Philosophy, Aristotle tells us in his Metaphysics, begins with wonder. History does too. It starts with obvious perplexities but also with our realisation of the strangeness of the everyday, making our head swim. – Aeon
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How Newspaper Syndicates Homogenized Popular Taste In The 20th Century
Like other mass media that boomed around the same time—radio, movies, monthly magazines—syndicated news diverted people’s energies and attention from local culture with alluring, slickly-produced entertainment. And like those other media, newspapers became a conduit for a shared commercial culture. – Zocalo Public Square
When Indigenous Land Is Acknowledged Before A Performance, For Whom Is It Really Being Done?
It’s happening more and more, as part of the curtain speech or separately: a speaker formally acknowledges that, for example, “we are on Lenape land” (in the case of New York City). Lauren Wingenroth considers reasons for and ways of doing this without it becoming an empty or token gesture. – Dance Magazine
Demand For Safe Storage For Art Soars In California As Fires Close In
“Clients are asking for storage for paintings, art, design, antiques and collectibles but we’ve also been moving large scale bronze as well as marble garden sculpture into storage.” – The Art Newspaper
What’s Happening In The Field Of Dance Science And Medicine? This.
Last week in Montreal was the annual conference of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Kathleen McGuire was there’s and she brings news of nine interesting pieces of research presented there, answering questions from “What effect does training load have on injury?” to “How does perfectionism play out in dance?” and “Do padded socks work?” – Dance Magazine
Paul Taylor Company After Paul Taylor
Paul “liked watching the dancer figure it out. He liked giving you a challenge or an obstacle or a directive and then sitting back and seeing what you would do with it. He was also famous for giving you two notes that contradicted each other. Like “I want you to crawl slower but get off faster.” For him, there was something in the spirit of the try, the spirit of the effort. I intend on keeping that.” – The New York Times
‘The Game’: The Game — In Which The Dangers You Dodge Are Pick-Up Artists
Artist Angela Washko spent four years studying Neil Strauss’s notorious womanizing instruction manual The Game, along with other materials of its kind, to develop The Game: The Game, a video pastime in which the player is a young woman in a dive bar being hit on by a series of men on the hunt. Each line of dialogue and “seduction technique” is taken directly from PUA (pick-up artist) books and how-to videos. – The Nation
Dancing After 60: Peeling Back The Years
Of course, age creates physical limitations. But there is artistry in their dancing and musicality, in the way they hang a fraction behind the beat to create the lilting sensation of floating. It’s soulful. By the end of their sessions, which do involve breaks — cookies and coffee are essential for recharging the body — they seem to transform into lighter, younger versions of themselves. – The New York Times
Bernard Slade, Responsible For Great Cheesy ’70s Sitcoms, Dead At 89
He created, and often wrote scripts for, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, Love on a Rooftop, The Girl With Something Extra, and Bridget Loves Bernie. (He also wrote 17 episodes of Bewitched.) He also wrote one of the most successful Broadway romantic comedies ever, Same Time, Next Year (1975). – The New York Times
As Streaming Fragments The Audience, Say Goodbye To The Golden Age Of TV
The Golden Age of TV, the halcyon period that dates from the premiere of The Sopranos in January 1999, has been drawing to a close for a while now, but as the streamers lay out their plans for the 21st century’s third decade, it’s increasingly clear that it’s well and truly over. – Slate