“Facial recognition’s use is increasing. Retailers employ it to identify shoplifters, and bankers want to use it to secure bank accounts at ATMs. The Internet of things—connecting thousands of everyday personal objects from light bulbs to cars—may use an individual’s face to allow access to household devices. Churches already use facial recognition to track attendance at services.”
Tag: 07.31.17
Laura Zucker Exit Interview: Three Biggest Challenges For The Arts
Laura Zucker is stepping down after 25 years leading the LA County Arts Commision. Three of the biggest issues facing arts administrators? “Ensuring all students everywhere receive a quality arts education. It’s a social justice issue. Valuing diverse cultural traditions equally, really equally, in terms of opportunity and resources. The democratization of culture: creating opportunities for the arts to be accessed by everyone, like breathing.”
Playwright Sam Shepard, 73
One of the most important and influential early writers in the Off Broadway movement, Mr. Shepard captured and chronicled the darker sides of American family life in plays like “Buried Child,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1979, and “Curse of the Starving Class” and “A Lie of the Mind.”
A Brief History Of Populism (And How The Word Got Corrupted)
“The problem isn’t just using the word populist as a euphemism for racism and ethnic chauvinism. The term also helps to reproduce the very ideology that has trapped white working-class people by reinforcing the idea that they are not supposed to experience the same social and economic problems as everyone else.”
The Country’s First Sri Lankan Museum Is In The Basement Of A Sri Lankan Restaurant On Staten Island
And it was started, and is run, by and 18-year-old. Julia Wijesinghe says, “My friends ask me, ‘You’re from New York, why do you have so much pride for your parents’ country?’ I have one-hundred-per-cent New York pride, too. I got inspiration for my museum from going to MoMA.”
Jeanne Moreau, The Face Of French New Wave Film, Has Died At 89
She starred in Louis Malle’s The Lovers and then François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim, and “went on to particularly memorable roles as Marcello Mastroianni’s lonely wife in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic The Night (1961), a controlling servant in Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), a coldhearted seducer in Eva (1962) and a vengeful newly wed-newly widowed in The Bride Wore Black (1968).”
Trump Administration Policies May Threaten Land Around Michael Heizer’s ‘City’
Argh: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, said, “I don’t think there’s too much question that a monument can be adjusted. Whether a monument can be rescinded or not, that is a question for the courts.”
How Poetry Changes Lives (So Let’s Stop Being So Defensive About It)
Louis Menand: “Michael Robbins, Ben Lerner, and Matthew Zapruder all tell pretty much the identical story about themselves. One day, almost inadvertently, they read a poem, and suddenly they knew that they had to become writers. They did, and it changed their lives. Later, they all wrote books about poetry. I read those books, and it changed my life. You read this piece about those books. Maybe it will change your life. If it does, the change will be very, very tiny, but most change comes in increments. Don’t expect too much out of any one thing. For although the world is hard, words matter. Rock beats scissors. It may take a while, but paper beats rock. At least we hope so.”
Re-Watching The TV Show That Made President Trump Possible
When Emily Nussbaum saw that notorious televised Cabinet meeting, she realized she had to go back and look at The Apprentice.