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What Science Has To Say About Innate Aesthetic Preferences
“Perhaps the most broadly established aesthetic preference is the one of curvature over angularity,” they write. “People like the appearance of otherwise equivalent shapes and objects more if those contours are round rather than sharp and angular, and this is the case in various cultures around the globe.”
It’s Getting More Difficult To Get Visas For Foreign Artists Coming To The US
“The whole system is a kind of trap for the unwary,” says Geoffrey Smith, former board chair at The Washington Ballet and a lawyer who has worked on visa petitions for ballet dancers and companies for four decades. “I’m a lawyer who does this for a living, and I’ve still made a lot of mistakes. The government isn’t going to go out of its way to let you know that you’ve made a mistake or, for that matter, tell you how to fix it.
What Does It Mean To Be Human? The Question Itself Is A Problem
Martha Nussbaum: “We humans are very self-focused. We tend to think that being human is somehow very special and important, so we ask about that, instead of asking what it means to be an elephant, or a pig, or a bird. … The question, ‘What is it to be human?’ is not just narcissistic, it involves a culpable obtuseness. It is rather like asking, ‘What is it to be white?’ It connotes unearned privileges that have been used to dominate and exploit. But we usually don’t recognize this because our narcissism is so complete.”
Giving Hedda Sterne Another Chance
Hedda Sterne is not a name you hear very often, so I was pleased last spring when I learned that the Amon Carter Museum of American Art was giving her a solo exhibition.
Jack Costanzo, 1920-2018
The percussionist Jack Costanzo was so closely identified with his instrument that early in his career he became known as “Mr. Bongo.”
Another Poetry-Isn’t-Dying Piece
The “death of poetry” has been predicted with such frequency that it’s become a mordant joke, as have the “Poetry is dead, long live poetry!” rejoinders; everywhere, though, are reminders that these debates can miss the broader point. Poetry can’t die, any more than air or water can meet such an end, because poetry in the more expansive sense is not “poetry” in the narrow. Poetry is permeative; it is currency; and it is, thankfully, too big to die.
Oscar Wilde Fell For A Young Lady In San Francisco. A Biographer Has Figured Out Who She Was
During his 1882 lecture tour of North America, he wrote this letter: “When I think of America I only remember someone whose lips are like the crimson petals of a summer rose, whose eyes are two brown agates, who has the fascination of a panther, the pluck of a tigress, and the grace of a bird. Darling Hattie, I now realise that I am absolutely in love with you, and for ever and ever …” Biographer Matthew Sturgis says he’s identified the likely Hattie – who was “bright, vivacious, beautiful and rich.”
Giant Public Art Piece Disappears From Prominent Chicago Building
So there it stood for the last decade: allegedly damaged, possibly devalued, definitely disowned, but still a boldly colorful presence on that busy corner and a landmark for the thousands of pedestrians who passed it daily. I wondered, the last time I saw it, why it was cordoned off with the familiar yellow construction-or-crime-scene tape; it didn’t occur to me that it might be coming down. Like the whitewashing of Bill Walker’s All of Mankind mural a few years ago, its disappearance is a reminder that the public doesn’t own or control the fate of some of the city’s most public art.
When Robin Williams Opened Himself, And His 3-Year-Old Son, Up On The Met Opera Stage
“But then, in the waning moments of the show, Robin conjures up an exchange between himself and Zak that is essentially un-invent-able: It’s funny, but also achingly sincere and unexpectedly poignant. It’s a rare expression of openness from a performer who was more comfortable with his audience at arm’s length.” In this interactive feature, Dave Itzkoff breaks down his favorite bit from Williams’s now-famous 1986 “A Night at the Met.”