“Terrence S. Orr … will retire next June after the ballet company concludes its 50th anniversary season. Under his leadership, Mr. Orr expanded the company’s repertory with more than 20 new commissions and dozens of acquisitions … [and] the company has grown its ticket sales, school enrollment and campus.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Why Are Book Subtitles Getting So Long?
“I don’t feel respected as a reader when I feel like the subtitle was created not to give me a feeling of what kind of reading experience I may get, but for search engines.” – Washington Post
Neuroscience: How Using GPS Is Shrinking Our Brains
“When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and remember them. They pay less attention to their surroundings. And neuroscientists can now see that brain behavior changes when people rely on turn-by-turn directions.” – Washington Post
Why Customers Are Returning To Small Bookstores
When one small bookstore owner tells customers they could buy it cheaper if they ordered it themselves, she says they tell her: “Amazon doesn’t play with my kids; Amazon doesn’t bring authors to Bedford; Amazon doesn’t recommend books when my child is going through hell and needs something to lift them up.” – The Guardian
What If Hollywood Pulls Out Of Georgia? There’s Lots Of Money At Stake, But…
“Although entertainment-industry protests have previously helped derail socially conservative legislation in Georgia, studios didn’t voice significant opposition to the new abortion law while it was being considered by the state legislature. Now, according to the University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock, it’s unlikely they can meaningfully impact the law’s future, which is up to the courts.” – The Atlantic
Fresh Prey: Digital Privacy Increasingly An Issue For Those Who Can’t Pay
All kinds of companies pick through our online behavior for clues about how we might be convinced to spend money. These practices particularly affect poor people, who are more dependent on cheap or free online services. The services appear to cost nothing, but payment is in data rather than dollars. – The New Republic
Mona Lisa’s Smile? She Was Faking It, Say Researchers
“Our results indicate that happiness is expressed only on the left side. According to some influential theories of emotion neuropsychology, we here interpreted the Mona Lisa asymmetric smile as a non-genuine smile, also thought to occur when the subject lies,” the authors write in their study published recently in the April 2019 issue of the journal Cortex. – EurekAlert
Arts Professionals Need To Stop Fleeing From The Merest Whiff Of Failure
Leila Jancovich: “When managing the [2002] Commonwealth Games cultural programme in Manchester, both myself and our independent evaluator were asked to remove learning points from our reports for fear they might appear negative. Instead, we were encouraged to focus on celebratory facts and figures. But I strongly believed then – and believe now – that we learn more from failure than success. ” – Arts Professional
Shifts at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Wilsey Steps Down, Controversy Ramps Up
Notwithstanding Dede Wilsey’s megadonor status and her 21-year tenure in the board’s top spot, her future value to FAMSF could be compromised by an eyebrow-raising opinion piece published Tuesday by the San Francisco Examiner — “Questions Emerge about Legitimacy of Museum Leadership”. – Lee Rosenbaum
A Preference For Part-Time
“A survey from the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that, among US workers employed part-time, 64 per cent prefer it that way. Meanwhile, 20 per cent of full-time workers – that’s almost 26 million Americans – would rather work part-time.” – Aeon