The Wall Street Journal has a little item on “A Corporate Beauty Contest,” a paper published earlier this year thanks to inquiring minds at Duke University and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Not only, it turns out, are the faces of chief executives perceived to be more competent than faces of non-chiefs, Read More
Paris Hilton once said: “All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good [as the woman next to you.]” But according to an article in today’s Times, it’s now far more complicated. A new social era has dawned, one in which first impressions are Read More
KC Johnson, a Brooklyn College American History professor, is a veteran academic rabblerouser. So it was unsurprising when, last Spring, after allegation surfaced that three Duke University lacrosse players had raped and assaulted a local woman, he decided to weigh in on an open letter signed by 88 members of the Duke arts and sciences Read More
Via ArchNewsNow comes this interview on Artinfo.com with architect Rafael Viñoly, a propos the new (well, it opened Oct. 1) Nasher art museum at Duke University.
From the intro:
Viñoly offers a bold challenge to the kind of architectural sensibility that sees restrictions as limitations to the work of the architect, Read More
