“Millennials – the generation born between 1980 and 1995 – relate to brands in deep and complicated ways, according to a new study … [B]rand identification is just about as important as religion and ethnicity when it comes to personal identifiers millennials share online.”
Tag: 10.14.10
Neeme Jarvi Named Artistic Director of Orch. de la Suisse Romande
The 73-year-old Estonian-American maestro, formerly chief conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony and the New Jersey Symphony, takes the helm next year from Marek Janowski. The Geneva orchestra became famous through a long series of recordings under its founding conductor, Ernest Ansermet.
Ikea Romance: Shopping for a Mate Is Like Shopping for Furniture
“The criteria used to make our decisions [about a mate] are frighteningly similar to those reviewed to select products we want to bring home. The same set of core standards is pertinent in each situation since both objects and partners need to support us functionally and emotionally.”
Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson on Why Comic Novels Rarely Win Awards
“If comedy is indeed as rattling as I think it is, then you’re going to be very lucky to find three out of five people who won’t argue furiously about it. Whereas a beautifully written elegy set in Connemara is likely to disturb that panel a lot less.”
Graffiti Art Makes Headway in Moscow
“It is especially tough to be a graffiti artist in Russia,” says one curator.”The state invests millions of rubles in hunting down graffiti artists and painting over the works.” But those who can convince skeptical authorities that they are legitimate artists and not vandals are finally getting a support structure to work with.
Off-Broadway Theatre Padlocked in Landlord-Tenant Dispute
“The Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street, one of New York’s diminishing number of commercial Off Broadway spaces, has closed indefinitely due to litigation between the theater producers and their landlord,” and the shows running in the house have been cancelled.
Dancing With Bamboo: Choreography Amidst Sculpture at Storm King
The sculpture park 60 miles north of Manhattan – dotted with Calder, Noguchi and Serra works, and now home to Maya Lin’s Wavefield – commissioned Wally Cardona and Judith Sanchez-Ruiz to make site-specific dances around Stephen Talasnik’s bamboo sculpture Stream: A Folded Drawing.
Bill Bryson, The Travel Writer Who Hates Adventure
“I once met [fellow author] Colin Thubron. He genuinely likes to go to places where he might get malaria. But I absolutely don’t want to get malaria and I don’t want to be uncomfortable. I don’t want to sleep on anything hard, or worry that an alligator is going to come up and take my leg off.”
Would NYPhil Poach PhilOrch’s Principal Clarinetist?
“Ricardo Morales, the principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and one of its stars, is spending this week as a guest principal with the New York Philharmonic.”
Capturing Water at the Moment of Liberation From a Water Balloon
“Edward Horsford’s high-speed photography freezes the spherical innards of water balloons – just as the balloon skins break open, and just before they splash to the floor.”