“True believers think that the new digital technologies will finally enable educators to increase productivity by allowing a smaller number of teachers to produce a larger number of “learning outcomes” (today’s term for educated students) than ever before. But it’s too soon to say whether MOOCs will really help cure the cost disease.”
Tag: 03.31.13
As The Virgin Mary Plays Broadway, Jesus Appears On The British Stage
Simon Callow writes about how he came to co-create and star in a solo show titled The Man Jesus.
Is This Man The Arab World’s Best Rapper?
“El Rass’ signature style is an animated fusion of classical Arabic – an idiom seldom employed in rap – and contemporary wordplay gleaned from the Lebanese streets and elsewhere. … But fans and critics say the complexity and depth of El Rass’ politically and socially charged texts distinguish the rapper, who has played to packed houses in Beirut and Amman.”
Is This A Korean Counterpart To Girl With A Pearl Earring?
Peter Paul Rubens’s 1617 drawing titled Man in Korean Costume (now in the Getty’s collection) may not be well-known in the US, but in South Korea two books have been inspired by the sketch: a 1993 historical novel that became a bestseller and a 2004 work of history by a Jesuit scholar.
Casanova Tells All, At Last: New, Uncut Version Of His Memoirs Published
The new edition of Histoire de ma vie, the first based on the original manuscript, reveals Casanova to be a more complex and sympathetic character than the love-her-and-leave-her Lothario of popular imagination.
William Shakespeare, Scofflaw
“An academic study confirms the playwright was repeatedly hauled before the courts and fined for illegally stockpiling food and was threatened with jail for dodging his taxes.”
How San Francisco Symphony Musicians And Management Struck A Deal
Musicians’ union committee chair David Gaudry: “We found over the course of the last weekend the mood of the two parties working together seemed to take a turn for the better. And it made for a more collaborative, problem-solving pair of sessions Friday and Saturday, and I think that’s really what allowed us to go forward and reach an agreement.”
Hollywood Stars Who Have Second Careers Acting In Other Languages
Kristin Scott Thomas (French) and Viggo Mortensen (Spanish) are but the best-known of anglophone film stars who are building respectable filmographies in other tongues. And there are even more of them who are fluent enough to do so if they wish.
Death Of The Gallery Show?
“The beloved linchpin of my viewing life is playing a diminished role in the life of art. And I fear that my knowledge of art–and along with it the self-knowledge that comes from looking at art–is shrinking.”
A Deal In San Francisco Symphony Strike
“Assuming the deal is ratified this week by union members and the Symphony board, it paves the way for concerts to resume in Davies Symphony Hall as early as Tuesday morning.”