“Looking to the broader artist-activist events of this earlier era provides a number of potential strategies to adopt” – and to avoid.
Want To Be More Productive? You Absolutely MUST Waste Some Time
“There’s an idea we must always be available, work all the time,” says Michael Guttridge, a psychologist who focuses on workplace behavior. “It’s hard to break out of that and go to the park.” But the downsides are obvious: We end up zoning out while at the computer—looking for distraction on social media, telling ourselves we’re “multitasking” while really spending far longer than necessary on the most basic tasks.
Turkey Has Blocked Access To Wikipedia
Turkey did not say why it chose to block Wikipedia, other than it had taken “an administrative measure” after “technical analysis and legal consideration … .” But the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted an official from the ministry of transport who said the government blocked the site because it was part of a “coordinated smear campaign.” The article went on to say a Wikipedia entry claimed Turkey was aligned with various terrorist organizations.
Accordion Superstar Dick Contino, 87
For a time, Mr. Contino was a show business rarity: a heartthrob accordionist who earned up to $4,000 a week in nightclubs. “Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion,” Time magazine wrote in 1951.
How The Hirshhorn Museum Has Been Reborn
It was a dark time for a proud institution. The Hirshhorn opened in 1974 after philanthropist and financier Joseph H. Hirshhorn donated his renowned collection to the Smithsonian. The Gordon Bunshaft-designed building has hosted many internationally celebrated exhibitions, including shows focused on Ai Weiwei, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois and Clyfford Still. But as it came upon its 40th anniversary in 2014, it had hit a “low ebb.”
Why Is Rose Gold The Cool Gold? A Short History Of Color
“From the mid-nineteen-fifties to the early seventies, Kodak supplied commercial photographers who bought its film with so-called Shirley cards, images of women—always Caucasian—that were printed on card stock and used as the standard for lighting in studios. … The protocol was eventually updated to include black, Latina, and Asian models – but not for the same reasons that made Crayola retire its ‘flesh’ crayon. Rather, it was complaints from furniture manufacturers.”
The Whitney Biennial Catalog, Reviewed By An Artist
Stephen Persing: “He knows his stuff, and his enthusiasm is infectious, but it nearly carries him (and us) away on Brobdignagian sentences that are roller-coaster rides of clauses and often unsupported concepts.”
The Science Of Seating Musicians In The Orchestra
Let’s start with Papa: “Much classical music involves antiphony, which we could describe as a conversational style of writing in which the first and second violins trade phrases with each other — an 18th century stereo effect. Haydn organizes his orchestra with the first and second violins opposite each other so that these phrases could be heard coming from opposite sides of the stage.”
Writers, Studios Making Progress In Talks As Contract Deadline Looms
However, a strike could still occur: “No deal has been announced so far and a strike could still happen if both sides fail to reach an agreement by midnight Monday, when the writers’ current contract expires. A strike would affect nearly 13,000 film and TV writers and would cause widespread disruption in Hollywood.”
The Brooklyn Museum Offers Everything, But Will Anyone Pay For It?
The financial hurdles are big, and the museum covers 5,000 years of history – but that’s not attractive to as many museumgoers as it used to be. Contemporary art is hot. Can the Brooklyn Museum compete, and survive?
The Big Winners At The Daytime Emmys
General Hospital, Steve Harvey, and The Talk won big in a very warm, sunny L.A.
Playing Cyrano And Trying Very, Very Hard Not To Sing Through The Nose
The process of getting Roberto Alagna’s Cyrano nose right took a while, a facial cast, and the sticky adhesive known as Pros-Aide. Alagna: “It’s difficult because you can’t have the resonance of the sound. … You have no resonance at all! It’s like putting cotton on a violin.”
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 04.30.17
Black Eye Porn
“Normally The Guardian publishes all of Rowson’s cartoons, but I don’t think this one. He mailed it to Heathcote who forwarded it to me. Heathcote wrote the lines when I asked him.” — Gerard … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-04-28
On charging admission at the Met
The New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking at options to make its “suggested” entry fee into something a little stronger than a hint, at least for people who live … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2017-04-28
Nora and the mansplainer
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway premiere of A Doll’s House, Part 2. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Hugh Kenner defined conceptual art as that which, once described, need not be … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-04-28
Canadian Theatre Needs To Go Way Beyond A Hashtag
The deal: “I want a contemporary colour palette. I want the people of the world that I see around me to be telling those stories. That homogenous world that I see onstage [traditionally]? It’s just not my world. I don’t recognize that.”