All topics are converging. Teen Vogue covers politics, The Atlantic covers pop culture – and Time, apparently, covers Amal Clooney in a way it thinks will appeal to Millennial women (but really, will it?).
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Does Margaret Atwood Feel As Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Dystopia Creeps Closer To Reality?
Atwood, in a Reddit Ask Me Anything: “I cannot tell you how strange this feels. I wrote the book hoping to fend it off, and I believe it will be fended off: America is very diverse, a lot of people have been jolted out of political slumber and are paying attention, and the Constitution still stands.”
The Art Project That’s Oddly Reassuring About Artificial Intelligence
This “shybot” wandered the desert for a month, with its only goal being to avoid human contact. “Drones tracked its progress from the air — which Shybot at times appeared not to appreciate.”
There’s An Increase In Roles For Older Actors. Can It Last, And Expand?
This is a rather urgent issue, particularly as the Baby Boomer generation ages. “At a time when theatre is becoming far more aware of its lack of inclusiveness in relation to gender, race and economic and social privilege, ageism is often left out of the diversity conversation.”
The German Devil That Climbs Into Your Computer To Insert Typos
And that devil is a necessary creation, for spelling is important in Germany. “When you misspell to a German, you don’t just overlook the language: you libel it; you defile it; you annihilate it.”
An Orchestra That Plays ‘Icestruments’ In An Igloo
There’s an igloo concert hall in Sweden where performers play percussion and string instruments made of ice. Of course, “one of the major problems with conducting an ice orchestra is that the instruments eventually fall out of tune due to body heat from the performers and audience.”
Use Bots To Bypass Ticket Buying Limits? The UK Can Give You ‘Unlimited Fines’
Well, that’s one approach to dealing with ticket touts and making it slightly more fair, if it works. The touts have no one to blame but themselves: “Last month, resale site Viagogo was accused of ‘moral repugnance’ for selling tickets to an Ed Sheeran Teenage Cancer Trust gig for up to £5,000.”
Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not Addicted To Our Screens
We are. We just are. “We’ll get a flood of dopamine that makes us feel wonderful in the short term, though in the long term you build a tolerance and want more.” The answer? Look to the 1950s.
A Guide To The Usually Overlooked Brutalist Icons Of Paris
“The hard lines and raw material of these buildings, captured in Nigel Green’s crisp photographs that accompany the map, seem out of place in this French city of past regencies and Haussmann’s 19th-century design,” but perhaps they show what Paris could, or should, be.
What An Obituary Writer Thinks About The New Shirley MacLaine Movie About An Obituary Writer
Yeah, no. Just no. “I leap here to the defense of my noble former colleagues at this paper and others. People who see this movie unawares should be told that it’s fake news, and that it’s the obits themselves that are real news.”