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☆ Artist Yves Klein’s unusual nude performance restaged decades after artist’s death
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Twice a week this spring, a nude performance artist sits inside a small wooden box in a New York gallery waiting to be touched. Courtesy Lévy Gorvy DayanVisitors to Lévy Gorvy Dayan on New York's Upper East Side can interact with the sculpture and performance artist inside during twice-weekly performances this spring. “Yves Klein: The Tangible World” brings together many of the artist’s lesser-seen works. “I wanted to show Yves Klein’s love for the body, and the aliveness that the body represents,” said Dominique Lévy, a co-founder of the gallery, which represents Klein’s estate. “He’s the first artist to really incorporate performance as an artistic act and as a practice,” Lévy said.

Persons: ‘, Yves Klein, ”, “, —, “ Yves Klein, Gorvy Dayan, Klein, Dominique Lévy, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Julian Rigg, Yves Klein’s, ” Klein, ” Lévy, ” Hugo Alexander, Rose, he’s, ” Krause, Lévy, Alexander Organizations: CNN, Lévy Gorvy Dayan Visitors, Artists Rights Society, Marina, Museum of Modern Art, School of Visual Arts Locations: New York, French, New, ADAGP, Paris

☆ Opinion | The Babe Paley in ‘Feud’ Is Not the Woman I Knew
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Belle Burden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The first time I saw Naomi Watts playing my grandmother Babe Paley in “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” she was in tears. She had just discovered her husband’s affair with Happy Rockefeller, the governor’s wife, finding him on the bedroom floor, scrubbing a stain of menstrual blood from their plush carpet. Babe summons Truman Capote to her Fifth Avenue apartment, her face set in distress, her mascara running. In his book, Mr. Leamer surmises that the governor’s wife in Capote’s story is Marie Harriman, not Ms. Rockefeller. There are no live recordings of Babe, no way for an actress to know how she moved and spoke.

Persons: Naomi Watts, Babe Paley, ”, Happy Rockefeller, Truman Capote, mascara, Matisse, Laurence Leamer’s, Leamer, Marie Harriman, Rockefeller, Babe, “ Baba, Brooke Organizations: Swans, Basque Locations: “, Manhasset, Long

☆ The ‘war photographer’ surveying the liminal spaces of conflict—and peace
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Dan Q. Dao | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —An-My Lê doesn’t identify as a war photographer. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryAn-My Lê. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman Gallery“It doesn’t have the same explosive, devastating quality of real combat,” Lê said of the series. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryA portrait of an arresting gear mechanic on board the USS Ronald Reagan, also from "Events Ashore." Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryLê’s work doesn’t impose any particular morality on the viewer; instead, she intentionally utilizes distance and scale to convey a complexity often overlooked.

Persons: it’s, Marian Goodman, ” Lê, Lê, ”, “, Preble, Ronald Reagan, we’re, “ I’m, Gustave Le Gray, Manning, ineffable, John, Jonathan Dorado, — Organizations: CNN, US, Stabilization, Museum of Modern Art, “, Marines, Conservatives, Rail, Navy, MoMA Locations: United States, Vietnam, New York, Iraq, Afghanistan, California, Rivers, ”, Hudson, Mekong and Mississippi, Asia, Africa, USS New Hampshire, Da Nang, Ghanaian, Tortuga, “ Manning, Bayou St, New Orleans

☆ 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love John Coltrane
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Giovanni Russonello | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Yes, it’s time for this series to focus on John Coltrane — perhaps the most sanctified musician in the whole Black American tradition, who other artists sometimes refer to simply as “St. John.”Born in Hamlet, N.C., and raised in High Point, Coltrane arrived on the New York scene in the 1950s, by way of Philadelphia and the Miles Davis Quintet. In the short years between that arrival and his death, in 1967, the world around Coltrane would change dramatically. Though introspective and soft-spoken, singularly allergic to grandstanding, Coltrane felt powerfully concerned with the fate of the world, and he was sure that music had a role to play in turning the tides. Then, in 1960, the flipbook-fast harmonies of “Giant Steps” upped the expectations for jazz improvisers by a big margin.

Persons: John Coltrane —, John . ”, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Trane’s, A.B, Spellman, ” Coltrane, Trane, ” Locations: Hamlet, N.C, High, York, Philadelphia, Africa, India, “ India

As I read Nikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960,” I wondered how he would pull it off. Here was a scholar, determined to bring to life a school of thought (hard to do) that revolved around finicky distinctions in language (extremely hard to do). The “linguistic” or “analytical” turn in philosophy resisted grand speculations about reality and truth. Krishnan admits that even he had a hard time warming up to his subject when he first encountered it as a philosophy student at Oxford. That discrepancy is also a preoccupation of one of my favorite books this year, “The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton.

