“Although the NSF invests a lot of other money into cataloguing and studying life on Earth, the CSBR is unique in funding the infrastructure behind natural history museums. It pays for unglamorous but essential things like basic specimen care and storage. Typical grants are worth around $3 to 5 million, and collectively, they amount to just 0.06 percent of the full NSF budget. And yet, they’re crucial.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Play That Succeeds By Actively Anti-Marketing Itself
“There’s something slightly perverse about a play that asks you to attend simply on faith and not to reveal its secrets, because most any arts marketer will tell you that word of mouth is essential for sales.”
The Programmer Who Broke The Internet By Deleting A Tiny Piece Of Code
“‘I think I have the right of deleting all my stuff,’ Koçulu wrote on March 20 in an email that was later made public. And then he did it.”
The Architects Whose Folk Museum Was Destroyed Are Now Causing Controversy With Their Own Renovation
“‘The Charles Moore building is being unnecessarily violated,’ said Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. ‘It’s a terrible irony that Tod and Billie are caught in this situation, considering that they were so visibly upset about the demolition of their Folk Art Museum.'”
Therapeutic Opera, Coming To A House Near You
“The gist is this: contact the Opera Helps phoneline with a personal problem, and they will endeavour to send a singer to your house. Said singer will briefly discuss the issue with you, select a suitable aria that addresses it, then perform it for you while you relax in familiar surroundings: on a comfortable chair, for instance, or even in bed.”
The Artist Who Has To Do His Work Between Heartbeats (Literally)
“Based in a tiny studio in the jewelry quarter in Birmingham, Short has also inscribed a quote from Abraham Lincoln on the tip of a Civil War bullet, one from Rosa Parks on the rim of a commemorative medal, and one from Steve Jobs on a gold microchip the size of a fingertip.”
In One Week, ‘Making A Murderer’ Crushed Every Other TV Show Out There
But the real interesting thing is that it didn’t do this in its first week, making the argument that maybe, just maybe, everyone should start looking at TV show popularity data way farther out from release dates.
Musicians Probably Need Resilience Training
Because it’s tough out there. “Each concert we produce is a battle on our own frontline with our own increasing expectations and with an ever more discerning audience that will likely be anticipating a CD-level performance. Every piece we write is a wrestling match with the achievements of our predecessors, our heroes, and our own internal struggles. “
This Cleaning Guy Has A Double Life As A Prizewinning Novelist
“‘It is a peculiarity of capitalists and the bourgeoisie to think that we workers have no culture,’ says the novelist, whose many tattoos include one of Karl Marx on his left arm.”
Writer And ‘Free Spirit’ Jim Harrison Has Died At 78
“He was perhaps the leading exponent of the small subgenre in which shotguns and shoe leather play a far greater role than balsamic reduction.”