Tuesday, August 11, 2020
NJIT's (New Jersey Institute of Technology) groundbreaking and highly respected Professional Certificate in Creative Placemaking will be conducted in virtual classroom format in Fall, 2020. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2020
MasterClass launched in 2015 with just three classes: Dustin Hoffman on acting, Serena Williams on tennis, and Patterson on writing. Since then the company has grown exponentially, raising $…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]To combat sleeplessness, people are turning to all sorts of techniques, iWhile sleep music used to be confined to the fringes of culture"whether at avant-garde all-night concerts or New Age …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]Music has been around as long as there have been people. Longer if you count music made by animals. It's safe to say that music will be a part of this world as long as there is life. So what…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]David Mikics's "Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker" is a cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. This is not a full-dress biography " there have been several of Kubrick " but a b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]This game-changing decision could result in a complete overhaul of not only who owns theater chains in the near and long-term future, but how, when and where consumers will enjoy feature fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]After making their first appearance in Toronto in 1961, Salome settled there in 1964 and began playing the jazz club circuit, soon earning the sobriquet that would be with her the rest of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Showrunners have been changing scenes to have little or no background performers, Paula Spurr says. She's even heard of some smaller-budget productions using mannequins "in the deep backgrou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]TikTok, the video making and sharing app probably most known for its quirky video memes and gags made by people under 20, seems to be in many governments' crosshairs. The attacks either come…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]He was no originator, like Schoenberg or Stravinsky, nor did he possess Britten's or Shostakovich's command of manifold genres. He was, however, a composer of rare gifts, particularly in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"The other day, my pal, the brilliant songwriter Tom Kitt, called me. He said he was frustrated by his lack of creativity because of the pandemic and was reaching out to several friends to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Ventilation is more effective at protecting against airborne transmission of the Covid-19 virus than social distancing or PPE " and "many performance venues have the capability to provide go…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]"Poulenc was a composer who melded the incompatible. Famously described as a combination of "monk and ragamuffin", he wrote music that the mind can mistrust but the heart will adore. He clun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Attendance is expected to be between 1,500 and 1,700 visitors per day, or about half of what's normal, said Jessica Sharpe, the museum's chief of membership and visitor operations. " Philade…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]The Aztec historians, creators of a genre called the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-WA-lee), developed a highly effective way of keeping satisfying memories alive. The pictographic texts that Itzcoat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]When he died in 1917, Rodin left his estate to the museum, including the original plaster molds of more than 100 sculptures. "Rodin gave the economical system so that the museum could live,"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"The way I view work now within colonial structures and institutions is harm reduction. Ultimately, the goal for me is to reduce the harm the Canada Council causes, not just to my community …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Insisting that music theory, musicology and ethnomusicology are separate disciplines with no shared ground impoverishes all of our work. By narrowing our focus and policing our boundaries, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Expect the cornonavirus era, say theme park experts, to accelerate a play-driven evolution that has steadily been increasing in parks " in part because they naturally lead to exploration, bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The argument for reopening our cultural institutions has been made with force: art sustains us, say the museum executives over the morning airwaves. But when I enter the exhibition, the fir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and the British Council published a paper 'Heritage for Inclusive Growth' which says the sector's potential has b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]With "Crazy Blues," Mamie Smith opened the door to a surge of powerfully voiced female singers who defied the conventions of singerly gentility to make the blues a popular phenomenon in the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2020
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2020
A central figure in the rise of classical music in the city, Henry supported numerous arts organizations including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, the Colburn School, L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2020
It is hard to think of a leading critic under fifty. There is no new generation in sight. This is unprecedented. Billington was barely thirty when he began at The Guardian, older than Nighti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]The chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]In a book called Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends, Burrows's name was listed under a chapter called "The Worst Novel Ever Published in the English Language.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]The tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Taken en masse, the books paint a damning portrait of the 45th president of the United States. But the sheer volume of unflattering material they contain can have the paradoxical danger of b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Over the past decade, and at almost every step " from the design competition to the groundbreaking in 2017 " the project was dogged by controversy, subject to congressional hearings and, at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]When experts and pundits can't or won't say 'I don't know', the consequences can be dire. In the short term, bad advice leads to bad decisions. In the context of admitting uncertainty about …
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