“The world is incredibly complicated. No one data set, no matter how big, is going to tell us exactly what we need. The new mountains of blunt data sets make human creativity, judgment, intuition and expertise more valuable, not less.”
Tag: 05.02.15
The Urban Planner Artist Who Wants To Revitalize Without Gentrifying
“Artists have long been a useful tool for developers; since the 80s the conventional way of ‘waking up’ destitute urban areas has been to rent out cheap studio space to art students and watch the creativity and the café culture follow, before the loft apartments are sold on to the bonus-rich with authentic artisanal grit priced in. Gates wanted to change that cynical paradigm.”
Curators Are Cool Now, But How The Heck Did *That* Happen? [VIDEO]
“It’s a very important and defining aspect of who we are now,” says the author of a book on how everyone is now a (cool) curator.
Star Tenor Alfie Boe Calls On UK Government For More Music Education
“Alfie Boe, the romantic tenor who led celebrations outside Buckingham Palace at the Queen’s diamond jubilee concert, has threatened to storm parliament if music education funding in Britain does not improve.”
Women Experimental And Indie Filmmakers Get A Streaming Platform
“It reaches new audiences, and it kind of revives these works that otherwise would be difficult to see.”
Star Trek’s George Takei Helps Japanese American National Museum Save Art And Artifacts From Internment Camps
“‘Many of the photos picture peoples’ grandparents and parents, and there’s a strong emotional tie there,’ said Takei, who as a boy was imprisoned in two internment camps with his family. ‘To put that up on the auction block to the highest bidder, where it would just disappear into someone’s collection, was insensitive.'”
This Modernist Villa Saw Wartime Shootings And Murders, And Was Vandalized By Le Corbusier
“E1027 was the first architectural work of the designer Eileen Gray, completed in 1929 when she was 51 years old. It was a pioneering and accomplished work of the modern movement in architecture, putting into practice ideas that were still new. More than that, it brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked.”
Cities And Suburbs Can Work Together Instead Of Competing – And It’s Better For Everyone
“‘It’s an approach to regionalism that’s about creating a culture instead of a legal structure,’ Clark adds. ‘People want to behave at the highest level of ethics, provided the guy next door does, too.'”
The Ballet Of Virginia Woolf
“The delicate textures of her prose, the fractured narratives, the internal music have, quite reasonably, been assumed to be too complex to choreograph. wayne McGregor is challenging that assumption with Woolf Works, his new full-length production for the Royal Ballet.”
Ruth Rendell, Fired From Her Reporting Job For Lying, Became A Famous Mystery Writer
The author of the Inspector Wexford books, and also of intense psychological thrillers under the name Barbara Vine, died Saturday at age 85 several months after a serious stroke. Crime writer Val McDermid: “The broad church that is current British crime writing owes much to a writer who over a 50-year career consistently demonstrated that the genre can continually reinvent itself, moving in new directions, assuming new concerns and exploring new ways of telling stories.”