
“The idea behind [L.A. Dance Propject] was to create a home for the American modern dance repertory, but Paris is bringing me back to my career as a dancer. It’s a ballet company, first and foremost. Of course there are all the issues that go with the size – the bureaucracy, the French laws, the unions. There is stuff in the system that’s 150 years old, and there is so much talk about tradition!”
Why I’m Building A Pop-Up Globe Theatre
“It’s the energy of the building that has the potential to bring Shakespeare to life. It’s the shared space, the triple-galleried cockpit, the restless crowd, the direct address. It’s these conditions of performance that create a transformative experience.” Miles Gregory explains why he and colleagues are constructing “a full-scale, temporary, working theatre space that precisely replicates the dimensions of the Globe Theatre. That can quite literally ‘pop-up’ anywhere.”
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What Difference Does It Make Who The Next Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Is? Not That Much, Says Alex Ross
“The Berlin Philharmonic is unquestionably a magnificent organism … but the idea that its chief conductor is the Pope of classical music is a relic of the Karajan cult. … Not the least of the challenges that classical music faces is the increasingly unworkable celebrity-maestro model – a twentieth-century mutation.”
Scientists Figure Out Why You Saw That Dress As White-And-Gold Or Blue-And-Black
“We make assumptions about the world that guide the interpretation of sensory data, and these assumptions can be quite different for different individuals.”
David Letterman, Great American Broadcaster
“Nobody would have been shocked if, as Letterman aged, he simply tried to cling to his younger irreverence, flinging his 68-year-old self to Velcro walls, like in the old days. That’s what TV does to people who want to stay on TV, and it’s usually a cringefest. Instead, Letterman began a quiet but noticeable transformation to a broader, more open, human version of himself.”
Gregor Samsa Metamorphoses Into Different Creatures In Different Translations
Did he awake from troubled dreams to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, a giant verminous bug, a gigantic cockroach, or an enormous bedbug?
Australian Gov’t Moves $100M From Independent Arts Funding Body To Its Own Arts Ministry
The conservative-leaning governing coalition is reallocating half of the Australia Council for the Arts’ budget to a new “national program for excellence in the arts” directly controlled by the arts minister, George Brandis (who is also the attorney general).
B.B. King, 89
“The singer and guitarist … put the blues in a three-piece suit and took the musical genre from the barrooms and back porches of the Mississippi Delta to Carnegie Hall and the world’s toniest concert stages with a signature style emulated by generations of blues and rock musicians.”