“The best thing conservatories can do is to graduate healthy, intact people with a sense of agency over their careers and lives. The whole Svengali thing has to be held in check, because universities have ways of burying those bad experiences and boards don’t want to hear it.”
Tag: 04.21.16
What Does Isabelle Huppert Think About While She’s Acting? Nothing
“In fact, when I act I don’t think about anything. My acting depends on the staging: you know, you put the camera in front of me, and I do it.”
You Can’t Handle The Truth: Reality Is *Nothing* Like What We Experience With Our Senses, Argues Cognitive Scientist
“Sure, when we stop and think about it, we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like … Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now?” Rather the opposite, says Donald Hoffman: humans evolved as we did because our brains couldn’t process the world as it is (or not all of it).
Over Decades, The New Yorker Rejected Hundreds Of Eileen Myles’ Poems. Until One Day They Didn’t
“Did I stop there. Uh uh. I think because I grew up in an alcoholic household and I was suspending belief so often as a child just to survive that it now felt like a bicep flex.”
How Identity Politics Conquered The Art World: An Oral History
Jerry Saltz and Rachel Corbett collect the testimony and assemble a timeline – with, at its center, the still-notorious 1993 Whitney Biennial.
A Brief History Of Harriet Tubman In American Pop Culture
She’s been depicted in portraits and statues, served as a hero of folk tales and an icon of civil rights and feminism, made into a parody Barbie doll, and even helped Abraham Lincoln slay vampires. Now she’s going to join Lincoln in the ultimate domain of dead white males – on American money.
The Tech Behind Bitcoin May Be About To Change Everything
Dominic Frisby explains blockchain technology – and argues that it will likely revolutionize not only cash purchases, but also document authentication, land title and ownership, contract law, and even elections.
What *Really* Goes On Behind The Scenes At Medieval Times
“At Atlas Obscura, we write about places, people, and phenomena that engender wonder and delight. Usually that’s stuff like bone churches, hidden beaches, and abandoned amusement parks. But what qualifies as ‘wondrous’ depends on so many things.”
Guy Hamilton, 93, Director Known For James Bond Films
“The film-maker worked with Sean Connery on Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever and Roger Moore on Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun. … He [slao] worked with Michael Caine on Battle of Britain and the Harry Palmer thriller Funeral in Berlin and with Harrison Ford on the 1978 adaptation of Force 10 from Navarone.”
Five Years A Slave: When Cervantes Was Captured By Pirates (He Never Got Over It)
“In 1575, after fighting in military campaigns against the Turks in the Mediterranean, the Spaniard was captured by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers. There, he was kept as a slave for five years. … Cervantes told and retold his own account of enslavement: in plays, poetry and novellas … [and in] the tale told by a captive in Part 1 of Don Quixote.”