"Hats off to Dylan Mattingly and Thomas Bartscherer for the sheer audacity of their opera “Stranger Love,” a six-hour epic...The premiere run, at the LA Philharmonic in May, was just a single evening, but 'Stranger Love' deserves a life far beyond that." https://t.co/1OO7gOuU47
Pope Leo to Artists; “We live in the age of search engines that offer us thousands of instantaneous answers. Yet, no matter how powerful they may be, they merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want. In the age of technology and consumerism, the great danger is not only censorship but also homogenization, and not merely imposed silence but the noise that makes it impossible to listen. Art is a different kind of ‘search engine,’ It does not proceed by indexing but by inquiry.”
Spectacularly shameful, this. Good way to dissuade highly competent people from wanting to have anything to do with public service. https://t.co/HxQwm4RuyX
Jaw dropping. I have never seen a member of Congress so recklessly toss out claims of perjury as did Sen. Eric Schmitt -- claiming Jack Smith lied about not being in Atlanta -- when the senator's own research was demonstrably false.
🏀🏀Hawkeyes game in MD, not Hawks game in GA.
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he caught Jack Smith in a lie. Instead, he outed him as a fan of former Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark.👇
Read the full story: https://t.co/cbljXy8TF6
The lighthouse of Alexandria. Illustration of a tale. Page from a arabic manuscript known as Kitab al-bulhan or "Book of Wonders" held at the Bodelian Library.