Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Literacy 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“We can dismantle oppression in our language as a means of valuing and honoring individuals in the room. There are a plethora of sayings used in rehearsal environments that cause a BIPOC a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“As if moving to some syncopated symphony, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the country are parading out statements of “solidarity” in these moments. I’ve stopped …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMWhatever it is you’re striving to achieve, science shows you’re likely to push harder the closer you feel to the finish line. When researchers first speculated about this tendency, they …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“We will always have storytellers that want to tell stories and cinema has become an essential part of the way modern society does that,” said Tori Baker, the president and CEO of the no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
Netflix has begun sharing viewership results with its creators, resulting in what DuVernay called “astounding numbers” that are in dismaying contrast to how her major studio films, “A …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMConsider that “everything we see around us – rocks and planets, frogs and trees, your body and brain – is made up of nothing but protons, electrons and neutrons put together in very co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMWith only a trickle of EU tourists arriving, Italians have a historic opportunity: the chance to see their own masterpieces free from throngs of tourists and by booking just days in advanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMProducer Marie Cisco created a public Google spreadsheet and titled it “Theaters Not Speaking Out.” It was open for anyone to edit, and it had a simple directive: “Add names to this do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMTo many scientists and doctors, the risk of singing is clear. “It’s not safe for people to simply return to the choir room and pick things up,” Lucinda Halstead, the president-elect of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMThe museum withdrew the show when it got uncomfortable with the content. Shaun Leonardo, the artist, says he wasn’t consulted. Now the museum has apologized for the cancellation. – The N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“We have brought this on ourselves because of our absolute disrespect for animals and the environment,” she said. “Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMA handful of dancers have taken to Instagram to directly call out the problems they’ve seen in their own companies. – Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMonday, June 8, 2020
Younger, digitally minded collectors are predictably more receptive to online purchases, albeit at relatively low price levels. By contrast, more experienced collectors, conscious of possibl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMIn the last week, protesters all over the country have come to see their barely walkable cities the way New Yorkers always have seen theirs, as a matrix of public space that must be fluid, f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMQuestions about what sort of future human beings might create tend to be limited by the horizon of the management strategies of market capitalism. This version of the future isn’t about ra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMLast week’s small beginnings showed a way forward, demonstrating what an crucial role the BBC can and must play to aid a potential recovery of classical music before it is safe for venues …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM“The power of the narrative that comes out of Hollywood — that not only travels to this country but travels globally; that creates a worldview, a mental model of black people and black c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMDespite the unexpected anticlimax, Mr. Thomas’s time in San Francisco should not go unmarked as it comes to a close. From the beginning, it has been a remarkable musical marriage. Mr. Thom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe future of daily life on Hollywood sets will not be the same when movies and TV productions start up again. Entertainment studios and labor unions this week agreed to a detailed set of pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMAfter work on the Golden Gate Bridge’s sidewalks to bolster their wind resistance, nearby residents of San Francisco are complaining that the 1.7 mile-long structure makes a creepy droning…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMIt’s difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but this was not the case for performers. “There’s no fine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMFriday, June 5, 2020
Save that? Better to take the South Bank apart, piece by piece, in a period when there is no performance, so that it can put it together again under entrepreneurial management over the next …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMThe true origins of the expression “shit hits the fan” are largely undetermined, though some sources suggest that Canada is to blame—it might have come from particularly picturesque Ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMThere are now more than 12,000 cinemas in China, according to market research firm IBISWorld. This figure has more than doubled in the past decade as China has embraced movie-going. But four…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMIn recent years, designers and city-builders have largely come to reject defensive strategies and the exclusionary policies from which they stemmed. Great public spaces are now built with fl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMA new Twitter account, called “Open Your Lobby,” has encouraged theaters to welcome protesters. A post from the account recommended that the theaters “not permit police inside of the b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PMKids are now watching twice as many videos per day as they did just four years ago. This is despite the fact that YouTube’s flagship app is meant for ages 13 and up — an age-gate that wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMConventional jazz harmony is religiously chord-based, with soloists improvising within each key like balls pinging through a pinball machine. Coleman, in contrast, imagined harmony, melody, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMInstead of choosing the best from an incomplete list, I decided to play a different game. Looking back at the last 10 years of Tony winners, I came up with my own nominations and winners for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM 
