“You can see them from at least three highways in Queens, rising up like futuristic beacons: a giant metal circle on top of 16 concrete pillars and three towers stretching skyward, topped by flying saucer roofs. They look like heralds of a new space age. But they were built for the 1964 World’s Fair, as part of the New York State Pavilion.”
Tag: 04.22.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.22.14
Skunk Works: A Place for Innovation
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-04-23
Call for Stories
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-04-22
Institute for Advanced Study
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-04-22
Little hawks
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-04-22
Small-Frame Vignettes
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-04-22
Who Would You Pick To Play Picasso? Plus, Best And Worst Artists’ Films
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-23
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Rethinking How You Sit In The Broadway Theatre
“To deepen the sense of intimacy in the Palace Theatre, “Holler’s” creators decided to radically change its seating, spending $200,000 to reposition the ground-level orchestra seats into the kind of stadium seating common in movie theaters.”
Mariss Jansons To Leave Concertgebouw
Mariss Jansons, who has been the chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for nearly a decade, plans to resign his post there after the 2014-15 season, the orchestra announced on Tuesday.
Scotland’s Massive New Public Art Project. It’s Bad
“Scotland has unveiled the latest misbegotten “masterpiece” of public art. It is big. It is bold. And it is rotten.”
The Difference Between Literary Fiction And Genre Fiction
“A genre novel is governed by limitations, and the whole of the writer’s skill is directed towards creating the best possible novel within those limitations. A literary novel is governed by nothing – nothing I can think of, not even the requirement to be comprehensible – and the whole of the writer’s skill is directed towards creating the best possible novel.”
Our Transition To A Culture Of Lifelong Learning
“After years of talking about lifelong education, the rhetoric has finally reached reality. Accessing education no longer requires months and years of planning, countless applications, tapping savings or taking out huge loans, and giving up months or years of your life to match some random institutional schedule.”
Gentrification – It’s Not Just About Real Estate
“Distilling the gentrification problem, a tension exists between the inefficiencies of the labor market and the inefficiencies of the real estate market. The inefficiencies of the real estate market receive all the press. What little attention the inefficiencies of the labor market receive, nobody links it to gentrification.”
Netflix Now Accounts For Half Of All Streamed Internet Video
44 million people around the world have signed up to its video-on-demand service.
Why Performance Art Is Stupid
“Performance art is a joke. Taken terribly seriously by the art world, it is a litmus test of pretension and intellectual dishonesty. If you are wowed by it, you are either susceptible to pseudo-intellectual guff, or lying.”