“Happiness becomes less the high-energy, totally-psyched experience of a teenager partying while his parents are out of town, and more the peaceful, relaxing experience of an overworked mom who’s been dreaming of that hot bath all day. … It’s a different way of understanding what happiness is” – as psychologists put it, promotion motivation versus prevention motivation.
Tag: 05.28.13
Delaware Symphony Reaches Agreement With Musicians, Saving Upcoming Season
“After months of negotiations, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra” – which performed a severely curtailed 2012-13 season after barely staving off collapse last June – “and the union representing its musicians have finally found some middle ground, as both sides agree to a tentative three-year contract.”
Rudyard Kipling Admitted To Plagiarism
“The signed letter [to a friend], written in 1895, admits that the writer may have helped himself ‘promiscuously’ to the works of others in his account of the Law of the Jungle, which features in the Jungle Book.”
What MoMA Learned While Cleaning A Pollock
“A 10-month examination and restoration of [Jackson Pollock’s] One: Number 31, 1950, by conservators at the Museum of Modern Art, have produced new insights about how the artist worked. The conservators also revealed a mysterious missing chapter in the painting’s history.”
How Binge-Watching TV Is Changing Our Culture
“Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. For a sense of security, creature comfort, to make the world go away. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt.”
Is The Pop Music Industry Failing?
Alan Davey, chief executive of Arts Council England, says the market in popular music is “failing” and the industry is guilty of a “short-termism”.
Museums Work On New Policies For Allowing Access To Digital Images
“‘With the Internet, it’s so difficult to control your copyright or use of images that we decided we’d rather people use a very good high-resolution image of the ‘Milkmaid’ from the Rijksmuseum rather than using a very bad reproduction.”
John Malkovich Can Play Casanova But Couldn’t Be Him
“It would be interesting to be like Casanova, but boy, I wouldn’t want it more than a week. I don’t think I could run around for 50 years trying to tell boys from girls, wives from daughters. I don’t know if I have that tenacity.”