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Thursday, September 3, 2020

Is Punctuation Finished? by Artsjournal

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, a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM

Why Do Some Technologies Transform Our World And Others Don’t by Artsjournal

Although the private sector brought electricity to the big cities—New York, Chicago, St. Louis—the federal government’s Rural Electrification Administration brought elec…

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What (And When) Was The First Novel? by Artsjournal

Some 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

Students Figured Out AI Was Grading Their Work – And Gamed The Answers To Trick It by Artsjournal

“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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM

Know-How for Uncertain Times — Get Your First Month FREE! by Artsjournal

Arts 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 -- …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AM
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Susan Jaffe’s Plans As Pittsburgh Ballet’s New Artistic Director by Artsjournal

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 06:36PM

Why We’re Drawn To Stories About Monsters by Artsjournal

Loving 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 pon…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

How The Classical Music System Conspires Against Minority Participation by Artsjournal

White 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…

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The Venice Film Festival Is About To Open. Will It Be Safe? by Artsjournal

Ahead 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 06:36PM

Should Foundations Spend Down Their Assets To Truly Make A Difference? by Artsjournal

By 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 06:36PM

Maybe We Need To Expand Notions Of What Creativity Is by Artsjournal

Imagine 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 i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

A German Experiment In How To Have Large Audiences And Be Safe From COVID by Artsjournal

All 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 03:12PM

Tate, V&A And Pompidou Museums Defend Projects In China by Artsjournal

All 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 h…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM

Small Theatres Are Innovating Online In Ways That Will Change The Art Form by Artsjournal

Over 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 02:06PM

A Visit With Oracle Jaron Lanier by Artsjournal

Lanier 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 h…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM

Film Streams – Executive Director by Artsjournal

Currently 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 02:06AM
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Why Algorithms Are Problematic In Education by Artsjournal

“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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM

Why Are Magazine Artciles Fact-Checked But Books Aren’t? by Artsjournal

Most 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 check…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM

Inside The Brains Of Jazz Improvisers by Artsjournal

“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 o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM

The Future Of Our Lives Indoors by Artsjournal

“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 i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM

Australia Wants To Charge Google, Facebook For Showing News Stories. Google’s Fighting Back… by Artsjournal

Australian 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 04:06PM

Time To Challenge The System That Supports Shakespeare? by Artsjournal

The 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 defe…

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Here’s What It’s Like To Visit The Newly Reopened Met Museum by Artsjournal

The 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…

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What Will Happen When Our Brains Can Talk Directly To Computers? by Artsjournal

Voice 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 …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM

Early Departure Of The Canadian Opera Company’s General Director Is A Good Course Correction by Artsjournal

“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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM
Monday, August 31, 2020

Educationist Sir Kenneth Robinson, 70 by Artsjournal

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 ric…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM

Discovery: US Teen Wrote 20,000 Wikipedia Entries In a Language They Don’t Speak by Artsjournal

Alongside 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 yo…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM

Why Americans Are Such Terrible Writers by Artsjournal

If 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 07:18PM

What Next After Zoom Fatigue by Artsjournal

Zoom 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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM

Research: Knowledge Workers Are More Productive Working From Home by Artsjournal

In 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 07:18PM

A New Shakespearean Theatre Recreation In Connecticut? by Artsjournal

The 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 ind…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM

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