Friday, June 5, 2020
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]Virus impacts aren't a short-term blip for the funded arts to be ameliorated by nifty footwork, strategised centrally and 'top down' in the coteries of arts power. Short-term bail-outs are i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"What's really important is to take a step back and look at the macro picture, and think through, how did we get here? What are the underlying causes? There's this phrase flying around a lot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2020
Around 70 per cent of the auditorium's seats have been removed, with every second row cleared and seats arranged either individually or in pairs on the remaining rows. " Dezeen
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]The uncomfortable truth is that the age of the Renaissance contributed very little to innovation in science. This was largely because the revival of classical learning and languages concentr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Our internal clocks and external cues have fallen out of sync, explains Anthony M. Tobia, associate professor of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Several black actors, writers, and others working in the New York theater have come forward to share the stories of the racism embedded in the industry. Many of them described hearing subtly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Perhaps no innovations have been as far-reaching as the set of boundary-smashing experiments that a small group of producers performed on multi-track recording machines and mixing desks in a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]It's not film. (Except when it is.) It's definitely not television. It's…theatre on a screen? As COVID-19 continues to force industries online, one Bay Area organization is exploring a hyb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]So why is the computer good at certain tasks whereas the brain is better at others? Comparing the computer and the brain has been instructive to both computer engineers and neuroscientists. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The clap serves the same purpose as the clapperboard used on TV and movie sets. You, too, will be editing the audio and video separately; the clap creates a visual and sonic marker that help…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]According to ICOM, out of the 1,600 international museums that were surveyed, 13 percent reported that they had plans to close permanently, and another 19.2 percent said the future of their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
French art institutions"including the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Grand Palais"revealed this week that they are planning to welcome visitors again in June and Ju…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:02PM[SHARE]Executives' job descriptions are changing under their feet, requiring skills in handling not only a global health crisis but also issues of racial equity. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The fund comes amid backlash against entertainment companies that have shared messages of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on social media, without putting actions behind their wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Amid mass demonstrations against structural racism spurred by George Floyd's death in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., activist-created book lists have been widely shared across social …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Now, at most 450 people at one time are allowed in the Uffizi's many galleries, chock full of some of the art world's greatest masterpieces. " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The absence of a tactile literary culture"one that happens in real time rather than on a screen"meant an uncomfortable cultural silence. And yet, during early morning walks through an empty …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]A couple of architects are 3D printing using organic materials " a project to support coral reef restoration via protective clay 'coral seeding units', and a prototype cabin built from ceram…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"I don't understand the point of asking people who were already posting non-stop about George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and protests and racism and police brutality and links to financial and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]What then can we expect of the contemporary artistic community by way of helping us digest this experience of physical confinement and anxiety? Some have already shared their creations durin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Without the availability of insurance policies to cover future COVID-19 risks, most production in Canada will not resume. A government-backstopped insurance program will provide confidence …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Crowds are essential to this moment " and, really, to opera as an art form. Choruses fill the stage; musicians cram into the orchestra pit; thousands of people sit shoulder to shoulder in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PM[SHARE]The Chicago Lyric Opera plans to spend $23 million from its $173 million endowment this year, almost triple what it typically takes. It canceled its season in March, furloughed staff and cut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PM[SHARE]Instagram and Twitter accounts, from top record label to everyday people, were full of black squares posted in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Most …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PM[SHARE]Located in the heart of downtown Durham, the Carolina Theatre has been a center of the city's arts and cultural life for nearly a century. The Carolina Theatre's Board of Trustees seeks an e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Orlando Ballet invites applications and nominations for this important co-leadership position, working closely with Artistic Director Robert Hill.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"We have been made aware that a musician of the Austin Symphony Orchestra has made an offensive post on their social media account regarding the protests across our country. This language is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Creativity can seem like a tool for solving problems: We need a new word for the ocean! But creativity doesn't just solve problems; it also makes or discovers new problems to solve. Hundreds…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Discomfort has now become an essential part of pop culture connoisseurship, and it has forced audiences to become much more sophisticated as they decide what, if anything, is worth salvagin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The loss of any regional theatre, whether it is Nuffield Southampton announcing it has gone into administration or the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh taking the painful decision to hibernate unti…
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