Numbering among this week’s assorted streaming selections are a timely discussion, a revealing interactive phone call, and the remount of an iconic concert from the ‘60s. Queer Amory: Qu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMThe mural, which also depicts women including Nina Simone, was the result of a popular vote four years ago. But “the far-right party Vox had called for the mural in the Madrid neighborho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMAt least, that’s what one emoji-loving CEO proposes. “Millennials and post-millennials now make up at least 65% of the workforce in the U.S. Emojis are an essential part of how most of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMHollywood, in search of the next Shtisel, a hit show for Netflix. Apple TV+ and HBO Max are also trying to cash in, both by buying shows already in existence and funding new Israel-focused s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMUnderstandably, much of the energy directed toward the problems of pandemic social life has been spent on keeping people tied to their families and closest friends. These other relationships…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMA book critic considers. “Relative to the amount of space it takes up in the collective and capitalist imagination, the internet has had less of an impact on contemporary fiction than one …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThey have YouTube channels, they expand repertoire, they perform in unconventional places. These are musicians who are building the future of classical music. – USAToday
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The arts in the past four years have evolved in ways that are as broad and powerful as they are now commonplace. Many artists and arts groups seem determined to do nothing less than chang…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMMatthew VanBesien, President of the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan, as he talks about the role of presenters in the arts. – Aaron Dworkin
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThere are early signs that new president Biden and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, “could provide a much-needed boost for cultural scene hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and focus a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users join extremist groups, and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?” – Wired
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Over the course of the coming week, it will hold screenings in two urban venues for just one festival attendee. And it has also sent a single viewer to a tiny, barren island in the North …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIt has been educating future artists and entertainers for 47 years. It also ranks in the top 7 percent of U.S. schools in challenging its students academically. Few campuses nationally have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMDerek Thompson: “Last year, I wrote about how even a modest remote-work revolution—no more than 10 percent of Americans working remotely full time after the pandemic is over—could affe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The most important promise underlying much of the canon inaugurated by Future Shock is that with the right foresight, readers can not only prepare for what’s coming, but also profit fro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe Spanish government has concluded what is, in effect, a 15-year rental agreement with Baroness Carmen Cervera, the widow of Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza: in exchange for an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“India began allowing 100 percent occupancy in cinemas on Monday, lifting a 50 percent cap on seating capacity that had been in place since October 2020. … Various COVID-19 prevention me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIn fact, he recorded his new album of duets with Lady Gaga in sessions spanning 2018 to 2020, and he was first diagnosed with the condition in 2016. And though he is quiet most of the time t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIn a long career spanning stage, film, and television, he was known for roles ranging from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to Deep Throat to Willy Loman to the Stage Manager in Our Town. But h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMWhen the staff at All Classical Portland was looking at how to add more diversity to its playlists, they found that the biggest limitation was how little recorded music by composers from his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMDan-el Padilla Peralta came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at age 4 and grew up extremely poor; it was his childhood fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, combined with his acad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The explosive claim was made in an open letter to Hermitage boss Mikhail Piotrovsky by Andre Ruzhnikov, who has been buying and selling Fabergé for 40 years. In it, he accuses Piotrovsky…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The idea that the festivals can’t go ahead and be socially-distanced is inaccurate,” one festival director told the House of Commons Culture Select Committee, which is examining the l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMApplied to the cultural and creative industries, this involves asking tough questions on the current working conditions, financial stability and social recognition of artists, as well as ext…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMBijoya Das was a gymnast herself from age 6 until an injury in college led her to switch to dance; she’s now a successful commercial dancer and choreographer in the popular music industry.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIn other words, modern science became possible only once scholars began to talk with craftspeople. Science began with public engagement. – Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“What happened on Jan. 6 had nothing to do with fences or barriers or bad security infrastructure at the Capitol. It was a human failure, not an infrastructure failure. Investigations are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“These aren’t Hoarder spinoffs for viewers to gawk at other people’s misery, nor are they aspirational home-organizing tutorials where influencers showcase impeccable walk-in closets. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Think of something… mundane: ‘How are you?’ Virtually no one expects to hear anything but: ‘Good, thanks. And you?’ Withholding information has become the norm. Even when there …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMA 68-year-old retiree in Seymour, Indiana was a regular visitor to his local branch library and had become friendly with some employees there. In November, he brought a political poem he had…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMBy age 32, Tarses was the first woman to head a network entertainment division — and one of the youngest execs ever to lead a Big Three — in her role as ABC Entertainment president from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMFor an artwork to be copyrightable, it must possess some “minimal degree of creativity” and be original to the “author.” This leads us to ask questions that test the boundaries of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“I’d say that size, discipline, history of percentage split of earned/contributed revenue, and dependency on partnerships and fee-for-service have all played a role in an organization’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMTrafficking in misinformation is wrong. Trafficking in misinformation with a structurally unsound business model is wrong and futile. But there’s an upside here: Twitter’s financial weak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe Director of Development’s primary responsibility is to lead annual operating, special campaigns, and planned giving revenue goals.