Architecture As A Matter Of Conscience
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Architectural commissions that once might have seemed benign look more and more like matters of conscience. We know, for instance, that greenfield development destroys wildlife habitats even as species extinctions are occurring at a catastrophic rate. We know that projects in the United Arab Emirates are being built with slave labor. We know that luxury housing in New York and other cities has become a vehicle for international money laundering.
Architect Magazine Published: 04.10.17
Canada Has Produced Numerous Global Stars. Alas, It’s Unsustainable
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“The paradox in Canadian music is that we have so many superstars and very few developmental channels to build future superstars. We cannot expect to continue to have globally relevant Canadian pop stars without examining (or creating) the mechanisms needed to sustain pop chart ascension.”
The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 04.19.17
Vancouver Opera Is Trying To Be A Festival. But First The Company’s Director Has To Get Off Crutches
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VO moved to a festival model to ensure the future viability of the company as it deals with universal challenges facing the opera world. Kim Gaynor says tickets are selling, but she concedes the buzz has been slow to build.
The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 04.20.17
The Art Market Is Brutal – For Gender Equity
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From 2011 to 2016, just two in 100 of the top lots sold by living artists at auction were works by women. Of 2,300 artworks in the National Gallery, only 20 are by women, and none of the top ten richest living artists in the world are women.
ArtsProfessional Published: 04.20.17
Looks Like Hackers Might Be Able To Break Our Strongest Encryptions. So now Quantum Cryptography. But…
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“Cryptographers think that a new kind of computer based on quantum physics could make public-key cryptography insecure. Bits in a normal computer are either 0 or 1. Quantum physics allows bits to be in a superposition of 0 and 1, in the same way that Schrödinger’s cat can be in a superposition of alive and dead states. This sometimes lets quantum computers explore possibilities more quickly than normal computers. While no one has yet built a quantum computer capable of solving problems of nontrivial size (unless they kept it secret), over the past 20 years, researchers have started figuring out how to write programs for such computers and predict that, once built, quantum computers will quickly solve ‘hidden subgroup problems’. Since all public-key systems currently rely on variations of these problems, they could, in theory, be broken by a quantum computer.”
Aeon Published: 04.19.17
Are Internships Threatening Diversity Of The Arts?
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“The fact that internships are so prevalent in the creative industries is concerning, because the creative workforce lacks ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, particularly at entry level. If internships without measures to ensure equal access are common, there is a risk that the diversity of the sector will suffer.”
ArtsProfessional Published: 04.20.17
The Human Brain’s Propensity To Make Stuff Up And Believe It – And How Most Of Us Control It And Some Of Us Manipulate It
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Confabulation does seem to be innate: consider the stuff that people imagine they’ve done when they have brain damage, and that children come up with while the prefrontal cortex is developing. Neurologist Jules Montague writes about the phenomenon and the “doubt tags” people use to keep it in check – and how they can be induced to miss those tags and develop false memories.
Aeon Published: 04.17.17
Today’s “Thought Leaders” Tread A Very Narrow Line
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Today, our most famous purveyors of ideas sell themselves to the wealthy much like the courtiers of the Middle Ages. Daniel Drezner notes that these ideas are therefore shaped by the “aversion” that plutocrats share toward addressing the problems we face. Inequality? Global warming? Populist nihilism? An explosion of global refugees? From a Silicon Valley perspective, Drezner notes, such things are not a failure of our system but rather “a piece of faulty code that need[s] to be hacked.” Examining data from a survey of Silicon Valley corporate founders, Drezner notes their shared belief that “there’s no inherent conflict between major groups in society (workers vs. corporations, citizens vs. government, or America vs. other nations).”
The Nation Published: 04.10.17
The Original Elevator Music: A Potted History Of Muzak, Its Antecedents, And Its Huge Influence
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“The sounds frequently referred to as elevator music are, at least officially, no more; over five years ago the company folded in a deal with its new owner, Mood Music. Muzak often amounted to the sonic equivalent of a Pan-Am smile, inspiring the listener to a bland, blinkered contentedness. In part, its reputation has obscured much of what made the company viable, and the extent to which its style fed others in its wake.”
WQXR (New York City) Published: 04.18.17
The Theatre Designer Who Designed Modern America
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“While older utopias often were predicated on returning to the virtues of an imagined past, a key figure behind this utopia of the new was Norman Bel Geddes, a theatre designer turned industrial designer. Bel Geddes is best known for designing the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, a huge and hugely celebrated vision of the world of 1960, full of towering modernist skyscrapers in new cities and lots and lots of cars.”
Boston Review Published: 04.19.17
Wagnerian Tenor Manfred Jung Dead At 76
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“[He] is perhaps best known for taking on the role of Siegfried in Götterdämmerung for Bayreuth’s centennial Ring cycle … He also garnered fame for being one of the few tenors to sing every single tenor role in Wagner’s Ring.”
