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The Golden Rule begins with imagining oneself as selfish, but try Mengzi instead. "Mengzian extension starts from the assumption that you are already concerned about nearby others, and takes…
Think memoir, travel, family history, history of the world. That's what a good cookbook is. " Literary Hub
At least, it will if it can get some funding. "Much of the problem is financial " with huge challenges in securing funding for such labour-intensive work. And when British productions do man…
Assistants are mad as hell, and they have the law behind them now, too. "Subjected to grueling hours, low pay, few benefits or protections and the vagaries of monomaniacal bosses, assistants…
Myra Melford is a composer as comfortable in jazz scenes as she is composing for new music ensembles. "Call it an 'organic approach to composition,' which is how her one-time teacher Henry T…
It used to be magazines and the Photoshopping that went into making cover models and celebrities look even thinner and more "perfect" than they already are. But this time it's regular people…
Will "boy films" or "girl films" dominate? And also, WTF, Hollywood? " The Guardian (UK)
Catholic Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose version of the "Stabat Mater" " a meditation on Mary, the mother of Jesus, suffering during the Crucifixion " is at the Lincoln Center this …
In the U.S., at least, kindness and empathy are on a statistical decline. So what can parents do? Stop the focus on success, and focus on what we can do that's decent and good. "The point is…
Seriously, why would anyone go to the movie in theatres 11 times? Sometimes you need distance to figure something like that out. "In The Matrix, I realized, I had found a message about my…
Bots worm their way into everything, including the once much more intimate Instagram Stories. Why? To get more engagement back. (There's a Russian "secret app" for this social media marketin…
Maybe. They're doing a lot better at reading comprehension exams, for instance. On a new "benchmark designed to measure machines' real understanding of natural language " or to expose their …
Friedeberger was inspired by his time as a European refugee in Australia during WWII. "Whereas many abstract painters of the 60s were working on a large scale with fields of unmodulated colo…
Or, more specifically, whom are they for? "Doing it just for an audience ties criticism to weird stuff about selling a show, which I'm sort of uncomfortable with. But if critics are reviewin…
The thing about horror is that it has always been about amplifying regular fear. The genre "works against false comfort, complacency and euphemism, against attempts to repress or sanitize th…
The protest was held at the end of a show sponsored by BP (British Petroleum) to protest the museum's ties to the company. One, a 19-year-old named Eden, said, "Who will there be left to see…
Neda Ulaby on the woman who shaped the course of ballet in the US and also, famously, in Cuba: "To this day, says American Ballet Theatre's Kevin McKenzie, young ballet dancers who want to l…
Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, says that he decided not to worry about what the audience thought, or more specifically thought of Asian Americans. "I had to stop caring. Because even as …
Tosches, who had a taste for rock and country (and their far fringes) "and his fellow music writers Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs were labeled 'the Noise Boys' for their wild, energ…
The elegant young American artist and the surly older French Impressionist inspired each other " and, because both destroyed or left little information about their friendship, a lot of art a…
Group up? Spend more money on new, fresh content? Somehow find, and fund, top talent? Everything is up in the air with all kinds of streaming services debuting and European producers wonderi…
The revamped MoMA invited people to visit for free on Sunday, before the official opening. Nearly 10,000 people took the museum up on its offer, and they needed to create new mental maps. "A…
The basic problem? A dashed line (one that violates international law as decided by a court at The Hague in 2016). "Malaysia's censorship board initially agreed to permit Abominable to…
Just days before MoMA was set to reopen after its big renovation and expansion, activists crashed both the outside and inside of a preview cocktail party for VIP guests. "The protesters gath…
Assuming there is a future, "when historians of the future chronicle the last days of Britain, a pig's head may enjoy its own footnote." " David Jays
