Friday, August 21, 2020
Art 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“It’s this process that we have spent decades, centuries developing in theatre of how much time it takes to make the thing. In my experience, the process will expand to fill as much time…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York, explained in a lengthy Twitter thread Tuesday why it objected to Trump’s pardon for Anthony, who was arrested and ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“What they tell you they raise to help dance professionals and what they actually spend to help dance professionals is vastly different,” former executive director Kesha Pate wrote. When…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“Almost every aspect of classical music, as it is currently, cultivates a toxic and racist culture. That doesn’t mean that every participant in classical music is racist, obviously. The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThis free, Instagram-advertised event is DistDancing, one of the few opportunities to see live dance at the moment and its founder Chisato Katsura is a member of the Royal Ballet. Katsura, 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Now that work is underway for the second season of “All Rise,” which stars Simone Missick as an idealistic Los Angeles judge, five writers from the original staff of seven are gone. Amon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSo far, donors have been generous. Nearly 87 percent of those who bought tables for the canceled gala donated the sums to the company. Before scrapping their plans, the company had budgeted …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThe design of Dreamstage simulates a traditional live event with virtual ticket offices, an entrance for the audience, artistic entrance, and a post-performance lounge. Ticket proceeds will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMOne partial solution to the decline of media that often gets ignored—yet has the potential to both alleviate the deepening crisis and also help restore public trust in the media as a whole…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThese controversies hollowed out Newsweek’s staff and its brand. Its clickbait-heavy approach, aimed at gaming search engines, has declined since it was spun off from parent company IBT Me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMHow does framing stories for this audience shape how public radio stations tell stories? At every stage of story production—from the reporter’s “pitch” to their editor, through the p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThat setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Joseph Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMPeople don’t gather ‘surplus’. Instead, they collect cars, harvest grain or store canned foods. In reality, accumulation is practised and thought about in relation to the specificity o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMRecent studies from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have confirmed that computer facial recognition is less accurate at match…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMThe $750-million building project is on schedule, with the completion planned for the end of 2023. The new Peter Zumthor-designed building has stirred controversy for its square footage as w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
Like office workers across the United States, journalists have been pushed by the coronavirus to retreat from communal spaces and into remote work. Now some are confronting the very real pos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThe manuscripts of literary works-in-progress fascinate on many levels, from the flush-faced thrill of spying on something intensely private and the visceral delight of knowing that a legend…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThis early promise of a more equitable industry didn’t last. Once the studio system kicked into gear, women were largely muscled out of positions of authority. There are exploding opport…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM“In the beginning, people kept saying, ‘What are they doing?!’” Mr. Ajala said. “I had to convince them that ballet wasn’t a bad or indecent dance, but actually something that re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMSome motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMTheatre union: “The entire industry has been shocked by Cameron Mackintosh’s unwillingness to use the coronavirus job retention scheme in full or deploy resources beyond the furlough mon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMIn many eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechia and Poland the locals’ desire to forget their collective traumatic past is paradoxically interwoven with the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMRene Girard was almost the Platonic ideal of a hedgehog: he belongs to that lineage of 19th- and 20th-century thinkers whose vast synthetic ambition is now seen by many in the academy as not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMAmerican academia is a hotbed of proliferating identities supported and largely shaped by the higher ranks of administrators, faculty, student groups, alumni, and trustees. Not all identitie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMEven as its legacy platform’s audience has declined, though, NPR says it is reaching more people than ever. The dip in radio listenership — 22 percent — has coincided with a record num…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
The Women’s Prize for Fiction recently debuted an upcoming project which will mark the 25th anniversary of the prize: an initiative called “Reclaim Her Name” (#ReclaimHerName) which re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PMWith fewer or no opportunities to perform live at school, can music degrees live up to their mandate to prepare students for a career? In other words, what is the value of a socially distanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe artwork is entirely digital. It’s part of a new, citywide augmented reality art show called Amp’Up Seattle. By downloading a free app with the same name, anyone can access eight virt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“A lot of libraries are thinking about their civic role a little more, and how they might help people coming out of the pandemic. They’ve always done that stuff, but will need to do it 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe lawsuit was filed against Netflix, Disney, Hulu, DirecTV, and Dish Network on August 4 in Indiana Commercial Court in Marion County. The cities of Indianapolis, Evansville, Valparaiso, …
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