Tuesday, May 19, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Some performers get their fans involved " whether by taking requests or doing Q&As, virtual charity festivals or tutorials like Duran Duran star John Taylor with his bass masterclasses a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Rothenberg's paintings are spare and stark"frequently understated in their color palette and simple in their form. But through even the vague suggestion of figures, Rothenberg was able to cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Young Iranian composers have set up a network for mentorship, commissioning and presenting. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]ArtUK has released a tool that allows anyone to build, annotate and share their own online show of digital art. Which art? Anything in public collections in the UK, so there's a lot to choos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]When processed by childhood Pokémon players, the images lit up a small groove in the temporal lobe that remained mostly inactive in the brains of Pokémon newbies. " Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2020
Publishing books about an unfolding calamity, when the duration and outcome remain uncertain, carries obvious risks for authors and publishers. With so many unanswered questions about the vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]"In fact, no correlation exists between population density and rates of COVID-19 infection, according to recent studies examining the disease in China and Chicago. But if state and local gov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Goethe genuinely advanced fields of scientific inquiry such as geology and colour theory; Nabokov is always said to have been an eminent entomologist. Leonardo da Vinci, naturally, is an obv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]The shift to an almost purely commodified art world surely begins with the rise of the art dealer as influential trend-setter and arbiter of taste from the 1870s onwards; it has reached its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Understanding consciousness might be the greatest scientific challenge of our time. How can physical stuff, eg electrical impulses, explain mental stuff, eg dreams or the sense of self? Why …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]"In a world where we are already confronting critical interconnected challenges: climate change, the refugee crisis, food scarcity, system collapse, etc. I think it is essential that we cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Nearly all the jobs in this supersector involve some form of in-person services rendered for gatherings of people " which, of course, became impossible to maintain when social distancing req…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]"In The Long Haul" draws on the painful financial aftermath of the 2008 recession. The report concludes that nonprofits can expect attendance, subscriptions, working capital and corporate gi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]City of Philadelphia political leaders must recognize that arts, culture and the creative economy are a critical part of the City's economy and quality of life and it is a "must have" functi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"If 'Tenet' doesn't come out or doesn't succeed, every other company goes home," said a marketing executive from a rival studio who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2020
According to the nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults, surveyed from 29 April to 1 May, the nation has also increased the amount of time it spends reading books from around 3.5 h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Art lovers will drive into the 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and will stay inside their vehicles. It's quite a change from the original concept, which permitted 700 peopl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Beyond simply creating art for art's sake, or for school credits, many of the young people I encountered are building social movements and creative projects around a different vision for our…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]"Seeing ourselves as pitiable requires rethinking fundamental ideas about America's history, purpose and destiny. It obliges us to do something that is intolerable, to accept our weakness, e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Now " when yearly upfront presentations would normally take place " networks are instead deciding whether to move forward with or completely scrap prospective shows, despite having barely an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada will pay musicians $150 per online performance for its members. The project is backed by $200,000 in funding every three months f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Global downloads for Plague Inc, a 2012 video game that encourages players to spread a disease around the world before a cure is found, increased by an annual 123% from January to March this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Laura Collins-Hughes: "As we flock online in these isolated, uncertain days, looking to sate our theater cravings, a lot of us are watching plays we have already seen onstage " familiar comf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Categories of books that sold best last month were fiction, cookbooks, and children's books, but compared with April 2019, sales were largely down at the indies contacted. Most saw declines …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Asking a Medieval person to imagine the world and their place on it would demand a radically different sort of cognitive map than one a modern person might rely on. This affects pragmatic ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2020
"The weird feel of us meeting in a virtual fishtank, with real people able to peek in, makes me think of a possible future where performers work in VR, while directors or creators observe in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM[SHARE]"If things are not yet 100 percent (in Chicago in September), it's possible we could have a group of the orchestra divided into two parts: a group of 45, 50 people (and) another group of 45,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM[SHARE]We isolate them together, seal them off, protect them from the larger world. It's not like this in other cultures. So why is that? " Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM[SHARE]A sense of precariousness is not unfamiliar to museum workers who were already living through austerity, Brexit, and the deregulation of the workforce. But long before this current health cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM[SHARE]"Some tough decisions are going to have to be made. And it's not going to be small changes, it's going to be big changes for a time. And that feels incredibly painful if I'm honest." " BBC
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