Monday, May 11, 2020
Assuming the captions are at all accurate, these images " until recently only accessible by trudging through the archives date by date and document by document " can be searched for by their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]What if concerts were announced one or two at a time, just a week or two in advance? The tickets would be sold per concert, not per season, and the marketing would be heavy on social media. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Anger is epistemically valuable not just for the individual, but also for those around them. When co-opted skilfully by just causes, anger enables victims to identify similarities in their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Dreams shroud the waking world, dazzling and disturbing it with mystery, perplexity, novelty, anxiety, terror, hope, and possibility. " Cultural Weekly
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Most kinds of longing can be settled in one way or another, if not necessarily to the satisfaction of the yearner. Nostalgia can only be lived in or abandoned: it is yearning distilled to it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2020
The foundation has only pledged $25,000 for COVID relief. "The Poetry Foundation's IRS filings between 2016 and 2018 suggest the Foundation averaged about $213 million in assets that weren't…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Sir Thomas Beecham used to say that there are no good or bad orchestras, only good or bad conductors, and to an extent he has a point. " Toronto Star
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]The project includes virtual tours of the theater, backstage and museum, along with 240,000 archival photos and 16,000 documents, more than 40 digital exhibits and close-up views of costumes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]"The best analogy I can provide is the changes we've seen in travel since 9/11. Once it was clear that security screenings were here to stay, new airports were designed with that reality in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]We should not fear being bored, say psychologists James Danckert and John D Eastwood, the authors of Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom. Their research has revealed boredom to be wid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Time's elasticity has perplexed philosophers for millennia. It has inspired writers for centuries. More recently, it has captured the attention of psychologists like Ogden, who have crafted …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"I would only say that some artists feel a curiosity about examining the phenomenology of those things. It is investigative work, not just emotional work, that can enable an artist to determ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Domhnaill Hernon: "I believe that the arts could be (should be) more transformational in the way they inform more human-centric design. I believe that the arts should be deeply integrated in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Pianist Kirrill Gerstein and composer Thomas Ades have been in a musical conversation of the sort that happens only when two people intrinsically seem to understand what the other is trying …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]He said the coming months should be ones of "learning and culture," as opposed to travel and leisure. (France has also imposed limits on international travelers for the summer months). He ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
Before the coronavirus crisis, the drive-through had been fast losing status, often deployed as a symbol of obesity and the worst of car-dependent urban design. In many cities, it had been s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The Television Academy ruled in March that effective in 2021, programs that have been nominated for an Oscar will no longer be eligible for the Emmys competition." says the TV Academy in a s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]With author events cancelled, titles delayed and bookshop sales severely hit by lockdown, the survey of 72 small publishers reveals almost 60% fear closure by the autumn. The Bookseller said…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"We will ultimately return to enjoying such collective experiences " as they "appeal to the human nature" " but only after most people in the country have either been infected with the disea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Police officers in Spain recovered several rare pre-Columbian objects at Madrid's Barajas airport, including a unique Tumaco gold mask, gold figurines and pieces of ancient jewellery. All ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]In New York"and likely everywhere"the venues best able to answer these questions are the smallest ones. They are so because they present music often at the edge of economic and cultural viab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]That's what happened in the depression. "What prompted this public investment in higher education was neither sentimentality about the poor nor a noblesse oblige of good works. It was a visi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The theatre historian J. Leeds Barroll III, who carefully sifted through the surviving records, concluded that in the years between 1606 and 1610"the period in which Shakespeare wrote and pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Before the shutdown, the museum had around 960 staff members, director Glenn Lowry said. Through a combination of voluntary retirement packages and general attrition, the new staff count wil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"I thought it was really bad that they called for an international competition," says another heritage architect, Charlotte Langlois. "The message it sends is we need international architect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
The scenario that pays off in the end is the Leviathan Scenario, where everyone makes sacrifices and is mobilized to develop local solutions, creating bottom-up experimentation with governme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association is rethinking almost every direction: How can more space be added to dressing rooms? Which costume fabrics resist the virus better? How many people need to touch a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]To date, the company's outstanding debt stands at $467 million (plus interest), according to the latest documents. It has to pay more than one quarter of that"$119 million"in interest and pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]When at last the chamber was empty, the team was surprised to discover that it wasn't a tomb. The room had a raised, table-like area and shallow channels cut into the bedrock along the base …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Without touch, humans deteriorate physically and emotionally. "We know from the literature that lack of touch produces very negative consequences for our wellbeing," says Alberto Gallace, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]"The Music Box in Chicago has a kind of tip-line where people can call in and describe what streaming services they have and their programmers will recommend what to watch. It's been wildly …
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