Audiencing: The New-York-in-January Laboratory
AJBlog: We The Audience Published 2015-02-19
Portland 2015
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-18
Norm Macdonald, SNL40, Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy…
AJBlog: blog riley Published 2015-02-19
Your Museum as an Essential Community Space
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-02-18
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Tag: 02.19.15
“Not Indifference But Detachment” – Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
“I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. I shall no longer look at NewsHour every night. I shall no longer pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming. … I still care deeply about the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my business; they belong to the future.”
Your Pocket Guide To This Year’s Oscar Controversies
“While we all know about the major controversies underpinning this year’s [awards race] – such as the shameful lack of diversity in this year’s #OscarsSoWhite nominees – no film is immune from its own internal drama. Here’s a look at some of the specific quarrels and criticisms that have plagued 10 of this year’s nominated films.”
Multicolored Birds, Giant Flowers, And Heads With Wings Are About To Devour Philly
Well, its museums, anyway. The Museum of Art, U. Penn, the Free Library, and Winterthur are all featuring Fraktur, the wildly colorful and whimsical Pennsylvania German folk art: “Drawings of hybrid fish with the heads of men. Humans mottled like snakes. Long-tongued lions.”