“Ireland has a hang-up. It’s insecure about its poor past and is always distancing itself from it. These [new] developments gear everything towards a mainstream and commercial angle, things that are nice, clean, and presentable.”
Tag: 06.22.18
English Parliament Wants To Know About The Social Impact Of Arts. Here’s How The Arts Are Making The Case
235 representations have been made so far by funders, including ACE and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; sector bodies; and arts organisations and community bodies. The evidence submitted reflects on the five inquiry themes: social mobility; health; crime reduction; education; and community engagement and diversity.
A Robot Who Thinks? It’s Fascinating To Consider What That Actually Means
We are obviously still a fair way from the researchers’ goal of what is technically called Artificial General Intelligence: a machine that can successfully perform any task an average human could and even, perhaps, become self-aware. But what is really engaging in all this is the spectacle of watching IBM’s AI researchers gamely think through the kinds of problem-solving activities that, rolled together, would make something like a human brain.
The People Behind The Artists Who Make Things For Artists
Sculpture and assemblage have grown to immense proportions in recent years as the art business itself has ballooned. As new techniques, materials and computer-assisted design make otherworldly shapes and surfaces possible, it’s become increasingly hard to ignore the man behind the curtain: the off-site fabricators who actually make the thing itself, whether it’s a hulking metal totem by Ellsworth Kelly or a Minimalist cube by Robert Morris.
Nina Baym, The Professor Who Found The Women, Has Died At 82
The University of Illinois professor had a question. She “was writing a book about Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1975 when she began to wonder why 19th-century American literature was so male-dominated. Hawthorne himself helped pique her curiosity. In 1855 he had famously complained that ‘a damned mob of scribbling women’ was cutting into his sales.” So she found those scribblers, and a whole lot more.
A Conversation About Jasper Johns’ Oeuvre Is The Perfect Time To Ask Who Gets Remembered, And How?
And there’s time for some anecdotes as well: “When you go to Lincoln Center, you see there’s a big sculpture that Johns made and one of the things I found out about it is that there’s a footprint by Merce Cunningham. He said to me Merce Cunningham had always wanted to be accepted into Lincoln Center and he never had been, so he got his footprint into the piece and the piece is now in Lincoln Center. That’s pretty performative. And it’s got a wonderful sense of humor that these two men must have just cackled over, because it also says something about society and a kind of rejection/acceptance. They kind of wiggled their way through it anyway.”
A British Theatre Journalist Says British Plays Are ‘Just Better’ Than American Plays
Andrzej Lukowski: “The last 25 years of American theater looks close to a lost quarter century.”
Some Of Early Cinema’s Greatest Films Ended Up – By Design – In An Iowa Shed
Retired history teacher Michael Zahs saves everything – and in this case, “everything” is priceless for understanding early cinema. The Brinton Collection is “a mammoth set of films, lantern slides, posters and projection equipment from the first years of cinema, and even earlier. There are two exciting things about these artefacts. One is that during the more than three decades after Zahs took delivery of the collection and stored it on his property, he has been showing its treasures to local people and keeping the tradition of the travelling showman alive. The second is the discovery that the collection contains very rare material – films by the French cinema pioneer, George Méliès that were once thought to be lost.”
Musical Impressions Of New York On Its Longest Day
On the Summer Solstice, there’s free music all over the city. “The organizers and audiences got a gift this year on Thursday: clear, warm weather, the humidity manageable and the sounds, as ever, sweet.”
How To Save ‘The Conners’ From Roseanne
Really? Well, if we must have more of this family, first of all, get rid of the former titular character: “Roseanne has to die for artistic reasons. If the character’s separation from the show is anything but permanent — no going off to rehab or to visit a faraway relative — it’ll be a distraction.”