Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The dismissals are only a small part of the changes implemented by the new government. On 1 July, the National Archaeology Museum (MUNARQ), which answered to the ministry of cultures and tou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMDavid Bell argues that charismatic leaders were a key product of the age of Revolution, which created the ideal political and cultural conditions for a new kind of civic heroism to emerge. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMThe museum says that as a result of Adrienne Arsht’s gift, it is now the single biggest art museum in the US to offer 100% paid internships to nearly 120 undergraduate and graduate interns…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMLet’s face it: we’ve all had second thoughts about language. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t stumble for words, stagger into misunderstandings, or struggle with a double negative. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMIt’s a familiar story across Africa: 90 to 95 percent of Africa’s heritage is held outside the continent, according to a 2018 report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron. Gi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Writing for the sake of publication—instead of for the sake of being read—is academia’s version of “teaching to the test.” The result is papers few actually want to read. First, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PMThe burning question, at this point, is whether this recommender system can reliably lead users down epistemically problematic rabbit holes. In other words, is it possible to discern a patte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PMStandup comedy is not created purely by the performer, but as a collaborative production between the performer, the audience, the venue and the promoter. In the same way a theatre is arrange…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PMAbout three-and-a-half years ago, Tim Jennings, the executive director and CEO of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, decided to undertake some risk analysis alongside his CFO. He look…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:15PMGiven the degree to which workers lack autonomy and are at the mercy of arbitrary and capricious decisions by their employer, republican liberty is at risk when it comes to the employer-empl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMThe “free speech” argument can be a useful tactic. But it’s not necessarily a successful one in the long term. Overusing it can turn real debates into insoluble meta-arguments with no …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMThe CEO ― whose net worth is estimated at over $4 billion ― argued in an interview with Music Ally published Thursday that there was a “narrative fallacy” around claims that Spotif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM“Salvator Mundi!” The Musical, announced by Tony Award-winning production company Caiola Productions, will chronicle the tale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance-era portrait of Jesus, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PMGPT-3 is a product of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab based in San Francisco. In essence, it’s a machine-learning system that has been fed (trained on) 45 terabytes of text…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMHe remained, in critical estimation, a pianist of sublime musical intelligence whether playing with one hand or two. But he also gained renown off the stage as a conductor and an influential…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMFriday, July 31, 2020
It seems like the entire edifice is teetering. If you can’t pay musicians, you can’t get live music. Culture, while a major economic sector, will likely be one of the last to restart aft…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMEven before the pandemic, Greece’s theaters were in trouble. Years of austerity saw government spending on the arts slashed, with subsidies for the largest theaters cut in half, or withdra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMFor a group of scholars, scientists and musicians, Hagia Sophia’s rededication as a Muslim place of worship threatens to cloak a less tangible treasure: its sound. Bissera Pentcheva, an ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMBorn in Calais, France, Fabrice Fourmanoir, 63, might once have been dismissed as a crackpot, a wannabe who would never be welcomed into the sophisticated enclave of art scholarship. But sin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMHe was nominated for the best-director Oscar for the 1978 film “Midnight Express” and again 10 years later for “Mississippi Burning.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMWhen I pop around and listen to public radio streams from around the country, they almost universally sound like they did before the pandemic started. Same with the programs themselves. Thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThe video-sharing social media app said in a blog post Wednesday that it will give creators in the U.S. over $1 billion in the next three years, and more than double that globally. – CNBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMKitsch is a conflicted term—hard to strictly define, but as with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s joke about pornography, one knows it when one sees it. For the purchasers of kitsc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThursday, July 30, 2020
On a longlist packed with surprises and debuts, chosen from 162 novels, Mantel is up against major literary names including US author Anne Tyler, picked for Redhead by the Side of the Road, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM“The pandemic offered a temporary reprieve from sound, both in cities and in oceans, giving scientists a once-in-a-lifetime (we hope) chance to study the sudden onset of quiet. The lockdow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMControversies broke out on a few fronts this week. – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM“We don’t have to remain in our Brady Bunch squares. It was great to walk by and see the dancers sweating and breathing. We still do that. We are all choreographers now. People are start…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMDavid Balzer: “Here, I want to go beyond critiquing institutional messaging and superficial pledges towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. Instead, I want to use my experience as the fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMControlled Digital Lending’s essential position is that it’s fine for a nonprofit like the archive or a library to scan a print copy of a book it owns, then lend that digital scan out on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMA new report calculates, in detail, what it would take to aggressively transition to a clean energy economy in the U.S. by 2035—the timeline needed to make it possible to hit the target of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMDavid Nash at the University of Brighton in the UK and his colleagues have identified the source of 50 of the 52 large boulders, known as sarsens, that make up the monument’s iconic stone …
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