11.09.14 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Cowardice – What Exactly Is It?

Perhaps no quality has been more reviled and scorned but less clearly defined. Fear is often useful, after all, and most writers who approach the subject of cowardice wind up writing about its opposite, courage, instead. Chris Walsh looks at the factor that seems to make the difference.

Can Dancing Teach You Quantum Physics?

“After experiencing sound artist Ryoji Ikeda’s newest composition, Superposition, commentator Adam Frank says yes – but that it won’t just be science you’ll be learning.”

A Typeface Designed To Help Dyslexics Read

Designer Christian Boer (who is himself dyslexic): “When they’re reading, people with dyslexia often unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds. Traditional typefaces make this worse, because they base some letter designs on others, inadvertently creating ‘twin letters’ for people with dyslexia.”

London’s Opera Dancers Would Like To Be Paid More Than The Box-Office Attendants, Please

“The dancers you employ will be highly skilled, qualified, experienced professionals who will have gone through a rigorous audition process to achieve their position. I’m sure you can understand how disheartening it is to then be valued so poorly.”

The Woman Who Explained D.C. To Warhol

“‘Ina [Ginsburg] interviewed top-level people who weren’t necessarily seeking publicity,’ Bob Colacello, a former editor of Interview, said several years ago. ‘She gave us a gravitas we hadn’t had. Moreover, Andy loved her parties.'”

The Final Party For Amazon’s New York Literary Editor Speaks Volumes

“All the thriving genre imprints are out in Seattle.”

The Gallery In The Button Shop

“Artists also seem attracted to the button-shop concept: That an industrial workshop could house art, and that an aspiring gallerist works side-by-side with her father. The artists who display their work with Ms. Li see the space as a rare opportunity, to show artwork in a heavily trafficked neighborhood and in a shop with a unique sense of New York City’s history.”

The Frick Museum Expansion Is In Trouble – Because Of The Garden

“Ian Wardropper, the museum’s director, said that while the museum spoke of Page’s garden as permanent in a 1973 statement to the landmarks commission, the word was used in terms of the ‘foreseeable minimal needs of the collection.'”

Books Are Dying! Except That PBS Is Streaming Live Coverage Of The Miami Book Fair

Yes. Three days of live-streamed book fair: “Jeffrey Brown, culture correspondent of ‘PBS NewsHour,’ and the author Kelly Corrigan will host, jumping from any one of the dozen-plus simultaneous live events to taped interviews and conversations in the studio.”

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