“The Musée du quai Branly in Paris, the ethnographic museum located in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, could soon have a different name. The museum’s director, Stéphane Martin, has submitted a request to the French culture and higher education ministries.”
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We’re All Feeding Facebook’s Giant, Sucking Content Hole
“It’s tough to be creative every day when your life is fundamentally ordinary. It’s tiring. And, since most writers toil in relative isolation, it’s anything but social.”
Is Theatre About The Working Class, But Made For The Middle Class, Always ‘Poverty Porn’?
“It can be troubling to sit in an expensive theatre seat – that might cost close to what some people live on for an entire week – and watch actors portray the less fortunate.”
Eight Possible Alternatives To The Turing Test
“The Turing Test, which is intended to detect human-like intelligence in a machine, is fundamentally flawed. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved or modified. Here are eight proposed alternatives that could help us distinguish bot from human.”
What The New Yorker’s Comics Editor Looks For In Great Work
“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It’s definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it’s beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.”
Whatever Happened To LACMA’s Missing Goya? Imelda Marcos, That’s What
Turns out that the museum, concerned about its authenticity, sold deaccessioned Portrait of the Marquesa of Santa Cruz in 1978. The then-First Lady of the Philippines acquired the canvas for her personal aggrandizement the benefit of her nation. (The Philippine government finally took possession of it last year.)
Raw Nerve: Françoise Mouly
The art editor of The New Yorker – the woman who has chosen hundreds of striking, witty, and sometimes powerful covers – talks with Grace Bello about using visual imagery to master English, what comics can tell us about the state of a culture, and collaborating with husband Art Spiegelman on the seminal graphic magazine Raw.
Remember Q, The CBC Program That Used To Star Jian Ghomeshi? It’s Been Rebranded As q
Marketing expert: “Personally, I think that that’s probably not enough of an effort.”
Movie Editing Must Have Been a Shock To The Eyes When It Was First Developed
“Movies are, for the most part, made up of short runs of continuous action, called shots, spliced together with cuts. With a cut, a filmmaker can instantaneously replace most of what is available in your visual field with completely different stuff. This is something that never happened in the 3.5 billion years or so that it took our visual systems to develop. You might think, then, that cutting might cause something of a disturbance when it first appeared. And yet nothing in contemporary reports suggests that it did.”
Choreographer Akram Khan Defends His Criticism Of British Dance Training
“It wasn’t about dropping a bombshell – if I didn’t give a shit about young dancers, then I’d just keep quiet. I don’t need to work with British-trained dancers as we have a bunch of dancers from Asia and get half of those in our company from PARTS [in Brussels]. The only reason why I am saying this is because I care for these young people.”