Monday, July 27, 2020
Many New Orleans artists make at least 50 percent, and some as many as 75 to 100 percent, of their income during festival seasons. “New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Essence Mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMReturn on investment (ROI) logic has become a dominant motif of much of philanthropy today. Many contemporary philanthropists perceive themselves as social entrepreneurs, doing well by doing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThe new season will include in-person Masterworks concerts at the Carpenter Theatre at the Dominion Energy Center in September, October and November. The capacity of the Carpenter Theatre wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMOver the last half-century, Warhol has been merchandised into the trite, plastic banality he supposedly critiqued, but as Blake Gopnik reminds us, the artist is much harsher, and more cynica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMFriday, July 24, 2020
The cuts are needed to address the financial challenges of the pandemic-related shutdown, Kennedy Center president and chief executive Deborah Rutter said in an interview. The arts center pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PMWriting today in the journal Science, dozens of researchers from around the world show that the seismic activity from our civilization plummeted as lockdowns went into effect. This “an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PMThere was a time, not that long ago, when—like most of America—publishers thought that this Trump boom would end when the president left office. It increasingly seems like it c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMSome of these people have taken the opportunity to begin a radical rethinking of their operations. Others are doing their best to maintain a connection with their patrons and audiences that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMIf, as I gloomily expect, this pandemic mushrooms into a huge, epochal shift in the social, economical and political landscape of the United States, then history teaches us perfectly clearly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMGerman scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could be prevented from sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMAfter months of monotone condolences and a vague “five-step roadmap†from culture secretary Oliver Dowden, the British government Beyoncéd the arts community on 5 July by anno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMDancers, unlike baseball players, may not be known for virus-spreading habits like spitting, but their job poses multiple risks. They work in studio spaces with varying degrees of ventilatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMFar from being embraced as a high-minded salute to free speech and the bracing effects of political discourse, the letter was blasted for messages its authors swear were never intended. �
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMThe Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Flynn) is located in downtown Burlington, Vermont, and has been at the center of Vermont's cultural landscape throughout its 90-year history.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMThe online dramas that so many theatres have made available, from the RSC to the National Theatre, have had a hugely democratising effect on an art form that is often accused of being elitis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMThursday, July 23, 2020
For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade’s worth of experimentation. “Our team is fortunate to have been do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMNo one has had time to truly refine their ideas about personal life in a state of widespread isolation and existential dread, and literature, even when political, is a fundamentally personal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMThe workers — public-facing staffers who watched over galleries and answered questions about art — had announced plans to unionize with AFSCME in early November over concerns r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PM“It’s the first time in my position that I feel like I’m truly being heard,†she explains of how she’s using her voice to raise awareness, later adding, �
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMHer departure has unleashed a tempest in the art circles of Canada, where the Montreal museum is viewed as something of a national treasure; the debate over why Nathalie Bondil was let go ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“While we never mind insisting that art can change the world, we get fuzzy when pressed on the details of how. In pursuing “usefulness,†the past decades have witnessed an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“We put over 100 people who were madly in love into a brain scanner using fMRI. We noticed those who had fallen in love in the first eight months had a lot of activity in brain regions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWhat is needed is “not just a bailout†but a “long-term plan†that would enable the sector to “come out the other side. What we’ve seen is a lack of join…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“In the 15 years between the inception of a fully-integrated bi-directional digital medium—the internet—and the onset of the coronavirus pandemic bringing with it imposed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMThe abrupt restructuring of daily working life for tens of millions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has also dramatised just how different ‘flexible’ work is in different contexts:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMGiven social-distancing protocols that prohibit physical gatherings, theatre makers have responded creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to online, digital and lo-fi or “non-e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMOne force we must confront is the attention economy, an incentive structure designed to reward the most uncompromising, polarized, clickable minority. (Ironically, this minority is very ofte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMOver the last few months, over 270,000 choirs nationwide have been trying to figure out how to move forward. While making a high quality musical product is the common call for any music ense…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMGarry Garrels is perhaps the most prominent figure to tumble so far as art museums around the country, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian�
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMReasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest s…
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