Politicians and state officials, often with the help of management consultants, are making liberal arts education scarce in some of the poorest states in the Union. This trend, typically led by Republican-controlled legislatures and often masquerading as budgetary necessity, threatens to have dire long-term effects. - The New York Times
In theory, nothing about the brain’s squishy wetware prevents its internal states from being observed. “If you could measure every single neuron in the brain in real time, you could potentially decode everything that was percolating around in there.” - The Atlantic
All of these power-adult former theater kids exist in a moment when the very things that used to make drama-loving teenagers an easy punchline have become strengths. Today, performing an outsize version of oneself is often rewarded. - The New York Times
As was the case with the professor, photos uploaded to Christie’s oftentimes include GPS coordinates for where they were taken; those coordinates are so precise that they reveal not just a street address but can even indicate within a few feet exactly where inside a building a photo was taken. - Washington Post
"The stunning success testifies to potency of confrontational works that cater to an audience that believes it is underserved, but also: the increasing savvy of promoters and fans — including conservatives — who have mastered digital platforms and guerrilla marketing tactics to dominate culture industries they say have marginalized them." - The New York Times
"The truth is I'm not necessarily concerned about not upsetting traditionalists. I think people who love our art form are still gonna love it because we're still gonna play some Puccini and Verdi. To me it's — it's never about not upsetting. And if some people are upset, well, too bad." - CBS
One of a very few Black men present from the beginning of the downtown postmodern dance scene, he danced with Merce Cunningham and reviewed for The Village Voice as well as running his own company and founding a trio of eminent older dancers called Paradigm. - The New York Times
In a sweeping yet forensic 336 pages, “The Great White Bard” argues that “Shakespeare’s texts are a reservoir of what is known as race-making” — how language can define racial identity and establish hierarchy. - The New York Times
For the first time since its release last year, traffic to the ChatGPT website fell by almost 10 percent in June. Downloads of its iPhone app have fallen off, too, the report said, although OpenAI wouldn’t comment on the numbers. - Vox
While the move could fill Disney’s coffers, it would take away one of the key reasons people still stick with cable – access to live sports. - CordCutters News
"Despite being in very close to playable condition, the organ has sat in pieces in underground storage near San Francisco City Hall for most of the past three decades. The city is trying to find a forever home, essentially free to anyone with the space and several million dollars to move and install it." - San Francisco Chronicle
“It seemed strange to me that there wouldn’t be a piano festival in such a major arts city, where there are in places that are far smaller.” - San Francisco Chronicle
If we focus on independent artists — writers and artists who say they’re either in publishing or outside of any defined industry — D.C. remains on top. But that little data clarification clamps shut the yawning gulf between D.C. and the rest. - Washington Post (Scroll down)
"I am not in sympathy with a view of acting that centers an actor’s identity rather than a character, or with the blanket disqualification of certain kinds of transformational artistry that is inherent in that approach, and I’m troubled when Jewishness is enlisted to support it." - Slate
"When people make the trip to Broadway and Sixty-fifth, they surely aren’t looking for an awkward transplantation of cultures that exist in more authentic form elsewhere in the city. They more likely want an encounter with something radically other—a world distant in time or space." - The New Yorker
