The artist has called his foundation the Centre for the Less Good Idea—a reference to the process of creation, which often sees artists derailed from exploring their initial idea and focusing on “secondary ideas that emerge during the process of making”, he says.
Tag: 04.13.17
Tony Awards Are Having Big Trouble Finding A Host For This Year’s Show
“The Tonys have gone hostless before — with dire results. Theater people still wince at the memory of the 1999 awards, when a bunch of actors stood in a circle and declaimed famous lines from plays.”
The Missing Mendelssohn, And What The Story Of Fanny Tells Us About Women Composers
Fanny Mendelssohn died at the age of 41, having written 500 pieces. That’s … a lot. And more keep being discovered: “In only March of this year, it was discovered that her Easter Sonata, once credited to her brother, was actually hers, and it was played live under her name for the very first time this year.”
Netflix Finally Goes To Cannes
The company appears to have fixed its problems with the festival: “Up until now, Cannes had snubbed Netflix, saying the company’s online-first approach to film releases bypasses cinemas and should be discouraged. It is notable that both Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories will have theatrical releases.”
What Happened To Google Books, And How Can It Recover?
Google Books was the company’s first big idea, the first moonshot, the first thing that would change everything. “Two things happened to Google Books on the way from moonshot vision to mundane reality. Soon after launch, it quickly fell from the idealistic ether into a legal bog.” And then? It lost any ambition.
In London, Parliament Square Has Long Been A Male-Only Preserve, But Artist Gillian Wearing Is About To Change That
The artist will sculpt the first woman to appear in Parliament Square as a statue alongside the area’s many men – and that first woman will be suffragist Millicent Fawcett.
Why Our Voice-Command Intelligences Are Just As Racist And Sexist As We Are
Yeah, blame the ol’ garbage in, garbage out problem: “It may not be the fault of the programmers, the team at Princeton University reports in the journal Science. It may just be that the body of published material is based on millennia of biased thinking and practices.”
“Miss Saigon” From A Vietnamese Perspective
“Much has been written about Miss Saigon, primarily by white writers: about the yellowface controversy, about the actors involved. But very few Vietnamese-Americans have weighed in. We are the sixth-largest immigrant group in America, numbering 1.3 million. And yet popular narratives of the Vietnam War typically exclude us. And as Miss Saigon tours the country next year, the most popular narrative of all will continue to shut us out.”
They May Have Found Where Empathy Lives In The Brain
They did it by studying the brains of children right at the age where they develop empathy and theory of mind.
Werner Herzog: Los Angeles Has The Most Substance Of Any City
Herzog says his humor has been buoyed over the past 20 years by his living in Los Angeles, which he turned to after things didn’t work out with San Francisco. “My wife and I found it not the most exciting place in the United States and we said we want to move to the city with the most substance, and it was immediately clear that Los Angeles, that’s the place.”