Persons: Nikhil Krishnan’s “, ”, Krishnan, William Egginton, Egginton, Jorge Luis Borges, Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant Organizations: Oxford, Johns Hopkins University Locations: Oxford, Argentine

☆ When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the JobI wonder if any of the many literary greats represented by Andrew Wylie ever considered using his story. I don’t think that’s ever happened. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Do you think that’s a phony attitude? Is there some defense of cultural elitism that you want to make?

Persons: Andrew Wylie, Wylie, scalawag, Andy Warhol’s, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, John Updike, Borges, Calvino, Sally Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Wylie’s, ’ backlists, ”, understatedly, It’s, I’ve, Jesus, Andrew, Gerard Malanga, I’m, doesn’t, it’s, I’ll, “, You’ve, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, “ Don Quixote ”, that’s, what’s, you’re, Orhan Pamuk, Italo Calvino, Naipaul, Nabokov, accrues, We’re, David Marchese, Alok Vaid, Menon, ordinariness, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Downey Jr Organizations: Houghton, Paul’s, Harvard, New York Times, Harvard Business School, Getty, Disney, Marvel Locations: Houghton Mifflin, St, New York

☆ A Cook’s Tour of the Tokyo Food Scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Timothy Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s a Monday afternoon in the Tsukiji branch of the Tokyo Sushi Academy and we’re about to be put to the test. Most of the other students enrolled in the Japanese Culinary Intensive course are professionals. They are local or from abroad, just brushing up on skills or adding to their repertoire. My bench mate works charter yachts out of Australia. On the topic of kaiseki Mr. Hiro grows briefly philosophical, noting that it’s a lifetime practice and thus approaching the ineffable.

Persons: It’s, Hiro Tsumoto, Hiro, Mr Organizations: Tokyo Sushi Academy Locations: Tsukiji, Australia

☆ ‘Madonna’ Review: The Material on the Girl
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Madonna in a downtown Manhattan loft, December 1982. Photo: Peter Noble/Redferns/Getty ImagesIn February 1927, the British novelist Elinor Glyn published a short story in Cosmopolitan magazine that would define the then-nascent culture of celebrity. Glyn’s story explored the concept of It: the mysterious, ineffable, possibly magical quality that stars and other screen luminaries have and ordinary people don’t. Sex appeal, personal charisma, beauty—all of these contribute to It, but It is much more. And so not only a star, but an ideology of stardom, was born.

Persons: Peter Noble, Elinor Glyn, Glyn, optioning, Clara Bow Organizations: Cosmopolitan, Paramount Locations: downtown Manhattan, British

☆ Biden: Today 'five innocent Americans' imprisoned in Iran are coming home
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

US citizens Siamak Namazi (R-back), Emad Sharqi (L) and Morad Tahbaz (C) disembark from a Qatari jet upon their arrival at the Doha International Airport in Doha on September 18, 2023. President Joe Biden celebrated the release of five American prisoners from Iran on Monday. "Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home," Biden said in a statement. South Korea owed Iran, but had not paid, the money for oil purchased before the U.S. imposed sanctions. "For almost eight years I have been dreaming of this day," Namazi, who was imprisoned in 2015, said in a statement following his release.

Persons: Siamak, Morad, Joe Biden, Biden, Ebrahim Raisi, Emad Sharghi, Namazi Organizations: Doha International Airport, United Nations General Assembly Locations: Emad Sharqi, Doha, Iran, New York, South Korea, Qatar, United States, U.S

☆ Joe Biden’s First Term and the ‘West Wing’ Fantasy of American Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Adam Tooze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Franklin Foer’s “The Last Politician,” an account of Biden’s first two years in office, is the first draft of an answer. The problem is that, from Biden’s bleak inauguration to the surprise result of the midterms, we know the story in advance. Unless, as he seems at times to be hinting, the scripted, typecast feel that his book exudes is the truth about the present administration. One of the more telling cameos in the book describes how the Oval Office has been physically rearranged to create the stage for Biden’s presidential storytelling. A giant portrait of Franklin Roosevelt now takes “pride of place” above the office hearth.

Persons: Joe Biden’s, Franklin Foer, Biden, Franklin Foer’s “, Biden’s, Franklin Roosevelt, Trump, “ Bibi ”, ” Biden, Bibi Organizations: America, Biden, Al, Associated Press Locations: Gaza, Al Jazeera, Palestine

☆ What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Ayana Mathis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Narratives about prodigal children generally have reconciliation as their goal; this typically involves repentance followed by unconditional forgiveness. In Berriault’s hands, such forgiveness isn’t on the table. “What the hell else did you do with your life?” Eli’s father wants to know. “Could be you’re being punished for wrecking your life.” He has nothing to offer his son, no comfort, no wisdom. By the end of the story, Eli is, in a sense, reconciled with his mother and father, seeing them as objects of love and sorrow.

