“A growing body of evidence suggests that biological explanations are stigmatizing, possibly because people tend to see such problems as less treatable.”
World’s Big Museums Face Crisis Of Too Many Visitors
Nearly 10 million people a year pass through the Louvre, 7 million visit the British Museum, and 6 million go to the Met in New York. “The Louvre was conceived for 5 million people,” noted the president of the sprawling Paris museum, Jean-Luc Martinez. “For the past three years straight we’ve had more than 9 million.”
Couple Who Hid 271 Picassos In Garage For Four Decades Convicted
The court in a Côte d’Azur town gave Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec “a two-year suspended sentence, ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso, the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate.”
No, Pay-As-You-Go Cable Won’t Lower Your TV Bill
“The big misunderstanding about the current system is that we are somehow paying through our cable bills the actual per-channel cost for all the channels we don’t watch. Broadcasting distributors are really selling us access; the bigger the bill, the more choice is offered. Complaining about unwatched channels is a bit like complaining about the fancy elliptical machine at the health club. You may never use it, but somebody else does and their fees are helping pay for your treadmill.”
Finding That Lost City In The Honduran Jungle Was The Easy Part: The Danger Now Is –
– looting. In a New York Times Op-Ed, Tom Lutz describes the problems that a poor country like Honduras – and an underfunded discipline like archaeology – have keeping the newly discovered site safe.
We Experience The World We Infer, Not The World As It Is
“It can feel like our senses give us direct access to the world as it is now, and our memory to the world as it once was. Commentator Tania Lombrozo challenges these ideas.”
Director Peter Sellars On Art, The Audience, And Controversy
“For me, the art that’s made with the audience in mind is so numbing and insulting and demeaning – because it’s assuming that I don’t have a really interesting and complicated life, and somebody knows what I think. And nobody knows what I think because I’m still wrestling with what I think most days, so I hate it when somebody tells me what I think.”
An Era Passes As Three Of The American Ballet’s Principal Ballerinas Retire
As Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes retire, “the greater burden is on ABT, losing one-third of its roster of top-rank ballerinas. Casting for its spring-summer run in New York suggests soloists Misty Copeland and Sarah Lane may be in line for promotion. But there is no replacing the veteran ballerinas.”
South By Southwest Is A Huge Scam That Exploits Musicians (And Many Others)
“How is this different, you might ask, from unpaid internships at accounting firms or on Wall Street? How is it different from writers or artists working for “exposure”? I’ll tell you how it’s different: It’s not. It’s the same horrible, terrible, no good, very bad thing. And it’s wrong.”
The Johnny Carson Comeback Special That Never Made It To Your Screen
“Carson had taken up business in a laid back office in Santa Monica where he would take lunches with former friends and employees. At one of these lunches with Barrie and Mulholland, Carson mentioned that he had been considering what a return to TV special might be like.”
Classical Music Should Be A Short Click Away From Every Kid
“Spotify and iTunes have plenty of classical music. Unfortunately, they hate it. (Or seem to.) Keeping the four movements of one symphony together can be a stiff challenge because the only unit of music these sites recognize is the ‘song.'”
The Homeless, 86-Year-Old First-Time Author
“‘He thought he’d wasted his life,’ Carpenter says, ‘and he thought if only he could finish this book, and I could help him, then that would be his immortality.'”
A Shadow Ballet Between Human Dancers And Dancing Drones
“It’s more than a cool gimmick. Instead of having drones on stage just for the sake of having them, the clip shows how the machines can be used in subtler, more expressive ways. Being able to choreograph the three independently-moving light sources around a performer presumably lets you create all sorts of visual effects you simply couldn’t achieve otherwise.”
Your Kid Can’t Actually Paint Like Pollock, But She Could Probably Make Apple Pie From His Recipe
“The book includes over 50 recipes scribbled by Pollock, his wife, and his mother on loose paper. These were often circulated among close friends, because apparently Rothko and de Kooning couldn’t make lunch to save their life.”
Add Steppenwolf To The Growing List Of Theatres Benefitting From A Monk’s Winning Lottery Ticket
“He has a very clear mandate. He wants to support large theater companies doing massive, out-of-the-ordinary artistic projects — the kinds of epics you might see at the National Theatre in London, which has extensive government support.”
Director Threatens Suit To Keep Film Cut By Others Out Of U.S. Movie Theatres
“Some people wear hoods and carry automatic weapons, others sit behind their desks, but the attack and attempted suppression of the rights of the individual are the same. I will defend the right of free speech ’til the end and I ask all who believe, as I do, that they not support the showing of this film, on their networks, in their theatres, or wherever.”
Los Angeles Actors Are Marching Against The Equity Plan For 99-Seat Theatres
“Some prominent AEA members plan to picket their union’s North Hollywood headquarters on Monday. With ballots for the controversial 99-seat plan referendum set to be mailed next week, both sides of the debate are gearing up for a battle that could shape the future of L.A.’s intimate theater scene.”
Slowly, Over The Centuries, Undoing What Vesuvius Wrought
“Cutting the ribbon at the Villa of the Mysteries, Mr. Franceschini proclaimed: ‘If you asked have we resolved all the problems, the answer is no; if you ask are you resolving them, then we can proudly say yes.'”
Vladimir Tolstoy, Great-Great-Grandson, And Cultural Diplomat For Putin
“Not long ago, the sense that Russia had somehow lost its way after the fall of the Soviet Union was pervasive here, but Mr. Tolstoy and other Putin loyalists have succeeded in reviving a sense of national pride expressly through cultural policy.”
New York Contemporary Ballet Company Founded By WalMart Heiress Closes Up Shop For Good
“Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet seemed like the dance company that had it all: a wealthy benefactor, generous contracts and benefits for its dancers, and a snazzy Chelsea home. But on Friday company officials announced that the troupe would shut down.”
A First: Revenue From Stream Music Beats CD Sales For First Time
“According to data on music sales from the Recording Industry Association of America, sales in the US from streaming music were $1.87 billion in 2014, the RIAA said, while CD sales were $1.85 billion.”
Study: Listening To Music Improves Heart Health
“A newly published, small-scale study from Greece finds listening to either classical or rock music positively impacts two important predictors of cardiovascular risk. The effects are particularly pronounced for classical music fans, who, in the study, had a more robust physiological response to music of either genre.”
Nashville Symphony Creates A “Composer Lab,” Names Aaron Jay Kernis To Head It
“The program aims to discover the next generation of outstanding American composers by providing them with the opportunity to develop their talents, gain hands-on experience working with a major American orchestra, and showcase their work for local audiences. Coupled with the announcement is a nationwide call for submissions for its inaugural session.”
Sphinx Foundation Founder Named To Head University Of Michigan Music School
“I wasn’t looking to leave Sphinx,” said Aaron Dworkin, the organization’s founding president. “But this job gives me the opportunity to make a difference and have an impact on a broader scale. Schools are at a critical time in thinking about what it means to have a life in the performing arts.”
‘No Bums Sticking Out’: Rehearsing A Ballet With Hofesh Shechter
Royal Ballet member Beatriz Stix-Brunell: “Performing the choreographer’s new commission for the Royal Ballet is like swimming through honey. Week by week, from our fingertips to our toes, our bodies begin to understand what they need to do.”