Or is it a one-time thing? “Where will all this lead? I don’t even want to predict. Maybe nowhere. Maybe somewhere. … Wherever it leads (or doesn’t), I have to give the MTV Movie & TV Awards credit for having the audacity to shake up the cultural DNA, to show us what a new kind of post-gender consciousness feels like.”
Tag: 05.07.17
A New Banksy In England Shows A Man Chipping Away At An EU Flag
Banksy has some feelings about Brexit, and the artist wants everyone to understand them. “The artwork emerged overnight on the Castle Amusements building near the ferry terminal, which connects the UK with mainland Europe.”
How Do Celebrities, And Studios, Get Hacked? Blame Smart Hackers, And Careless Vendors
Here’s the issue: “While they may not be able to break into a Universal Studios or a Netflix directly, [cybercriminals] have learned that the highest-profile targets are supported by a system of soft targets — content collaborators, remixers, postproduction studios and others — that do not have the same resources, security technology or sense of paranoia. And the hackers have started capitalizing.”
Barbara Cook, Who Originated The Role Of Cunigonde In Bernstein’s Candide And Reinvented Herself Decades Later, Has Retired At Age 89
Her son conveyed the news to The New York Times to forestall speculation. “She defied so much for so long: depression, alcoholism, age. Mr. LeGrant said, on the phone and over lunch a couple of days later, that she had decided to put out the word about retirement. ‘The public hasn’t seen her in months,’ he said, ‘and somebody would go ‘Oh, my God,’ and it would be on Page Six.'”
Are You Ready To Pay For Things With Your Face?
That’s right: Google may be making plans for people to use Android Pay … by triggering facial recognition.
Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 05.07.17
Don’t Make People Think About Guns, If You Want to Fund the Arts
Excellent news this week as Congress said ‘NO’ to the President’s request to eliminate funding for the arts. How did that happen? With a lot of heavy lifting. Every time we fight this fight (and … read more
AJBlog: The Bright Ride Published 2017-05-07
Pushing the Past Forward
The Limón Dance performs at the Joyce Theater, May 2 through 7. Members of the Limón Dance Company (L to R): Elise Drew Leon, Jesse Obremski, and Kathryn Alter in José Limón’s Concerto Grosso José … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-05-07
Cost disease does not explain everything
In my last post I wrote about cost disease, the powerful analysis of economic shifts that results from labor-saving technological change occurring at different speeds in different sectors of the economy. This is an addendum: … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth Published 2017-05-06
Songwriting’s Roots in Poetry and Prose
GENERALLY, I’m skeptical of the glib and automatic denoting of any intelligent or articulate musician as “a poet.” But the connection between popular song and literature go back, in the Anglo-American tradition, at least … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-05-05