Artist Sarah Sze: “I am aware people might dismiss my art, but I’m interested in getting them to stop and look. … The pieces in this show appear to measure space, or time, and now that I have two children, time is more significant. It has more weight.”
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Why Is ’50 Shades of Grey’ So Popular? Because Kindles Don’t Kiss And Tell
“It is the biggest e-reader success story yet, and its record-breaking sales have been attributed, in part, to the fact that it is possible to consume erotic fiction on a Kindle without anyone knowing your naughty secret. It’s the 21st-century equivalent of hiding a dirty book inside a respectable newspaper, and what’s more, it can be purchased instantly and anonymously at home.”
Technology, Digital (And Occasionally Live) Musicians Connect Science To The Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen: “The power of the installation is that it places no demands on you. If you hate it, you leave after 30 seconds. If you like it, you stay for two hours, three hours. For me personally, the best experience was to see two old ladies in their 80s banging the hell out of the bass drum, trying to hit the off-beats and shrieking with joy like little girls.”
Performing The Scottish Play – In Scots
“At most English schools you have to study Shakespeare, and sometimes I didn’t understand a bloody word of it. It’s actually easier to understand in Scots. It really adds to a lot of excitement in the whole thing, it makes it more real, in a strange way.”
Beach Music! That Is, Classical Music For Summer Vacations
What’s in your earbuds at the ocean? “Mention Bach and the beach, and most people think of the Brandenburg Concertos. In the stately French manner, and equally entrancing, is Bach’s third Orchestral Suite. You can stop after the rollicking six-minute overture, but few will be able to resist the second movement Air (on a G String) and the dance movements that follow.”
An Interview WIth Santiago Calatrava, Architect Of Swooping Bridges (And A Lot More)
“‘Engineering came first but now, after 30 years, I don’t see any difference between architecture and engineering. If you look at Brunel’s [Clifton Suspension] bridge in Bristol you could ask, “Is that architecture or engineering?” The details are architecture but the solution is engineering.'”
No, A Robot Orchestra Is Not Going To Work (And Here’s Why)
“In truth, with DarwinTunes, or the performing robots, there is no danger of any contemporary composer losing their job. These attempts to replicate the process of creation fail to see that composition requires human beings – exceptional individuals – and society.”
Can’t Learn To Dance? Try On These Shoes
“The shoes are equipped with accelerometer sensors that correspond to an app on the users’ smartphone. The app illustrates the proper way to do certain dance moves and gives live feedback to let you know if you’re really shakin’ ’em down.”
‘American Bandstand,’ Slice Of Rock ‘n’ Roll History, Just Doesn’t Have The Rights
“Dick Clark Productions counts among its assets more than 30 years of episodes of ‘American Bandstand,’ the weekly dance show of top hits that usually featured big-name singers performing as well. That would seem to be a potential gold mine of rock ‘n’ roll history, but making money off of it is another story. Although Dick Clark Productions (DCP) owns the shows, it doesn’t own the musical rights to the performances (most of which were lip-synced).”
Pop Culture, Out Of The Closet
It’s Pride Month in the U.S. In the 15 years since Ellen DeGeneres came out on the cover of Time Magazine, here are some cultural markers for actors and musicians who are – and sometimes suddenly are not – out.