The dateline notwithstanding, this is not a joke article: “emotional labor” is a real phenomenon, much studied by sociologists and behavioral economists, and it can lead to real burnout.
P.G. Wodehouse Was An American Author (From The Dept. Of Little-Realized Facts)
“As a pre-World War II transatlantic creative, he worked in Hollywood and on Broadway. And after World War II – things had gotten pretty hot for him in Britain because of the radio broadcasts he made for the Nazis as a captive in 1941 – he lived in the U.S. until his death. He became an American citizen in 1955.” And this American-ness, argues one scholar, is key to Wodehouse’s continuing appeal.
How To Create A Transcendent Art Experience? The Radical Empathy Of An Audience Of One
“In order to achieve a truly relational exchange between maker and recipient, the group’s founders conceived of a radically new approach: creating elaborately crafted performances for an audience of one. Since its inception in 2001, the group has selected one audience member per year through a call for applications and spent months composing a piece exclusively for her. It’s a provocative idea, and one that challenges some of our most cherished assumptions about art and its purpose.”
Here Are Ten Great Works Of Art That Wouldn’t Have Happened Without The NEA
“Who’s to say how much the filmmakers and playwrights of today were affected by NEA-funded plays and workshops at a young age, or to what extent the creators of tomorrow will suffer by missing out on such formative experiences if the NEA is defunded? Moreover, though NEA naysayers claim private expenditure can fill that void just as ably, there’s no free market mechanism to match the NEA’s stated and concerted efforts to reach low-income and minority communities.”
A Projection Mapping System That Transforms Dancers In Real Time
The University of Tokyo designed a high-speed projector that projects 1,000 frames per second — which they say is the world’s fastest. By using the projector alongside a 3D-mapping system and precise sensor tracking, the video creators were able to change the look of the dancers and the aesthetics of the video in real time.
The Golden Age Of TV Is More Like A Sweatshop Age For Its Writers
It’s a perfect storm of causes, and one is prestige TV. “Shorter seasons are the new norm, with many series consisting of 10 or fewer episodes on cable and streaming — less than half the length of traditional seasons on network shows. That has put writers in a financial crunch since many have exclusivity clauses that prevent them from working on multiple shows per season.”
Hyperallergic’s April Fool’s Article Is Once Again The Best Thing Ever: Airbnb’ing The Met
But is this ACTUALLY a bad idea? Hm. “The announcement comes after reports that the Upper East Side museum, which was the second-most-visited in the world last year and had a budget of roughly $300 million, is facing a budget shortfall of $10 million. Now, as it looks to capitalize on its collection in unconventional ways, the Met is hoping it can replicate the kind of viral success the Art Institute of Chicago enjoyed recently with its Vincent van Gogh-themed Airbnb partnership.”
A Palestinian Author Flees After Facing Death Threats And A Ban On His Novel
His earlier novels were controversial, but when he included a gay man in his fourth novel, “angry Palestinians wrote on his Facebook page, and their own pages, that they wanted to lynch Yahya and burn bookstores and libraries carrying Crime in Ramallah.”
What Is An Elite College Really Worth?
Turns out that’s the wrong question. First of all, 70 percent of 29-year-olds don’t have a bachelor’s degree. And secondly, “after correcting for a student’s pre-existing talent, ambition, and habits, it’s hard to show that highly selective colleges add much earning power, even with their vaunted professors, professional networks, and signaling.”
Gary Austin, Founder Of The Improv Theatre Troupe The Groundlings, Has Died At 75
Austin’s influence on Saturday Night Live actors was also huge. “His improvisational teaching technique involved creating scenes based on arbitrary suggestions with performers then committing to agreement on the premise of the story — no matter how far-fetched — and then performing to reflect the truth of the scene and characters.”
Dear Citizens Of The United States: You Get The World You Pay For, So Please Pay For Art
The president’s plan to defund the arts (even further) should be a call to arms. But “because the arts seem glamorous, and can indeed be fulfilling and fun to do, it’s easy to regard them as something different — a lark, a hobby. The fact that some artists make art whether or not there’s money to be made might be taken as an argument that they don’t need to be paid because they’re just doing what they like. … But even crayons cost money.”
Choral Music Is ‘Slow Food For The Soul,’ Says Nico Muhly
“One of the most moving things about this musical tradition is happening upon it: walking through London and ducking into St. Paul’s Cathedral, for instance, and hearing the buttery luxuriousness of one of Herbert Howells’s canticles.”
Why Are Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Specials So Painfully Unfunny?
Myles Johnson says follow the money: “Capitalism calls for you to be average and Dave Chappelle obeyed. It calls for you to be ignorant despite moments, even fleeting, of critical enlightenment.”
James Rosenquist, Pop Artist Whose Work Was Influenced By Advertising, Has Died At 83
Rosenquist, who had experience (and a day job) as a painter of billboards, “painted by hand in a lucidly simplified realistic style, [but] the juxtapositions of images remain mysterious. The paintings could be viewed both as critiques of modern consumerism and as glimpses into the collective American consciousness.”
The Cleveland Orchestra Had A Pretty Decent April Fool’s Joke For Its City
So apparently “Severance Hall sits atop a vast underground cavern and waterway system, like the Palais Garnier in ‘The Phantom of the Opera.'” Yup.
Turns Out Video Games Are *Not* Addictive
Wait. What? They’re really not, though. Playing in what seems like an addictive way “is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug or alcohol use can be.”
As The Dancers Move, A Projector Maps Their Faces And Makes Them Look Fairly Terrifying (And Amazing)
The high-speed projector works at 1,000 frames per minute, and “over the course of about one minute, the dancers are made to look like skulls with empty eye sockets, big-toothed clowns, and terrifying dolls with their jaws unhinged.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Siberian Poet Who Denounced Stalin And Inspired Millions, Has Died At 83
The poet, who “often declaimed with sweeping gestures to thousands of excited admirers in public squares, sports stadiums and lecture halls” in the years soon after Stalin died, ended his own days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had been for many years a professor at the University of Tulsa.