Friday, March 20, 2020
Box office revenue limped to a historic low of $300,000 or less on Wednesday as the vast majority of cinemas in North America closed their doors indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The letter notes that museums annually contribute $50 billion to the US economy, generate $12 billion in local, state, and federal tax, along with supporting 726,000 jobs, expressing worry t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"I think of it a little bit like if a house was burning, and you had the opportunity to run in and save a piece of humanity," says Industry founder Yuval Sharon. "That's what we're doing." "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]They were made by sculptor George Tsutakawa. The theft was discovered Thursday morning when gardeners arrived for work and discovered the gates missing and bolt cutters on the ground, said R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]There was a time when listeners treated the mere existence of recorded sound as a miracle. A wonder, a kind of time travel. Priests warned of early wax cylinders being tools of the devil. Vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Consider all the ways arts and cultural groups earn money: from ticket sales and admission fees; participation in educational programs; renting spaces for galas and gatherings; investments a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]In a national survey by Americans for the Arts, 91% of responding arts organizations have cancelled one or more events. Many arts organizations have closed their doors for months to come. Mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
It's tempting to ask if we can learn to be more creative. Creativity does have some genetic heritability: talent " mathematical, musical " runs in families. For example, the Dutch identical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]The listings I had spent the previous several days carefully crafting and curating had mostly crumbled before my eyes. " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Hong Kong, which has been in operation since 2010, has a $4 million financial deficit due to low enrollment. The tuition fee of $38,440 per year for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]Newton published his findings on the laws of motion in the 1687 book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Now, by sheer accident, a rare first-edition copy of this groundbreaking b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]The charity Art UK, which lists every publicly owned oil painting on its online database and is in the process of adding every sculpture, has announced details of a new curation tool. It wil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]With so many countries on forced lockdowns to fight the spread of the virus, hundreds of millions working from home and even more children out of school, EU officials are concerned about the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Nintendo Online was unavailable for almost nine hours on Tuesday, preventing users from playing games such as Mario Kart 8 online or buying new titles on the console's online shop. Steam, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"We have been forced to make the unthinkable decision to lay off the vast majority of you in the coming few days. Many people have spoken publicly demanding we pay our employees and extend h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]On an individual level, innumerable artists and bands have rearranged tours or scrapped them altogether. With streaming still offering low royalty rates for artists, most musicians rely on e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"When you're on stage and projecting to an audience they are relating in various ways to what you are doing on stage. When I perform I'm always trying to invite them to respond in any way th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The film and TV industry worldwide has experienced a near-total cessation of activity, with thousands of largely freelance crew laid off at short notice with little or no financial compensat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
It's not just Americans broadcasting their living spaces to the world in the hopes of finding digital company. In the midst of a pandemic, kids with smartphones and wireless access and unlim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Five days ago, the largest opera company by budget in the United States released a statement to the press that all rehearsals and performances through the end of the month would be cancelled…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"The authors I contacted all jumped at the chance to do something to benefit both the bookstore and those readers facing isolation, even though many of those authors themselves are entering …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]The potential long-term effects for book retailers are sobering. Many in the industry are worried that independent bookstores will be devastated as local and state officials mandate social d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]If there is a silver lining in this crisis, it may be that the virus is forcing us to use the internet as it was always meant to be used " to connect with one another, share information and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Michael Kaiser: "For many, it is a lack of clarity on the duration of the crisis that causes the most anxiety. Should we proceed with rehearsals for a new production scheduled for May? Do we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"This is 9/11 meets The Great Recession meets the snowstorm," Randy Engstrom, director of the city's Office of Arts and Culture (OAC), said during an online public meeting Tuesday afternoon.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]LAUSD curriculum specialists and PBS SoCal/KCET were in a programming war room, mapping out priorities by grade, and identifying shows inside the TV stations' library that might match up. Al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Life as a freelancer is already touch and go. We can't really count on work to begin with, we don't know what our schedules will be more than 3-6 months in advance, there's always the risk …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]These virtual tours take you right inside some of the world's most iconic institutions. Been putting off that trip to Amsterdam to explore the Van Gogh Museum? Here's your chance to take it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University and spends much of his time in Tel Aviv, unexpectedly became a h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]"We're going make sure we protect our people, but we need to keep the arts and the music going. That's what we're going to do. That's why we're here." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]Bonfils-Stanton Foundation: "These Denver-based organizations offer ongoing public arts & culture programming and are at risk for earned revenue loss due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.…
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