“Clearly, gender-based award categories are essential to maintaining even a tenuous presence for talented women in Hollywood.”
Tag: 12.30.13
This Opera Has 180,000 Miles On Her. Is It Time To Go?
“As it aged — past 30, then 35, then 40 — the production came to seem less charming than vaguely pernicious: a symbol of the deep-seated resistance to change, the allergy to experimentation and newness, that remains at the core of opera’s American mainstream.”
Torturing The Slippers At New York City Ballet
Tiler Peck, for instance, bangs hers against a cinder-block wall. (It keeps them quiet.)
Why We Make Resolutions (And Why They Fail)
As Oscar Wilde wrote, “Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.” Research psychologists have found that he had a point.
Mapping How Emotions Manifest in the Body
From anger to surprise to happiness to depression to disgust, “across cultures, people feel increased activity in different parts of the body as their mental state changes.”
A Dozen Maps That Changed The World
From Ptolemy to Korea ca. 1400 to Mercator to Google Earth.
Reviving Books From The Dead (It’s Called “Continuation” Literature
“These days, continuation literature – as it has been hailed – falls into two camps: works that are licensed by writers’ estates and those that, like Austen, are in the public domain.”
Mayor Bloomberg’s Amazing NYC Arts Legacy
“The most prominent aspect of Mr. Bloomberg’s arts legacy is the $2 billion the city spent to transform the buildings of institutions across the city. But it also includes organizations that have come into being largely through the efforts of the mayor and his staff.”