There was poetry, there were colorful signs, and there were scientists who only went into science because they read Margaret Atwood. The marches weren’t supposed to be political, but “one of the poems in Ms. Roberts’s handout,’“Advice from a Caterpillar’ by Amy Gerstler, felt like it could serve as a manual for resistance, or at least for survival. ‘Behave cryptically to confuse predators,’ it read: ‘change colors, spit, or feign death. If all else fails, taste terrible.'”
Tag: 04.23.17
Apple Caught Uber Tracking IPhone Users Even After They Deleted The App
And the #deleteUber movement gets more fuel for its fire: “The practice, called fingerprinting, is prohibited by Apple. To prevent the company from discovering the practice, Uber geofenced Apple headquarters in Cupertino, changing its code so that it would be hidden from Apple Employees.”
For This (At Least) Don’t Blame The Russians, Judge Tells Sotheby’s Expert
A Sotheby’s expert valued a Bruegel painting (one generations of English speakers know from William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Dance”) at $500,000, but it sold for more than four times as much. Did the expert lowball it, or did Russians spike the auction price? The I.R.S. has an opinion.
We Could Understand Donald Trump Better Through Reading ‘Richard II’
In medieval times, nobles believed a crowned and invested king had “two bodies” – one that was material and earthly, and one that was heavenly and bestowed by god. But “the character Richard II — like Trump — shows us how this agreement to live by a fiction can go wildly wrong. Richard does not realize that he is not really superhuman but that his subjects only grant him their willing suspension of disbelief if he plays the part he has been assigned.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 04.23.17
Metrics at the museum
The Washington Post‘s Philip Kennicott decided to try visiting the popular Kusama exhibit at the Hirshhorn not as a critic, with all its special viewing privileges, but as an ordinary member of the public. The … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2017-04-23
Recent Listening: Cuong Vu Plays Michael Gibbs
Cuong Vu 4TET, Ballet (Rare Noise) Trumpeter Vu and three fellow Seattle adventurers explore pieces by Michael Gibbs. It was guitarist Bill Frisell’s idea to bring the British composer to the University … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-04-22
SHIFT — a weird PR gaffe
Resuming my blog after a gap… I’m sorry that I said some provocative things about the SHIFT festival in DC, and then fell silent. I hadn’t planned that. But life intervened, taking me by surprise, … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2017-04-21
Almanac: Igor Stravinsky on music critics
“I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.” Igor Stravinsky (interviewed in the Evening … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-04-21
Smart Move In Brooklyn
A lot of people today are interested in “design.” Unless they are furnishing a home, not all that many are interested in “decorative arts.” They are, of course, fraternal if not identical twins. Yet decorative … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2017-04-20