Friday, January 31, 2020
The review comes at a perilous time for the BBC, with insiders and industry observers worried that the broadcaster is facing an existential crisis. As well as a hostile government, which is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]He was the only executive to creatively run CBS, ABC and NBC. Silverman's knack for identifying hit shows in the making and programming them into memorable primetime nights led Time magazine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Reporting to the President & CEO (CEO), the Chief Development Officer (CDO) is a member of the Senior Executive team and will work closely with the Board Chair, Chair of the Development …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The pledge raises the total commitments to $640 million. The $50 million from Keck is the second-largest private pledge to the project, after a $150 million pledge from entertainment mogul D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Ben Lawrence suggests that a large swath of the arts establishment is more interested in lecturing and criticizing than it is giving people affecting experiences they enjoy. " The Telegraph …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The museum is highly dependent on the tourist market. A huge 85% of its visitors are from abroad, many of whom come during the summer season. In the Netherlands, Van Gogh is widely regarded …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Artists looking to establish themselves often get requests to perform or otherwise lend their creative skills to conferences, private parties, businesses and assorted projects for the promis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
The cultural sections of election manifestos always make for interesting reading. Wonderful-sounding aspirations rarely have detail. Proposals are mostly aspirational rather than costed. Thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]The scientists set out to quantify the creativity of 19 of the most prominent composers of recent centuries, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]"American Dirt"won't have much political impact, because Americans who have the capacity to be outraged about children in cages on the border already are; it's arriving too late and isn't co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Currently, skilled workers from outside the EU need to have a job offer with a salary of at least £30,000 to work in the UK. EU citizens are not bound by such restrictions and do not need…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]At a festival that thrives on the spirit of niche filmmaking, the prevalence of stories and programming about ripped-from-the-headlines causes made for an energizing change of pace. Given th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]A consumerist vision of reading . . . presented as a form of anti-elitism" is emanating from the centers of publishing and media power, and that it is embodied by some of these trends. But I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]The history of the Memphis Pyramid, which is now emblazoned with a massive Bass Pro Shops logo on its side, is as bewildering as its appearance, and as reflective of the people who conceived…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"The font you use is a form of non-verbal communication. If you meet in person, tone of voice, clothes and body language carry a huge amount of information. If you write someone a letter you…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Though MIDI has done an exceptional job of digitizing music for the last 37 years, it hasn't been perfect. MIDI quantizes music, meaning it forces music components into a particular value. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Starting as a pilot project next month, Vienna's "Culture Token" will track users' movements"and their chosen mode of transit"across the city via an app. For each car-free kilometer the user…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2020
In the wake of a coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands and claimed more than 100 lives in China, the movie industry is grappling with the unthinkable: Nearly every cinema in the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]"Never in my career have I felt this organisation is quite under the threat that it currently is. There are many that believe that how we are funded is no longer appropriate when consumers s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]The handover of the building from a contractor to the constructor has been delayed due to incomplete delivery of fire and security doors as well insufficient performance and unsatisfactory o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Unlike Chapter 11, where companies can be reorganized and survive, this gang is dissolving, shutting its doors and everyone has resigned. Four months after the MoviePass service closed down …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]It is rarely acknowledged, by either the life-hack-minded authors or the proponents of minimalist design, that many people have minimalism forced upon them by circumstances that render impos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]The Assistant Dean of Mannes Prep will be a seasoned professional with experience leading and developing high level pre-collegiate and/or collegiate arts education programs.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]The warning against treating characters as if they were real stands as a gatekeeper to the academic discipline of literary criticism. Students who can't abide by the rule will get bad grades…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]It is no secret that in contemporary America there are many people who hardly read at all, and then another sizable group who, though they keep up with news, sports and the latest fads in se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]There is a direct correlation between museum shows and spikes in interest at auction. "It confirmed in a reasonably analysed way that there is a relationship and, therefore, to support museu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The emphasis on participation " on culture as something that more people should actually do " is newer. This is the difference between being in a play or a band and buying tickets to watch t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The Left thinks of fairness as egalitarian "equal outcomes" distribution, and the Right thinks of fairness as meritocracy (i.e., the winner takes the spoils, the qualified take the reward). …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Orange County Museum of Art seeks a highly skilled and effective fundraiser to oversee completion of its $73M capital campaign ($50M secured to date) and build a development team in preparat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Before joining the VSO, Angela Elster was senior vice-president of research and education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she played a key role in opening the TELUS Cent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]A 2018 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change announced tourism alone"that's nonessential pleasure travel"is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The t…
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