“American robber barons snuck ancient stones out of the war-torn countryside in the dead of night, Europeans fretted over how their familiar landmarks were rapidly disappearing, and U.S. cities spent decades of the 20th century fighting over what to do with tens of thousands of displaced medieval remnants.”
Tag: 11.10.15
Can You Actually Get High From Looking At Art?
“Can it cause a chemical change in our body? Can it affect our perception of reality? Can it serve as a stimulant, a hallucinogenic, a depressant, or anything that mimics these effects? We spoke to a neuroesthetics expert, an art critic and a neuroscientist to find out.”
The St. Louis Symphony’s Very Good Year
“In fiscal year 2015, the SLSO won a Grammy award, got raves at Carnegie Hall, rejoiced in a string of significant anniversaries, hired a new president and CEO, sold more tickets, received more donations and moved closer to a balanced budget.”
Japanese Curator Denied Visa To US
Fram Kitagawa, the “redoubtable” Japanese curator who espouses art’s return to slow, rural values as opposed to urban, market systems, has been denied a visa by US officials, he said, according to a press release from the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
This Book Was Voted The Most Influential Academic Text In History
“After a list of the top 20 academic books was pulled together by expert academic booksellers, librarians and publishers …, the public was asked to vote on what they believed to be the most influential.” The winner – a volume arguably at the very heart of America’s culture wars – finished well ahead of Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the complete works of Shakespeare, Plato’s The Republic, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.
How The Metaphor Of ‘The Cloud’ Changed Our Attitude Toward The Internet
“Around 2010, casual Internet users were introduced to the idea that the digital world around them could be understood in terms of the ‘cloud.’ As a metaphor, the cloud seems easy to grasp: our data is somewhere in the ether, floating, drifting and wireless, available wherever and whenever we need it. … [Yet] how did we come to place our faith in a symbol that is so ephemeral – all vapor and crystal?”
Bolshoi’s Chief Troublemaker Took Over St. Petersburg’s Top Ballet School – And It’s Turned Out Surprisingly Well
The appointment of Nikolai Tsiskaridze to the directorship of the Vaganova Academy (after the Bolshoi Ballet’s management declined to renew his contract) “was controversial at the time, and many high ranking dancers and administrators spoke out against the Bolshoi dancer being given the top job at the Mariinsky school, a school that he hadn’t come through himself. However, after two years the consensus seems to be that he is doing a good job and is popular both inside and outside the revered Academy’s walls.”
How London Fell Out Of Love With The ‘Garden Bridge’
“What makes this fall from grace so striking is that when the Garden Bridge plan first entered the public domain it caused a ripple of pleasure. Month by month, it has steadily descended from being perceived as a flagship for a new brighter London to becoming a symbol of the city’s wider problems. So how exactly did the Garden Bridge fall from grace?”
A Unified Theory Of The ‘Rocky’ Movies
“Stallone always gives himself two chances to tell the same story – as if, no matter how big it may have hit, he’s not quite satisfied with his first telling. The series is really a classic trilogy, with each installation in diptych form.”
Does T-Mobile’s Unlimited Streaming Deal Violate Net Neutrality?
“The idea of zero-rating would seem to stand in stark contrast to the principle of net neutrality, where all services are treated equally, whether they’re music streaming services, file sharing applications, or any other type of service—and whether they’re operated by well-funded startups or by rag-tag community non-profits.”