Photographer JR and New York City Ballet Collaborate For Art Series

An Unexpected Way to Experience a Night at the Ballet

Following the inaugural 2013 installation LES BALLETS DE FAILE, New York City Ballet is proud to collaborate with the French artist known as JR for the second annual Art Series.

Exhibiting freely in the streets of the world, JR catches the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. His largest project to date, INSIDE OUT, was born in 2011 when JR won the TED prize and called for the creation of a global art project with the potential to change the world. Transforming messages of personal identity into public works of art, more than 172,000 people have taken part in nearly 8,600 locations around the world.

JR will share his Art Series installation during three special performance evenings — January 23, February 7, 13 — when every seat in the house is available for just $29. On these evenings, every audience member will receive a takeaway created specifically for this event.

Absolutely love this collaboration. More please. NYC Ballet should have a ballet with sets designed by JR. 

Arts and Cultural Production Account for 3.2 Percent -- $504B -- of GDP in 2011

National Endowment for the Arts’ Sunil Iyengar discusses a government report on the value of arts and culture. He speaks with Adam Johnson and Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and National Endowment for the Arts Release Preliminary Report on Impact of Arts and Culture on U.S. Economy:

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released prototype estimates today from the new Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA). This is the first federal effort to provide in-depth analysis of the arts and cultural sector's contributions to current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the final dollar value of all goods and services produced in the United States. According to these new estimates, 3.2 percent -- or $504 billion -- of current-dollar GDP in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture. In comparison, BEA's estimated value of the U.S. travel and tourism industry was 2.8 percent of GDP.

What Drives Success?

Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, in The New York Times, shared likely controversial research about success in America: 

It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits that, together, propel success. The first is a superiority complex — a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality. The second appears to be the opposite — insecurity, a feeling that you or what you’ve done is not good enough. The third is impulse control.

Any individual, from any background, can have what we call this Triple Package of traits. But research shows that some groups are instilling them more frequently than others, and that they are enjoying greater success.

It’s odd to think of people feeling simultaneously superior and insecure. Yet it’s precisely this unstable combination that generates drive: a chip on the shoulder, a goading need to prove oneself. Add impulse control — the ability to resist temptation — and the result is people who systematically sacrifice present gratification in pursuit of future attainment.

Simon Sinek: Leadership Is Not a Rank, It's a Decision.

In this in-depth talk at the 99u Conference, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek reveals the hidden dynamics that inspire leadership and trust. In biological terms, leaders get the first pick of food and other spoils, but at a cost. When danger is present, the group expects the leader to mitigate all threats even at the expense of their personal well-being. Understanding this deep-seated expectation is the key difference between someone who is just an “authority” versus a true “leader.” 

For more on this topic, check out Sinek’s latest book Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t and his last 99u presentation. 

