“The difficulty begins with the shape of Times Square—it’s narrow and lies in a slight dip in the land, increasing the feeling of crowdedness even when the space isn’t that crowded. Intuition might tell you that, to alleviate that sensation, a designer should open up the area as much as possible. Dykers explains that Snøhaetta’s approach is the opposite; the firm’s designers have found that the creation of well-placed obstacles is the key to unlocking the potential of a space, to giving people—whether they be front-of-the bull or back-of-the-bull people—the freedom to follow their instincts and shape the space for themselves.”
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America’s Got Talent Star Jackie Evancho To Sing At Trump Inaugural
The 16-year-old said she was “so excited” to be performing at the ceremony on 20 January. She finished second on the TV talent show in 2010.
Alex Ross: The Music I Liked Best This Year
Recordings, concerts, experiences… and Saariaho. It was a remarkable and eclectic year of music-making in America.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Way Computers Think (And How We Relate To Them)
“A rarefied department within the company, Google Brain, was founded five years ago on this very principle: that artificial “neural networks” that acquaint themselves with the world via trial and error, as toddlers do, might in turn develop something like human flexibility. This notion is not new — a version of it dates to the earliest stages of modern computing, in the 1940s — but for much of its history most computer scientists saw it as vaguely disreputable, even mystical. Since 2011, though, Google Brain has demonstrated that this approach to artificial intelligence could solve many problems that confounded decades of conventional efforts.”
Christie’s CEO Steps Down
Patricia Barbizet “will hand over the reins to Guillaume Cerutti, who left Sotheby’s in 2015 to join Christie’s as president of Europe, Middle East, Russia and India operations.”
The Future Of Reality Past And Present
This story will light up your brain as to the nature of your perceptions of what’s real. “We have completely forgotten what an uncertain world was inhabited by the human race before the 17th century, and we take Newton’s dream as a natural view of waking reality. Well, it was a nice dream. But it didn’t work out that way.”
Why They Staged The David Oyelowo/Daniel Craig ‘Othello’ In A Big Plywood Box
Director Sam Gold and set designer Andrew Lieberman modeled the space “on the kind of temporary military installations that have U.S. troops have mounted in deserts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last dozen years or so, and put the audience on three sides of the action.” Here they talk with Rob Weinert-Kendt about the hows and whys.