“People generally don’t like being mean to each other — it’s what psychologists call ‘other-regarding preferences.’ But those preferences can have negative consequences.”
Tag: 10.30.14
To Each Era Its Own Godzilla (Ours Is Way Different From The Original, FYI)
“For its feet, the team came up with the idea of remodeling rubber boots. World War II had ended just nine years earlier and the only place such gear was available at the time was the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo.”
Adventures In Synesthesia, Or, How The Rothko Chapel Evokes Paul Simon’s Graceland
“Perhaps there is something inherently musical in the experience of abstract art.”
The Street Art That Fights Street Harassment
“The messages on Fazlalizadeh’s portraits illustrate the range of harassment women encounter on the streets, from invasions of their space or time, to name-calling and unwanted touching.”
Can The Death Of The Green Bay Symphony Provide A Wake-Up Call For Other Arts Groups?
“The way people consume music has changed, and classical music organizations are working to keep up with it. We have to consider what listeners have in mind when they come to a concert and what they listen to when they’re not at a concert.”
Protesters – Or Maybe Government Forces? – Destroy A Museum And Library In Southern Turkey
“Barbarians, now too, as it has been throughout history, attacked libraries, museums and books.”
Arts Journalists Can Too Get Work – At The Arts Organizations They Used To Cover
“It’s an interesting balancing act, for sure, because on the one side you have all resources available to you, but you want to be doing journalistic work.”
Weird Fiction, Weird Writers
“For a fiction writer, editing an anthology offers multiple lessons. You learn directly from the stories, but also from the lives of the writers and from the process of acquiring the stories. The information you gather seems more like intelligence, because you’re often a detective trying to solve an inexplicable case.”
Peter Sellars To Stage His First Dance Work
“[He] has directed operas and theater, collaborated with Toni Morrison and staged St. Matthew’s [sic] Passion with the Berlin Philharmonic. Now, he will turn his attention to Flex, a Brooklyn-born form of street dance, in a commission from the Park Avenue Armory [in New York].”
The Town That’s Discovering It’s Built Out Of Jewish Tombstones
“Back in May, construction work for a new supermarket began in the center of Brest, a city in Belarus on the border with Poland. In a turn of events that wouldn’t seem out of place in a horror film, more than 450 Jewish gravestones have since been discovered in the foundations of the houses that have been demolished to make way for the store.”