Thursday, September 3, 2020
Enter the international Apostrophe Protection Society, with its attempts to call out misuse and spread good practice. But November 2019 saw the announcement of the society’s demise, and ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMAlthough the private sector brought electricity to the big cities—New York, Chicago, St. Louis—the federal government’s Rural Electrification Administration brought electricity to much…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMSome critics argue that a novel has to also be one narrative through and through, one long story about one person. A lot of ancient fiction, arguably, is too distractible and prone to side s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM“I always tried to make the answer at least semi-coherent because it seemed a bit cheap to just toss a bunch of keywords into the input field,” Paradiso said. “But if I was a bit lazie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMArts Reach New Ways Forward – a comprehensive package of breakthrough strategies to help you navigate uncertain times and be fully prepared for the future opportunities that await -- is he…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Beyond navigating COVID-19, Ms. Jaffe has big ideas for PBT and its growing school. She wants more diversity in choreography, more collaborations with museums and other institutions and some…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMLoving monsters is a love of chaos, a longing to dance a little with death to better understand the danger. Cryptid violence is more approachable than human violence. It’s easy to ponder w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMWhite people and some ethnic groups follow a progression of youth orchestras and schools of the arts and then are often paired with principal musicians in local professional orchestras. Mean…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMAhead of the event guests have been sent a list of Covid-19 guidelines, including information on passing through thermo-scanners as they enter the festival and anyone found to have a body te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMBy 2030, if only the 5 largest foundations spent down the entirety of their assets, approximately $73 billion would flow directly to large-scale issues that require only cash to be truly sol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMImagine instead that we worked with idea that creativity wasn’t about novelty. That doesn’t mean we’d have to give up the value of originality entirely, but rather see it as one of a r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMAll the fans were volunteers, part of Restart-19, a study to see if and how big cultural and sporting events can be held safely in the era of COVID-19. The daylong experiment was set up by s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMAll three are collaborating or consulting on major projects in China with development firms owned by the state. They say that sharing their collections and expertise in this way “can help …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMOver the last few months, it has been interesting to watch how theatre navigates what, in many cases, is largely new territory: digital space. What began as a free-for-all, with organisation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMLanier finds many things fundamental to living in a society hard, like adhering to concepts relating to time, or receiving or sending mail; one ride in his amusement park brain is “a hamst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMCurrently celebrating its 15th year as an internationally recognized art house film center, Film Streams was established as a nonprofit in 2005 and has grown to an operation of two venues th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
“The global pandemic made it difficult to sit exams safely, so a solution needed to be devised. By looking at a combination of teacher’s predictions, past individual performance, and pas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PMMost nonfiction books are not fact checked; if they are, it is at the author’s expense. Publishers have said for years that it would be cost-prohibitive for them to provide fact checking f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM“How do singers such as Betty Carter take command of the present moment, seemingly bending reality to their will? While more romantic notions of creativity might point to Carter, and other…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM“Multiply your age by 0.9. If you’re forty, you’ve spent thirty-six of your years indoors. About a third of that is time spent sleeping, but still. Most humans who live in the United S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMAustralian regulators say the tech giants benefit from publishing news generated by others, but Google and Facebook are so dominant in search and social, respectively, that publishers can’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe Shakespeare system is not simply Shakespeare’s written work, but the complex and oppressive role his work, legacy, and positionality hold in our contemporary society. Feeling defensive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe new rules were evident inside the Met, where staff have installed an elaborate routing system designed to shuffle visitors from room to room without much crossover. Entrance into the Egy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMVoice recognition, like that used by Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, is a step toward more seamless integration of human and machine. The next step, one that scientists around the world …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM“What Alexander Neef failed to do spectacularly is build an audience. It is a failure that one might attribute to the vagaries of the economy, the advent of livestreaming, the price of par…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMMonday, August 31, 2020
He told the audience at TED in 2006: “I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richnes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMAlongside Gaelic, Scots is one of the indigenous languages of Scotland. The thousands of Wikipedia entries written in it make up one of the largest collections of the Scots language you ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMIf your children are in secondary school and are not writing essays, they are being swindled of their chance to do well in college. If you are a college student who is rarely required to sub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMZoom fatigue is the feeling of utter hopelessness after your ninth video call of the day, and experts say it’s brought on because the technology overtaxes your brain. Presented with a crop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMIn sum, lockdown has been positive for knowledge worker productivity in the short term. But it has also created some concerns and challenges around longer-term effectiveness, creativity, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThe theater in Stratford, Connecticut, modeled on Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, burned down in January 2019 as the result of arson. The theater building had not hosted an indoor p…
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