Sunday, June 14, 2020
As the famously passionate fans of the Harry Potter franchise rise up to express raging disappointment at the bigotry espoused by its creator, and the surprisingly passionate fans of Live P.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMHow do we sustain the infrastructure to make the kind of highly professional theater that we have come to revere without pushing the actual artists to the fringes of that ecology? How can we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMFriday, June 12, 2020
Southern California museums are navigating complicated health and safety protocols while also seeing to the regular work of preparing new exhibitions, caring for art, managing employees and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42PMStarting with the 94th Oscars ceremony, the Academy will return to a guaranteed 10 best picture nominees, as was the case for the 82nd and 83rd ceremonies, before it shifted to a system that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42PMThe instructions detail how to deal with a confirmed case of COVID-19 on a set. Anyone in the cast or crew that was within six feet of the infected person for more than 15 minutes may need t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMOregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for the Director of Development position at one of nation’s leading regional theatres.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMIt is common to assume that an AI could achieve immortality by creating backup copies of itself and thus transfer its consciousness from one computer to the next. This view is encouraged by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMOn one side, new faces have meant less tolerance for the flippant bigotry that has long been a part of stand-up—Shane Gillis, for example, recently lost a spot on Saturday Night Live after…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“Clearly, we’re not bringing anybody back to work anytime soon in person, based on those guidelines,” Aurora Managing Director Julie Saltzman Kellner told The Chronicle by phone. “To…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMPut simply, dancers who aren’t ready to go back shouldn’t have to. As desperately as we miss dancing, we have to put our health—and the health of our communities—first. But as artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMMuseums have an opportunity to make a contribution to civic discourse that plays to their intrinsic strengths. It is obvious that many of our political and civic institutions have failed in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMOn Thursday, management laid off 284 staff members, some of whom had worked there for decades and lived in campus housing. An additional 100 people remain on temporary layoff, leaving 123 f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“This is O.K. for me because I am trying to live in a different world, besides the world of the illness. I’m trying to live in a world of the spirit wherein I am concentrating on things …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMThe streaming platform’s trademark for “Space Force” dates back to January 2019. The US military’s space warfare service of the same name was founded in December, eleven months later…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThursday, June 11, 2020
Mellon’s commitment comes as part of a broader partnership between major U.S. foundations — Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and John D. & …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMThe arts offer an evidence-based solution for promoting mental health. While practising the arts is not the panacea for all mental health challenges, there’s enough evidence to support pri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMThe modern genre of pop cosmology began with the big bang of Stephen Hawking’s 1988 megabestseller, A Brief History of Time. Since then, world-class physicists like Michio Kaku, Steven Wei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMFrom the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to schools and government ministries, few concepts in popular psychology travelled as far and wide as lateral thinking. Garnering in excess of 20…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMElliot Bostwick Davis came to the Norton from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, after spearheading the addition of its groundbreaking Art of the Americas Wing. She joined the Norton in March …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMGeorge Floyd’s murder may ultimately be a catalyst for positive change in Minnesota and beyond, but in the short-term, the local dance community has lost vital spaces and resources, includ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMWith three of the four works accessible without a boarding pass, Terminal B just may be the best indoor space for contemporary art — no appointment needed — that the public is welcome to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMIn fostering greater identity complexity, the American theater today is realizing more of its mimetic potential — a potential long curtailed because of the restricted access of artists on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMThe move followed an article in the LA Times by John Ridley, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of 12 Years a Slave, in which he described it as “a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMHe wrote on Facebook that when his shows across Europe were cancelled on 7 May, it was in the belief that fans would receive a refund. While this was the case in the other countries the sing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMAccording to a new survey, 90 percent of independent venue owners, promoters and bookers say that they will have to close permanently within the next few months, if they can’t get an infus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
In sports medicine, a growing body of research suggests that specializing in one form of training increases the risk of injury and burnout in young athletes. Not all sports medicine research…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThe accounts are a way for musicians to hold themselves accountable for consistent, productive practice and to receive feedback from other musicians. They are also an archival tool, a way to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMFollowing a wave of postponements due to the public-heath situation, it seems that 2021 may give 2017 a run for its money. There are at least 20 major biennials—more biennials than months�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe time-honored answer to this what-gives-you-the-right question is: creative imagination, which for the writer is a muscular species of empathy. Okay, I’m not you, the logic goes, but if…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe decision not to resume performances before Jan. 6, 2021, at the earliest came the week after the Metropolitan Opera said it would not reopen before the end of December. Like the Philharm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMLiteracy altered the human brain, making it “refit some of its existing neuronal groups” and “form newly recycled circuits.” The brain had to change because the innate brain can’t …
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