“Why might people high in openness to experience report feeling chills more often? Surprisingly, people high in openness didn’t have chills because they tended to listen to different kinds of music. Instead, people with a lot of openness to experience were more likely to play a musical instrument themselves and they rated music as more important in their lives than people low in openness.”
Tag: 12.07.10
A Purpose For The Miami Art Museum
“What Miami needs is an institution that can host traveling exhibitions of all kinds, from antiquities to Asian art, and loan shows of Old Masters and modern and contemporary art from around the world. The publicly funded MAM should create a place to see the likes of King Tut, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and less commercial shows of masterpieces from the Metropolitan, the Louvre, and the world’s other great museums.”
Jerry Saltz’s Top Ten NY 2010 Art Shows
Justin Davidson’s Pick Of Top Ten 2010 Classical Concerts
(In New York, of course…)
Would Borders Buy Barnes & Noble?
“A major shareholder of Borders Group Inc. proposed that the bookseller acquire much bigger rival Barnes & Noble Inc., in a gamble to unite the two giant but struggling retailers at a time of major tumult in the book industry.”
Founder-Director of Australia’s Chunky Move Stepping Down
“After fifteen years as Artistic Director and CEO of leading Australian and world-renowned dance company, Chunky Move, Gideon Obarzanek has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of 2011 to pursue other freelance opportunities in dance and other art forms.”
Two ABT Stars Weigh In on Black Swan
Gillian Murphy: “The mean-spiritedness portrayed in the movie was disturbing to me. That atmosphere and the lecherousness of the director – they have nothing to do with my personal experience.” David Hallberg: “It is a competitive art form … but what isn’t a reality is the cutthroat, vicious attitude about it.”
Australian Orchestras Face Problem of Player Tenure
“Australia’s orchestras sprouted in a desert of musical talent in the 1930s. Halfway across the world, London’s musicians fiercely competed for orchestra berths and each season they played could be their last if their performance was not up to scratch.” In Oz, it seems, one didn’t need much more than an instrument. Things are much better now, but what of less-gifted old-timers with tenure?
Was This the Real-Life Tintin?
“Fresh-faced, freckled, with a snub nose, a shock of bright red hair and a penchant for plus-fours, 15-year-old boy scout and car showroom clerk Palle Huld left Copenhagen on March 1 [in 1928] and duly circled the globe – including then-wartorn Manchuria and foreigner-unfriendly Moscow – by train and passenger liner.”
The Rush of a ‘Crossword Puzzle Moment’
“You don’t know the answer, and then you ‘concentrate’ (whatever that means), which induces some mysterious biochemical reaction, and then you are transformed into a different state of being – a state of knowing something you didn’t know moments before.”