The researchers found that both IQ and emotional intelligence were independently correlated with well-being. IQ was positively correlated with personal relationships, self-acceptance, personal growth, mastery, and purpose in life. Emotional intelligence was correlated with the same well-being measures, but was additionally related to a sense of autonomy in life. – Scientific American
Canadian Libraries Say Publishers Are Making It More Difficult For Them To Share
The Canadian Urban Library Council says “the big five” publishers like Hachette, Penguin Random House and MacMillan have long restricted library access to electronic materials, but in the past two years the problem has grown worse. – CBC
Dept. Of Homeland Security Has Mistaken This 90-Year-Old Theatre Historian For An ISIS Terrorist
David Mayer was a lieutenant in the US Army and spent decades living and teaching in Britain. Unfortunately, “David Mayer” was also an alias of one Akhmed Chatayev, a Chechen militant suspected of masterminding the 2016 attack on Istanbul’s airport. Several branches of the US government have gotten the two confused, and now the real Mayer can’t receive packages from the US and has trouble traveling. — The Observer (UK)
Mosaics And Paintings In Bethlehem’s Church Of The Nativity Restored For First Time In Centuries
“Over the past 15 months, experts have cleaned and repaired surviving fragments of the 12th-century masterworks, preserving 1,345 square feet (125 square metres) of what was once 21,528 square feet (2,000 square metres) of glittering gold and glass. The rest has been eaten away by wear, humidity, wars and earthquakes.” — Yahoo! (AFP)
Joe Melillo Talks About His 35 Years At The Brooklyn Academy
“I have worked in the performing arts for so long—presented or produced thousands of shows here, worked with thousands of artists—that I’m so preconditioned to change it’s part of my DNA. No one asked me to leave; I knew in my heart I was coming to the evolutionary end of this journey. Retirement for me is stopping here and going on to a new identity that uses everything I’ve been exposed to over thirty-five years here in Brooklyn and around the globe, finding the path to where I can make another cultural contribution that has some meaning.” – Howlround
Is Great Theatre Possible In A Democracy?
Natalia Kalaida, one of the members of Belarus Free Theatre, which was exiled for its political stances, explains that “art has long been used to express political and moral opposition, particularly in countries where open criticism can lead to arrest and even execution. But when citizens have nothing to fight for, Kaliada says, the importance of theatre wanes.” – ABC News (Australia)
The U.S. President Thinks News And Satire ‘Should Be Tested In The Courts’
After a Saturday Night Live cold open recreated It’s a Wonderful Life without Donald Trump as president, the man who should most clearly understand the First Amendment tweeted, “It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?” – Variety
Twist In The LA Mural Story: Shepard Fairey Says He’ll Remove His Mural If LAUSD Paints Over Another Artist’s Mural
Fairey’s mural, at the same school, is of Robert F. Kennedy – at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, on the footprint of the hotel where Kennedy was shot. It is “arguably one of the school’s defining visual elements.” If Beau Stanton’s mural of Ava Gardner is painted over, he says, his should be too. He’d rather not, though: “I thought that cooler heads would prevail because this is absurd.” – Los Angeles Times
A Second Actress Accuses Geoffrey Rush Of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior
Yael Stone, who plays Lorna on Orange Is the New Black, says the actor danced naked around her dressing room, watched her while she showered, and sent inappropriate text messages. (Rush says it was all about “the spirited enthusiasm I generally bring to my work.”) – The New York Times
Putin Says Russia Should ‘Take Charge Of’ Youth Culture And Rap Music
That’s not ominous or dictator-like at all. And of course, as the article says, “The Russian government has long had a complicated relationship with music.” – BBC
Bryan Tyree Henry’s Breakout Year
Though he was already a star in the TV show Atlanta, not to mention a turn in the movie Widows, Henry is finding acclaim in Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ new movie, If Beale Street Could Talk. “He can be agile and profound, menacing and open, composed and undone. Put more plainly, Brian Tyree Henry has the range.” – The Atlantic
Spain’s Lost Decade Of The Arts
Since the economic crash, the arts in Spain have suffered massive hits – and then there’s the internet. “Between 2007 and 2017, one out of every three musical performances and a quarter of the film showings have disappeared, according to the SGAE 2018 report. There is no cultural activity that does not register a decrease in performances (from 17% of classical music to 57% of the dance) and tickets sold (between 7% and 47%).” – El País (Spain)
Is Netflix Going To Work As A Movie Studio?
It’s like Lifetime! Or Hallmark! But wait, it’s got prestige movies! And hey, there are documentaries! And animated movie! And … whoa, Netflix, what are you even doing? A lot. “The number of annual Netflix film releases climbs to about 90. To compare, Universal, one of Hollywood’s most prolific traditional studios, releases roughly 30 movies a year.” – The New York Times
How Did Peter Jackson Make 100-Year-Old Black And White WWI Footage Look New?
The director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was given about 100 hours of film from the time period – some of it sped up, some of it in terrible disrepair, all of it black and white. First, he and his team restored all of the footage. Then, they “retimed the footage, speeding up the frame rate, adding extra frames digitally and smoothing out the movement.” – The New York Times
The Artist Who Put Lighted Massive Slugs Outside Tate Britain Says She Wants To Keep People’s Morale Up
Monster Chetwynd wanted to undermine saccharine holiday art – and work with bioluminescence. “If you let people believe they can do something, it’s more likely to happen. Depressing people stops them taking action. A lot of what I do is deliberately uplifting for that reason.” – The Observer (UK)
Is A Caravaggio Nativity Painting Stolen In 1969 About To Reappear?
Or is it an elaborate hoax by the Mafia? “New testimony from some inside the Sicilian mafia has led investigators to believe the Nativity can be recovered, and soon. They have followed leads to Switzerland and – it emerged in the autumn – to eastern Europe.” – The Guardian (UK)
Vijay Gupta To Leave LA Phil And Concentrate On Street Symphony
The violinist, who won a MacArthur “genius” grant this year, has decided to leave his seat as one of the orchestra’s first violins. He said, “The L.A. Phil saved my life when I was a 19-year-old kid. It was the way that I was able to continue being a musician and to continue growing as an artist. … And I’m really excited to take that artistry beyond Los Angeles and beyond the work of being in an orchestra.” – Los Angeles Times
LA Philharmonic Violinist Vijay Gupta Leaving Orchestra To Focus On Music Activism
Gupta told The Times that he will give up his seat as one of the L.A. Phil’s first violins to focus on his activism, to teach and to develop his nonprofit Street Symphony, which since 2011 has been performing free concerts for Los Angeles’ homeless and in county jails. His last concert as a full-time member of the L.A. Phil will be Sunday. – Los Angeles Times