Wednesday, April 15, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]One major takeaway: Most theatregoers will not immediately be ready to return to theatres even when they reopen. The survey found that around half (49 percent) of those questioned say they w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Is dystopian fiction likely to affect anyone's real-world political attitudes? If so, then how? And how much should we care about its impact? In our research, we set out to answer these que…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Germany has a low infection rate, but additionally the city has efficiently tried to help its residents: "Fortunately, last week more than $1.4 billion was already doled out in Berlin to mor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]There's of course the simple dictionary definition, but as a label for a political ideology its meaning is fuzzy. " Dissent
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]There's a lot more money in pro sports, and athletes have benefited from psychologists who teach them how to turn in their best on demand. So it makes sense that the sports doctors are worki…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Showman, yes. Bamboozler, con artist, fantasist and entertainer. Each generation seems to need to revisit accounts of Barnum and mine from him the spirit that is core to America. " New York …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]The decision, outlined in an April 9 memo from Gov. Ron DeSantis' office, could open the door for other sports to resume in the state. " ESPN
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]So is Boston's MFA 150. Both institutions are hemorrhaging money: a projected $100Â million at the Met; $12Â million to $14Â million at the MFA by the end of June. Thousands of events,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Chances are the current pandemic has them considering whether a creative life is possible " feasible, affordable, open to someone like themselves " at the very moment when that world began c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]The museum chiefs have signed a petition launched by the culture advocacy group Federculture which states that "we have to make Italian culture live, to give it oxygen… the repercussions o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]For a region whose economy was rebuilt on the most hopeful of things " a social economy, based on the gathering of people " the level of cruelty feels almost farcical. Mass MoCA sees around …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]"I was fearing bad news about a big travel firm this week: perhaps an airline, holiday company or cruise line. But I never expected to hear that the world's leading travel-guide firm is prop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Justin Davidson: "New York has been a scary place for most of the past 400 years. Fire, flood, attack, crime, rebellion, drugs, and disease have shaped it. I find that an oddly reassuring th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"In this country we don't have national infrastructure that supports individual artists the way that would be effective in a crisis." said Laura Zabel. "That said, every disaster is local," …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Andras Szanto: "Museums could offer people who have experienced weeks of isolation a safe place to go, or a reprieve from cramped quarters. Their opening would signal the beginnings of a ret…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2020
We're using cities differently while we're under lockdown, but urbanists see this as an opportunity to maybe challenge the ways we have constructed and use urban areas. Cars, for example " d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]"My feeling is truly we are in the midst of a new era trying to be reborn," he said, reached by phone in Culver City. "And, yes, the labor pains are fierce." " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]The show is a Disney concert from last year that producers want to use to raise money for COVID relief. All the unions had agreed except for the musicians union. "As musicians we have lost t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]"Pandemics, wars, and other social crises often create new attitudes, needs, and behaviors, which need to be managed. We believe imagination " the capacity to create, evolve, and exploit men…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]It has become a cesspool for scammers and con artists and crackpots of every kind. Worse, it even helps promote racist supremacist views. What can be done? " ProPublica
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]So how do you dance with others when you have to keep your distance? Online of course, and Dis-Dance parties allow you to dance together from the safety of your own room. " The News Hour (PB…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]"Even in good times, the humanistic academy is mocked as a wheel turning nothing; in an emergency, when doctors, delivery personnel, and other essential workers are scrambling to keep societ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Most are shut down, though in places such as Albania and Sweden where museums remain open, they're seeing increases in visitors. Closed museums report an 80 percent loss of income. Many are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler chose one way, conducting in Nazi Germany through World War II. Dmitry Shostakovich chose another in deep Soviet Russia. Joseph Horowitz contrasts the two in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]In 1987 Israeli science fiction writer Hamutal Shabtai wrote a book about a mysterious virus that engulfed the world in 2020. The scary part is that she got many of the details of what is no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2020
Peter Marks: "The good news is, you can now access plays and musicals of every style online, from every part of the country and many other places around the globe, a lot of itfree. The bad n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]HireArtists.org is designed to work similarly to TaskRabbit or Fiverr, websites that link gig workers to employers looking for people to do one-off jobs. It invites photographers, d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]"Artificial intelligence, and the desire to smooth out the rough edges of human biology through it, has frequently made its way into the movies. But while the most intriguing of films that d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Amazon was overwhelmed by orders once retail closed and Jeff Bezos announced that all third-party merchants who sell non-essential items could no longer use Amazon's warehouses or shipping. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]GM Artist Hub includes 10 regional arts groups who have banded together to explore opportunities for the area's mostly-freelance artists and workers. " The Stage
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