The humanists tried out a lot of new punctuation ideas, but most of those marks had short life spans. Some of the printed texts that appeared in the centuries surrounding the semicolon’s birth look as though they are written partially in secret code: they are filled with mysterious dots, dashes, swoops, and curlicues. – Paris Review
Tag: 08.01.19
Tarantino And Women
He doesn’t exactly have the best reputation when it comes to the women in his movies. And then there’s his exchange with a reporter at Cannes this year. “His curtness in dismissing the concerns of a woman journalist (dredging up memories of his painfully testy exchange with critic Jan Wahl in 2003) made the exchange explode across the internet. And it reignited a conversation that’s dogged the director for years and that has, post-#MeToo, risen in volume: As a filmmaker, is Tarantino bad to — or for — women?” – BuzzFeed
Making The (Big) Leap From Edinburgh Fringe To Broadway
The musical Six is about – what else – the wives of Henry VIII, a musical inspired by Beyoncé and Ariana Grande. That makes it an obvious candidate for Broadway, right? Yep: “The show started out in a 100-seat venue at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 before moving to London’s West End. It will open at New York’s 1,000-capacity Brooks Atkinson Theatre next February.” – BBC
The Hotel Lobby As Gallery For Contemporary Art
And not just the lobby – some hotels commission artists or exhibits for every bit of space, including rooms, conference rooms, cafeterias and much more. – The New York Times
Vivian Paley, Pioneering Educator And Author Who Believed In The Power Of Story, Has Died At 90
Paley won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for her work. Her methods met with resistance during the era of quantification and textbook standardization, but “in addition to teaching children, she mentored a generation of teachers, held workshops and lectured about her experiences in the classroom” – and wrote 13 well-regarded books about the educational rewards of storytelling as a pedagogical practice. – The New York Times
Libraries Have Become Community Centers. But It’s Still Important To Be About Books
Of course, libraries have never been only about books! But reading and books are more important than ever for contemporary society, and public libraries occupy a unique position as a public reading institution. – The Conversation
Science Is Having Difficulty Replicating Some Big Studies. The Question Is What To Do About It
A consensus is finally beginning to emerge: Something is wrong with science that’s causing established results to fail. One proposed and long overdue remedy has been an overhaul of the use of statistics. – Nautilus
Study: Prices For Female Artists Rising Faster Than For Male Artists
“Sotheby’s Mei Moses found that between 2012 and 2018, sales results rose just eight percent for men, while women saw the price for their work go up an astonishing 73 percent. By comparison, the study found that resale markets for men and women had been about the same over the 50 previous years.” – Artnet
Tracy Flick Is Not A Villain, And We’ve Misunderstood ‘Election’ All Along: A.O. Scott
“Somehow I didn’t remember — or didn’t see — what has been right there onscreen the whole time. Which is that Mr. M is a monster — a distillation of human moral squalor with few equals in modern American cinema — and that Tracy Flick is the heroine who bravely, if imperfectly, resists his efforts to destroy her. She’s not Moby-Dick to his Ahab so much as Jean Valjean to his Inspector Javert.” – The New York Times
The Indie Publisher That Soared Too High And Fell To Earth
Chicago’s Curbside Splendor was named “Best Indie Book Publisher” by Chicago magazine in 2014, featured on Bustle’s “13 Indie Presses You Should Know” list in 2017, and even profiled in Lit Hub’s 2016 story on retail stores opened by indie presses. But behind the scenes authors and staff weren’t being paid… – LitHub