“Every weekday for the past two and a half years, Ariel Wilson Cetrone showed up for work in the morning at a small District government agency, poring over grant applications and performance reviews for the arts projects she oversaw. Her name was listed on the staff directory on the agency’s Web site, she had a D.C. government e-mail address, cell phone, and business cards, and put in 40 hours just like everybody else. But she wasn’t like everyone else.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Brain Implant That Can Wirelessly Control Emotions
“What if we could, with the push of a button, make microscopic alterations of a few neurons, causing the happy chemicals to ring out in a jackpot celebration, with no side effects? Would we be ready to handle such complete control over our emotional reality?”
A Town Buys An Artist’s House And Vows To Restore It, And Then, Well, It’s Complicated
“Henry Varnum Poor, who died in 1970, was once among the country’s best-known painters and potters, and his work is owned by museums across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt and the Art Institute of Chicago. He built the main part of Crow House in 1920 and 1921, using chestnut tree trunks as beams and hauling rocks from a nearby sandstone quarry in a Ford Model T.”
Eight Steps To Fund Innovation In The Arts For Real
“1. Give $5,000 to the first 30 people under the age of 30 that ask for it. No questions asked.”
The Poetry Of Being An Art Museum Phone Operator
“There was a Rodin
at another museum.
So what was its name?”
Adding Classical Music To Your Lawn Mowing Time: An Experiment
“Any Mahler symphony recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will help with ‘long and heavy lifting in the yard.'”
The Swiss Movie Fest That Gives Life To Indie Chinese Filmmakers
“Locarno has emerged as one of the most important Western festivals to support Asian film, particularly works without big box-office prospects. For mainland Chinese filmmakers, that kind of affirmation from foreign industry insiders has become more crucial in recent years, as various levels of government under President Xi Jinping carry out the broadest crackdown on free expression since 1989.”
Whatever Happened To Sacred Summer Reading Time?
“The idea of perfecting your inner life by reading the right books over the summer was as much a chimera as the idea of the perfect summer.”
Amazon: Not A Pleasant Workplace … To Put It Mildly
“Employees say that the Bezos ideal, a meritocracy in which people and ideas compete and the best win, where co-workers challenge one another ‘even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting,’ as the leadership principles note, has turned into a world of frequent combat.”
The Lies And Infidelities Of Translation
“In translation, a discontent with reality expresses itself forcefully and most hauntingly by the longing to reproduce this one. The fabrication of a new, parallel reality flies in the face of the already created and as such is based on negation, and what should be the vacuum of a dream becomes continually replete as the source of dreams.”