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 Music …
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 “anthro…
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 could outla…
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 announcing a s…
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 doing this …
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 related to …
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, “This has been my life’…
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 increasing i…
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 lin…
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 joined-up thinking across gov…
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 social distan…
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: liberati…
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-embod…
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’s…
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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