“The origins of gossip can be traced at multiple levels: evolutionary, cultural and developmental. While some forms of gossip are almost certainly negative or superfluous, others seem to serve a beneficial social role: Gossip can help solidify personal relationships and encourage cooperation. And if a new research finding is right, children engage in this form of gossip by age 5.”
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The Lumière Brothers Didn’t Just Invent Moving Pictures, They Were Film Artists
“The Lumières were responsible not just for a successful invention but a huge number of films, which experimented with techniques that were necessarily new and roamed across a rapidly changing landscape, from their factory in Lyon and across Europe to America and east Asia.”
George Frideric Handel, Financial Guru
“Handel’s investing career took a perhaps familiar course: after an initial, highly risky foray into the stock market, he decided to stick to safer assets that paid a steady income. In fact the shares he chose to buy in the early days were in the notorious South Sea Company, which ruined many investors, including Sir Isaac Newton.” (Handel, as it happens, got out in time.)
2016 Obie Awards To ‘Guards At The Taj’, ‘The Humans’, ‘Eclipsed’
Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj was honored as best new play, Stephen Karam (The Humans) and Lucas Hnath (The Christians and Red Speedo) won awards for playwriting, and the ensemble cast of Eclipsed took one of several acting prizes.
Nude Shakespeare In Central Park – The Video
Sorry, it’s not a recording of the full performance, but it is a 2¼-minute mini-doc with interviews and excerpts.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.23.16
A Small Museum Focuses On Men
Small museums in this country, and probably everywhere, tend to be ignored. Most lack the kind of art and exhibition program that brings notice beyond their communities. But the Freeport Museum of Art, in northern Illinois, … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-05-23
Speaking of Love
Alexei Ratmansky introduces Plato to American Ballet Theatre in its Lincoln Center season. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-05-23
“Tidal Wave of Change”: The Sudden Turnover of U.S. Art Museum Directors (towards contemporary)
While the annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors (in Cleveland through tomorrow) focuses on ways “to increase diversity throughout the field,” Kaywin Feldman, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-23
Monday Recommendation: JD Allen
JD Allen, Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues (Savant) The wisdom of Allen’s choice of material is borne out in nine performances that illustrate an article of faith he expresses in his notes, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-05-23
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As A Music Magazine Dies, The Future Of The Music Press In France Faces Questions
“Newsstand sales and subscriptions were stable. But this could not offset declining revenues from advertising on the Internet, much less ensure the survival of the magazine.” [This article is in French; the translation comes via Google Translate.]
Our Brains Can’t Resist A Tune, Which Is Why Good Advertising Jingles Work For Decades
“Although we can regularly screen out the thoughts, sounds, images, memories, opinions and ideas of others as foreign and potentially noxious, it ain’t the same with music.”
What Will Happen To The Chicago Tribune And L.A. Times As Tribune Publishing Rejects Gannett’s Offer?
“Like many American newspapers, the Times has struggled with continual budget and staffing cuts in recent years, including several changes of publisher and a buyout last November that resulted in the departure of dozens of senior reporters and editors. Daily circulation, which topped 1 million a quarter-century ago, is now barely half that.”
When The Most Important Musical Form Of The 20th Century Is Distilled To One Musician, Who Will It Be?
“In any reasonable world, the Beatles are the answer to the question ‘Who will be the Sousa of rock?’ But our world is not reasonable. And the way this question will be asked tomorrow is (probably) not the same way we would ask it today.”