Thursday, May 28, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The maintenance man stopped worrying about paint touchups and HVAC repair and started assisting the development department by drafting thank you notes for donors, making use of his beauti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]The prospect of reopening under the current circumstances also raises vexing strategic dilemmas. In recent years, museums have developed a sophisticated understanding of the many barriers to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Many of the projects under Vulcan's Arts + Entertainment division stemmed from Vulcan co-founder Paul Allen's personal interests, and served as showplaces for his collections: his movie cost…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Exact performance dates will be announced for each offering throughout the year, along with such "details" as venue (Writers has two stages), and the names of the full casts and creative tea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The huge numbers reported in watching and listening to streaming performances are in stark contrast with "decades of dire warnings and disheartening statistics about shrinking classical audi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]An author, essayist and playwright " notably hailed for his autobiographical 1985 play, "The Normal Heart" " Mr. Kramer had feet in both the world of letters and the public sphere. In 1981 h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]A category only exists in relation to other categories, similarly constituted. You would need to establish a number of other clearly defined hierarchies of value, or centers of interest, gen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Today, scientists are grappling with the problem of model uncertainty, as seen in areas like climate and medicine. These questions are increasingly challenging the basis of modern scientific…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Why this wealth of talent has arrived right now isn't easy to pinpoint, but they definitely spur each other on. There's healthy competition " ballet boys can't resist a pirouette-off; Corral…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]A self-taught engineer, AJ virtually created the rigging industry out of a background in theatre lighting. When he began, in the early 1980s, technicians still hung their own lights, but in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"It is a very expensive art form, but it is crucial because it has such a worldwide impact… and so we have to find a way to make sure these marvellous people and organisations are going to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Founded in 1961, the Palm Beach Opera is seeking an experienced and passionate Director of Marketing. As a member of the senior leadership team and be responsible for setting, achieving, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Sponsors and donors' valuation of our public culture is of an order very different from everyone else's. For big oil, big pharmaceutical companies and the arms industry, it is not simply a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Bucking the trend in classical music of often low-quality livestreams, yet not wanting to lay low completely, Timo Andres decided to salvage his Carnegie program by documenting it as a serie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"What I like about streaming right now is I get excited about it … My mom's in Guatemala. My mom and dad are retired and my mom tunes into the streams," Nonfiction said. "My parents never …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2020
"The public square is thick today with augurs and prophets claiming to foresee the post-Covid world to come. I, myself, who find sundown something of a surprise every evening, have been purs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]What computer scientists and neuroscientists are after is a universal theory of intelligence"a set of principles that holds true both in tissue and in silicon. What they have instead is a mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"This tiny coronavirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a single organism and human existence is possible only in relation to other living beings. The notion of "relationship"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]How does a university with a $6-billion endowment and $10 billion in assets suddenly find itself in a solvency crisis? How is one of the country's top research universities reduced, just a m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Some representatives believe that, even after social distancing measures fade, schools will begin to incorporate video into at least part of their showcase models. On-demand video allows age…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]In 2015, Guy Laliberté sold the Cirque du Soleil to American private equity investment firm TPG Capital, Chinese investment company Fosun and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Charlotte St. Martin said that in the last ten weeks Broadway has been losing an average of $35 million a week; this will remain so for however long Broadway remains closed. If this continue…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"Gallery closures and social distancing measures are vitally important, but they are also causing huge disruption to the lives and livelihoods of artists. The practicalities of organising a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Whether we're talking about vaccines or groundbreaking clean energy, lifesaving technologies shouldn't be treated as precious commodities to be hoarded for private gain. In the midst of glob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]As museums begin to reopen, many are requiring visitors to book tickets in advance, wear masks, use hand sanitizer upon entering or undergo temperature checks, according to Fortune. In Munic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Most theatres and show producers have been sold expensive "business interruption" policies to cover closure as a result of events outside their control. But believe it or not, according to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2020
Unlike those who write dry, hyper-specialized academic criticism, Greil Marcus isn't afraid, as one reader of his once put it, to let "everything remind him of everything else." While discus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]For the moment, the eyes of the concert industry are on the Arkansas city of Fort Smith. There, at a venue called TempleLive, blues-rock singer Travis McCready is set to perform a solo show …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Following the Black Death in the 14th century, outbreaks recurred throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries. The spectre of plague was significant not just in the history of medi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]The real question may not be "How can you possibly teach art online?" but "How can you possibly understand art online?" My simple answer to that complex question is: "At best, imperfectly. A…
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