“Why does a hospital need a writer-in-residence? According to professors at HMS, studies show that engaging in artistic expression can help healthcare providers reduce burnout and foster empathy, and enhance their ability to communicate and connect with patients.”
Tag: 07.09.15
Cincinnati Piano Competition Fires AD Awadagin Pratt
“Awadagin Pratt has been relieved of his position of artistic director of the Cincinnati World Piano Competition. The leadership shakeup also includes three board members – including the chairman – who have resigned.”
Online Art Criticism Isn’t Working. So What Should Replace It?
“In an economy where content is king, where digital marketplaces like Amazon promote writing (especially user-generated criticism, that holy grail of free content that instils value in a product without the company needing to pay or take responsibility for it), the role of criticism—to respond to the work—also includes responding to its marketplace and the way the market regulates what viewers are exposed to, even online.”
Mark Rylance: Subsidized UK Theatres (The National and Royal Shakespeare) Are Charging Too Much For Tickets
You can’t have the RSC and the National receiving millions of pounds of money without a lower price, in my feeling. A lower price should be part of it.” Adding that tickets for the two subsidised theatre companies cost “way too much”, he continued: “I think it absolutely has to be accessible, this stuff. And that should be the condition of subsidy.”
Noticed You’re Not Getting As Much Spam Lately? Google’s New Neural Networks “Teach” Themselves To Filter
“Roughly speaking, these neural networks are vast collections of machines that mimic the networks of neurons in the brain. At Google, Jeff Dean and a core group of other AI engineers oversee these networks and provide software libraries that allow other Google teams, including the Gmail team, to use them.”
Greek Museums Forced To Close As Funding Runs Out
“Major public cultural institutions in Greece are on the point of collapse, say leading Greek art professionals, as concerns mount that the country faces insolvency after 61% of the population rejected bailout proposals earlier this week made by international creditors.”
Figure Skating On Wheels – At Championship Level
“In a land where winter sports rule, Kailah Macri’s double axels – on roller skates – haven’t exactly made her a household name.” (includes video)
Patti LuPone Confiscates Audience Member’s Cell Phone Mid-Performance
See? It’s not just music critics doing it. “It’s a lesson that audiences have yet to learn. … Patti LuPone will not tolerate your foolery in a Broadway theatre. Or off-Broadway. Or in a Las Vegas concert hall.”
Meet The Guy Who Tried To Charge His Phone On A Broadway Stage Set
“He said the incident was not a dare. It was not intended as a joke. His iPhone 6 was just low on juice. Why did he do it? What was the emergency? ‘Girls were calling all day. What would you do?'”
We’re The Walking Dead: Most Of Us Are Sleep-Deprived Much Of The Time
Think you’re okay on five or six hours a night? Don’t be so sure. Not only does lack of sufficient sleep impair us cognitively, but we’re also bad at telling when we’re impaired.