Sunday, February 7, 2021
“Books are now published in numbers so vast that the writing of one can no longer be presumed to be an act of communication between writer and reader. Yet even books that aren’t read, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe National Flute Association is seeking an experienced and talented publications director to join our team.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThere is no shortage of theories about what makes an object aesthetically pleasing. Ideas about proportion, harmony, symmetry, order, complexity and balance have all been studied by psycholo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMDan-el Padilla Peralta’s “vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“We inhabit a dystopian reality, which may account for the dearth of dystopian fiction. Yet the novels of Zamyatin, Huxley and Orwell continue to cast a powerful spell. All of them end in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMJust as journalistic embargoes aren’t universally bad or unprofessional, academic embargoes might not be either. But conversations about the ethics of “access scholarship” are far less…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMSuch quirky, esoteric mash-ups feel less like stylistic innovations and more like branding exercises, reflecting a present in which one’s ability to market oneself is more important than m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMConverting “qualities to quantities”, replacing “critical evaluation with economic, technical evaluation”, making “the price system” the ultimate judge, turning institutions into…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe absence of the Shonda Rhymes-produced Regency-era blockbuster proves the Golden Globes isn’t just a popularity contest. Otherwise, the Netflix drama would have cleaned up in all catego…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMTwo of them, Idagio and Primephonic, have been created specifically for classical music listeners. The other four, Apple Music, Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal, cover all genres. As we’ll see, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMSaturday, February 6, 2021
Global Arts Live is the leading presenter of international performing arts in New England, bringing global music, contemporary dance, and jazz from around the world
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06AMReporting to the President of New England Conservatory (NEC), the Director of Cultural Equity and Belonging (CEB) will lead the establishment of NEC’s Center for Cultural Equity and Belong…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06AMThe Salt Creek Ballet Company and School is seeking an Artistic Director to conceive, develop, and implement the artistic vision and focus of Salt Creek Ballet.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06AMFriday, February 5, 2021
In a recent study of 217 Border collies that ranged in age from 6 months to 15, the team, together with the Clever Dog Lab in Austria, found similarities with humans in the dogs’ personali…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMThe idea that the world is corrupt and unfair was the subject of medieval morality plays and sermons. They taught a vast population to reconcile itself to misery and subjugation by promising…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PM“At the start of the pandemic, no one had any work, so it wasn’t so much of a problem. At times it was even nice not to be working. But when you’re freelance, you wonder whose doing wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMGuido Frackers is the guy. “So I’ve seen the environment at least one year before. And we have a “bulldozer” who goes in 24 hours before the orchestra arrives to pave the way, to lin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMCelebrity Series of Boston (CSB) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to provide leadership, strategic direction, and overall management
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMBooksellers often distrusted Voltaire, because by modifying his texts and multiplying the editions, he alienated their customers. No one wanted to pay good money for a slightly new version o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMThere are the endless literary takes. There are Anthony Horowitz’s sequels, or Andrew Lane’s tales of a teenage Holmes. Star basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written novels abou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMIn September the EU launched “an ambitious and historic initiative to fund innovative scientific and artistic endeavours to abate climate change and allow Europe to meet its goal of zero n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMThe documentary will feature interviews alongside select footage of Tharp’s more than 160 choreographed works, “including 129 dances, 12 television specials, six major Hollywood movies, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMThe actor went through a particularly fertile creative period in his golden years, receiving his first Academy Award at the age 82 for his heart-warming supporting turn as a widower who embr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54PMNamed The Helix, the glass spiral tower will be part of a complex of three office buildings that will make up Amazon HQ2. – Dezeen
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMWith misinformation and disinformation (here’s the difference) flourishing unchecked online, being able to discern fact from fiction is especially crucial. We witnessed the fatal violence …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMAs per fresh stats from the British Film Institute, film and TV spend on Brit shores was £2.84B for the year, down a surprisingly slim 21% on the year before. Film bore the brunt of that de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMWhether or not onscreen theater feels like theater may depend on whether it offers a feeling of liveness, with all the potential for error and surprise and invention and anything-could-go-wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMThe vast majority, 96%, were discovered by metal detecting. Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and Hampshire were identified as hotspots for treasure with more than 80 pieces found in each county …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM“History is full of civilizations that have collapsed, followed by people who have had other ways of living,” Kirkpatrick Sale said. “My optimism is based on the certainty that civiliz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM“I think we’re witnessing, in real time, society grappling with the emergence of social media as a very powerful force. Experts who have been studying this stuff have been warning for mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMAre we really just pleasure-seeking audiences looking for that instant hit of media indulgence? As the effects of lockdown and zoom fatigue have exposed, society seems to be increasingly exp…
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