“The sounds of accordions and harps rang out in Grand Central Station on Tuesday morning at the annual tryouts for ‘Music Under New York.’ The program, run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (M.T.A.), allows Subway buskers to play in key locations underground and use amplification in their busking acts.”
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Hell On Wheels: Colleagues Remember Working With Arthur Laurents
“Asked by New York Magazine to talk about the pugnacious writer … in 2009, the composer Mary Rodgers Guettel responded bluntly, ‘Call me back when he’s dead.’ So I did. The answer remained: no comment.” But Stephen Sondheim, Harvey Fierstein, Mike Nichols, Patti LuPone and others were ready to share …
Great American Wilderness Meets Graduate Art Seminar, Courtesy Of Texas Tech
“Called Land Arts of the American West, the classes take place in a pair of heavy-duty Ford vans or wherever the vans and the camping gear they carry end up stopping during a 7,000-mile, two-month drive that a handful of participants … make throughout the West.”
The Laid-Off Photographer Who Changed (Or Wrecked) His Profession
“How [David] Hobby went from being a workaday newspaper photographer to an internationally recognized guru is a story tied up with seismic changes in the photography profession.”
Does Neuroscience Really Tell Us There’s No Such Thing As Free Will?
“Neuroscientists increasingly describe our behaviour as the result of a chain of cause-and-effect, in which one physical brain state or pattern of neural activity inexorably leads to the next, culminating in a particular action or decision.” If everyone believed and accepted this idea, wouldn’t most people become liars and cheats? Dan Jones considers.
Yo-Yo Ma And Lil Buck Create A YouTube Hip-Hop-Ballet
“The world-famous cellist in a suit and a young man in a baseball cap make an unlikely pair. Until the music starts playing and the young man starts slowly moving, his body bending and collapsing to the mournful tune.”
Male And Female Singers Competing For Grammys – What If …
“Recently announced guidelines will pit female and male singers against each other in the vocal performance categories. What if judges had been forced to do this all along?”
Magical Moving Magnetic Sculptures
“No, it’s not sentient goo. … Gary Lee Johns, a physics PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, combined commercially available magnetic-particle-infused fluid with a variety of different metal shapes. The result? The incredible fluid sculptures you see in this video.”
Pritzker Prize 2011 to Eduardo Souto de Moura
“His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics – power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy – at the same time,” wrote the jury chairman in the award citation.
Your Dreams Make You Who You Are
“Modern neuroscience has pushed Freud’s ideas to the sidelines and has taught us something far more profound about dreaming. We now know that this peculiar form of consciousness is crucial to making us who we are. Dreams help us to consolidate our memories, make sense of our myriad experiences and keep our emotions in check.”