“Watching TV is fun, talking about TV is fun — it’s all great fun. But I’ve begun to dread these four words: Wait, you haven’t seen —-? Fill in the blank with the current or classic prestige show of your choice: Mad Men, The Wire, Stranger Things, whatever. The second someone says this, the TV banter takes on an irritatingly insistent tone, with everyone present who has watched the show piling on the person who admits that they have not, until this poor soul agrees that, yes, okay, they’ll finally start watching Westworld. This weekend. Promise. It’s supposed to rain, anyway.”
It’s Called FOBO – Fear Of A Better Option
People who over-analyze, wanting to make the best possible decision. “They want to find the absolute best option. They become so focused on doing the ‘right’ thing that even after they make a decision, they still ruminate on their earlier options, which leads to frustration and regret with the decision process.”
Analysis: Contemporary Art Shows Now Dominate American Museums
It was not always this way. Just 20 years ago, Impressionism was king; no contemporary shows cracked the top ten most visited exhibitions in US museums in our 1997 attendance figures survey. Back then, only around 20% of the shows organised by US institutions were devoted to the art of their time. “It’s a definite cultural shift,” says Robert Storr, the former dean of the Yale University School of Art.
World-Leading Experts On Cambodian Art Under Scrutiny For Helping Fence Looted Antiquities
Collector Douglas Latchford, 86, and scholar Emma Bunker, 87, together wrote three books that are core reference works in the field of golden-age Khmer art and have been invaluable consultants to the national museum in Phnom Penh as it assembled a collection in the aftermath of Cambodia’s late-20th-century calamities. But a current criminal case suggests that the pair also spent decades providing false ownership histories for looted art.
‘President Trump vs. Big Bird’: NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Argues For NEA, NEH, CPB
“The humanities may seem squishy and irrelevant [in a time of crisis]. … Yet the humanities are far more powerful than most people believe. The world has been transformed over the last 250 years by what might be called a revolution of empathy driven by the humanities.”
Hermitage Museum’s Deputy Director Arrested For Fraud
“Mikhail Novikov, a deputy director in charge of construction at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been placed under house arrest on charges of suspected fraud … connected to a larger case of over Rb100m in embezzled funds during major Russian Ministry of Culture restoration projects.”