Hacker News with Generative AI: Arts

82,150 Gallons of Paint Later, a Blue Man Group Farewell (nytimes.com)
After 17,800 shows and 82,150 gallons of paint, Blue Man Group is hanging up its bald caps at the Astor Place Theater for good on Sunday.

Arts, Entertainment, Performance Art, New York

4 points by wallflower 19 days ago | 3 comments

Where Geniuses Hide Today – By Tomas Pueyo (tomaspueyo.com)
Where are today’s Michelangelos? Goyas? Shakespeares? Cervantes? Goethes? Montaignes? Pushkins? Dostoevskys? Balzacs? Mozarts? Where are our Einsteins, our Darwins, our Maxwells, our Newtons, our Aristotles, our Socrates? Why is there no more music as acclaimed as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? Paintings as important as Las Meninas or the Mona Lisa? Why are there no more discoveries that rewrite textbooks, like the Theory of Gravity or Thermodynamics?

Genius, History, Arts, Science

4 points by vinnyglennon 21 days ago | 0 comments

Savoy Style vs. Hollywood Style: A Fight to the Death (Hopefully?) (2011) (wordpress.com)
As a professional dance instructor in the time of COVID-19, my income for at least five months of the year has been erased. If you read this article and find it useful or thought provoking, please consider a donation. You will be *literally* helping support an artist, and have my sincerest gratitude.

Dance, COVID-19, Arts, Income, Support Artists

36 points by Tomte 49 days ago | 31 comments

How to Get Hooked on Opera (psyche.co)
People often feel intimidated by opera, assuming it to be either socially exclusive, pretentious or intellectually complicated. But at the simplest level, operas are just great stories set to music.

Opera, Music, Culture, Arts

6 points by bookofjoe 118 days ago | 3 comments

Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell (theatlantic.com)
Lore Segal, who died on Monday, spent the last four months of her life looking out the window.

Obituaries, Literature, Arts, Culture

12 points by prismatic 133 days ago | 1 comments

What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers (aestheticsforbirds.com)
Steve Pyke is a renowned portrait photographer. He has published ten books, including the award-winning I Could Read the Sky (with Timothy O’Grady). He has photographed politicians, astronauts, film directors, artists, laborers, and—in two collected volumes—philosophers. He was the staff photographer at The New Yorker for several years and, in 2004, was appointed an MBE. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in many permanent collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A Museum.

Photography, Philosophy, Arts

59 points by Petiver 148 days ago | 20 comments

Hong Kong's Arts Hub Turns to Selling Land to Stay Afloat (bloomberg.com)

Hong Kong, Arts, Real Estate, Finance

5 points by snidane 167 days ago | 0 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide (subtledigressions.substack.com)
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. One has to wonder how many songs have been written that didn’t have a Jeff Buckley to rescue them from obsolescence. How many manuscripts and artworks lay in forgotten places, lost to us and future generations?

Music, Arts, Death, Success, Genius

170 points by Curiositry 167 days ago | 101 comments

The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass (honest-broker.com)

Music, Composers, Arts

169 points by samclemens 192 days ago | 103 comments

Just Say It, Henry (lrb.co.uk)

Literature, Arts, Reviews

5 points by benbreen 198 days ago | 1 comments

Lullaby Language (2006) (humansystemsinaction.com)

Language, Film, Arts

18 points by alexzeitler 213 days ago | 3 comments

Polymathematics: Is mathematics a single science or a set of arts? (1999) [pdf] (math.ucr.edu)

Mathematics, Philosophy, Science, Arts

39 points by histories 262 days ago | 17 comments

At the Webster Apartments (theparisreview.org)

Literature, Writing, Arts

30 points by solvent 265 days ago | 5 comments

The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good (ajournalofmusicalthings.com)