Wednesday, August 26, 2020
“There’s a language there, and the language comes out of so many years of study. And the idea that the orchestra can’t move a couple of paces in a certain direction toward what they wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMOf the removed videos, 3.8 million were taken down for child safety reasons, 3.2 million for spam or scams, 1.7 million for nudity or sexual content, 1.2 million for violence and 900,000 for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“To skim to inform” is the new norm for reading. What goes missing are deep reading processes which require a quality of attention increasingly at risk in a culture and on a medium in wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMIf we cured all the world’s cancers, made the perfect smartphone and achieved the ideal form of representative government, but everyone was just as miserable after as they were before, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Gail Sheehy, a lively participant in New York’s literary scene and a practitioner of creative nonfiction, studied anthropology with Margaret Mead. She applied those skills to explore the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM“The biggest issue [in the vinyl industry] is the broken supply chain,” said the Vinyl Alliance, a trade industry group in April 2020. Increasing shipping costs, a lack of live concerts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PMWith the amendment now in place, book importers and international publishers have to provide only book titles and author lists to the Ministry of Information, with the understanding that the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PMWhile it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PMHistorically, museums have used themed exhibitions, acquisitions schemes, or public programs to signal a shift, but otherwise they continue with business as usual. Real shifts must be seen f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSome of the people who make visual effects for Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters believe they have found a way to help: By embracing open source, they want to open up doors for traditionall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSomeone’s social dignity can be damaged whether or not she accepts her society’s standards. One way this can happen is if she is a member of different social groups with conflicting stan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMDancing Earth engages in Indigenous futurism — art that incorporates Indigenous perspectives of what the future could look like — by embodying interconnected communities and social chang…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAs in other countries around the world, new cases in Italy are being driven by young people, with several clusters traced back to nightclubs crowded with maskless patrons. Yet the new rules …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMThe outcome of the debate over AI’s inventorship status and other intellectual property rights could have substantial consequences, particularly for creative industries. – Vice
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMMonday, August 24, 2020
The project, called Perform, looked at the amount of aerosols and droplets generated by performers. The findings could have implications for live indoor performances, which resumed in Englan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMBelarusian theatres, almost all of them state-owned since Soviet times, have officially remained outside of politics for 26 years. Everyone in management positions was appointed by the Minis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMThe anthropologist Marc Augé gave the name non-place to the escalating homogeneity of urban spaces. In non-places, history, identity, and human relation are not on offer. Non-places used to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMA century after his birth, Stern is no longer nearly so well remembered as Bernstein, whose posthumous celebrity remains undiminished. By contrast, Stern is essentially unknown to Americans …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAs the jazz world mourns Joe Segal’s death Aug. 10 at age 94, I realize anew that Segal had found the best way possible to win converts to the music he revered: by welcoming the uninitiate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMFrom the experience in the theatre to when and where movies will be shown, to… – HuffPost
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIn complex systems, the last thing that happened is almost never informative about what’s coming next. The world is always changing – partly due to factors outside our control and partly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM“College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security,” writes Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMJosh Kosman: “If you’d asked me at the time, I could have unreeled a fairly high-minded manifesto about the central importance of honesty in criticism. None of it would have been wrong, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMSome of the subpoenas are for companies that Leon Black, the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, has used to build a collection that includes paintings by Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMThe company realized last November that, given the current funding climate, it would not be able to sustain itself beyond the coming year. State and private grant priorities were shifting, A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMWe need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding for the arts that is politically insulated, inflation-proof, and expands the definitions of non-and for-profit arts. – Douglas M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AMFriday, August 21, 2020
The current crisis raises the question of what exactly a museum is. Is it a collection of objects, or the staff that bring those objects to life and makes them accessible to the public? ‘W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PMThose who bore easily are more likely to be depressed and anxious, have a tendency to be aggressive, and perceive life as less meaningful. Yet, psychology uncovered also a much brighter side…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PMOne of the key facets of Jonas Barish’s argument is that, throughout history and across cultures, theatrical activity has almost always been met by vociferous opposition. From ancient Gree…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMHere in New Orleans, for example, where I am a relative newcomer, my friends who are longtime residents and who survived Hurricane Katrina greet the word “resilience” with a fiery disdai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMArt Basel organizers plan to present two new online viewing room initiatives in September and October, which they describe as “freestanding, thematic editions.” Unlike previous iteration…
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