John Timpane considers three Jacobean plays attributed to other authors on which some scholars think Shakespeare may have collaborated.
Tag: 11.19.13
Why New Music Has A Hard Time Taking Hold
“I suggest that audiences of new music listeners separate not because of aesthetic barriers, but due to the specific mechanics through which music is created, presented, and consumed.”
Defending A Role For Philosophy
“It is our obligation as philosophers and citizens to celebrate this day by defending the role and the meaning philosophy has for society, in order to overcome the ideology behind these conservative politicians, who seem so ready to restrict young people’s opportunities to learn philosophy or to make philosophical research more available to the general public.”
Here’s Just How Difficult The Issue Of Racial Diversity Is
“I believe that the sooner we as a field start framing our efforts not around “what can we do as artists and arts administrators to promote diversity?” but rather “how does racial injustice manifest today, what are its root causes, and how can we as human beings most effectively be part of the solution?”, the sooner we’ll actually have something to be proud of.”
Trial Over Funding For Stalled Lucerne Opera House Underway In Bermuda
In 2007, philanthropist Christof Engelhorn pledged, through a Bermuda-based trust fund, 120 million Swiss francs (roughly $131 million) for the construction of a new adjustable opera/concert venue called the Salle Modulable for the Lucerne Festival. Since Engelhorn’s death in 2010, the trust has refused to honor the pledge, maintaining that it was not formally contracted. The Lucerners sued, and the case has now gone to trial in a Bermuda court.
How Conspiracy Theorists Think
“How can so many people, in the name of skepticism, promote so many absurdities? The answer is that people who suspect conspiracies aren’t really skeptics. Like the rest of us, they’re selective doubters. They favor a worldview, which they uncritically defend. But their worldview isn’t about God, values, freedom, or equality. It’s about the omnipotence of elites.”
Yes, Everyone Has Memories That Aren’t True
“New research released this week has found that even people with phenomenal memory are susceptible to having ‘false memories’, suggesting that ‘memory distortions are basic and widespread in humans, and it may be unlikely that anyone is immune’.”
Bringing Leo Ornstein Back From 60 Years Of Self-Imposed Oblivion
“Ornstein was considered among the most influential composer/performers in the decade before World War I, and maybe the most sensationalized. … Though [he] arrived in the 1930s as one of the most famous pianists of his day, he departed so quietly in the late 1950s – by choice – that nobody quite knows when he left. His death in 2002 at age 107 … was noticed, but not widely.”
How The Images Of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Shooting Changed American Art
“The fatalist mood of that weekend and the images that memorialized it have never truly faded. Primal material for artists, filmmakers, television shows, they have driven numerous paranoid thrillers that rely on plots about assassinations, often with the assassin himself at risk of ending up dead.”
Can You Stimulate Your Brain To Gain Aesthetic Appreciation?
“Newly published research suggests brain stimulation can heighten aesthetic appreciation. A team of European researchers report electronically stimulating a specific section of the brain can increase viewers’ appreciation of representational paintings and photographs.”