“When the researchers totaled up the results, there was no evidence the players could reliably pick old from new. And when players were asked to pick their favorite instrument, the winner was a modern, freshly made violin.”
Tag: 05.16.14
In Praise Of The Power Of Slang
“For centuries, English’s defenders have decried the language’s decline. Looking back, it is hard to understand why they created a fuss about words that are now part of polite speech.”
How Freud Infiltrated Everyday English
It goes far beyond Oedipus complex, Freudian slip, and id – to father surrogate, sublimation, libido, character trait, and beyond. (We’ll leave aside parapraxis. And don’t even start about you-know-what envy.)
Could Software Run The Captioning Programs In Theatres?
“We need to get an idea of what works and what doesn’t. We can create beautiful captions that happen exactly on time, but if you’re spending 90% of the time looking at a tablet and not at the show it’s pointless.”
Race (And Racism, And Power) Causes Controversy, And An Art Collective Withdrawal, At The Whitney Biennial
White artist Joe Scanlon “has for years showcased the life and art of ‘Donelle Woolford,’ a black female Yale graduate and artist, even hiring black female collaborators to portray her.” Artists’ collective YAMS says that’s not OK, and pulls its own work in response.
Get Those Women Artists Out Of The Basement
“The Advancing Women Artists Foundation estimates that 1,500 works by women are currently stored in Florence’s various deposits, most of which have not been on public view for centuries.”
At These Theatre Performances, You’re Supposed To Fall Asleep
“Eager audiences expect to dance, dine, drink and exchange secrets and titillation with performers, sometimes for hours at a time. Now a new breed of experience seeks to stretch that artistic dynamic further, drawing spectators not just for lively participation but also to share their REM cycles and reveries.”
Take Your Google Glass To This Opera
“How to give mobile audiences the supertitle translations to which they have become accustomed?” Answer: Wearable tech – obviously.
So, Does Godot Ever Show? And How Many Kids Do Romeo And Juliet Have?
“There had been no curtain call but the thing that really fascinated me: if they thought it might be over, they can’t have known what happens at the end of the play. Did they think Romeo and Juliet had a happy ending?”
Who Didn’t Make Jonathan Safran Foer’s List Of Writers For Chipotle’s Cups And Bags?
“Not Pulitzer Prize-winning Junot Diaz, who also won a James Beard award for one of the finest pieces of food writing I’ve ever read. Not the doña of Chicano literature, Sandra Cisneros. Not best-selling author Luis Alberto Urrea. Not Tex-Mex loco Dagoberto Gilb. Not any other number of Latino authors who could easily contribute a story or two that would be appicable a Mexican-food chain. Judd Apatow made the list–but not one Latino.”