Friday, April 10, 2020
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
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]In 1995 46 percent of France's galleries had to close after the art market crash. Estimates now are that one third of French galleries will go out of business due to the pandemic. " The Art …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Elizabeth Outka: "I have spent the last five years writing a book about how the sensory and affective climate of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic infuses interwar literature, often in ways w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"I teach a class at the Harvard Business School on happiness. It surprises some people when I tell them this"that a subject like happiness is taught alongside accounting, finance, and other,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]The Bloomsbury Group revered him. But today he is pretty much forgotten. So why do some who achieve fame endure but others " some of the biggest " fade from history? " Prospect
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Georgia's film industry is big. It accounted for $3 billion film/TV production in 2019 and employs 92,100. It's all shut down now, and many wonder if it will survive. " ArtsATL
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2020
There are valid reasons to look at historic crises as moments for dramatic urban change. Nineteenth-century pandemics helped usher in developments in water and sewage systems. And there can …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Steadily, slowly, research interest in solitude has been increasing. Note, solitude " time alone " is not synonymous with loneliness, which is a subjective sense of unwanted social isolation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]It has been difficult at times, looking at the closed doors of theatres and remembering there are no productions to leave the house to go see or participate in. But if the last couple of wee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The emergency package has an initial pot of $10 million for 2,000 grantees. The funds are culled from the operations budgets of the seven US-based organizations: Academy of American Poets, A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]What explains why the Philadelphia Orchestra's BeethovenNOW concert, with two full symphonies webcast from an empty Verizon Hall on March 12, is up to 771,000 YouTube views? Or why the Rotte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The team, led by archeologist Pieter van Dalen, were caught digging at the Macatón cemetery in the town of Huaral during the state of emergency on Sunday, April 4. The group from the Univ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Several drawings appear to depict a bulkier shoulder and more vertical arm"a more structurally sound arrangement. But one of these sketches (below) was marked up by an unidentified hand with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]If we are cut off from experiencing art with others, we are perfectly placed to consider an old and out of fashion idea: the power of private contemplation and solitary engagement. The silen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Online, fans are fuming about being unable to get refunds for concerts that have been postponed, often with no rescheduled dates in sight. As they see it, ticketing outlets are being greedy …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Superheroes can fight secret quasi-Nazi conspiracies, invading aliens and android armies. But they are ill-equipped to fight the coronavirus. Superheroes on screen have saved the world repea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2020
The transformation of the university into a capital-intensive, bureaucratically organised enterprise was not simply an effect of academic specialisation. More than a century earlier, Adam Sm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]The annual celebration of stage work was originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on May 18. Instead it will be postponed until a later, as yet unannounced, date. In an int…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]The work that began Monday focused on the museum's 1965 Leo S. Bing Center, a 600-seat theater designed by architect William L. Pereira that has been used for film screenings, musical perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"Physical distancing is the antithesis of what a community chorus is all about. We rehearse for four months before our performances twice a year. The community we form as we breathe, learn t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Peter Schjeldahl: Online "virtual tours" add insult to injury, in my view, as strictly spectacular, amorphous disembodiments of aesthetic experience. Inaccessible, the works conjure in the i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Lara Downes: "Two weeks of dates cancelled, and then before we knew it, two months. Every single concert, opera, festival, club date"our calendars were wiped clean. When it happened, some of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Normally, Josh Kantor is in a perch at Boston's venerable baseball park, churning out tunes as the home team's official organist. In late March, with the season put on pause due to coronavir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"The paper's remaining staffers are now faced with a devastating decision: they can either leave and let the state's largest paper, (and the country's first News Guild), die, ceding victory …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Plywood started going up about two weeks ago after vandals began smashing windows of closed businesses. That led to more plywood from store owners who feared they might be next. Things were …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"When suddenly we have to care about climate, health, and jobs and housing and care and communities, is there a framework around that can help us with all of that? Yes there is, and it is re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2020
"The huge growth of the art market at its top end is surely, as Michael Shnayerson suggests, a function of the spiralling number of billionaires and increasing disparities of wealth. He also…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Artistic or creative pursuits, endeavors that are typically pursued for the intrinsic joy of sharing one's gifts, are also frequently commoditized and placed on the market. Are they part of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Musicians have lost the battle to monetize recordings. With the internet awash in cheap streaming and free videos, our income now comes from live performance alone. Even if livestreams end u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The two leading platforms are Spotify with 35 percent and Apple Music, with 19 percent. Amazon Music is third with 15 percent of market share. Paid subscriptions represented 80 percent of to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]"[It's] the greatest art scam in Canadian history," says art dealer Don Robinson, who suffered a stroke because of the stress he endured in his campaign against a market awash with forgeries…
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