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Friday, June 26, 2020

What It’s Like To Be The Only Black Dancer In A Company by Artsjournal

Former 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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM

A Plan To Diversify American Orchestras by Artsjournal

The Catalyst Fund, a three-year, $2.1 million program launched in 2019 by the national support organization, is designed to help its members identify, confront and ultimately correct what Je…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Jon Batiste Takes Protest Music To The Streets by Artsjournal

Jon Batiste, the jazz pianist and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” bandleader, has spent the last three weekends marching in the streets of New York, leading musicians and protesters…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Trendlines: 18 Trends Moving The Art World by Artsjournal

In consultation with art world professionals—artists, dealers, curators, museum administrators—we identified dynamics and ideas on the horizon, some with trajectories tracing into the pa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Everything’s Changed. Get Help! by Artsjournal

We’re introducing Arts Reach New Ways Forward – a comprehensive package of breakthrough strategies to help you navigate uncertain times and be fully prepared for the future opportunities…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Survey: Racial Gaps In Perception Of Benefits Of Higher Education by Artsjournal

New America found that 86 percent of whites and 89 percent of Asian Americans believe that those who pursue higher education will have more job opportunities than those who do not. But onl…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Onstage Star Dancer, Offstage Racially Profiled by Artsjournal

“As an artist, I try to portray strength, grace and power in everything I dance. Offstage my experiences with police have left me feeling diminished. I share these stories not for pity, bu…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Cairo’s Bizarre Phantom Architecture by Artsjournal

“So much of the city has been demolished before we’ve even discovered and documented it. It means that, despite the generations of development, Cairo is not a place where you can walk ar…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

A New Image Of The Loch Ness Monster (And The Long Culture That Surrounds It) by Artsjournal

Nessie may be hiding, the monster’s faithful believers will think. Every time the scientists come, Nessie dives deeper and hides. She’s a diva. She’s the Garbo of the animal kingdom. S…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Our Enduring Myths Of College by Artsjournal

Thirty-four million Americans—over a tenth of the nation’s population—have some college credits but dropped out before graduating. They are nearly twice as likely as college graduates …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Performance Reviews For Statues? by Artsjournal

While some have suggested placing these statues in a museum or leaving them to deteriorate naturally, I propose another way: a statue of limitations, where towns and cities would hold a mass…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

Dixie Chicks Drop The “Dixie” by Artsjournal

The band’s social media accounts and website were changed Thursday to reflect the new name for the band, which is made up of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer. “We want to…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

We’re Witnessing The Death Of Shopping Malls by Artsjournal

By mid-May, 28 percent of the surveyed members of Restaurants Canada, which represents 30,000 restaurants and food-service operations across the country, either said they were never reopenin…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM

A Virtual Cannes Is Open. Are Movies Still In Business? by Artsjournal

Given the festival’s date shift from early May to late June, Cannes now looks far better than it did a few months ago at the beginning of a lockdown that stretched across the planet, shutt…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06AM
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Time To Do Away With The Movie Multiplex? by Artsjournal

What the past three months of relative confinement—and the resulting shift from theatrical to online releases—have proved is that movie theatres, particularly the multiplexes, hardly mat…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM

Pandemic Has Shut Down The Cultural Economy Of The Berkshires by Artsjournal

The COVID-19 crisis has devastated the Berkshires, where tourists flock for theater, art, music, and dance, as well as yoga, spa treatments, and hiking and biking amid wooded hills. One afte…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM

NY Design Commission Unanimously Denies Mayor’s Plan To Move Wall Street Bull by Artsjournal

The artist, who spent $350,000 to make and install the sculpture as a guerrilla artwork in 1989, had argued that moving it would transform it into an advertisement for the stock exchange, w…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM

How To Decide Which Statues To Take Down? by Artsjournal

Much of the social media debate has been over whether a historical figure who took a morally objectionable positions must be understood as “a man of his time.” The response of activists …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

Kennedy Center Cancels Through The Rest Of 2020 by Artsjournal

“For a number of weeks, we have been talking about what would it take to be able to bring people back, how seating in the theaters could be with social distancing and thinking about the pe…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

The University Is Ripe For Unbundling by Artsjournal

“What online services lack in quality, they make up for in convenience—and as they get more popular, they’re only going to get better, which in turn could unbundle the prevailing model…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

Co-Founder Of DC’s Signature Theatre Resigns After Sexual Assault Allegations by Artsjournal

Eric Schaeffer, founding artistic director of the Tony-winning Signature Theatre, resigned late Tuesday after an actor made public his allegation that Schaeffer sexually assaulted him during…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

The Crisis Of Supporting The Arts by Artsjournal

The current crisis is also a policy crisis. It illuminates the need to support artists more fulsomely and creatively throughout the various stages of their careers. Central to this is imagin…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

Defund The Western Humanities Canon? by Artsjournal

“I could not help but wonder about the institution of the Western canon. Were my colleagues and I right to think that the institution to which we had given much of our professional lives c…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

The Metaphors We Use For Illness Shape Our Sense Of Self (And The World) by Artsjournal

Part of what illness does is to unsettle both the sense of ourselves that emerges from our patterned and effortless doings, and our capacity to project this sense outwards, into the social w…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Culture Is A Major NY Industry. What Happens When It Shuts Down? by Artsjournal

According to the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, film, TV, theater, music, advertising, publishing, and digital content in New York provide 305,000 jobs, and an annual economic …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

Muti Opens Live Summer Festival In Italy by Artsjournal

The 78-year-old renowned conductor said the coronavirus had ‘’destroyed music,‘’ with shuttered venues depriving the world of ‘’spiritual food” as it faced a pandemic that stil…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

Press Release Claims Seattle Art Museum Is Dissolving by Artsjournal

The release, sent from an email address that appeared to be the same as that used by the organization’s public-relations department, looked like the real thing — but it was fake.  – S…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

MoCA Cleveland Director Resigns After Controversy by Artsjournal

In the statement announcing her resignation, Jill Snyder did not refer to the apology, saying, “I came to this decision with the understanding that the world at large, and our museum in pa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM

Thousands Of Arts Educators In London Are Losing Their Jobs by Artsjournal

Arts lecturers tend to be employed on casual contracts. With universities closing in-person classes, these lecturers are being laid off en masse. – The Art Newspaper

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM

A Netflix For The Performing Arts? by Artsjournal

“Doing digital isn’t a quick-fix Band-Aid for anyone,” says Kathleya Afanador, Marquee’s co-founder and head of content. “It’s a fundamental layer of their overall business that …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM

We Have To Rethink Arts Funding by Artsjournal

Gone are the days of monolithic support. The philanthropic field is diverse, dispersed, and interconnected. As such, funders must collaborate in order to move forward. These alliances should…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM