Thursday, July 9, 2020
The letter—whose endorsers included everyone from Noam Chomsky to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Atwood to Salman Rushdie to Wynton Marsalis—applauded “powerful protests for racial and soc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“This is theater of the mind, you know?” Wild says. “We do so much vocal work in the program, so much text work, so much breaking down a scene — What is this character doing? What do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“We were going to do two sittings each night and the shows sold out straight away. We knew there was an appetite among audiences to come back. But when restrictions weren’t relaxed, we h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Up to this point, music was primarily a shared experience: families huddling around furniture-sized Philcos; teens blasting tunes from automobiles or sock-hopping to transistor radios; the b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM“The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMThere are four problematic recent norms in academia: first, an academic career depends on personal and political matters; second, compliance is rewarded over scepticism; third, academic comp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMThis is what I saw with the livestreams: our traditional modes of live performance are not a good fit for the new world we find ourselves in. Rather, as we continue to create live performanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMI think it can, and here’s a suggestion for how to do it: Schools could embrace an older style of teaching used by British universities — the tutorial system — and adapt it for the onl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWith wealthy collectors no longer travelling, most art business is now conducted online. Art dealers are typically reporting a 70% drop in sales, according to a recent survey conducted by Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMThe great reckoning now sweeping across pop culture has been working through the stacks of literature for far longer. The effects of time are twofold: Most books have fallen into dust, along…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM“What I think we can learn from that example is that anti-racism, or facing up to your past, is not a vaccine. It’s not a one-shot option. It’s a process that you need to continue to g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMCelebrating Mount Rushmore isn’t remembering history; instead it requires spectacular acts of forgetting. How could we honestly claim to see in this anything worth defending? – Chicago T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Anna Fleischle, an award-winning designer, has defined “a moment of reset in our industry.” Rachel O’Riordan, artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, says she is looking at the pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PMQuibi, the brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney studio head and DreamWorks co-founder, had promised to reinvent television by streaming high-quality content in ten-minute-or-l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMHumour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind. – Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMTikTok — which is owned by Beijing-based startup ByteDance — has been repeatedly criticized by US politicians who accused the short-form video app of being a threat to national security …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMOn June 12, the U.K.-based cinema giant had called off its planned $2.1 billion takeover of Cineplex, which would have created one of the world’s largest cinema companies with more than 11…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMExtraordinary times need astonishing remedies. In this very rich country, private wealth has soared to six times the value of annual GDP. So take a deep breath and jump in. A once-in-a-lifet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMBut the orchestra says it will look for ways to perform in smaller ensembles. TSO musicians will also continue to perform virtual concerts. Since the start of the pandemic, musicians and g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMOf course, Zoom is not the answer to saving the arts for the digital generation, but it does pose the question: Why don’t we have better alternatives? For many institutions, fear that impr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMCongratulations! Your MFA in directing is about to be put to good use, effectively proving your father wrong about your job prospects. Your firm grasp of Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMHow can one story simultaneously broadcast a contemptible message of myopic reverence for America’s Founding Fathers to some, while others take from it an equally powerful repudiation of e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMMonday, July 6, 2020
When Michelangelo turned seventy, as he does at the beginning of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, he had nineteen more years to live, every one of them spent at work. As dear friends died an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM“School” as we knew it is over — but that doesn’t mean learning has to be. Learning is a universal activity across human societies; school as we knew it is a recent, unusual, self-co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM“Right now most insurers, if not all, have come out with a virus or communicable disease exclusion that they’re putting on their policies.” – Reuters
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMIf Black lives matter now more than ever, hearing Black liveness in classical music also matters. The alternative is an addiction to exclusion that ends, as addictions often do, in impoveris…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMBoris Johnson said arts and culture were the soul of the nation. “They make our country great and are the lynchpin of our world-beating and fast-growing creative industries,” the prime m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMBlockbuster, it turns out, ended up doing a very good job of fighting back against Netflix and might well have won, but it made some fundamental mistakes that ended up dooming its future. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“Hamilton’s premiere on such an accessible platform marks a potential for genuine change and improvement in the future. I know that nothing will ever replace the feeling of being in a re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMSince 2017, Ms. Canedy, 55, has been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, overseeing a period when the awards have acknowledged an increasingly diverse body of work, including the music…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM“We have raised $60m in funding over the past few months,” says Peter Gelb. “This has solved the immediate problem of the cancellation of the last weeks of the 2019-20 season and the l…
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