5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"We tend to think of aesthetic disputes as reflecting the least substantive differences between people"you like vanilla, I like chocolate, there's no arguing over taste, let's move on. But t…
Dale Cockrell's "Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in in New York 1840-1917" is important.
For Australian philosopher Roman Krznaric, author of Carpe Diem Regained, the "hijacking [of carpe diem] is an existential crime of the century"and one we have barely noticed." Krznaric is c…
After a half-decade of near unchecked dominance in the premium streaming video space that allowed it to aggressively poach entertainment's top executives and A-list creative talent, the comp…
As e-mail was taking over the modern office, researchers in the theory of distributed systems were also studying the trade-offs between synchrony and asynchrony. As it happens, the conclusio…
At the most basic level, Brexit raises concerns about the ability of musicians to tour overseas. And unless you're The Rolling Stones or Beyonce, touring teams don't come much bigger or work…
On some future day, the solution for what now seems like an insurmountable problem might in hindsight seem as obvious as mounting a motor on four wheels seems in 2019. " Baltimore Sun
Peter Marks: "I was curious about how an actor of color might approach entering a world not written for someone who looked like them, but I realized the question was riddled with absurdity. …
In tests, JPMorgan Chase found that Persado's machine-learning tool crafted better ad copy than its own writers could muster, as measured by the higher click rates"more than double in some c…
There are two questions surrounding artists and their archives. Why do artists keep them? And what is worth keeping? " The New York Times
It seems there's a moral spectrum in play: Scientists found that people would probably lie if they thought a big corporation, like say, Starbucks or Walmart, would foot the bill for the dece…
The movie review aggregation site is only as good as the critics it aggregates. But are the critics representative of the real movie audience? Assuredly not. So there's a problem. How to fix…
Though researchers have toiled on the subject for many years, none has categorically found that playing video games has harmful effects. Indeed, the absence of conclusive evidence was remark…
Phil Kennicott: "Death and remembrance, at least, come with the customs and norms that have been shredded in most of the rest of public life. If nothing else, death still inspires a pause in…
As ideas go, human extinction is a comparatively new one. It emerged first during the 18th and 19th centuries. Though understudied, the idea has an important history because it teaches us le…
Pacific Standard has about 20 full-time employees, 25 writers on contract and dozens of freelance writers who contributed to the publication, Nicholas Jackson said, adding that the employees…
That's what most of Seattle's major arts organizations are doing, writing to protest Washington State proposals that would dramatically increase the number of workers eligible for overtime p…
Rule changes mean that from autumn, employers wanting to recruit non-European artists will no longer have to advertise the role to citizens of the European Economic Area first, and artists w…
Instead of extending promo deals to keep customers from dropping TV service, they're simply extracting more revenue from those who haven't formulated an escape plan. Either way, companies li…
"He had recently read my book "Contested Will," about the controversy over the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Like most scholars today, I freely acknowledged that Shakespeare had…
The Pew data makes clear how this happens: some people are just uninformed, while others cling to opposing political values. People with a high degree of familiarity with what nutritional, m…
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…
"The program at Curtis is one of the most intense and stressful of any educational programs in the world. My cousin [a former director of the school] believed in its mission. It will and mus…
"Where they are right now " making that transition between heavy construction and the other things a museum does " is the most fragile and sensitive time for any organization," said Justin J…
"I find the field to be rather bad at evaluating the quality and usability of research. Often desperate for another advocacy hook, arts leaders at all levels have historically misused resear…
