Taylor: “I wanted Star Wars to have clarity because I don’t think space is out of focus.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Time For A Fringe Fringe – One That Performers Can Afford?
In Edinburgh, both fees and prices for lodging have skyrocketed. Can making your name there be worth it?
Linda Ronstadt Has Parkinson’s And Can No Longer Sing
“Ms. Ronstadt, 67, received her official diagnosis eight months ago, although she had symptoms for the past eight years.”
The City Mouse Actually Is Smarter (Well, Its Brain Is Bigger) Than The Country Mouse
Groups of animals that move to cities and towns eventually end up with brains up to 6 percent bigger than those of their country relations.
Barcelona Has The Keys To The Mansion, But Where Did The Old Masters Go?
After a long-running legal battle, Barcelona finally took ownership over a private residence left to the city in 1991. But works by Rembrandt, El Greco, Vélazquez, Botticelli and Goya seem to have disappeared.
Rituals Make No Sense, But Even Little Kids Create Them. Why?
“Rituals are deeply rooted and they emerge early. Surprisingly young children are already sensitive to the difference between purposeful actions and rituals, and they adopt rituals themselves.”
The Guy Who Transformed Netflix (And Is Making Hollywood Nervous)
Ted Sarandos “seems to take pleasure in upending industry conventions — ordering an entire season of a series without asking for a pilot, withholding ratings and even throwing all of a new show’s episodes online at once.”
Tasting, And Smelling, SAT Words
“I loved ‘perspicacious’ and ‘recondite’ and ‘hortatory’ and ‘cleave,’ the last of which meant the opposite of itself, both to join and to tear apart. ‘Impregnable’ was an autoantonym, too. It was like a snake that ate its own tail.”
‘Boring’ Baroque Art Gets A Street Makeover
“What’s odd, of course, is that 400 years ago, people were not shocked by a shitting dog, but years later, there are people out there that don’t like it.”
Thinking: We Can’t Do It (Or Can We?) With Noise
“There is no physiological habituation to noise. The stress of audible assault affects us psychologically even when we don’t consciously register noise.” This does not bode well for 21st-century philosophers.