Kahn will leave having made Shakespeare a native language in the nation’s capital, and having done more to reshape and elevate D.C. theater than anyone since the late Arena Stage founder Zelda Fichandler.
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Why Couples Nearly Break Up At Ikea: Psychologists Explain
You’ve been through it, or know someone who has. The two of you can’t choose from among the zillion end tables, or you can’t remember the name of the one you settled on, or you can’t make sense of the cartoon instructions … here’s an explanation of where the disagreements come from, and some tips on how to avoid the biggest dangers.
London Mayor Announces Plan For Massive Creative Hub In Thames Estuary
Among the facilities listed in the proposal, for an area that stretches from Greenwich and Canary Wharf in London out to the North Sea coast, are a sculpture foundry, theatre rehearsal studios, a centre for video game development, two film studios, an expanded Turner Contemporary gallery, and Britain’s largest 3D-printing facility.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.13.17
Paint, Hats and Degas–Really?
Today the Saint Louis Art Museum opened a new exhibition called Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade. On the surface, it sounds like one of those cooked-up theses, a mix of fashion with art, … A gimmick.
Well, probably not. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-12
Second Inversion
Or, “The America Chord.” … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-02-13
Why The Shift From Owning Music To Streaming It Is Killing Music
“The music industry was built on the passions of record collectors. The album wasn’t just a physical object, but a lifestyle accessory, almost a fetish and talisman. People didn’t just listen to their records, they displayed them as quasi-holy relics. The album cover might seem irrelevant — a baby swimming after a dollar bill, a painting of a big banana, or even a blank white slate with only tiny text (The Beatles) emblazoned on it. But to the owners, these served as supercharged personal emblems. The image could change, but the message stayed the same: This is my music. This is who I am.”
The Grammys’ Fear Of Progress
“Black artists from Prince to Michael Jackson to Kanye West have been on the forefront of this sort of expansion of what pop music means. Maybe that fact has something to do with why they have mostly fared poorly in the Grammys general categories over the years even as they have served up exactly the kind of performances that make the Grammys worth watching at all. Or maybe it’s just a deeper sort of bias.”
Elon Musk: Humans And Machines Will Have To Converge
“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk told an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he also launched Tesla in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.”
Here Are All Of 2017’s Classical Music Grammy Winners
The Boston Symphony, Nashville Symphony and more…
Lonni Sue Johnson Has Amnesia And She’s Teaching Neuroscientists About What She Knows About Art
“The neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins started at the most basic level they could think of – the ‘Who painted this?’ test, which she pretty much failed. Her semantic memory about art and artists, her primary area of expertise, was significantly impaired. Remarkably, though, when the scientists included some of her own artworks in the testing, she correctly flagged every one as hers. Even more surprising, when the researchers added drawings done in a style somewhat similar to Johnson’s, she picked them out as artworks she might have produced. To do so, she had to be drawing on some sort of memory.”
The Internet Killed Small Newspapers, And Now We’re Left With Breitbart
“Without that truth-seeking ecosystem of healthy small- and mid-size daily newspapers to explain national news in terms local readers can understand, Americans are left stewing in separate echo chambers, one urban, educated, and liberal, the other working-class, rural, and spoiling for a fight. Not only do the inhabitants of these echo chambers not talk to each other; they barely speak the same language.”