Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Factors contributing to a "noticeable gap in critical coverage" include a crisis in mainstream arts criticism, a lack of diversity within mainstream theatre critics and a reluctance to be cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Ruins excite our imagination with the lesson that our greatest structures will one day return to the ground, while reminding us that in their fallen states these sites are endowed with beaut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Viktor Frankl argued that literature, art, religion and all the other cultural phenomena that place meaning at their core are things-unto-themselves, and furthermore are the very basis for h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"There are more and more people that are really, really good at their instruments, and the amount of competition has certainly gone up. It's getting increasingly challenging to win a job eve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"There's a rich history of thinking about how we learn across our lifespans in library settings and other community-based arts programs. But museums have only started to look at this arena p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The poet laureate tradition is long. Poet laureates were first recognized in Italy during the fourteenth century. Ben Jonson became England's first poet laureate in 1616, although the first …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]A groundbreaking musician who had been one of only four women in the BSO in the mid-1960s, Ms. Schaefer was 95 when she died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Jan. 31 in Sequim, Wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]When asked about cultural programming, the streaming services are tight-lipped. Both Netflix and Apple TV+ declined to say if they plan to produce more original content and whether visual ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Cultural institutions are a kind of technology " a social technology. Just as physical technologies " agriculture, the wheel or computers " are tools for transforming matter, energy or infor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Over-tourism is damaging popular cities and cultural attractions. Instagram is sending mobs to previously bucolic places. Then there's the carbon cost of all that air travel, which is killin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The President and CEO will provide aspirational leadership, champion a positive culture, and inspire Overture Center's exemplary programs, services, and operations.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03AM[SHARE]Cincinnati Opera is seeking a Director of Marketing whose job it will be to achieve revenue targets in ticket sales, expand and diversify the audience, and build brand awareness.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2020
As museums face increasing pressure to be responsive to historical intersections and contradictions in their presentation of works, it can be risky to introduce audiences, who otherwise migh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]More than 70 staff have left the GSA since a second fire devastated the Mackintosh building in June 2018. Last month Gordon Gibb was sacked for breach of contract for giving his views on fai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]What has happened in journalism in the twenty-first century is a version, perhaps an extreme one, of what has happened in many fields. A blind faith that market forces and new technologies w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]He founded the LA Review of Books. He argues for LA as the center of the book publishing industry. Now he's written a novel as he follows the Kerouac school of writing. " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Michael Kimmelman: "It almost seems conceived to provoke supporters of both modern architecture and architectural diversity. It's a shiny object, Twitter bait. The populists versus the elite…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]From 6 April all skilled workers from outside the EU who have been living here for less than 10 years will need to earn at least £35,000 a year to settle permanently in the UK. Some jobs,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]The proposal would allow Trump to create a "President's Committee for the Re-Beautification of Federal Architecture" which would enforce this design mandate, and this panel would exclude "ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Philip Clark, author of a forthcoming book on Brubeck, the American jazz legend, has for the first time gained access to 1959 recordings that had lain forgotten in a Californian archive unti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]For example, Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" had a whopping 46.3 million streams in 2017 and earned between $280,000 and $390,000, according to one report. Swift, one of the world's bigge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Ross Douthat: "What if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by our expectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distorting filter of the internet? What if we " o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Given that psychological pain is so ubiquitous, we should focus less on what might make us happy, and more on achieving a sense of meaning, regardless of how we're feeling. " Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]The station draws about 170,000 listeners a week in New Zealand, heavily skewed towards those aged 65 and older, according to the broadcaster. But fans mobilised last week when Radio New Zea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]While few may lament the disappearance of these hate-filled books, the increasing number of banished titles has set off concern among some of the third-party booksellers who stock Amazon's v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2020
"I was surprised by the effect it had on me. I'd assumed that my skepticism and media literacy would inoculate me against such distortions. But I soon found myself reflexively questioning ev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2020
Nothing exemplifies the promises and perils of self-actualised work better than the cultural conversations around 'do what you love'. The injunction to 'do what you love' has had no shortage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]"Our contemporary moment is a culture of meanness. It's not based on facts. It's not based on conversation… it's destructive to our democracy and our institutions. Notice the bags under my…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]Nowhere else in North America can you find two symphony orchestras (as opposed to chamber orchestras) with touring schedules and substantial discographies led by conductors of international …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]New OSF director Nataki Garrett has big plans. In the next few years, she plans to push technology-driven initiatives, like the launch of a digital archive and an OSF app. She's also develop…
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