Persons: isn’t, ”, ” Eli, “, Eli, he’s, “ He’d, he’d, she’d, bafflement, Celie, Jim Crow Locations: ”, Seattle

☆ Tired of Barbiecore? Make This an ‘Eric Rohmer Summer.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Sarah Rosen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She’s rolling in the grass dressed in sunflower yellow, kissing a man about whom she’s passionately ambivalent (“Boyfriends and Girlfriends,” 1987). She’s strolling through the countryside in a fleecy blue sweater, having no fun at all (“The Green Ray,” 1986). This is summer love, Eric Rohmer-style: It isn’t easy, but it sure is chic. The characters are “often on vacation, so you want something that’s sort of breezy that you can move in,” she said. “His clothes aren’t extravagant, but they’re elegant in this easy, ineffable way.”

Persons: she’s, Ray, She’s, Frenchman, Eric Rohmer, ” Alexandra Tell, ” Locations: France

☆ The ‘Succession’ Finale Is Almost Here. Will They Get It Right? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Theresa Rebeck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Do they shoot forward in time, stealing a page from the legendary finale of “Six Feet Under”? Maybe offer a glimpse of the future with that handsome sociopath and potential president they have put in power? While I usually have a vague idea of an ending when I start writing a play, I don’t want everything set in stone. A great ending can be about transformation, in which our central character escapes, or finds true love, or discovers a profound truth and achieves inner wisdom (as in “Mad Men,” except the profound truth was about Coca-Cola). Or it can be about justice, which rains down on those who deserve it and ruins those who don’t.

☆ What the End of Title 42 In the U.S. Means - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Alejandra Oliva | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

On the face of it, the end of Title 42 — reopening the border and an ostensible return to normalcy — may seem like a good thing. I’ve helped asylum seekers fill out their applications in a New York City clinic within their first year in a new home. We must not forget that the United States has legal obligations to provide protection to people who qualify as refugees under international law. The choice to come to the United States is not an easy or uncomplicated one. They are often frustrated and angry at how the United States government has treated them.

☆ Researchers just created the largest-ever database of how we interact on Zoom. Here are their tips for making everyone like you on video chats.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The result is the largest-ever database of one-on-one Zoom conversations. And while the average loudness of speakers didn't change across bad or good conversations, the "good" talkers varied their decibel levels more than the "bad" talkers did. The machine found that women rated as better Zoom conversationalists tended to be more intense. Good conversationalists are those who appear more engaged in what their partners are saying. Studying Zoom calls may help us have better conversations on Zoom.

☆ Science has finally figured out how fast and loud you should talk on Zoom
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The result is the largest-ever database of one-on-one Zoom conversations. It may shed new light on what we talk about when we talk about talking today — the conversation of the future. And while the average loudness of speakers didn't change across bad or good conversations, the "good" talkers varied their decibel levels more than the "bad" talkers did. The machine found that women rated as better Zoom conversationalists tended to be more intense. Good conversationalists are those who appear more engaged in what their partners are saying.

☆ Steven Spielberg and Noam Chomsky say AI is soulless and scary
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Both Steven Spielberg and Noam Chomsky have expressed their doubts about artificial intelligence. Spielberg said that AI requires humans to surrender creative expression and autonomy to AI. Both Spielberg and Chomsky separately gave their views on how AI could have serious repercussions on mankind's ability to create and think independently. Chomsky, a linguistics professor, cognitive scientist, and philosopher, believes that AI tools like ChatGPT have "sacrificed creativity for a kind of amorality." In the piece published on Wednesday, Chomsky, Roberts, and Watumull wrote that AI systems like ChatGPT are incapable of independent thought.

☆ A rabbi used ChatGPT to write a sermon. He said his congregation's reaction made him 'deathly afraid' — but that it won't put him out of work just yet.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rabbi Joshua Franklin told ChatGPT to write him a 1,000-word sermon about intimacy and vulnerability. Franklin told his congregation he was "deathly afraid" when applause broke out after his sermon. Franklin told the AP that ChatGPT is "really great at sounding intelligent," but lacks empathy. "Now, you're clapping — I'm deathly afraid," Franklin told his congregation when they applauded after the sermon. Franklin told the Associated Press that the ChatGPT sermon was based on a portion of the Torah about intimacy and vulnerability.

☆ American imprisoned in Iran for seven years launches hunger strike, asks Biden to secure release of Americans held in Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

An American imprisoned in Iran for seven years launched a hunger strike Monday to protest his “soul crushing” plight and that of other Americans held in Iran, appealing to President Joe Biden to take action to secure their release. “Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.”Namazi accused former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump of having failed him and criticized Biden for not meeting face-to-face with the families of Americans imprisoned in Iran. “In the past I implored you to reach for your moral compass and find the resolve to bring the U.S. hostages in Iran home. His elderly father, Baquer Namazi, was imprisoned in 2016 after having traveled to Iran to try to help his son. Two other U.S. citizens are imprisoned in Iran, Morad Tahbaz and Emad Sharghi, as well as an unknown number of permanent U.S. legal residents, including Shahab Dalili.

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