“What remains, aside from the odd chair or electrical cord, is Breuer’s inimitable space. Also, maybe, a little nostalgia for the former tenant.” (slide show)
Tag: 03.12.16
No More Mass Market Copies Of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ Leaving Schools Out
“Questions immediately arose about why Ms. Lee, who died less than a month ago at 89, might have wanted to discontinue an edition that was popular with students.”
The Saga Of Three Valuable Paintings Donated To A Scandal-Ridden School
“It is very sad if after all that has happened at the school they are simply sold off to a private collector.”
The Woman Risking Her Life To Spray-Paint Feminist Murals In Kabul
“Hassani’s art shows women in traditional clothing with musical instruments. In subtle ways, they defy gender roles: These women are not playing the instruments to entertain someone else but, rather, wielding them on their own terms.”
The Slow (Painful) Drip Of Ballet Practice
“Studying ballet sucks for quite a while. Unlike everything I’d ever done until that point, at that germy barre, there was correct and then there was abysmal. The first few months are a fight to hack away at the terribleness. Your challenge is to find the grace in that struggle.”
Literary City Mice And Country Mice, And How The Twain Do Meet
“He refused to indulge in any metropolitan disdain towards the liberating, everyday essentials of plumbing, Austin cars, aspirin, contraceptives or canned food. The wretched alternatives were ‘dirty water, an earth bucket, a four-mile walk each way to work, headaches, broken women, hunger and monotony of diet.'”
A Massive Academic Project To Digitize All Of Lincoln’s Words Is Being Held Hostage By Lawmakers
“The digitization project, eagerly supported by Lincoln specialists and private donors, has so far found, annotated and published scores of thousands of freshly uncovered documents, adding to the universe of Lincoln materials. It began in the 1980s researching Lincoln’s legal career, then grew far bigger in scope as the Internet arrived.
We Can Give Up And Let Artificial Intelligence Just Take Over Now
Has the singularity arrived? “Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has claimed victory in its historic match with Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol after winning a third straight game in this best-of-five series.”
You Know What Made Video Games Look So Cool? ‘Alice in Wonderland’
“Games like Madness Returns and Far Cry invoke Alice to reach for a marketable tone, casting themselves into a higher plane of mordant cynicism, as if to say, ‘We’re dark, man, like this famous children’s story about death and drugs.'”