György Ligety: Mysteries of the Macabre
Superb performance of György Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre by the formidable Barbara Hannigan and the Gothenborg Symphony.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise provides an excellent overview of 20th century classical music. It is also a joy to read. I'm glad that I finally came around to reading it and now wish I had done so earlier.
Further Reading
Quantifying reputation and success in art. Transforming the global food system. Tales from the Warhol Factory. What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick? Interview with David Foster Wallace. The Art Institute of Chicago has uploaded 50,000 high-resolution images from their collection. And more.
Further Reading
How the urban jungle drives evolution. The big meltdown. Repackaging Stoicism for the 21st Century. Shred the Love: The Director's Cut. Interview with Bruno Latour. The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits. Can optical illusions fool AI? And more.
Highlights from the Spring 2019 Ready-to-Wear Collections
I loved the spring ready-to-wear collections by Thom Browne and Matty Bovan.
Further Reading
Interview with Jürgen Habermas. Machine learning confronts the elephant in the room. A new kind of neuron. Rick Owens. A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony. Andy Warhol's photography archive is online. Your gut is directly connected to your brain. William Eggleston. And more.
Further Reading
Physics needs philosophy. CRISPR. An alternative interpretation of the gorillas in our midst experiment. The big melt. There is more to behavioral economics than biases and fallacies. Michael Freeden on the contemporary role of political theory. Chris Marker’s playful aesthetics. And more.
Falljökull
Moody photos of the Falljökull glacier in Iceland in the fog and rain. Of course, I had been hoping for a dry and sunny day, but the photos actually turned out quite good.