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We’re Entering A New Frontier For Dance

It feels like dancemaking is entering a new era. By setting dancers loose in the open air, outdoor filmmaking paradoxically brings them even closer to us in stunning, intimate ways, using the unique strategies of the camera. - Washington Post

How Might We Redesign Higher Education?

Another way to ask this question is to start with how our universities are designed today and ask which elements support or conflict with the research on learning. - Inside Higher Ed

Goodbye Minimalism? More Is Now More

No Pythonesque general is demanding we choose between plain and patterned plates. But it does feel like the finger-wagging minimalism that informed the housewares and home design market for over a decade is losing relevance while its opposite is gaining currency. The Walrus

How Essay Collections Became A Hot Genre

When the century began, essays were considered box office poison; editors would sometimes disguise collections of the stuff by packaging them as theme-driven memoirs. All that has changed. Paris Review

Move Over Miami Beach, Stand Aside Hamptons — The Art World Moved To Aspen

There is a general sense that Aspen has become a center of the art world during this hot vax summer. - New York Magazine

Is It Possible You Have Too Many Unread Books?

Unread books now exist in three states for me: Actual books, piled horizontally on a five-foot-wide bookcase; books listed in a tab on my reading spreadsheet, some sorted by category or interest; and the many books I’ve tagged “to-read” in my library app. - Tor

The Death Of The Author? Er, In Which Sense?

Kristen Roupenian ("Cat Person") considers two superfans, Annie Wilkes in Misery and Harry in With a Friend Like Harry, who completely lose the distinction between the stories they love and the men who wrote them — and she draws a comparison with the abortion-rights debate. - The New Yorker

“Hyperpop” And Defying Categorization

If mainstream pop is designed to make people feel as if they’re on common ground with all of humanity, this music made listeners feel like they were in on a very specific joke. - The New Yorker

Members Of Pussy Riot Flee Russia And “Constant Arrests”

"Citing a campaign of sustained harassment by the Russian government, … Alexander Sofeyev, Anna Kuzminykh, and Veronika Nikulshina announced via Twitter that they left in order 'to take a break from constant arrests for a second.'" - Artforum

El Sistema Has A Labor Problem

"Too often, those who fund our programs are, in effect, asking our team members to do more with less. There is a combined scarcity/charity mindset that permeates the entirety of our programs, forcing teachers and staff to make difficult choices about their livelihoods and quality of life." - Ensemble News

Actor Arthur French, Founding Member Of Negro Ensemble Company, Dead At 89

He started studying acting when he happened to be in the building where Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler taught — and went on to a highly praised 50-year career as a supporting actor in theater, film and television. - The New York Times

Michael Tilson Thomas Has Emergency Brain Surgery

Thomas, 76, will now embark on a monthslong course of therapy and has canceled all his public appearances through the end of October. - San Francisco Chronicle

In Cuba, Dance And Politics Have A Long History Together

"The history of dance in Cuba" — from the Alonsos' national ballet company in 1948 to today's protests — "shows us how artists not only negotiated with the state, but also related to and drew inspiration from their … imagined national community to express themselves." - The Washington Post on MSN

Scientists Use AI To Translate Ancient Text

Researchers at University of Notre Dame are developing an artificial neural network to read complex ancient handwriting based on human perception to improve capabilities of deep learning transcription. - Tech Xplore

Traveling Talkies: India’s Itinerant Cinema Tents Are Fading Away

Starting in the 1950s, small companies would roam the village festival circuit, setting up tents and showing old films with aging projectors cast off from the cities. Yet, as cell phones and internet service reach rural India, the market for traveling talkies is disappearing. - Atlas Obscura

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