A much-romanticised era for the city, these years are commonly celebrated as a period of explosive artistic, literary, intellectual and especially musical modernisation in which resolutely i…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:32PMLast year, official figures revealed that almost 800 libraries had closed since the implementation of austerity in 2010. “We do think these current announcements could be the ‘canary in …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:32PMFrom all indications, the Museum of Ice Cream is melting down. Spending was slashed in January. In March, Bunn temporarily closed the permanent installations in New York and San Francisco, a…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:24PMHow is it that a mere apology can turn long-held assumptions upside down in a way that practical solutions, such as more social support or even financial assistance, simply can’t do alone?…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:24PMWe tend to treat cities like the weather, using past patterns to predict outcomes over which we have no control. But the last few months have reminded us that cities are not givens, the stat…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:12PMIt has become a truism to say the coronavirus pandemic will change everything about higher education. But few discuss who should shape this change. The faculty? The student body? The public?…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:12PMWhy have Chicago’s for-profit institutions been so hit? The main reason is their total revenue dependence. A big non-profit potentially can rely on its board members to bankroll it through…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:06PMToday, the convergence of Covid-19 closing down all public events, along with the explosive outrage with continued police carnage in communities of color, brings us to a similar inflection p…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:06PMBudgets across departments have been slashed as the city looks to recover from an estimated $9 billion loss in tax revenue due to the shutdown. Among the hard hit is New York City’s Depart…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:54AMCustomer expectations that independent booksellers will do what a massive online operation does has caused deep frustration. – Publishers Weekly
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:32PMEight of Telemundo’s 11 YouTube channels have at least one million subscribers. The mother ship is now at 10.6 million, up from 1 million in 2015, and the next-biggest, one dedicated to co…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:32PMIn France, Germany, Italy or Belgium, where the arts are heavily subsidized by the state, performing companies and museums can survive with reduced ticket sales. But in Britain, where govern…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThey’re grand spaces now in decay – which gives them altogether another kind of beauty. – The Guardian
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe bleak scenarios thrown up by films such as Contagion, from panic buying and isolation to fear of others and fake claims of miracle cures, appeared to help viewers take the outbreak in th…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:12PMThe classes mix entertainment and education, each one shot in a different location. You can learn basketball on the personal training court of NBA star Stephen Curry, or step into the kitche…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:12PMSince physical distancing measures were put in place across the country, internet usage on Shaw’s wireline network has increased by as much as 50 percent overall, and peak usage periods ha…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:06PMThere’s no reason why the art gallery as we know it, a 19th century invention, should last forever. But there’s also no sign of an alternative on the horizon. As with other small New Yor…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:03PMPaolo Cirio scraped over 100,000 auction records from the past ten years of Sotheby’s sales and is now offering digital reproductions of the auction lots for 1/100,000th of the price they …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMAt a moment when the world’s museums are being called out for ingrained and unexamined inequalities, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the few to take decisive action. Art i…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMFor the uninitiated, it remains the cultural event of a troubled season. Disney Plus has reputedly suspended all discounts and free trials ahead of Hamilton’s debut on the streaming servic…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:36PMI work with civic data and teach about the power of data collection, so I want to believe that data (in the form of video footage depicting police brutality against Black people) can effect …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:13PMIn a capitalist society, viewed from the point of view of consumers, cheap food looks like an unequivocal democratic good, because it enables people to feed themselves, even on relatively lo…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:13PMWhile it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:12PMThe prison library program will give each of the 1,000 prisons the same 500-book collection selected by the project’s leaders. The collections, which Dr. Alexander called “freedom librar…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:12PMIndia has banned video-sharing social network TikTok and messaging platform WeChat along with 57 other Chinese developed apps over national security and privacy concerns, as tensions between…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“The only thing that really matters in life is your progeny, the people who come after you, the people you send out to the world. They’re either toxic or nontoxic.” – Los Angeles Tim…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:05PMLaurence Tomei and Douglas Nelson say that, as mentioned, online undergraduate classes should have no more than 12 students. In person, on campus classes should be no larger than 18 students…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:05PMAmazingly, not only has the group continued the girls’ education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSomething is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relati…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:54AMIndependent presses around the country said that sales are starting to rebound after two months of declines, due to direct sales, digital initiatives, and a resurgence in demand for topical …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMWhat is increasingly clear is the necessity for new hybrid models in arts funding, based on broadening the donor base, more imaginative financial planning, and development strategies for the…
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