Alexandra Lange makes the case that the MoIC, which opened in Manhattan a year ago last summer, actually functions as a playground. The problem is that, by intent or not, it has become a phenomenon like Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms.
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Our Interactions With Computers Will Soon Be Screenless. That Will Change How We Communicate
“Gartner estimates that by the end of the decade at least 30 percent of human-computer interaction will be screenless—activated by voice or location—and the coupling of S3+A combined with the rise of smart speakers will be a big part of how this prediction comes to life in the real world. It is hard to overstate how big this change will be for marketers. Just as the industry has begun to figure out how to bring mobile, social, and search together to be effective in digital, the game is poised to change yet again.”
Mir-Anon: Inside The Support Group For Ex-Employees Of Harvey Weinstein
Yes, that’s short for Miramax Anonymous. Says one longtime “member,” “When you weren’t feeling terrorized, the people you were meeting were extraordinary. And the glitz and glamour of the lifestyle would make you forget about the horrors.”
Movie Critics Associations Banish Disney Films From Awards Consideration Because Of Disney’s Ban Of LA Times Critics
“It is admittedly extraordinary for a critics’ group, let alone four critics’ groups, to take any action that might penalize film artists for decisions beyond their control. But Disney brought forth this action when it chose to punish The Times’ journalists rather than express its disagreement with a business story via ongoing public discussion. Disney’s response should gravely concern all who believe in the importance of a free press, artists included.”
Nancy Friday, Best-Selling Author On Women’s Issues, Dead At 84
“[She was] a dissatisfied daughter of the sexual revolution whose best-selling books” – My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self – “aimed to liberate women from embarrassment over their erotic fantasies and from fraught relationships with their mothers.”
Oh, It’s So Much Fun To Bash Music Critics. But Really?
The audience laughed and cheered. It was an odd feeling sitting in that concert hall with a press ticket in my pocket and knowing that nearly everybody around me was laughing at a critic’s alleged narrow-mindedness. (Aside: Is something bad but historically “relevant” worth performing?)
‘Sex, Spies, And The National Anthem’ – The Scandal That Nearly Brought Down The Boston Symphony
“BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson poured all of his soul and much of his fortune into seeing the orchestra flourish. But his ambition for it to rival the best European orchestras remained out of reach until he lured the German Kaiser’s favorite conductor to Boston” in 1912. Five years on, no less than Teddy Roosevelt declared, “Muck ought not to be allowed at large in this country!”
Residents Of North Philly’s Most Troubled Neighborhood Are Putting Their Story On Stage
“Mike Durkin stands on Kensington Avenue, handing out fliers for a play he wants the neighborhood to help him write. It’s called The Old Man and the Delaware River, an adaptation of the celebrated Ernest Hemingway short novel, The Old Man and the Sea. … In Durkin’s version, the old man is the people of Kensington and the struggle is the opioid crisis.”
They’ve Finally Figured Out What Killed Chopin – By Examining His Pickled Heart
“The great Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin had a morbid fear of premature burial. ‘The earth is suffocating,’ he told one of his sisters as he lay on his death bed in 1849. ‘Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won’t be buried alive.’ … His heart was removed and later stored in a jar of cognac, then interred in a church pillar in Poland. Now scientists have taken advantage of Chopin’s morbid desire.”
Cleveland Museum Of Art’s Big Plans Don’t Stop At Just A Million Visitors
Now that the CMA’s $320 million renovation and expansion is broken in, director William Griswold – having already said that he wants to boost attendance to one million annually – has a strategic plan to acquire $1 billion worth of art and increase the endowment by two-thirds, to $1.25 billion.