Thursday, March 5, 2020
The Heritage Foundation is still promoting its 1997 report authored by "distinguished fellow" Laurence Jarvik, titled "Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]It's beautiful, but then there's the obvious question … who in their right mind would open a record store now? There is no money in it. Even on this gentrified street there are empty shops…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]While the coronavirus has taken a big toll on the arts world in terms of closed venues and canceled events, it has also spurred plenty of show-must-go-on creativity in some of the hardest-hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]In the 19th century, politicians increasingly turned out memoirs as campaign books. The writing shifted from ideas and policies to character and personality. The writings of Andrew Jackson, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]"I had not noticed anything strange, but then I walked through the historic center, and it hit me: in the past few weeks, as the virus spread, the city emptied out. The crowds lining up to e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]The event drew 98,000 attendees last year and, as COVID-19 spreads in Washington state, many are worried that a large public setting such as ECCC may be a breeding ground for infection. Nota…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]This was going to be one of the busiest summers ever for festivals and stadium shows, so any disruption is going to have an impact," said Dave Brooks, senior director of live and touring for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]"It's used because it sounds fashionable. It sounds like it's for … the aesthetically conscious." As zeitgeisty as other oddly specific and much hashtagged words like "wanderlust" or "jour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]It is unclear how much ViacomCBS, which has owned the publisher for more than 25 years, might fetch from the sale. Book publishing is no longer a growth business but its revenue has been rel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, America's premier contemporary dance company, seeks a dynamic, strategic, and results-oriented leader for the role of Director of Marketing and Communications.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Helmed by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, NCI is a two-week boot camp for early and mid-career arts writers to strengthen their skills. Apply by April 2. Full scholarships available, no f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The event was already set to be a ghost town when it opened its doors, after publishers and rights agencies began withdrawing en masse over the last week. Some of the world's biggest, includ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]The more we learn about genetics and the brain, the more impossibly complicated both reveal themselves to be. We have picked no low-hanging fruit after three decades and $50 billion because …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
The amazing feats achieved by computers demonstrate our progress in coming up with algorithms that make the computer do valuable things for us. The computer itself, though, does nothing more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]The effect on the UK's artistic landscape is more worrying. For a European artist, it changes whether they decide to base themselves in the UK rather than just sometimes performing here. And…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]The academy announced Ms. Dugan's removal in a letter from its executive committee, sent to the organization's members. "We placed our trust in her and believed she would effectively lead th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Fair organisers say they will instead hold a programme of exhibitions, events and talks tailored to Dubai-based galleries, museums and artists from 25 to 28 March, when the fair was due to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Oversharing just doesn't look like it did before. Like most things on the internet, it too has become commodified. Where we once divulged, without much thought or artifice, the hardships in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Nietzsche offers an interpretive key: his references to dance (Tanz). Taken together, these references light a path that begins in Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), and we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]While commentators have often dismissed the interventions of artists on the issue of oil sponsorship as "virtue signaling," BP's CEO effectively conceded in his speech that opposition to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Scientists do have some hypotheses for what brings déjà vu to the surface of consciousness " from the idea that it might be a built-in processing glitch in the brain, or an indication of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Long speculated about, but never before seen in public, the manuscript was apparently written after Hitler had had only a few months of piano lessons. And it clearly demonstrated the future …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]The show featured an A-list roster of Hollywood and Broadway royalty, including Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg. In exchange for their appearanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]The stars of Magic Happens are the dancers, significantly elevated from their traditional role revving up the crowd with upbeat moves between set pieces. The 90-or-so performers are graced w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06AM[SHARE]"Look up one thing out of curiosity and YouTube is ever willing to offer far, far more, often getting far more extreme and pushing further out to the extremes, because that is how YouTube wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
In 1971, there were 88 member stations and a total staff of 65; now NPR's total staff is 862, with 390 in news and 17 overseas bureaus, and the network has 1,008 member and affiliated statio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found while 80% of former students gained financially from attending university, about 20% earned less than those with similar school results who…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]He revolutionized the Broadway musical with "Company" in 1970. And since, he has created brilliant shows lauded for their originality. But few hits. And where's the legacy? " Commentary
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"For outside observers, this was yet one more sign of the American university's dereliction of its responsibility as the carrier of Western culture. Yale "has succumbed to a life-draining de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Artistic Directors like me have been wringing our hands over the same question for decades. How do we get younger audiences to come to our theatre? How do we engage young people today in our…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]A big part of the appeal of classical architecture for the right is this perceived ability to endure. Buildings can be read as part of an unbroken chain, supposedly embodying an uncomplicate…
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