Matthew Westphal – Page 1897 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Venerable Music Publisher Starts Its Own Record Label

“The music publisher Edition Peters, which can trace its history back to 1800, is launching a new record label called Edition Peters Sounds. The new record label will focus on recordings made by artists represented by Edition Peters’ artist management company, … usually performing works from the extensive Edition Peters publishing catalogue.”

How Much Can People Really Change After Age 30?

“‘You’re doomed! What you’ve got now – that’s it,’ is the answer [psychology professor] Brian Little … gave me, and he was only half-joking.” And he was half-joking because that answer is about half-true.

Why “Serial” Can Feel So Discomfiting (It’s Not White Privilege)

“It’s not exactly in the racial dynamics, and not only in the way that Koenig tells the story. It has to do instead with the psychological tourism that comes in the aftermath of a crime, the license that everyone (Koenig, her audience, but also the cops and prosecutors and judges and Hae and Adnan’s classmates) feels to gaze into the lives of both victims and the accused and to wonder about the extent of what people are capable.”

Being Satisfied Is Not Necessarily The Same As Being Happy (So Just Because New Yorkers Kvetch Doesn’t Mean They’re Miserable)

“A person (even a New Yorker) could be both dissatisfied and happy at once, and … the act of complaining was not in fact evidence of unhappiness, but something that could in its own way lead to greater happiness.”

The Nature Of Clickbait Today (And Why We Might As Well Quit Kvetching About It)

By now, most of us have learned to see through, and make fun of, Upworthy-style headlines. “Thus clickbait – or whatever you want to call it – has now, in the manner of a hemorrhagic fever, evolved. It’s finished with its low-hanging-fruit phase, and has attached itself to a new form of curiosity-gap exploitation, one that’s more insidious, but no less irritating.”

Secrets And Suicide At The 92nd Street Y

“Sol Adler devoted his life to the 92nd Street Y, courting its billionaires and burnishing its cultural power. But when he brought scandal to its doorstep, the institution kicked him to the curb. And that, his family says, is what killed him.”

Writers’ Group Robbed At Gunpoint In Brooklyn

“An armed robber held up a popular Church Avenue cafe while a writers’ group was meeting there [last] Thursday night … He grabbed three Apple laptops and one iPad before fleeing on foot, police said.”

Police Raid Paris Manuscript Museum Over Alleged Ponzi Scheme

“Paris’s Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, an institution devoted to ancient manuscripts and historic letters, was raided by French authorities on Tuesday for its apparent role in a fraudulent investment scheme masterminded by the museum’s founder, financier Gérard Lhéritier.”

ArtPrize Is Expanding To Dallas

The world’s richest art competition, with $200,000 prizes awarded by jury and public vote, is stretching beyond its Grand Rapids home for the first time. ArtPrize Dallas, which will be administered independently, will open its first edition in April 2016.

Author: Matthew Westphal