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Sunday, January 31, 2021

What Small Chicago Arts Groups Have Learned About Working Online by Artsjournal

Before the pandemic, in-person classes offered by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company tended to be small, with only 8 to 10 students. But over the last months, the theater has dropped prices bet…

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What Happens To Whistleblowers Who Outed Their Arts Organizations? by Artsjournal

After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind them? Artnet News spoke with a number of whistleb…

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New Access: Super High Resolution Images Of Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Drawings by Artsjournal

The V&A partnered with the Factum Foundation to create the high-resolution color, infrared and 3-D scans in 2019. And last year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, t…

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Highlights Of 125 Years Of The NYT Book Review by Artsjournal

“In many ways, the Book Review’s history is that of American letters, and we’ll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and examine that history over the coming months. I…

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Building Preservation Run Amok? LA Grapples With What To Save by Artsjournal

If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won’t survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what culture, exactly, is being pr…

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A Need For Orchestras To Be More Nimble In Scheduling by Artsjournal

Until the arrival of the coronavirus, the prevalent model was not particularly friendly to rapid response. Symphony orchestras did a good deal of planning two or three years in advance, alth…

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Longtime Folger Theatre Director Janet Griffin To Step Down by Artsjournal

The announcement means the departure of one of Washington’s longest-serving theater chiefs and an opening in a company with a prestigious literary pedigree: It is an arm of one of the worl…

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The Plight Of The Artist… As Expressed In A Cartoon by Artsjournal

There is ample absurdity to wring from the fine-art ecosystem, where hierarchies and quid pro quos rule. Players ruthlessly engage in an unspoken competition for limited opportunities and re…

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Lessons For Us From China’s Cultural Revolution by Artsjournal

Trump failed to purge all the old élites, largely because he was forced to depend on them, and the Proud Boys never came close to matching the ferocity and reach of the Red Guards. Neverthe…

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The Inauthenticity Of Working In A Digital Medium by Artsjournal

“With digital, there is no such thing as authenticity. You are trusting that it is what it is. I feel eventually no matter how convincing it may seem, what we are experiencing through medi…

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The Genius Equation (Or How You Can Become One) by Artsjournal

“If you’re a prodigy with a great gift for something, you can simply do it – yet might not be aware of why and how. And you don’t ask questions. Indeed, the geniuses I met seemed too…

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Study: Can Machines Make Good Therapists? by Artsjournal

A recent study invited college students to talk about their emotions via an online chat with either a person or a “chatbot” (in reality, the chatbot was operated by a person rather than …

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The Cure For Disinformation by Artsjournal

“The internet contains, for better or worse, a significant amount of humanity’s intellectual and creative outputs. It’s also a cesspool of outrageous falsehoods. Having access to so mu…

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Biden’s Inauguration Was Driven By Creativity. So Let’s Use That Creativity… by Artsjournal

There can be no national recovery, no American Rescue, without the creative economy, and the 5.1 million creative workers who make it up. And right now, many of those creative workers are in…

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A Rethink In Investing In Smaller Arts Organizations by Artsjournal

“It is time to make significant investments in these smaller organizations to increase their capacities and develop a practice that does not make becoming more mainstream the ultimate goal…

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This Was An Odd Year For Movies. The Oscars Should Reflect That by Artsjournal

“The kinds of movies that traditionally contend for awards — mid-budget dramas with recognizable stars and respectable historical subjects or social themes — were thin on the ground th…

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With No Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans Creates Floats Out Of Houses by Artsjournal

“Look around Rona, socially distanced float houses have become a thing. A really big thing. Apparently, if you to take the parades off our streets, our streets become the parade. From Gret…

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The Perils Of Our Time Demand An Artistic Response by Artsjournal

Deborah Cullinan: “The events of the past year, and the shocking insurrection that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have reinforced the value of art in our society. We have always know…

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Cheech Marin’s New Museum Gets A Green Light by Artsjournal

After years of planning, the long-awaited Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California, has finally received the green light from t…

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The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre – Executive Director by Artsjournal

The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre (Civic) is one of the country’s preeminent community theatres and has been center stage in the Kalamazoo community for 91 years.

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The Improbable Story Of A Disney Movie That Almost Didn’t Get Made by Artsjournal

“So, uh, how — and why — did all of this happen? Here is the oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove, an irreverent, pratfall-heavy, non sequitur of an animated movie that so defied…

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Apple’s Tim Cook: We Have To Say All Engagement Isn’t Good Engagement by Artsjournal

“At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of technology that says all engagement is good engagement…

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Playwright: We Need To Stop Cancel Culture by Artsjournal

“I do not consent to being part of an arts community that engages in witch hunts of people who don’t think like me,” Carmen Aguirre says in the nearly 30-minute video, which she posted…

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Simon Rattle’s Departure From London: Sign Of A Post-Brexit Musical Exodus? by Artsjournal

“At the darkest hour, with concert halls shuttered and musicians facing visa hell, Rattle’s defection is being regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a loss of faith. I have heard the word ‘…

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Why “Our Town” Still Resonates 80 Years Later by Artsjournal

With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely. Published Jan.�…

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A Trump Presidential Library? The Argument Against It by Artsjournal

“The danger of Trump using a presidential library to burnish his image is far more serious, with the ex-president and his surrogates still promoting the idea that his electoral loss was so…

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Amanda Gorman Invited To Recite Poem At This Year’s SuperBowl by Artsjournal

She will be reciting at the Super Bowl pre-show on Feb. 7, before the Kansas City Chiefs play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. – NPR

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A Lawsuit Over Schenkerian Music Theory And A Huge Debate Over How Music Theory Is Taught by Artsjournal

At its best, music theory creates simplified models that help us understand how compositions are conceived and constructed while leaving space for the mystery of artistic intervention. At it…

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The Amazing Japanese Rice Field Murals by Artsjournal

There’s a village meeting each year to decide the theme. Village officials make a simple computer mockup and then ask art teachers to make more detailed drawings. Next, color-coded markers…

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Survey: When American Arts Organizations Plan To Resume Live Performances by Artsjournal

The study surveyed 104 organizations, including 91 in the United States and 13 in Canada, from Dec. 12, 2020 through Jan. 12, 2021. The study found that, among U.S. organizations, companies …

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Executive Director by Artsjournal

Asheville Symphony seeks next Executive Director

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