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 read. It r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"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 art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"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 counting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Whatever 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 call…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"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 nonpro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Wrinkl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Consider 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 complex …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]With 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 ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Producer 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 document…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]To 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 the P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The 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 New Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"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 has c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"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 al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]A 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 01:48PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:12PM[SHARE]In 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 06:12PM[SHARE]Questions 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 radi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Last 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 to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"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 commu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Despite 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. Thomas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]The 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 02:54PM[SHARE]After 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 n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]It'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 finesse ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:12PM[SHARE]The 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 Canadian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]There 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 09:12PM[SHARE]In 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 09:12PM[SHARE]A 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 buildin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PM[SHARE]Kids 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 was ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Conventional 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 02:36PM[SHARE]Instead 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[SHARE] 
