“Now we know that there is something anatomically different about them.” Their ability to keep time gives them an intuitive understanding of the rhythmic patterns they perceive all around them.
Tag: 08.11.15
The Problems With Cellphones In Theaters Aren’t Just In The Audience – They’re Everywhere
“Performing artists across genres say the situation can be just as bad offstage, where cellphones are increasingly intruding on rehearsals, auditions and backstage culture. ‘I’ve had to scream at dancers in rehearsal,’ said choreographer Anthony Rue II … ‘The moment they have a second to breathe, they run to their phone. It takes them four or five minutes to mentally get back.'”
Former Guggenheim Head Thomas Krens Proposes Big For-Profit Museum In Berkshires
“Thomas Krens, the man with the original concept for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art 30 years ago, has proposed building a new 160,000-square-foot art gallery on North Adams’ Harriman-West Airport grounds. … It would be named the Global Contemporary Collection and Museum and contain a collection of about 400 works of art.”
Special Kind Of Crazy – How Classical Music Is Portrayed In Popular Movies
“The tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche. There is little evidence of such a predilection among real-life serial killers, who seem to prefer Black Sabbath, AC/DC, REO Speedwagon, and, of course, the Beatles. So where does the trope come from?”
Dear Music Streamers: Your Service Sucks For Classical Music
An easy fix would be to get an actual human expert to curate this stuff. Maybe even someone who enjoys classical music and actually knows what they’re talking about!
History Has No Place: Pico Iyer On Japan’s Unsentimental Attitude Toward Its Modernist Architecture
“The answer is simple: The Japanese are different from you and me. They don’t confuse books with their covers. … The motto guiding Japan’s way of being might be: New is the new old. For proof, you need only look at three recent high-profile and much-debated demolition jobs in Tokyo.”
Columbia House, The Eight-Records-For-A-Penny Mail-Order Club, Goes Bankrupt (Wait, Columbia House Still Exists?)
“Since peaking in 1996 at about $1.4 billion, revenue has declined almost every year since.” Now the company has $2 million in assets, $63 million in liabilities, and no employees.
Reverse Graffiti? Making A Public Artwork By (Selectively) Washing Off Grime
“Poland’s Solina dam, completed in 1969 and the tallest dam in Poland, has been collecting dirt and grime on its walls for decades. But when it came time for the 269-foot dam to get a good powerwash, the energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna had an idea.”
Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene In A Blockbuster Movie! Sighs Alex Ross
“The tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche. … Given all that history, I was happily shocked by an extended opera scene in the new Tom Cruise thriller, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”
When People Have The ‘Porcupine Problem’ (As Schopenhauer Called It)
“Imagine a group of porcupines trying to survive a cold winter. They huddle together for warmth, only to then poke one another with their quills and withdraw. Schopenhauer wrote that human relationships are like this: Much as cold drives the animal porcupines together, ‘the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature.'”