Operawire Published: 04.19.17
When Was The “Golden Age” Of Pop Music? Researchers Conduct A Fascinating Study
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Overall, “Music of the 1940s was preferred to music of its neighboring decades, and the same was true for music of the 1960s. The music of the 1980s also showed a peak, but … only for the younger participants.”
Pacific Standard Published: 04.20.17
Battle Over The (Existence Of The) Armenian Genocide Plays Out In Rival Movies
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“If history was any guide, the director Terry George figured, there’d be weirdness around his new film, The Promise, about the Armenian genocide. Sure enough, he was right” – there was a concerted pile-on at IMDb, and the unanticipated release of a competing film on strangely similar material, The Ottoman Lieutenant. Cara Buckley lays out the strange circumstances around the two titles.
New York Times Published: 04.20.17
Was This The Most Influential Music Teacher Of All Time?
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We should raise a cheer to the woman who contributed so much, with so little fanfare, to the history of 20th and 21st Century music. Don’t take my word for it. “Nadia Boulanger,” says Quincy Jones, “was the most astounding woman I ever met in my life.” And he’s met a few.
BBC Published: 04.19.17
The Tragedy Of Google Books: How ‘The Most Significant Humanities Project Of Our Time Was Dismantled In Court’
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“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” James Somers runs down the history of the massive book-scanning project and of Authors Guild v. Google – and how “perhaps the most adventuresome class action settlement ever attempted” was taken apart despite the best interests of all the parties.
The Atlantic Published: 04.20.17
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Getting A Southern Accent Right Is One Of The Big Challenges Of Making Audiobooks
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“Southern accents are like hot sauces: dozens of varieties that can be difficult to distinguish, but they can be subtle or heavy-handed; they can add color or be a one-note distraction. … When some people detect their presence, that’s all they can focus on. In the wrong hands they can be dangerous.” John Adamian talks to a professional audiobook narrator about the pitfalls involved.
Literary Hub Published:04.20.17
A Conversation With A Trio Of Choreographers Who Reinvigorated Ballet
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Roslyn Sulcas moderates a three-way between Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, and Justin Peck.
New York Times Published:04.20.17
‘No Brits, No Chekhov Translations, No Classics’ – Broadway’s Smallest Theater Begins New American Plays Program With Nine (Diverse!) Commissions
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That unequivocal statement came from Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage Theater, which, reports Michael Paulson, commissioned new works by the nine playwrights – seven of them women, three of them African-American, and one of them Asian-American – with the intention of bringing the shows to Broadway.”
New York Times Published:04.20.17
‘Really Galvanised To Make Work’ – Director Sam Gold On American Theater In The Trump Era
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“I think it’s made the whole community feel braver about making work that pushes people harder and gives voice to subject matter and to people that we can see being silenced under this administration. The second he was elected, the theatre community got energy and it’s a really great thing that we have a place to put our anger and our fear.”
The Guardian Published:04.20.17
‘The Diva Whisperer’ – Yannick Nézet-Séguin Starts Settling In At The Met
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“We [conductors] are the ears of the singer. But if we tell singers to please fit into a little box that I’m trying to create … then the conductor is like a teacher, and that is not what it should be.” David Patrick Stearns does a Q&A with YNS as he prepares for the opening of The Flying Dutchman, his first production at the Metropolitan Opera since becoming music director-designate.
Philadelphia Inquirer Published:04.20.17
Neighbors Sue Tate Modern Under European Convention For Human Rights (Yes, Really)
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One unexpected sight at the London museum’s new Switch House extension is a view straight into the glass-walled condos of the Neo Bankside complex, just 20 meters across the street. And visitors have been taking full advantage of that view, sharing photos of it all over social media, much to the residents’ chagrin. (The Tate has not been sympathetic.) Now five plaintiffs “claim their high-rise homes have been turned into ‘goldfish bowls’ while they have become ‘public exhibits'” – a violation of their human rights, they say.
The Independent (UK) Published:04.20.17
Why Are London’s Museums Royally Overhung?
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“Here’s an exhausting irony: Tate Modern’s room dedicated to Minimalism is so packed with works that it looks more like an industrial warehouse than a museum … [It] is just one of the countless London exhibitions stuffed full of art like a trussed turkey.”
Hyperallergic Published:04.19.17
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Wins A Peabody Award, And So Does ‘Veep’
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The two were among seven titles to receive honors in the entertainment category.
Variety Published:04.20.17
‘O.J.: Made In America’ And ‘Frontline’ Lead Documentary Peabody Winners
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Also among the winners of 2016 Peabody Awards in the documentary category were 13th, Zero Days, and MAVIS!.
Variety Published:04.18.17
‘I Didn’t Realize Then How Far We Would Go’ – Masaaki Suzuki Talks About Recording The Complete Bach Cantatas
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Lindsay Kemp visits Kobe to talk with the founder/director of the Bach Collegium Japan about the extraordinary (and excellent) 55-CD, 18-year project that Suzuki didn’t expect he’d be undertaking when he started it.
Gramophone Published:04.18.17