Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The loss of any regional theatre, whether it is Nuffield Southampton announcing it has gone into administration or the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh taking the painful decision to hibernate unti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]What he and Jeanne-Claude, his wife and collaborator, achieved was so different from the work of anyone else, and on such a huge scale"seventy-five hundred saffron-colored nylon "gates," in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]I'm not yet sure how much my life will change without choir: without the paper cuts and warmups, the imagistic instructions from conductors (bite the apple, smell the rose, blow the birthday…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday evening, in three Southern states"Florida, Alabama, and Virginia"protesters toppled graffiti-covered statues celebrating the former Confederate government that fought to uphold the in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2020
"In fact, they are very humble projects, very simple projects, but they need to be put together in an incredibly clever way," Christo once told Artnet News. " Artnet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Internet Archive has made more than 1.3 million books available for free online, according to the complaint, which were scanned and available to one borrower at a time for a period of 14 day…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]"TV has long had a police's-eye perspective that helps shape the way viewers see the world, prioritizing the victories and struggles of police over communities being policed. Order, a police…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Of late Matthew Flinders has been exploring the notion of "crisis fatigue," or the idea that after years of constant bad news, perhaps we've grown numb to warnings from politicians of yet mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Some 1,600 people reserved tickets in advance to see the Sistine Chapel and its sublime walls and ceilings on the first day the Vatican Museums opened to the public after a three-month coron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Protesting. Even during a global pandemic. Think about that for a second. How furious do people have to be to gather in the streets at a time when a highly infectious disease is killing thou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Social media essentially gives a megaphone to the extremes, so it's very hard to know what most people really think. "And when you look at the people who are loudest on Twitter and elsewhere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]"They describe a society that is clear-eyed about the disparities that have made this pandemic so much worse for some communities than for others. They call on us to sustain each other throu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Arts Management graduate classes are offered on flexible schedules and taught by faculty from top arts organizations in the DC Metro area.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Much of the history of Western philosophy can be narrated as a series of attempts to construct systems. Conversely, much of the history of aphorisms can be narrated as an animadversion, a tu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Ms. Stark Smith, whose signature braid became longer and grayer over time, was also a prolific writer and respected teacher who, beginning in 1990, developed what she called "Underscore," a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2020
Lionel Shriver, who is sixty-three, thinks people are ridiculous for congratulating themselves on enduring quarantine, when the worst is yet to come. "This is not the bad part," she said. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]To live is to encounter the tragic " a reality shot through with utter strife, and covered in complete darkness. Despite our best attempts, we are not going to get out of it. For philosopher…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Over the years, the blockbuster has been frequently called into question, and with good reason. Do these shows really serve our audiences or do they just pander to the crowd in order to attr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a creative and visionary Artistic Director to curate and deliver its annual festivals in 2021"2023.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"In our first performance one of our actors froze in the middle of her big solo. But, fortunately, we had planned for and built that into the piece, so what we did is skip to the next cue, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The current crisis has turned the industry's cracks into chasms, exposing the ways in which it fails its workers almost by design. It has also raised the question of what restaurants will lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"At the Paris Opéra, there were many colleagues to deal with and only the institution's most successful composers had enough clout to impose their will on a piece. It makes sense that Verdi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Today the more relevant split is the more recent one between modern and contemporary fields (the latter has no exact date of origin"1968, 1980, 1989?), which is a schism less between the uni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"I want stuff that has not been made in response to the pandemic, that would exist if we weren't all in the same boat. Or things I know I won't have time for once the real world begins to ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]For Kramer, who died at age 84 in Manhattan on Wednesday, not speaking up was a signal of a dishonorable combination " of cowardice, willful blindness and greed. He was constitutionally inca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2020
In ports of call known for their cruise appeal, the disappearance of boat-borne tourism has been greeted with mixed feelings. Many towns and cities depend in part on revenue from these vacat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Arthur Brand estimates that a work of art in the criminal underworld is worth about 10 percent of its value in the legitimate art market " so if a painting might sell for $10 million at auct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]In 2018, the first British Minister for Loneliness was appointed and the government published A Connected Society. In the preface, the country's then prime minister Theresa May referred to r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]While thought experiments are as old as philosophy itself, the weight placed on them in recent philosophy is distinctive. Even when scenarios are highly unrealistic, judgments about them are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]In a shift of consumer patterns, in the first 16 weeks of the year, 47 percent of Italy's trade book sales, both in fiction and nonfiction, took place online. In the same period of 2019, onl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]There have been times that coffee as a commodity was more valuable than most currencies. Cultures have been built around the bean, and destroyed others who have been exploited for it. " Time…
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