The Week's Links: January 24, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? http://owl.li/sJrdZ
• Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers. http://owl.li/sJwsY
• The Brian Lehrer Show: A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far. http://owl.li/sJEcB
• An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist http://owl.li/sJEA2
• What Makes a 'Super Successful' Company? owl.li/sJraP
• The Untold Tale of Pow!, the Fourth Rice Krispies Elf owl.li/sJqXz
• What Reviewers Said About the First Mac When It Debuted 30 Years Ago owl.li/sUw7m
• '1984' 30 Years Later: A brief history of Apple's instantly iconic Super Bowl spot. owl.li/sTCZm
• An Eyeful of Sound: Top Five Multisensory Performances owl.li/sJqUq
• The Fascinating Origins of 10 Everyday Color Words owl.li/sJqR2
• ◉ Oliver Sacks On Rediscovery, Memory And Autoplagiarism owl.li/sLD76
• There Really Is a Conference Where Nerds Study Videogame Music owl.li/sJqOk
• Watch: A 2-Minute Animation Of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas owl.li/sJqG6
• What scientific idea is ready for retirement? | Edge.org owl.li/sIIlz
• David Lynch interviewed by Mike Figgis owl.li/sIIdJ
• Read this: Jonathan Harris Navigating Stuckness owl.li/sHLXy
• How to Check If Your Accounts Have Been Hacked owl.li/sHLKT
• 11 Simple Ways to Improve Your Memory owl.li/sHLn3
• Can You Answer These 10 Oddball Job Interview Questions Asked at America’s Top Tech Companies? owl.li/sHLfP
• What High Schoolers Should Be Reading owl.li/sHL9d
• 12 Easy Ways to Make Life Simple Again owl.li/sHL3v
• Target Got Hacked Hard in 2005. Here's Why They Let It Happen Again - Threat Level - Wired.com owl.li/sHKQ7
• 4 Fundraising Goals for 2014 - Fundraising Fundamentals - The Chronicle of Philanthropy owl.li/sHKMt
• ◉ How Can We Alleviate The Feeling Of Running Out Of Time? Experience Awe owl.li/sLD1p
• The Verge takes a look at the smartphone "wars": Inside the mind of a fanboy. owl.li/sQhlT
• ◉ Is Classical Music Culturally Relevant? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/20…
• Disturbing: Requirements for DRM in HTML5 are a secret owl.li/sGTdb
• The Experiment That Forever Changed How We Think About Reality owl.li/sGLkY
• How to Motivate a Young Musician owl.li/sGLcO
• The History of Popular Music, According to Google owl.li/sGK2n
• Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' reboot hits FOX on March 9th owl.li/sGwJh
• The art therapy secret is out: doodling is good for you. owl.li/sFkEt
• ◉ Goals And Plans owl.li/sLCSk
• In Memory Of Colby, The L.A. Print Shop That Made Posters For Jimi Hendrix, The Sex Pistols, And Ed Ruscha owl.li/sFkBA
• Smithsonian's Bee Man Delivers Up Some Advice for Dealing with Colony Collapse Disorder owl.li/sFkrb
• 11 Inscriptions on Old Buildings That Tell It Like It Is owl.li/sFkpn
• ◉ Great Work - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/21…
• How "Fuzzy-Trace Theory" Impacts Your Finances owl.li/sFjYa
• Grant Study Reveals What Makes Us Happy owl.li/sFjQi
• No more needles? 7 ways scientists are attempting to move beyond shots owl.li/sFjpS
• Salman Khan doubles down on building the school of the future owl.li/sFjkY
• Moving to An Area With More Green Space Can Improve Your Mental Health for Years owl.li/sFjfA
• Four Lessons In Innovation From The Inventor Of The Laser owl.li/sFj10
• World map of vaccine-preventable outbreaks owl.li/sFiUi
• Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head owl.li/sFiNQ
• Beautiful: Herb and spice brand Schwartz gets explosive in new ad owl.li/sFaF1
• What Beatboxing Looks Like in Super Slow Motion owl.li/sFayh
• ◉ Anxiety - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/1/20…
• Amazing and mostly unnoticed: How Costume Design Became Central In 'Game Of Thrones' owl.li/sFawL
• ◉ Why Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Loves Japan owl.li/sLDba
• The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Great owl.li/sLi2H
• Pre-cog shopping: Amazon plans to ship your packages before you even buy them owl.li/sLgc6
• Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Iconic images of Dr. King from the Smithsonian collection owl.li/sLb5A
• Successful ‘Hour of Code’ computer tutorials prompts effort to change school policies owl.li/sFaas
• Jack Dorsey Says The Receipt Is Untapped "Canvas" And "Publishing Medium" owl.li/sF9WK
• Read David Foster Wallace’s Notes From a Tax Accounting Class, Taken to Help Him Write The Pale King owl.li/sF9OU
• How to Look at Art owl.li/sF9Fm
• Understanding Why We Dream owl.li/sF9sP
• The Science Of The "Flying V" Formation owl.li/sF90U
• The Literary Misery Index: What the Economy Has to Do With What You’re Reading owl.li/sF7GM
• Read Beethoven’s Lengthy Love Letter to His Mysterious “Immortal Beloved” (1812) owl.li/sF7nO
• The Ten Most Popular Web Fonts of 2013 owl.li/sF64K
• Here Are the Countries That Drink the Most Coffee (The U.S. Isn't in the Top 10) owl.li/sE0Jl
• 5 Lessons In Discipline From A Professional Ballerina That Will Change The Way You Lead Your Life owl.li/sDcfW
• How Theaters Can Combat the Stay-at-Home Mindset owl.li/svuXp
• The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs owl.li/svugT
• The Police Car of the future owl.li/svuc6
• The Ministry of Type: British Rail Identity owl.li/svu69
• What Space Does To Our Bodies: An Interactive Guide owl.li/svu1K
• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? owl.li/svtYk
• Terry Teachout: The Best Theatre I Saw This Year owl.li/svtRA
• Over the Past 12 Years Bloomberg's Administration Has Acted As An Incubator for Cultural Institutions owl.li/svtIS
• Is an 8pm curtain a thing of the past? owl.li/svsLN
• How Netflix Reinvented HR- Harvard Business Review owl.li/svsc0
• 5 Scientific Ways to Build Habits That Stick owl.li/svqGF
• The Abstraction Method of Problem Solving owl.li/svpza
• 6 Pieces of Advice From Successful Writers owl.li/svoH9
• A Glimpse Into The Future Of NPR, From Its First-Ever Creative Director owl.li/svnMe
• Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That owl.li/svlFg
• So shocking: Type legends Frere-Jones sues Hoefler owl.li/sHcui
• Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution- The New Yorker owl.li/svlwW
• How Is Wind Chill Calculated? owl.li/svlqf
• Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. owl.li/svk1h
• Bruce Springsteen, Woody Allen, and the Long Tradition of Hating Your Own Work owl.li/svjG7
• Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press owl.li/sviQX
• Conference Calendar - A simple calendar for web and digital conferences owl.li/svilm