Thursday, April 23, 2020
"For the most part, the Oral History of American Music, known as OHAM, has focused not on insurance salesmen or barbers, but has instead gone straight to the source: living American composer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Sure, the machers of the banking industry have deep roots in the art market"the Medicis fueled the Renaissance, the bankers of the East India Company let Rembrandt put up his paintings as lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]A 2016 survey of top AI researchers found that, on average, they thought there was a 50 percent chance that AI systems would be able to "accomplish every task better and more cheaply than hu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]It was an 18-second video called "Meet Me At The Zoo" and it's been seen 90 million times. " CNN
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]"It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]The fundraiser got the anonymous donation, organized to help out struggling book sellers, after raising £100,000. Book shop owners are feeling a bit conflicted. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Movies depict phone calls, there are split screens, fast cuts, etc. There's already a rich visual language of remote interaction. So what can we learn? " Irish Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Adrian Searle: "On the page, I am the mildest, most humane and dare I say sympathetic of writers, while the one who is doing the writing is an incoherent monster, if not an absolute swine. B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Loans of online e-books, e-magazines and audiobooks were up an average of 63% in March compared with last year. And 120,000 people joined libraries in the three weeks after lockdown began, L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]In the 20th century, tuberculosis, typhoid, polio and Spanish flu breakouts prompted urban planning, slum clearance, tenement reform, waste management and, on a larger level, Modernism itsel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Netflix added 15.8 million subscribers, more than double the 7.2 million that were expected " a growth of more than 22 percent year over year. Netflix now has 182 million subscribers worldwi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"How do we define community in a time of crisis, which is in many ways what community is for? We don't need our neighbors as much when we are healthy and wealthy and can pay for all the assi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]It's important to realise that the concern about beliefs being socially influenced is worrisome only if we're deliberating about whether to maintain belief from the perspective of doubt. " A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Coffee is sold less to provide an individual with pleasure than to support an industry with a skillfully primed audience. " The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]One of the first things that struck Dvořák about Iowa was its emptiness. If he had come looking for the cheerfulness of home, what he found was this expanse of prairie, this sea of gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]As experts in human-computer interaction point out, using Zoom means putting on a show for others without being able to rely on the cues we primates depend on in physical encounters. " Axios
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2020
EduHam was born as an offshoot of "Hamilton" itself, and Lin Manuel Miranda says the project " in which 250,000 students nationwide have participated " has proved to be a hit as much with ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]ABT polled the dancers to find out how many would be interested. Then they placed a single order for 68 pieces, paid for it all and shipped them out to company members isolating everywhere f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]When it comes to live music streaming, and in particular, the capacity to play together real time over the internet, the technology could be said to be in a nascent state " still very much u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]People are consuming more news than usual. Monthly readership of NPR's website has more than doubled and average weekly streaming of its radio shows has gone up 31 percent since the crisis b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The very features that make New York attractive to businesses, workers and tourists " Broadway, the subway system, world-class restaurants and innumerable cultural institutions " were among …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]A quarter of the respondents, nine of 35, said they are facing the permanent closure of their spaces in 2020 if the situation doesn't improve quickly. An additional five galleries, or 14%, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The situation into which almost every parent in America has now suddenly and unwillingly been thrust could not be more different. One-size-fits-all education barely works in a classroom, but…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The Director of SCPA will serve as a central collaborator and consensus-builder inside and outside SCPA.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Now facing an immense shortfall in tax revenue"about $7.4 billion"the city has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would reduce the overall budget by $3.4 billion, compar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The demonization of density harkens to the heyday of urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American civic leaders and reformers of the time embraced the notion that urban s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Born into considerable wealth and privilege in New York, Beard, whose body was found yesterday in woodland in the East Hamptons, was a photographer whose love for the African wilderness and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2020
It's not entirely irrational behavior. And it can be explained. It's the product of several longterm trends that encourage hyper-skepticism. " Good Company
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]As Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi recently noted, both capitalism and celebrity rely on the "lie of meritocracy:" that working hard will lead to ultimate success. The grips of COVID-19, wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]Museum director Eike Schmidt recalled that after the Arno River in Florence flooded in 1966 and shuttered the museum, the number of visitors to the Uffizi jumped from 1 million to 1.5 millio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]The latest analysis is computer-aided quantitative analysis of the texts. It's revelatory (in a way), and it adds something to our understanding. But it doesn't replace our previous close co…
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