“We’re telling the best stories that we can possibly tell — the most dynamic, the best writing — period. The fact is: Voices that have been too often marginalized in our theater have some of the most exciting stories to tell. So if we’re going to tell the best stories, we darn well better have a mix of storytellers and stories that reflect gender diversity and many, many other expressions of identity.”
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Did Museum Insiders Steal Thousands Of Bugs?
Ex-employees of a Philadelphia museum have been questioned in the theft of thousands of living insects and lizards, and investigators appear close to wrapping up the case, a police spokesman told The Daily Beast.
Is It Reasonable To Think We Could Understand Other Species’ Thinking?
If other humans are beyond our comprehension, what hope is there for understanding the experience of animals, artificial intelligence or aliens?
New York City’s Streets Are Lined With Vacant Storefronts. They’re Changing The City’s Culture
Soaring rents and competition from online shopping have forced out many beloved mom-and-pop shops, which many residents say decimates neighborhoods and threatens New York’s unique character. Then there is the blight that shuttered stores bring, including vagrants, graffiti and trash.
The Arts World Has A Health Care Crisis
Prado Spotlights Two Female Renaissance Painters Who Aren’t Artemisia Gentileschi
“Lavinia Fontana [was] a Mannerist widely considered to be the first professional female artist, and Sofonisba Anguissola [was] an Italian noblewoman who served as King Philip II of Spain’s court painter.” Both women were praised by the likes of Michelangelo, van Dyck, and Vasari, and Fontana was blessed with an extraordinary husband who — in the 1580s, mind you — put her career ahead of his own.
Magazines Are Threatened. But The Magazine Cover Still Has Great Power
One very public-facing fragment of the medium remains: the cover. A magazine cover is all at once a cultural statement, a conversation starter, a negotiating asset, a digital selling point, a mood.
Predator Or Prey? J.D. Salinger’s Erstwhile 18-Year-Old Girlfriend Wants To Be Reconsidered In Light Of #MeToo
When Joyce Maynard published her memoir At Home in the World, about when, 25 years earlier, she dropped out of Yale to go live with the 53-year-old author (and got abruptly dumped seven months later), she endured a wave of criticism for kissing-and-telling that to this day hasn’t entirely abated. Here she writes, “Though I believe that if the book I wrote 20 years ago were published today it would be received differently, it does not appear that enlightenment concerning the abuses of men in power extends retroactively to women who chose to speak long ago, and were shamed and humiliated for doing so.”
What Are Our Ethical Responsibilities To Our AI Creations?
What sorts of responsibilities would we owe to these simulated humans? However else we might feel about violent computer games, no one seriously thinks it’s homicide when you blast a virtual assailant to oblivion. Yet it’s no longer absurd to imagine that simulated people might one day exist, and be possessed of some measure of autonomy and consciousness.
Michelle Dorrance Will Put Tap Dance Anywhere
Sarah Kaufman doesn’t just mean lofty ballet companies like New York City Ballet and ABT or lofty venues like the Kennedy Center: “In Dorrance’s pieces you might find a high-tech electronic floor that enhances the music of her dancers’ feet. Or maybe there’ll be a live funk-blues band, or flamenco dancers. Dorrance has knocked about, vaudeville-style, with Bill Irwin, the stellar clown. She’s made a site-specific work on the spiral ramp of New York’s Guggenheim Museum.”