Something is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMIndependent presses around the country said that sales are starting to rebound after two months of declines, due to direct sales, digital initiatives, and a resurgence in demand for topical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMWhat is increasingly clear is the necessity for new hybrid models in arts funding, based on broadening the donor base, more imaginative financial planning, and development strategies for the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMShifts in consumer behavior have been gnawing away at the classic enclosed suburban mall format for many years; then the pandemic completely upended in-person shopping. Converting commercial…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMBetween 2009 and 2016, the newspapers and poetry magazines published review articles by non-white critics 190 times – 4% of the total for those years. Between 2017 and 2019, non-white crit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMGlaser scrawled the first draft of the logo in the back of a cab, in 1976, red ink on a scrap of envelope; the sketch is now, fittingly, in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art. He mad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMFor most people most of the time, our perception certainly feels real. But the notion that our senses capture an objective external reality can be dispelled by considering something as funda…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMDriverless cars are catnip for the Silicon Valley monopolists. The average commute is dead space because their target is too busy driving to take in advertising or interact with any informat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMScandinavia is taking the most innovative approach to the notion of the drive-in festival. Between August 21 and 26, in the Swedish town of Karlskrona, the Carl International Film Festival w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMMr. Reiner gained a national following in the 1950s as a brilliant straight man opposite Sid Caesar on influential TV comedy programs, directed movies that launched Steve Martin’s film car…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Without it, production — especially independent production — cannot resume on a significant level. We urge Congress to develop a program of federal insurance (or guarantee to fill thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“We need to recognize that the business of the arts is not like an automotive assembly line that regularly turns out new homologated “products” for eager consumers. The play is not the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMBehind the scenes, the media faced a genuine crisis over and above its ordinary instability. Publications folded, mass layoffs ensued, and with months of pre-written content suddenly obsolet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMGenerally speaking, an innovation is more than an idea and more than an invention. Yet beyond that, things get confusing. We live in a moment when we’re barraged by new stuff every day —…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMOn Monday, Tabitha Jackson, the festival’s director, unveiled her preliminary plans for the 2021 edition, a gathering expected to take place under social distancing restrictions and with a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he’s gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time. His projects and endeavors during the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMAmy Helm: “It’s interesting as a musician to go to so many different places and play for so many different people and have such a direct connection with them. That’s not something you …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe event organizer has been badly affected by lockdowns and bans on public gatherings in recent months as governments have tried to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. The MCH group dec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMFor performing arts venues where a high level of public funding is invested, this may be the time to let go of the myth that somehow, a member of the audience of venue A is exclusive to that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMA three-day “herd immunity” music festival scheduled to take place in Ringle, Wisconsin, in mid-July is taking this energy to the, uh, extreme. With the exception of drive-in concerts an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMThe Broadway League said Monday that theater owners and producers will refund or exchange tickets previously purchased for shows through Jan. 3. Given the unpredictability of the coronavirus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMWithout a change in this design, nothing else can change. Moderation is impractical when you have 3 billion users speaking hundreds of languages in dozens of political cultures. AI is hopele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThe Old Bailey heard how Bravery spent more than 15 minutes stalking possible targets at the art gallery viewing platform before fixing on a young visitor who had briefly left his parents’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PMAppreciating social movements in hindsight is a complicated endeavor. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman are often whitewashed to appease modern sensibilities. Some, like…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PMLarry Morton: “I thought that digital would completely replace things like physical phone books and all that. Certainly digital is a huge part of the business, and it’s growing quickly. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMWhat the lens of the Piazza di Spagna webcam reveals, in its own intimate way, is that so-called bucket-list destinations are, and always have been, real places where real people live. With …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMEven when there is no pandemic to worry about, most of these places have pared existence for the long-lived back to its grim essentials. These are places nobody would choose to die. More imp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“Maybe I’ve missed the more nuanced views, but if feels like the only people out there – in my echo chambered world at any rate – who admit that they can’t be sure are those with t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMWhen the museum reopens, 70 percent will be accessible, including the large galleries of French and Italian paintings, the sculpture courtyards and the Egyptian antiquities section. But with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThis is in part because Hamilton is a sung-through musical, meaning there aren’t any scenes of spoken dialogue in between the songs. Everything in the show is right there on the album—wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMFormer Atlanta Ballet dancer Kiara Felder: “The ballet’s audience, typically, are overwhelmingly white. “It’s important to engage with the community, and it’s tough when the commun…
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