“Everywhereness” describes how it feels when there is no longer any experience – meeting a friend, looking out of a window, feeling momentarily exasperated or exhilarated – that is particular to that moment, that place, those people. Social media make each moment four-dimensional by “scaffolding it with simultaneity, such that it exists in multiple places at once”.
They Want To Move Some Partitions At The Paris Opera, And Tout Paris Is Upset
“Last October, when word first got out about the project to enlarge the central boxes at Paris’s beloved 19th-century opera house, the Palais Garnier, by removing 12 damask-covered partitions, an indignant cry went up that was soon heard around the world. Since then, the scandal … has consumed and divided Paris opera fans, and raised alarm as far away as San Francisco.”
Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture Raises The $2 Million It Needs To Remain Accredited
“The school, which consists of Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., is seeking to become an independent subsidiary of the [Frank Lloyd Wright] Foundation, which currently runs it. Bylaw changes established by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in 2012 required the school to file for independent incorporation as an institution with the primary purpose of offering higher education.”
How Much Conductors Get Paid In France
Yes, the “Are conductors overpaid?” conversations happen there as well – and orchestras are secretive. Here are some figures for both music director salaries and per-concert fees. (text and audio in Franch; Google-Translated version of French text here.)
Scrooge Odyssey: Checking Out ‘A Christmas Carol’ Stagings Across The Nation
“Narrators kept assuring me that Marley is ‘dead as a doornail,’ and Scrooge’s line about wanting to meet all three ghosts ‘at once and get it over with’ failed to get a laugh every time. The Ghost of Christmas Past could be a Tim Burton-esque figure in a billowy white dress and top hat on a swing, or a flying, shirtless Roman soldier in a metallic silver kilt, or a Run-DMC-style ’80s rapper in a red Adidas track jacket and gold chain.”
In Praise Of The Unsung Understudy
“To see an actor other than Miranda step into [the title role of Hamilton] is to be aware in a different way of the risk and the danger and the promise of the historical moment, and the theatrical one. It is also a salutary reminder to all theatregoers to embrace the understudy, in whatever show he or she appears, in whatever role he or she is cast. See the understudy take his shot. It might be revolutionary.”
Study: Doing Things Alone Can Enrich The Experience (But Many Don’t Believe It)
“As expected, they expressed less interest in visiting the art gallery alone, and anticipated having a worse time, as compared to those who were in a group when they were approached. But reality didn’t match their predictions.”
Five Court Cases That Could Change The Business Of Art
“Do wealthy collectors with art advisors have a duty to investigate authenticity and research provenance, or can they do what they’ve always done and rely on what a reputable gallery tells them?”
The Bookstore That Stocks Only One Book At A Time
Owned by experienced bookseller Yoshiyuki Morioka, the store opened in May, stocking multiple copies of just one title, which changes weekly. This bookstore that sells only one book could also be described as ‘a bookstore that organises an exhibition derived from a single book’.
Know Your Purpose In Life? Researchers Reveal The Benefits
“Individuals who reported a greater sense of purpose preferred larger future gains to smaller immediate ones,” the researchers report. “Importantly, these results persisted after accounting for dispositions in personality traits and positive (emotions), suggesting a robust and unique association between having purpose and future-oriented behavior.”
Report: Arts Education Increasing In NYC Schools
“This growth is partly thanks to a new $5.3 million staffing program called Arts Matter, which allows middle and high schools to share dance, music, art, and theater teachers. The program brought art instruction to some 22,000 new students this year.”
See This Picasso? Shall We Give It Away Or Shred It?
“Depending on how the crowd votes, Cards Against Humanity will either gift the work to the Art Institute of Chicago or cut it into teeny squares with a laser and send each off (unframed, presumably) to the 150,000 backers, whether or not they voted in favor of the surgery.”
What Have We Lost Now That We Can No Longer Read The Night Sky?
“For most of human history, … it was unthinkable to ignore the stars. They were critical signposts, as prominent and useful as local hills, paths or wells. … On otherwise trackless seas and deserts, the familiar stars would also serve as a valued friend. That friendship is now broken. … Today, we are more disconnected from the stars than ever before.”
Misty Copeland’s Masterclass In Her SoCal Hometown Becomes A Love Fest
“The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet, ensconced in fog and drizzle. Restless and excited, they might have been awaiting the arrival of a rock legend. … Neighbors crouched on the roof of a small bungalow next door to get a glimpse of the action. When at last a gray SUV rolled up, smartphones and tablets shot into the air and the chanting began: ‘Misty, Misty, Misty.'”
How Rock-Paper-Scissors Became A Sport, Complete With World Champions And Professional Players
It started, as so many cool things do, in Canada, with two brothers who liked to play the game and trash-talk in their garage. “At its peak in the mid-aughts, the World Rock Paper Scissors Society was holding championships complete with black-and-white-shirted referees. They had corporate sponsorships from Microsoft and Yahoo! and a pot of $10,000 for the winner. The 2007 championships were televised on ESPN and Fox Sports.”
Mexico’s Literary Prankster Goes To War With The World’s Biggest Spanish-Language Publisher
“For several months this year, Mario Bellatin, one of Mexico’s best-known novelists, waged a quixotic war against Grupo Planeta, the largest publishing group in the Spanish-language world. An eccentric public figure who wears a variety of striking, artist-designed prostheses in lieu of his missing right forearm, Bellatin had an unwavering demand: that Planeta unpublish his magnum opus, Salón de Belleza.”
Inside The Making Of Season Two Of ‘Serial’
“It was the day after the first episode of the second season of the Serial podcast finally kerplunked into view – along with its subject, a soldier named Bowe Bergdahl, who in 2009 walked off his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban … – and the show’s host, Sarah Koenig, who doesn’t sound quite like her deliberately paced radio self in person, was a little unnerved by all the attention.”
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Needing More Cancer Treatment, Withdraws From ‘Trovatore’ At The Met
The Russian baritone, who announced last June that he has a brain tumor, will be returning to London for treatment and will miss four scheduled performances of the Verdi opera in February.
Who’s The Next Bob Fosse? Broadway Dance Weigh In
Five of the pros involved in Dance Machine, the company dedicated to preserving the choreography of great Broadway musicals, make their predictions – and one or two names keep coming up.
This Vinyl Record Format Seems To Be Catching On…
“Retailer HMV, which has doubled the floor space it allocates for vinyl in recent years, said it had sold a record player every minute in the past week, as the popularity of the classic system continues to grow.”
The Naughty Stuff They Found When They Cleaned A Couple Of Old Dutch Master Paintings
“Recently, a painting in the British Royal Collection was cleaned, revealing the younger van Ostade’s own lowbrow humor in the figure of a man urinating in front of a dog. Now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is sharing a similar discovery: Its newly restored 1641 Isack van Ostade painting of peasants butchering a pig shows a man defecating in the corner.”
Sultan Of Brunei Bans Christmas
“The all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world’s richest men, announced last year he would push ahead with the introduction of sharia law … Religious leaders in the oil-rich [Southeast Asian] sultanate warned this month that a ban on Christmas would be strictly enforced, for fear that Muslims could be led astray.”