Friday, May 22, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]With high profiles, comparatively secure government funding and established philanthropic networks, major arts festivals are in a position to make a difference. At one point in Getting Their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]I've heard administrators insist that online instruction is just a "change in delivery system," not a diminution of content. But this bureaucratic bromide wilfully ignores the wisdom of Mars…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]How many climate-themed works have been presented in the theaters of America, one of the major energy-gouging countries in the world " particularly in our large, well-funded stages? It is an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]"Without an urgent government rescue package, 70% of our performing arts companies will be out of business before the end of this year," she wrote. "More than 1,000 theatres around the count…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:34PM[SHARE]In mitigating the impact of the COVID19 crisis, the federal government swiftly responded with economy-wide measures as part of its immediate relief. It is in this roll out of the Canada Emer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"As a critic, I am desperate to maintain contact with what musicians are doing, thinking, and feeling. The sound is often tinny, the stage patter awkward, the home décor distracting. One co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2020
Beyond self-inflicted attention deficits, people who cannot deep read " or who do not use and hence lose the deep-reading skills they learned " typically suffer f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company's events business, which was one of its strongest pillars for many years.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]In the innovative system, the disinfectant is stored on the ground, and pumped through a hose to the hovering drone, which then spreads it throughout the theater. Meanwhile, another drone dr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The global live music industry is worth some $30 billion every year. Or, rather, was. In a matter of weeks, Covid-19 shut down everything from pub gigs to festivals. And in doing so, it also…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Philosophers have long concerned themselves with what they call "the paradox of fiction""why would we find imagined stories emotionally arousing at all? The answer is that most of our mind d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]From our present experience of the internet, what changes might we expect? We are all André Malraux now. To create his "museum without walls," an archive of images from around the world, be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Our preconceived ideas about a composer or piece can keep us from listening with fresh ears. An intermezzo by the mighty Brahms? Before you hear a note, you may already have decided it's gre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The economy's reliance on live events has been growing for years. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it sparked a boom in the theme park business. In recent decades, the Wizarding World of Harr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]LA City Council unanimously approved two motions that repurpose arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events as small-dollar grants to artists, arts org…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The cello concerts have the added bonus of another San Francisco shelter-in-place trend. Page Street is one of an increasing number of roads closed to through traffic to give people space to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Today's internet generations have been graced with equity at birth, in that they have the means to create power for themselves, even if they do not start out with it. In the digital world, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]It includes $100 billion for rental assistance, another round of $1,200 direct payments to taxpayers, and sets aside 25 percent of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for nonprofit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]"The dual nature of power and truth results in the curious fact that we humans know many more truths than any other animal, but we also believe in much more nonsense. We are both the smartes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2020
"If I want to improvise during "Mary Had a Little Lamb," for example, first I memorize it. That's because when I'm performing onstage, I want to let my mind be completely free. "Mary Had a L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]When new temporary rule changes for Oscar eligibility were announced in April because of COVID-19, Academy president David Rubin told Variety it was too soon to know how the 2021 Oscar telec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]A Cambridge spokesman told LBC News: "The University is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic. Given that it is likely that social distancing will continu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"I came to love this image, this mysterious, nameless village by a famous but nameless artist, long before I knew anything about art or criticism. I often wonder whether I would even pause f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Charles McNulty: "While no virus can defeat this art form, the theater will have to change to meet the challenges of a transformed world. While we're mourning the loss of playgoing among the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Theatre Calgary is on the search for its next Executive Director
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Theater owners are the most eager to get Broadway back in gear; top producers are more cautious, since they are the ones who lose their shirts over diminished demand. All acknowledge that th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"Comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with the second world war is a perilous and largely ridiculous game. Yet in purely practical terms, the war was the last time cultural organisations ground e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"Our images don't often depict the pandemic explicitly, say with an ambulance or an unusually empty street, but they likely convey how you are feeling through this. Anxiety, grief, boredom, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]There is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that our internal mental states, including our emotions, might also be socially transmissible. Understanding the nature and dynamics of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Der Tagesspiegel, a local newspaper, saw the departure of the Flick collection as "further proof of Berlin's gradual metamorphosis from a creative hub into a stronghold for property speculat…
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