For instance: Several years ago, a small tech company called Jetpac identified and categorized the content of 150 million photos posted publicly on Instagram to build a directory of businesses searchable by their characteristics. If the photos taken at a restaurant showed a lot of mouths wearing lipstick, Jetpac’s app would tag the spot as ‘dressy.’ If most of the faces in a photo of a bar were male, it would tag the spot as a gay bar.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Theatre Could Act To Stabilize American Society, If Practitioners Decided To Commit
Jonathan Wei of the Telling Project: “Art can provide the opportunity for inquiry, immediacy, presence, receptivity, and vulnerability. It can provide a space for the expression of the primary desire to expand one’s world, to embrace rather than exclude, to experience rather than define, to immerse rather than to understand, and to contemplate rather than formulate.”
Sonia Braga Wonders If A Latinx Actor Can Get In On The Oscars Love
“The Oscars really only have four spaces for best actress, because one is always reserved for Meryl Streep.”
Kerry James Marshall Is On A(n Extremely Righteous) Mission
And that mission is to correct, as much as he can, the whitewash of art history in museums across the country. ““At a certain point, you have to decide whether you’d be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena.”
Was This The First Protein Synthesis Dance?
Possibly. It’s called the “Protein Jive Sutra” and, as you may be able to tell from the name, was created and filmed in 1971, at Stanford. Watch the entire 13-minute film for a lot – a *lot* – more info about the way RNA works (or for the bright leotards and balloons of the 200 volunteers).
Asia Week Has Come Around Again, With The Shadow Of Last Year’s Raids (Possibly) Behind It
The show, or festival, has become a sort of “high-culture pub crawl,” though “organizers are still mindful that a year ago, federal officials and the Manhattan district attorney’s office raided several dealers during a crackdown on antiquities smuggling.”
Americans Have Given Up, Or So The Numbers Say
Forget innovation and nimble adjustment to circumstances. Forget the entrepreneurial spirit. Geographic immobility, including rising housing prices – and the prevalence of video games and TV shows – have us all trapped.
If Humans Are Special, As In Not Just Animals, What Does That Mean?
Scientists may try to define or explain this, says a philosopher, but only philosophers can really do the job. “Human beings live in mutual accountability, each answerable to the other and each the object of judgment. The eyes of others address us with an unavoidable question, the question ‘why?'”
It’s Utterly Ridiculous, From A Talent Point Of View, That We Don’t Have More Women Composers
The executive of the national charity for new music in the UK says, “Working with a more representative group of composers leads to a more thrilling variety of new music, more artistic innovation and also, perhaps, a positive and constructive challenge to an industry that can sometimes fall back on traditional ideas of what, or rather who, constitutes a composer.”
Spencer Hays, Business Magnate Who Gave A Huge Art Collection To The Musee D’Orsay, Has Died At 80
Mr. Hays had been a Bible salesman, an apparel salesman and a majority shareholder in a business employing college students to sell magazine subscriptions every summer. And he and his wife adored Paris, and French art. “The gift — the largest foreign donation of art to France since World War II — was announced by President François Hollande in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace in October after months of negotiations with the couple.”