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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Four Indiana Cities Sue Netflix For “Cable-Franchise” Fees by Artsjournal

The 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, …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

What Pro Wrestling Has To Teach Us by Artsjournal

We all know that pro wrestling is not a sport in the sense that boxing is. Pro wrestling presents as a genuine struggle between wrestlers for victory, but it does so with a complicit nod to …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

Will Technology Change Human Equality? by Artsjournal

We are at the point where real differences between populations can be scientifically engineered, we face a new challenge. As gene-altered or AI-assisted humans emerge, how can we preserve th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM

Woman Attacks Britto Sculpture – And The Motivation? by Artsjournal

A viral video has surfaced of a woman confronting Brazilian artist Romero Britto at a busy gallery and shattering one of his sculptures in front of him as he fumbles to retrieve the work. Sh…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM

How Critic Eric Bentley Rescued American Theatre by Artsjournal

He died recently at the age of 103 and his legacy is profound. “Bentley’s legacy in the theater as a pathbreaker is profound. By shining a critical light on the American stage, he expose…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM

Why Erdoğan Reclassified Hagia Sophia As A Mosque by Artsjournal

It is a gesture aimed at the Christian world, Europe and all international institutions categorically opposed to this act. Everyone is perfectly clear that this is not merely the transformat…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM
Monday, August 17, 2020

Big Live Arts Experiences Are Crucial And We Ought Not Lose Them by Artsjournal

It’s a brave new world out there, and we’re all going to have to adapt. There are no limits to what our artists, technicians, actors, creators, musicians, dancers and designers can imagi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM

Claim: Leaders Who Read Fiction Have Governed Better During The COVID Crisis by Artsjournal

Governments that seem to have done best “are led by people who read fiction” she said, naming Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Iceland…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM

In The Digital Age What Does It Mean To “Withdraw” Problematic Content? by Artsjournal

Rarely discussed is what “pulling” something actually entails in the digital production age, when film or tape hard copies rarely exist, as well as what the risks are of losing some cont…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM

Survey: Consumers Are Against Any Bailout For Movie Theatres, Concert Venues, Etc. by Artsjournal

According to the survey of over 1,000 people in the U.S. conducted between Aug. 3–10, 70% of consumers believe COVID-19 has had a severe negative impact on movie theaters, and 69% see a se…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM

Networked Neurology: A Radical Reimagining Of How The Brain Communicates by Artsjournal

Some researchers have demonstrated that disorders from schizophrenia to stroke appear to be dependent not on individual brain regions, but on the circuitry among those regions. Outside the r…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM

A Florence Music Festival Reconceives Itself In A Much Bigger Way by Artsjournal

The festival has been renamed Re-Generation, and a temporary theatre constructed that, were it at normal capacity, would seat around 1,500, but for the late August event will house only 500.…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM

Why “Bad” Movies About Dance Are A Guilty Pleasure by Artsjournal

Sure, the acting is off, critics universally pan them and the dancing can be just so-so, but the category endures because there is still something so great about the completely nonsensical y…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM

Global Warming In Historical Perspective by Artsjournal

The past six hundred million years have been mostly a span of relentless heat, during which plants and then animals first climbed up and colonized Earth’s great, empty landmasses. Extreme …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM

What Animals Have To Say by Artsjournal

Humans have spent decades trying to teach other animals our languages—sometimes for convenience or amusement, sometimes out of scientific curiosity—but we’ve made little effort to lear…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM

How You Translate The Madcap Edinburgh Fringe Online by Artsjournal

The festival’s cancellation has been a big blow to long-term fans — and to the 30,000 performers who travel to the Scottish city each August to show their work. To fill the gap, some art…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Survival: Hibernate Or Adapt? by Artsjournal

Amid this backdrop, what are the options available to arts venues, upon which so much of the industry relies, when they find traditional spaces not fit for purpose within social distancing g…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

The Radical Favors Of Dave Brubeck by Artsjournal

Before Miles Davis went electric and Ornette Coleman bloomed, Brubeck was the surest name to start an argument. A cynical section of the jazz audience perceived his experimental nature as a …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM
Friday, August 14, 2020

A Storied Hollywood Research Library – And It Needs A Home by Artsjournal

Its roots go back to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, established in 1919 on a corner of Formosa Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Renamed United Artists Studio in the 1920…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32PM

An Outdoor Dance Festival… And Some Hope by Artsjournal

From this vantage point early in its run — and I’m pronouncing this with my fingers crossed that no virus outbreak occurs — the festival can be seen as a cultural marker in ways both s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32PM

The Future Of Dance – An Online Strategy by Artsjournal

“Whether or not companies can figure out how to incorporate digital into their strategy is going to decide which will fold. Linking digital programming to data, marketing and operations is…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32PM

A Wikipedia Battle Over Kamala Harris’ Entry by Artsjournal

Once the news broke, many of the first edits to Harris’s Wikipedia page were the sort of structural maintenance done by veteran editors on the site: citing sources, attaching categories, i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32PM

Guitarist Julian Bream, 87 by Artsjournal

Interviewed in the Guardian aged 80, Bream, who retired in 2002, said he was no longer playing: “The thing I feel a little annoyed about is that I know I’m a better musician than I was a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32PM

The Theatre Of Giving Convention Speeches When There’s No In-Person Audience by Artsjournal

The impresarios of the Democratic and Republican national conventions are facing the same theatrical problem that playwrights, stand-up comics and concert singers have been grappling with si…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM

New Book Traces Europe’s Great Buildings Back To Far East by Artsjournal

Given their prevalence in the great cathedrals of Europe, it is easy to imagine that pointed stone arches and soaring ribbed vaults are Christian in origin. But the former dates back to a se…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM

New Project Wonders How Ancient Languages Sounded by Artsjournal

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, and the composer Edmund Hunt are to lead an effort to fuse music and historic linguistics to examine the sonic footpri…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM

New VR Experience Takes You Inside Notre Dame Before And After The Fire by Artsjournal

Rebuilding Notre-Dame begins by recounting the history of the gothic cathedral with close-ups of its gargoyles, bells and sacristy alongside the rector Patrick Chauvet talking about his sens…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM

AMC Is Opening Movie Theatres Next Week – Admission 15 Cents by Artsjournal

For one day only, tickets at the theaters will sell for 15 cents, roughly the equivalent of what it cost to watch a movie in 1920. That’s the year that the company’s founders, the Dubins…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM
Thursday, August 13, 2020

A message to the arts and cultural sector from James Abruzzo: We are here to listen and eager to help by Artsjournal

While we are still engaged with paid search and consulting projects, we also realize that our experience and perspective may be helpful in other ways and so invite you to contact us for advi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM

Report: Cultural Institutions Spent Almost $8 Billion On Buildings Last Year by Artsjournal

The latest figures for 2019 represent a slowdown in the growth of the number of completed projects seen each year since 2016, as well as the fourth consecutive drop in the number of announce…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM

Is Singing Together During COVID Safe? by Artsjournal

“Singing in a room for an extended period of time, in close contact with lots of people and no ventilation — that’s a recipe for disaster,” says Shelly Miller, a professor at the Uni…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM

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