“People are becoming more creative about using visual effects, such as lighting and sometimes images, in order to bring a certain aspect of the music to life.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Australia Returns Yet Another Stolen Statue To India
“The NGA said a preliminary assessment had earmarked 54 ‘significant south Asian works’ for further investigation into how they ended up in the collection. It expected this work might take several years.”
Science Says It’s True That Most Popular Music Sounds (Almost Exactly) Alike
“The success of a song or album has little to do with its complexity or quality, and more to do with social influence, or what other people seem to enjoy listening to.”
Artist Who Was Arrested Three Times Last Week In Havana Warned To Stay Away From Biennial
“‘This served to unmask everyone,’ Bruguera told the journalist Adriel Reyes of Radio Martí.”
The Day T.S. Eliot Invented The Hipster
“Neither hipsters nor Prufrock would exist without the modern urban setting that bred their sensibilities. It is in the city that the pulse of a civilization is taken.”
He Defied The Communists – With Poetry
“A writer who combined broad learning with sly incisiveness, Mr. Baranczak was widely considered a ‘dissident’ poet for his subtly acerbic political poems and his activism. In the 1970s he was banned from publishing in Poland, though he continued to write for underground outlets, and his work became a samizdat pass-around.”
Expertise Can Be So Very Overrated (Especially In Critics)
“The problem with demanding a certain kind of knowledge or a certain kind of expertise in criticism, then, is that it can end up presupposing, or insisting upon, a certain kind of conversation.”
We’re Tracked From The Earliest Moments Of Our Lives Now – But Sometimes The Numbers Are Wrong
“I had been tracking my sleep for three years when I discovered that even if I hadn’t periodically cheated, everything I thought about ‘quality’ was, in fact, suspect.”
New Tomb Of Previously Unknown Pharaonic Queen Discovered In Egypt
“This discovery will help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids.”
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