“Yet after only two days of participating in the mediated negotiation process (October 7-8), the WAC’S representatives … left the table to await further guidance and instruction from the WAC Governing Board [and have not returned] … Clearly, once again, they arrived at the table with neither proposals …
Category: Culture & Arts
Stephen Colbert and the Angry Inch
Mr. Colbert attacked Google and its chief executive, Larry Page, for an inaccurate listing of his height.
Opera Review: Plácido Domingo Stars in Verdi’s ‘I Due Foscari’ in London
Plácido Domingo plays a frail, aging man in Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” at the Royal Opera House in London.
Where the Moving Image Meets the Still Life
Inspired by America’s leftovers—old lamps, broken speakers, hot-sauce packets, and Al Gore’s monologues—Trisha Baga sets the physical and digital worlds in motion Read More
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When we first see Michael Keaton in “Birdman,” Alejandro G. Inarritu’s bracingly inventive and accomplished new film about fame, relevance, self-worth and lots of other intense stuff, he’s sitting in his white undies, in the middle of a dressing room. Of course you think, “How’d he DO that?…
Museum Workers Strike in London
Museum workers are on strike, demanding better wagesPhoto: Hypermarx Museum workers in Britain went on strike on Wednesday demanding better pay, Art Daily reported. Other public sector employees at courts, job centers, driving test centers, and airports also striked. The union of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) announced that its…
‘The Walking Dead’ Intro Recut With Drunk People Works A Little Too Well
They stumble around, they smell bad and they probably shouldn’t be operating a vehicle. No, we’re not talking about zombies. We mean drunk people. To welcome back “The Walking Dead” for Season 5, YouTube’s Marca Blanca put together a recut of the show’s intro with a bunch of inebriated folks replacing …
VOLTA NY Moves to Pier 90, Next to the Armory Show
Photo: VOLTA. Even in the thick of London’s Frieze Week (see “Top Artists at Frieze Masters” and “Top 10 Booths at Frieze London“), VOLTA NY is announcing big plans for next year’s Armory Week: the fair is moving closer to its sister fair the Armory Show…
Richard Serra Making a Huge Sculpture for David Zwirner
A Richard Serra sculpture.Photo: Julia Manzerova via Flickr. Richard Serra is working on a new sculpture for David Zwirner. The major work will be featured at Zwirner’s five-story West 20th Street space, which opened in February of last year, to commemorate the gallery’s 20th anniversary. Though…
How to depict the death penalty
A new exhibition aims to humanise condemned prisoners. From the sword to the electric chair, the death penalty has inspiredpowerful art, writes Jason Farago.
How One Musician Helped A Teen With Hearing Impairment Enjoy Her First Live Concert
Dutch teenager Vera van Dijk was born with a severe hearing impairment that made it impossible to understand her mother’s voice or listen to pop music. But thanks to one savvy musician, the 19-year-old was recently able to experience her first live music concert, as reported by Alt Sounds. …
Chris Noth Has A Lot To Say About ‘Sex And The City’ And Carrie Bradshaw
Chris Noth has not played Mr. Big since 2010, but he recently got frank about the “Sex and the City” series during an interview with News.com.au, including a discussion about how his character has been misunderstood all these years. “One of the things I tell people is that [Big] …
‘Adorable-izing Hate’ Is The Best Way To Deal With Spiteful Internet Comments
What to do when someone writes terrible things about you on the Internet? Turn their comments into cute pieces of embroidery, obviously. Marie Brian, also known as the Cotton Floozy, creates and sells hilarious stitchings online. When she started receiving negative feedback — like so many other women on the Internet — …
National Book Awards Finalists
The prominent literary prize narrowed its nominees to 20 writers — a mix of heavyweights and many new ones. And across the Atlantic, Richard Flanagan won Britain’s biggest award, the Man Booker Prize.
After Down Year, Warner Bros. To Cut $200 Million In Costs And Make Layoffs
“The studio released a handful of duds during the summer, including “Blended” and “Jersey Boys,” and now finds itself in unfamiliar territory: third place in domestic box-office share. The studio has finished No. 1 or No. 2 in nine of the last 10 years.”
How Our Elite Colleges Have Failed Their Students
“More colleges with a higher tolerance for risk, for passionate weirdness in curriculum and teaching, might well help our children make a more distinctive world for themselves. How far off such hopes now seem.”
The “Culture” Of Big Data (And What It Doesn’t Mean)
“Operating beyond normal science’s simple accumulation of more information, Big Data is touted as a different sort of knowledge altogether, an Enlightenment for social life reckoned at the scale of masses. As with the similarly inferential sciences like evolutionary psychology and pop-neuroscience, Big Data can be used to …