Monday, April 20, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Composers' letters can make frustrating reading. Beethoven's are brusque, practical affairs; Brahms hides behind a humour as impenetrable as his beard. But with Mozart, you get the whole per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"On the one side is the human mind, the source of every story, theory and explanation that our species holds dear. On the other stand the machines, whose algorithms possess astonishing predi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]What's clear to everyone is that the much celebrated "independent bookstore renaissance," which coincided with the post"Great Recession economic expansion, is over. Hundreds of stores may ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]For the last century, the advertising industry has been centered around this cardinal principle: Find the consumer's problem and fix it with your product. When the problem is practical and t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The library is a bit jarring in real life. It's more like the Space Age tower headquarters of the police, only with hundreds of sunkissed students pouring in, out, and around it. " The Daily…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn't do in advance, and what we're failing to do now. And that is a failure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2020
Cinemark CEO and Board Director Mark Zoradi said there will be two weeks of "showing library product, high profile library product" as the chain expects a slow flow of attendance. The big bl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]For people whose "confinement" looks more like days on end in pajama bottoms, media outlets scramble to provide useful tips for combatting quarantine-induced boredom. Users' social-media fee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]Independent institutions that usually depend on entrance fees and are not backed by regular grants or funding are thought to be most at risk. London's Florence Nightingale Museum and Charles…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]Dr Dirk Obbink, an associate professor in papyrology and Greek literature at the university, was detained by officers from Thames Valley police. The force had received a report claiming the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]"Sales do not drive a career the way they used to, so it's more imperative than ever for artists to stay out on the road. And right now we're not talking about a diminishment of income, we'r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Only 26% of internet users 65 years and older said they feel "very confident" when using computers, smartphones or other electronics to do what they need to do online, according to a 2015 st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]There is a growing realization that the binary nature of open versus closed is not the right way to think. "It's not going to be a light switch," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top inf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Stephen Hetherington: "I think it unfortunate that the rise in state support has produced its own ideological and political adherents, creating for some a mythological differentiation betwee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]A new virtual music platform, cancellation of tours and rethinking the renovation of the orchestra's home. First " keep musicians employed and make sure they have health care " WQXR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Vu Le: "This is the problem. Our sector is afraid of advocacy, much less politics. And we have an absolute disgust for politics. We believe it is beneath us. We don't want to get our hands d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2020
The battle over the Postal Service has reached a critical stage. Now, others are stepping forward with suggestions for saving the agency that would utterly transform it, from privatizing the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Calories in, energy out, right? If only it was that simple… " LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"We have to write off 2020. It's already the year that didn't happen," says one top agent at one of the town's powerhouse firms who, like everyone reached by Vulture for this story, requeste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Valence Media, which includes digital media brands like The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Vibe, is laying off 30% of its employees within its editorial division. " Axios
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Much of what was going to happen in any case will now happen suddenly: publishing history is suddenly accelerated. The shift from print to digital at virtually all publications will be radic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"The floor plans should never have been affected by coronavirus to begin with. The museum should have released them " some semblance of them " months ago. Or how about a year ago, when a rev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Bleak of course (how could it not be with all the cancellations?). On the other hand, reading through the data gives a sense of where the people who run theatres think they're headed. " Thea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]The story of how about 70 National Guardsmen managed to transform a convention center into an alternate health-care facility in mere days shows a state community coming together to get ahead…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]"Who knows if the paintings I donated hold beauty in the harsh, isolated world of incarcerated people? I never ask these viewers directly; in prison, this question can beg answers like, "You…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Social media influencers have had increasing… er… influence in recent years for their ability to get advertising messages out to their followers. But the COVID lockdown has crashed the m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"People are suspended between terror and wonder. They're terrified that this is all so fragile, but they also realize there are things we have been missing " the birdsong everyone is noticin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The dictionary's executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was "a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Fear of and distancing from those who have or are suspected of having the virus counts as a similarity, the key difference being how AIDS became linked to identity . "In the early days of AI…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The circulation of a billion Indians has not settled into the neat grid of social distance. On my phone, I see looming disaster. And yet, looking up, I see something else"a glimpse, behind t…
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