“Is analogy the core of cognition? Yes. Is analogy irrational, subjective and concrete? Yes indeed, but it is also the underpinning of rationality, objectivity and abstraction. Analogy is not a rare luxury of thought or an exotic, remote corner of cognition. Analogy is the entire transport system of thought, including motorways, roads and trails.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Planning A National Museum For Palestine
Jack Persekian, director of the new institution, to open in Birzeit in late 2014: “The Palestinian Museum is a political symbol only in so far that it celebrates the accomplishments of the Palestinian people in arts and culture, and that it affirms the presence of Palestinians as a people who have agency, who are productive, who shape their own histories.”
New York Philharmonic Plays The Dresden Volkswagen Factory
“A concert in a car factory using parts of a luxury sedan as percussion instruments is one thing, but a Volkswagen suspended above the New York Philharmonic creates another level of musical drama entirely.”
Pilobolus Dances With Drones
Company executive director Itamar Kubovy: “The prevalence of drones made it more important to understand what the kinds of interactions between man and machine is like. We wanted to explore having a space that is occupied by both machines and people – this idea that a machine is watching and surveilling and a human is responding to that.”
Margaret Atwood On Utopias And Dystopias
Science fiction tends to locate itself in one or the other; Atwood, looking back to the 19th century, talks about why.
Beau Brummell, The Founding Father Of Dandyism
“It’s unusual for a tribe or breed to have such a definitive beginning, but all agree that Brummell was It. This Englishman of middle-class birth climbed into Regency-era aristocratic circles based on no more than his verbal wit and the eloquence of his dress.”
Chicago’s Luna Negra Dance Theater, Out Of Money, Shuts Down
“The company’s second artistic director, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, abruptly departed the dance company several weeks ago and returned to Spain – a development that raised red flags in the eyes of many observers.
Florence’s Opera House To Shut Down Ballet Company
“Addio to Mag gi oDanza, the bal let com pany formed in 1967 under the aus pices of Florence’s Mag gio Musicale Fiorentino. A financial crisis has res ul ted in the decision to axe the bal let com pany … [which] had already been stream lined to 16 ele ments over the last few years, and after Vladi mir Derevi anko left the dir ec tion of the com pany in 2010 it has been on shaky ground.”
Aging English Ex-Ballerina Grouses About Royal Ballet ‘Infiltrated’ By Foreigners
Bryony Brind, 52 and a principal dancer at Covent Garden for 14 years: “The Royal Ballet was founded in this country and has been going for years and should have a few more English dancers in order to carry on its tradition. It is more difficult for foreign dancers to grasp the quintessentially British style.”
How Cooper Union’s Endowment Failed The School’s Mission
“Since Peter Cooper’s heirs gave the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art the land under the Chrysler Building in 1902, the school’s endowment has enabled it to offer students a high-quality, tuition-free education through two world wars, the Great Depression and multiple stock market crashes and financial crises. So why does Cooper Union now find itself forced to charge tuition of an estimated $20,000 a year?”