“The show, called The Complete Deaths, aims to re-enact every onstage fatality in the Shakespearean canon: stabbings, smotherings, poisonings, bear attack, being turned into baked goods, the lot.”
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Tracking Ideas On Wikipedia Is Like Mapping A Huge Drainage System
“To begin their investigation, the researchers followed the first links from all 11 million pages in the English edition of Wikipedia, enabling them to map out a sort of drainage system of ideas, one idea flowing into the next like water from a mountain spring making its way to the sea.”
Being Afraid Of Artificial Intelligence Killing Or Enslaving Us All Is Like Fearing Monsters In The Dark
Stephen Hawking: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Luciano Floridi: “Suppose you enter a dark room in an unknown building. You might panic about monsters that could be lurking in the dark. Or you could just turn on the light, to avoid bumping into furniture.”
Brain Science: Here’s Why You Can (Or Can’t) Feel The Beat When You Dance
“When performing or dancing to music, entrainment allows the timing of upcoming beats to be predicted. A recent study on individual differences in rhythmic skill identified relationships between the strength of neural entrainment and the capacity to synchronise movements with musical rhythms.”
Heavy Dancer With The Moves Out To Change Minds About Dancers’ Bodies
“Hoping to appear on The Ellen Show and music videos, the heavy-set performer says he is trying to ‘change the mind and shape of dancers’. The photographs regularly receive hundreds of likes and he has amassed thousands of followers.”
Japan’s Vagina Artist Gets Split Verdict: Vagina-Shaped Kayak Is Art, But Digital Scan Of Her Vagina Is Smut
Megumi Igarashi – a.k.a. Rokudenashiko (roughly, “Little Miss Good-for-Nothing”) – made headlines worldwide in 2014 when she was arrested for making and showing a kayak modeled on a mold of her private parts. Now a judge has ruled that her bright yellow v-boat, as well as little figurines she sells, are indeed art (and thus protected under law), but distributing files for 3D-printing replicas of her vagina is “distributing obscenity.”
Ballet BC Changes The Conversation On Lack Of Opportunity For Female Choreographers
And the Vancouver-based company isn’t doing it only by commissioning and performing work created by women (which it does). For this company, and for the female choreographers working with it, the issue isn’t even worth discussing.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Had To Give Up My Plans To Move Home To Brooklyn Because I Was Doxed By The Real-Estate-Porn Press
“My friend found a house on Lincoln Road. He dubbed it ‘The Dream.’ He told me my wife would love it. She did. I did. … But no one keep secrets in Brooklyn.” (Least of all the seller’s broker, Keith Mack of Corcoran.)
Is Britain’s Government Planning To Kill The BBC Trust And Revoke The Network’s Independence?
“In a few days, the culture secretary John Whittingdale will release a white paper making recommendations for a total overhaul of the way the BBC is run.” Among those recommendations: “The organisation that regulated the BBC, the independent BBC Trust, will be abolished. There will be a new BBC board with a chair and deputy chair appointed directly by the government.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.09.16
This Week In Audience 05.08.16, Unintended Consequences Edition
So who exactly is the arts audience, and how and why do they engage? We’ve got some more data. … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-05-09
JJA Nominations
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2016 awards nominees. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-05-09
“Cautious Optimism,” Depressed Results: Sotheby’s Spins the Art-Market Slump for Analysts
How do you restore investor confidence in a company whose first-quarter results show a net loss of $25.9 million (compared to net income of $5.2 million for the same period the previous year), with … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-09
Sotheby’s Slump: My Storify from Tonight’s Painful Impressionist/Modern Sale
If Sotheby’s is trying to restore buyer confidence, tonight’s mediocre Impressionist/Modern sale wasn’t the way to do it. Only 66.1% of the works sold, and the sold total by hammer price total was considerably below … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-09
Monday Recommendation: A Twofer
Kirk MacDonald, Symmetry (Addo)
Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors, The Meeting (Inarhyme)
The unprecedented double recommendation this week is because both albums … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-05-09
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