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Books are now published in numbers so vast that the writing of one can no longer be presumed to be an act of communication between writer and reader. Yet even books that aren’t read, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe National Flute Association is seeking an experienced and talented publications director to join our team.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The new regulations … mandate that dealers must conduct specific checks on clients and report suspicious transactions that may suggest money laundering to the government. … The report…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMYes, 2020 was a no-good-very-bad year for the arts (and most everything else), but a new study from TRG Arts and Purple Seven has at least a few glad tidings. In the U.S. and Canada, half of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“[She was] a virtuoso vocalist whose ease of motion between opera, jazz and South African popular music made her a symbol of the country’s new social order after the end of apartheid. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMStreaming services thoroughly dominate the roster: Hulu took 9 nominations, Amazon Studios 10, and Netflix a whopping 42. Among notable details: Tom Hanks and Spike Lee were snubbed, and of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“The National Institute of Anthropology and History, a division of the Mexico government dedicated to the preservation of cultural artifacts, has filed a legal claim over 33 pre-Columbian …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Finding your thrills in erotic literature, rather than in video scenes, might take a little longer, but it means caring more about the characters involved, which brings more meaning to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“On its face this list is a little concerning — in a few years, robots might render humans’ book-recommending jobs obsolete. I, a human with a book-recommending job, am indeed a little…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThere is no shortage of theories about what makes an object aesthetically pleasing. Ideas about proportion, harmony, symmetry, order, complexity and balance have all been studied by psycholo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMDan-el Padilla Peralta’s “vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“We inhabit a dystopian reality, which may account for the dearth of dystopian fiction. Yet the novels of Zamyatin, Huxley and Orwell continue to cast a powerful spell. All of them end in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMSays classical music editor Zachary Woolfe (who came up with the idea in the shower), “It has doubled our audience for classical music. It’s gratifying that whatever we do, people are wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMJust as journalistic embargoes aren’t universally bad or unprofessional, academic embargoes might not be either. But conversations about the ethics of “access scholarship” are far less…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Across the city, amateur and professional dancers are donning sneakers, masks and lots of layers to carry on with a familiar ritual that, for many, is essential to maintaining physical an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMSuch quirky, esoteric mash-ups feel less like stylistic innovations and more like branding exercises, reflecting a present in which one’s ability to market oneself is more important than m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIn 1302, caught on the wrong side in one of Florence’s perpetual factional struggles, Dante Alighieri was fined and banished on a probably trumped-up charge of corruption in political offi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMConverting “qualities to quantities”, replacing “critical evaluation with economic, technical evaluation”, making “the price system” the ultimate judge, turning institutions into…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe absence of the Shonda Rhymes-produced Regency-era blockbuster proves the Golden Globes isn’t just a popularity contest. Otherwise, the Netflix drama would have cleaned up in all catego…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMTwo of them, Idagio and Primephonic, have been created specifically for classical music listeners. The other four, Apple Music, Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal, cover all genres. As we’ll see, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMNearly two years after screenwriters fired their agents in a fight against agency actions that were costing TV writers quite a bit of money, the Writers’ Guild Union approved a new deal wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMJones dropped out of college, and yes, started his career working in the shipping room at 20th Century Fox. “The Los Angeles native scored Academy Award noms for his work on comedy film se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMLook … “He wasn’t just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors — an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an Avengers Initiative — Christopher Plummer would have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMOr from bad development, anyway. Now it’s up for bids not for sale but for “sustainable longterm uses.” The fight against a luxury hotel development galvanized Edinburgh preservationis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMYes, Black Panther is returning to comics, but also, so very much more than Black Panther. Here’s a guide for newbies. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMYes, it’s devastating all kinds of careers in the arts. One TV director: “The big question is ‘will I ever work again?’ And if not, how can I best say goodbye to an industry I have b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMFor more than 90 years, actors and actresses have coveted a chance at winning an Academy Award, the most prestigious trophy one can obtain in the film industry. The first-ever Best Actress w…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:19PMOn the heels of Donald Trump’s resignation from SAG-AFTRA on Thursday, the union has passed a resolution banning the former president from ever applying for readmission. The decision was m…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PMAfter driving “Thunder Road” for decades, Bruce Springsteen is taking a detour on Madison Avenue. The musician known as “The Boss” will command two minutes of commercial time in Supe…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PMOlivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige is playing some of her favorite show tu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PM 
