Alberto Guerrero, the Chilean-Canadian who was Glenn’s second and last piano teacher (the first was his mother) said “The secret to teaching Glenn is to let him discover things on his own.” He felt that if Glenn claimed not to have learned anything from Guerrero, “I’d take that as a compliment.”
Tag: 09.11.17
The Knotty, Difficult Conceptual Problem Of Grappling With What Consciousness Is
“Computers are ingenious devices that exploit electronic states to control other devices—screens and loudspeakers—that make images and sounds. There are no images or sounds literally inside your computer, the way there are coins in your pocket. Information does not exist as a physical substance. It is a word we use, a form of shorthand if you like, to describe a process that allows a message to go from sender to receiver. However, in this theory, information, understood as the multiplication and arrangement of bits, at a certain point metamorphoses into conscious experience.”
Why Science-Fiction Writers Couldn’t Imagine The Internet
Indeed, scientists couldn’t really imagine the World Wide Web much before it appeared. As Lawrence Krauss puts it, “the imagination of nature far exceeds that of human imagination. If you had locked a group of theoretical physicists in a room 50 years ago and asked them to predict what we now know about the universe, they would have missed almost all the key discoveries we have made since.”
We Need Great Administrators As Much As We Need Great Artists
Susan Medak, longtime managing director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, speaking at the TCG National Conference: “At the risk of being run out of this room on a rail, I would argue that great art alone is not going to make the American theatre healthy again. We need great artistic leaders and, more than ever, we need administrative leaders who will help us navigate these uncertain times. … After all, where would Zelda have been without Tom Fichandler, or Joe Papp without Bernie Gersten?”
Why It’s So Hard To “Live In The Present”
“To live in the present is to appreciate the value of atelic activities like going for a walk, listening to music, spending time with family or friends. To engage in these activities is not to extinguish them from your life. Their value is not mortgaged to the future or consigned to the past, but realized here and now. It is to care about the process of what you are doing, not just projects you aim to complete. The advice is easy to misread.”
Knoedler Gallery Forgery Scandal Finally Over As Last Lawsuit Is Settled
“Ann Freedman, the former director of the now defunct Knoedler gallery, has settled the last of ten lawsuits against her arising from a $70m forgery ring that forced the 165-year-old gallery to close in 2011. The lawsuit was brought by Frances Hamilton White, a California collector who with her then-husband had bought a purported Jackson Pollock for $3.1m in 2000.”
David Hockney At 80: Still Stylish, Sunny, And Stubborn (Especially About Smoking)
Deborah Solomon goes to visit the artist in California: “Hockney is still a dapper, vigorous presence. His conversation is wide-ranging and larded with literary references, and his manner is so genial and confiding that at first you do not notice how stubborn he can be. He delights in espousing contrary opinions, some of which come at you with the force of aesthetic revelation, while others seem perverse and largely indefensible.”
How The Folks At ‘Jeopardy!’ Come Up With All Those Questions, Er, Answers
“‘We all came to the show from different places wanting to be in the entertainment industry, but also being trivia nerds, so we’ve been lucky enough that this merges those two things.’ Jeopardy! head writer Billy Wisse … walked us through the question-making process from start to finish.”
A Total Of 864 People Will Be Able To See Punchdrunk’s New Production – Is That A Bad Thing?
Lyn Gardner: “Access is always going to be a problem with small-capacity or small-scale shows. But does that mean we should ban artists from making shows that involve an intimacy of experience or one-on-one work because very few can get to see it? It would be odd if in the quest for access we started asking artists to censor the kind of work they might dream of and make.”
ARTnews’s 2017 List Of The World’s Top 200 Collectors
“The world’s top collectors in 2017 – among whose recent acquisitions are a record-breaking Basquiat and Anicka Yi’s video from the Whitney Biennial – include newcomers like Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, the founder of Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and her husband, Silicon Valley VC Marc Andreessen, comedian and Chicano art aficionado Cheech Marin, and Iranian financier Mohammed Afkhami. And media mogul David Geffen is back!”