The goal behind the creation of “Chuck Finley” was to make sure certain books stayed on the shelves — books that aren’t used for a long period can be discarded and removed from the library system.
Art Institute Of Chicago Gives Free Admission To All Teenagers
A gift from a philanthropist couple has extended the no-entrance-fee policy, previously for children under 14 only, to all Chicagoans under 18 for at least the next 25 years.
The Internet Hasn’t Democratized Music As Promised
“As music discovery becomes more concentrated and consolidated (goodbye, Vine) thanks to Spotify recs and Tidal-only exclusives (my New Year’s resolution: cancel Tidal) and Beats 1 premieres that one feels obligated to indulge for the sake of relevancy, the free-for-all that once was a deep-dive internet search for a weird track has dissipated a bit, in lieu of streaming services handing you what you want on a platter. ‘Discovery’ features feel like an exercise in marketed groupthink, even when they occasionally do yield new music.”
Visiting Disney World Is The Modern Version Of Making A Medieval Pilgrimage, Say Academics
And they may just have a point, at least with respect to some visitors. “In the modern world, a trip to Disney has become a rite of passage that transforms those who make the trek … Disney World resembles a medieval pilgrimage center, designed to connect pilgrims with the supernatural.”
The Upstart Companies Making Opera Hip In LA
New opera companies are everywhere, and springing up in unexpected places and in unusual formats. And there’s a lot more coming in 2017.
When Robert Rauschenberg And Jasper Johns Did Display Windows For Tiffany’s
It’s true: “Between 1956 and 1958, the artists created a series of Surrealist-style window displays using materials such as leaves, flowers, fruit, dirt and sand … to showcase Tiffany’s iconic jewels.”
11-Year-Old’s Opera Debuts In Vienna
“Conductor Simon Rattle declared he was ‘absolutely bowled over’ when he first saw her perform, but it was Stephen Fry who first speculated that Deutscher could be this generation’s Mozart, after watching a video of her performing on YouTube. However, it is not a comparison that the 11-year-old is particularly keen on.”
A Choreographer Who Thinks In Series
In the performing arts world, it is the custom that artists continually create and promote something new, something original. Choreographer Trajell Harris has conceived of a series of pieces that explore and expand on an idea. Could this lead to a new way of thinking about presenting dance?
Why Poetry? It’s Such A Tedious Question At This Point. And Yet…
“Why support poetry? Those of us who engage in the publication and sustenance of the written word do so to insure that language for our future generations remains intact, powerful and ultimately renewed, capable of its role during times of crisis and celebration.”
Demi Moore And Bruce Willis Give Idaho Theatre To Theatre Company
“The couple bought the historic movie house at 110 N. Main St. in 1995 with the idea of transforming it into a live-performance space. The next year, the couple encouraged their friends Rusty Wilson and Denise Simone to move their theater company from Richmond, Virginia, to Idaho to perform on the Liberty’s thrust stage. It was a successful arrangement for both parties based on an informal agreement about the building’s use.”
A Fascinating Debate In Ohio About How To Give Public Money For The Arts
“The idea of public support for the arts, and especially for individual artists, is a pretty progressive idea. It takes some convincing, even in a largely Democratic place. And despite the fact that just last year Cuyahoga County voters overwhelmingly renewed the cigarette tax for the arts, distrust by artists of the organization they worked to establish could erode that support pretty quickly. The tragedy of that—besides the obvious—is that the individual artist program is, at three percent, a tiny fraction of Cuyahoga Arts Council’s grant making.”
NY City Opera Attempts To Rise From The Dead
“It was less than a year ago that it emerged from bankruptcy under new management after a bitter court fight and began staging operas again. Now it must woo back audiences and skeptical donors, and navigate a cultural landscape that has changed dramatically since the heyday of the old company.”
Diversifying: Eighteen Curators To Watch In 2017
“Over the past year, a number of African Americans have accepted prestigious appointments at important art and cultural institutions across the country. These curators and cultural leaders to watch are in positions to drive exhibition programming, acquisitions, innovations in what is considered art, influence hiring, fellowship and internship opportunities, and how institutions grow their audiences.”
Fake News? Try Fake Conferences And Fake Scientific Journals
“There are real, prestigious journals and conferences in higher education that enforce and defend the highest standards of scholarship. But there are also many more Ph.D.-holders than there is space in those publications, and those people are all in different ways subject to the “publish or perish” system of professional advancement. The academic journal-and-conference system is subject to no real outside oversight. Standards are whatever the scholars involved say they are.”
2016 Was The Year That Book Sales Turned A Corner
“The notion that owning a bookstore is akin to an act of altruism has become a little outdated. In fact, 2016 offered encouraging evidence that after years of dire news stories about the literary industry selling books has once again become sensible business. To be fair, the past year was less a book boom than a hold-steady.”
Is Experience Neurological? So What’s Real?
“Neuroscientists can correlate activity in the brain with specific kinds of experience, but they cannot say this activity is the experience. In fact, the neural activity relating to one experience often seems nearly indistinguishable from the neural activity relating to another quite different experience. So we remain unsure where or how consciousness happens. All the same, the internalist model remains dominant and continues to be taught in textbooks and broadcast to a wider public in TV documentaries and popular non-fiction books. So our questions today are: Why this apparent consensus in the absence of convincing evidence? And what new ideas are internalists exploring to advance the science?”
Critics, Writers, Bookstores Push Back Against Simon & Schuster For Signing White Nationalist To Big Contract
Many in the publishing world reacted with outrage over the S&S signing. “Soon, however, pushback against the publisher transitioned from simple outrage to calls for organized resistance. One literary journal announced a boycott on coverage in 2017.” Authors announced they’d leave S&S and others were contemplating boycotts.
What Are The Most Important Books Of The Last 20 Years (The Experts Don’t Agree)
“I reached out to some of my favorite contemporary writers and asked them to name the most important books published over the last two decades. To my surprise, there wasn’t a lot of overlap in their respective choices: only 14 titles were chosen by more than one author.”
The Showbiz Folk We Lost In 2016
Playbill helps us bid farewell to David Bowie and Brian Bedford, Patti Duke and Patrice Munsel, Edward Albee and Zsa Zsa Gabor, and all too many more.