“People find the Netflix approach to talent and culture compelling for a few reasons. The most obvious one is that Netflix has been really successful.”
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Before You Can Ask If We Care About Poetry, You Have To Say What It Is
How many of us believe poetry is useless? How many of us don’t even care to ask the question, “Is poetry useless?”
How Museums Name Their Shows
“Like naming a baby, getting the title right can do much to determine how others perceive and remember an exhibition. And how many people will attend.”
Is Your Native Language Your Financial Destiny?
“Differences in the way various languages talk about the present and future [i.e., verb tense] could help explain why Germans urge free-spending Greeks to adopt their fiscal discipline, and why Americans are baffled by China’s low consumption and high savings rates, according to research published [last spring].”
How Smartphones Are Ruining The Museum Experience
“Flash photography has long been banned owing to the damage its blasts of high-intensity light can inflict on paintings. Smartphones and tablets pose a less visible but potentially graver threat. They disconnect the visitor from the art on display and imperil the museum in other, very real, ways.”
Vanity Fair Picks Our “Greatest” Living Artists
“This provocative, perhaps unanswerable question is worth asking for what it reveals about a cultural arena in which money and fame often seem to be the paramount obsessions.”