Thursday, April 2, 2020
"It's definitely less trouble. You can stroll around the masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, while seated at home in front of your laptop. Naturally, it's far less crowded that way t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"Many see the period of isolation as an opportunity to pursue passions that might have otherwise lain dormant. Music-learning apps and sheet music sites like nKoda have boomed, and, contrary…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]The Canada Council for the Arts has announced $60M in advance funding to arts organizations that have approved funding from the 2019/20 season. This amounts to the equivalent to 35% of the a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Put simply, the state's dance scene has taken a body blow. Indeed, industry leaders fear that some companies won't recover from this crisis at all and others could come back in a weakened or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"The 20-year-old BPT, which has grown from a local company to an international ticket broker, handles tens of thousands of events around the world each month. But in the past few weeks, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Covered in screens these past few weeks, I have noticed some positive changes. I FaceTime my friends so much that I know them better than I did before. I decided to learn what TikTok was, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]"The internet may be exploding with resources for virtual classes, from top dancers teaching barre to free warm-ups courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Foundation, but in academia, teachers fac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]"At issue is the aspect of copyright law that allows authors to terminate copyright grants to publishers. The putative class action was brought by John Waite and Joe Ely, musicians who alleg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]China's 70,000 theaters shut down in January amid coronavirus concerns during the weekend of the Chinese New Year, which is typically the country's busiest moviegoing time. Piracy data compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]And shows, where a Dreamworks show took honors. Repeating this year as most-trafficked museum is the Louvre in Paris, which welcomed 9.6 million visitors, easily beating No. 2, the National …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Los Angeles is full of odd and quirky cultural enterprises, many of them precarious in the best of times. Mandatory closures that may extend for weeks, if not months, might end up converting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]The debate here echoes similar ones going on throughout the art world. What is the purpose of the encyclopaedic museum: to present a rational version of the world in discrete categories, as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Locked out of the concert hall because of global coronavirus concerns, endangered in physical and financial terms, classical music is fighting to survive and finding more paths than ever to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Unlike so many other institutions, the major music schools of America were uniquely prepared to make the transition to online instruction. The fact is, they've been preparing for it for year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]As the covid-19 disease has escalated, turning New York into a crisis epicenter, the resolve of a multibillion-dollar arts community has intensified to try to temper panic and pool advice. A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2020
We do not yet know what effect the current pandemic will have on worldwide demographics. But it is actually slightly more likely to increase future populations than decrease them. If the act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PM[SHARE]When libraries closed their doors abruptly, they immediately opened their digital communications, collaborations, and creative activity to reach their public in ways as novel as the virus th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]In-person performances have been replaced by a deluge of digital ones " live streams and recently unlocked archive recordings " that have made for a calendar hardly less busy than before con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]It is increasingly common for people to buy art, like everything else, online. So online presence is obviously vital. Perhaps the Covid-19 emergency, while directing attention onto the virtu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]The description of a house can vividly reveal the experience of childhood or the story of a relationship: "How a house is lived in can tell you everything you need to know about people, whet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Increasingly, loss of the sense of smell is being treated as a serious harm in clinical settings. Besides, the sense of smell is key to flavour perception. Indeed, most of what you perceive …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Although Tom Ajamie's amfAR investigation never received the same level of attention as Weinstein's sexual predation, it remains the key event that led to his downfall. After all, it was dur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]So far, the best Indigenous-authored texts about Indigenous art are not reviews but catalogue and academic-essays, which are critical in that they explicate the context, intent and meanings …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Voisey allows users to choose from a library of beats from around the world, submitted to the Voisey website by producers, and sing their own lyrics and melodies over them. Their vocals are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]ACE was faced with an impossible choice. Unlike the German government, which has announced a €50 billion package of support for artists and the cultural sector, recognising that it is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Among the social impacts of the coronavirus is its swift dismantling of the cult of celebrity. The famous are ambassadors of the meritocracy; they represent the American pursuit of wealth th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2020
Merely stabilizing the economy, or preventing the absolute worst of all possible worlds, will not be enough. In a short few weeks, the COVID-19 recession has made painfully clear our profoun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]For many who wrote for the magazine, attended its monthly discussion lunches or simply subscribed, involvement with Encounter was to take sides in an historic struggle in which the Anglo-Ame…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]In a press statement, a spokesperson for the opera singer reported that he is in stable condition but will remain the hospital for "as long as the doctors find it necessary until a hoped-for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]Matthew Walther: "If it is worth bailing out restaurants and bars and other places where people congregate together for merriment and diversion, we must not neglect those institutions in whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Thursday's settlement deal in a case brought by a onetime Philadelphia area saxophonist against a $2 billion musicians' pension fund shows that the trustees who ratify advisers' and outside …
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