“The next time you feel angry at a friend who has let you down, or grateful toward one whose generosity has surprised you, consider this: you may really be bargaining for better treatment from that person in the future. According to a controversial new theory, our emotions have evolved as tools to manipulate others into cooperating with us.”
Tag: 07.28.10
A Requiem for Kodachrome
“Kodachrome slide film wasn’t just another commercial photographic product. There was something truly special about it. The dyes and emulsions produced an effect comparable to Technicolor motion picture film. It was hyper-real, but only slightly.”
Do We Give Up Our Right To Take Pictures When We Go To The Park?
“Does Pitchfork, Lollapalooza or anyone else who rents out a public park for a private event have the right to limit the type of cameras people can bring in? Concert promoters are trying to control something–the creation and dissemination of images taken at an outdoor concert in a public park–that is largely beyond their control, and they’re starting to look silly doing it.”
Nacho Duato to Lead St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet
The renowned choreographer, whose widely-praised term at the head of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza ends this month, will be the first foreigner to head a major Russian ballet company since the days of Marius Petipa under the Tsars.
Ansel Adams Negatives Bought at Garage Sale – Are They Authentic?
“A team of experts who have examined Rick Norsigian’s stash of antique negatives say they appear to be part of Adams’ body of work. The photographer’s family and friends remain skeptical.”
NY’s Joyce Theater Faces Manhattan Real Estate Dilemma
The New York dance presenter’s lease on its 8th Avenue headquarters, with annual rent of $1, expires in 2016. The Joyce had committed to occupying a planned arts center near Ground Zero whose construction seems ever more remote; meanwhile, the 8th Avenue site’s landlord, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech Company, wants to charge rent closer to market rate.
Defending Amazon: It’s Not to Blame for All of Publishing’s Woes
“By now we are all well aware of the trouble with Amazon” – its aggresive pricing, hardball business practices and crowding out of independent booksellers. “The real trouble with Amazon, it seems, is that nobody truly believes we were better off without it.”
Theater-for-One Begins Reaching Critical Mass
“High-concept and immersive, intimate theater has been cropping up for years, but now in Europe it has reached such a critical mass that the Battersea Arts Center in London, known for innovation, hosted the largest one-person-audience festival this month.” Funding problems notwithstanding, the phenomenon is growing stateside as well.
But What’s One-on-One Theatre Like? Ben Brantley Sees You Me Bum Bum Train
“[D]uring the approximately 40 minutes I spent being pushed through the halls … I was exalted and excoriated, hailed as a genius, reviled as a charlatan and mistaken for both a rock star and a bag of garbage. I mean a real bag of garbage.”
Hungary Sued for $100M Worth of Art Looted by Nazis
“For more than two decades the heirs of a world-renowned Jewish collector have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or placed after being stolen by the Nazis.”