“The problem is that science is by nature a non-emotional process,” Felix says. “You have to be dispassionate. The data has to speak for itself. But that’s not what humans are like. Emotion is what drives us. And emotion is the raw material that artists use.”
Tag: 02.11.16
How People Learn To Become Resilient
“One of the central elements of resilience … is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? ‘Events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic.’ … The experience [of trauma] isn’t inherent in the event; it resides in the event’s psychological construal.”
How Do you Build A Critical Life As Part Of A Creative Life?
“He honors the heights but gladly descends from them, all the while wondering anxiously whether something a little less sublime, a more easeful ideal of the engagement with art, does not shrivel him into a fan or a consumer. The anxiety is fully warranted..”
Ailing Seattle Bookstore Turns To Fans For Help (And They Do)
“Every time some mystery shop closes, people felt like they lost their shop and they wished their shop had said something. So we just decided to be the shop that asks for help.”
France’s Culture Minister Replaced – Mid-Debate – In Surprise Cabinet Reshuffle
“Audrey Azoulay, currently President François Hollande’s cultural advisor, is to replace Fleur Pellerin as France’s minister of culture. … Pellerin learned that she was no longer the minister of culture and communication in the middle of a senate debate over her proposed ‘creation, architecture and heritage’ law.”
Roberto Alagna Learns New Role In Two Weeks, Saves The Met’s Bacon
“Jonas Kaufmann, one of the biggest stars in opera, had just withdrawn from a coming new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. Would Mr. Alagna step in? ‘My first thought was to say no,’ [he said]. … And he would have just 16 days to nail it before opening night, which arrives this Friday.”
The Connection Between New Arts Organizations And Neighborhood Diversity
Richard Florida looks at a new study of New York City neighborhoods and organizations founded between 2000 and 2010: “Two thirds of new nonprofit arts organizations are located in neighborhoods with moderate to high levels of racial and income diversity.”
Like Misty Copeland’s Degas Photos? There Are Hard Truths Behind Them
Sebastian Smee: “It always makes me deeply uneasy to see [people] take to Edgar Degas’s ballet pictures as if they were some sort of grand affirmation of their art. They’re really not. … These poor girls were commonly known as ‘les petits rats,’ the little rats, and Degas, who also called them his ‘little monkey girls,’ was precisely interested in this sordid aspect.”
Lincoln Center Hall Of Fame Names First Inductees
“There is no hall yet, but Lincoln Center’s nascent performing arts hall of fame now has the fame part down. It announced Thursday that its first class of inductees would include Louis Armstrong, Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Leontyne Price and Harold Prince.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.11.16
Four rules of money
Budgets and balance sheets and audited financials have a tendency to simultaneously over-simplify and over-complicate organizational life. The way they appear on a page suggests a linear, logical, orderly aggregation of resources in clean compartments, … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-02-11
Making art the focus
I’m sure we’d all say that, if we’re musicians, or producing musical performances, that art is the focus. The music is what matters. Everything else – marketing, how the ushers behave, how we dress, … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-02-11
The uninvited critics
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I take a closer look a theatrical controversy in Los Angeles that made national headlines. Here’s an excerpt. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-02-11
For Fun: Nicole Johänntgen
The German saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen is one of Europe’s busiest musicians, traveling frequently from her home in Switzerland to play with a cross-section of the continent’s jazz artists. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-02-11
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