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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Why We Should End Tourism. But We Won't by Artsjournal

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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Arts Council England Says It Will Invest In Arts In Every Village And Town. Feasible? by Artsjournal

The strategy lists four principles guiding whether ACE will invest public money: "ambition and quality", "inclusivity and relevance", "dynamism", and "environmental responsibility". The ACE …

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Poetry Written By AI Is Getting Much Better (Stylistically) by Artsjournal

GPT-2's writing is grammatically correct. It all more or less sounds true to its source, if all you heard was the tone. But what those sequences mean, therein lies the rub. GPT-2's poetry pr…

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Why Do We Define Success As Growth? Success Might Actually Mean "De-Growing" by Artsjournal

On this midsummer morning, 40 thinkers and activists have come together to challenge the core economic orthodoxy of our time: that growth is the most critical measure of human flourishing, a…

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Peter Handke's Nobel Prize Shows Why Aesthetics Alone Should Not Be The Criterion by Artsjournal

The controversy has spurred long-standing debates about where stories come from, who is responsible for them and what it means as a writer to bear witness to truth " and also, which persons …

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Using Fun And Games To Teach Professional Dancers by Artsjournal

"Just because students are in an advanced technique level doesn't mean they'll feel confident moving without set steps." To get students to explore outside their comfort zones, Alisia Pobega…

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"American Dirt" " An Immigrant Story That Rings False To Immigrants by Artsjournal

The heart of the problem is the industry " the critics, agents, publicists, book dealers who were responsible for this project. They've shown just how little they know about the immigrant ex…

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Will AI-Powered Avatars Replace Many Of Our Public Interactions? by Artsjournal

The idea is that these kinds of AI interactions scale in a way that actual humans do not, and while that may seem ominous for the future of real human connections, from the AI Foundation's p…

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Many Of China's Arts Venues Shut Over Coronavirus Fears by Artsjournal

The largest potential casualty of the closings is the Hong Kong Arts Festival, which is scheduled to open on February 8 with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta's world premiere of Alexander Goehr's T…

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Dean, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design by Artsjournal

Drexel University seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and strategic leader to serve as Dean of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design (Westphal College).

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10,000 Photos Of Alvin Ailey Company Are Now Online by Artsjournal

The digitized collection includes 8,288 black-and-white negatives, 2,106 color slides and transparencies, and 339 black-and-white prints depicting the repertory of Alvin Ailey, choreographer…

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Where Broadway's Super-Fans Are: BroadwayCon by Artsjournal

Some arrived in full character for the event, where attendees can meet and take photos with the stars of their favorite shows. Passes range from $80 for one day to $1,000 for a full weekend …

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Outcry Over "American Dirt" Shows What's Wrong With The American Publishing Business by Artsjournal

The clumsy, ill-conceived rollout of "American Dirt" illustrates how broken the system is, how myopic it is to hype one book at the expense of others and how unethical it is to allow a gatek…

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Gibney Company General Manager by Artsjournal

The Gibney Company General Manager will be responsible for the administrative direction of every aspect of the Company.

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Association of Performing Arts Professionals Seeks President and CEO by Artsjournal

The President and CEO will be a dynamic, flexible, and forward-thinking leader and administrator with an exceptional work ethic, passion for the performing arts, and solid experience in ma…

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Music by Artsjournal

At CES 2020, Samsung introduced Neon, an AI-based companion that is being developed to be indistinguishable from a human companion. AI models are composing at a pretty high level right now. …

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A History Of The Evolution Of MoMA's Homes by Artsjournal

This new MOMA is exhausting"and serene, and thrilling, and, finally, to a degree that only the greatest museums achieve, transcendental. Wandering the vast new spaces, tracing the familiar c…

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Book Publishing Seems To Be Improving. Or Is It by Artsjournal

More independent bookstores, sales up, even new plans for Barnes & Noble. But there are looming problems. Big problems with today's publishing industry. " N+One

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Paris Opera Dancers End Strike by Artsjournal

Dancers and musicians have been striking alongside public sector workers to oppose the government's plan to scrap more than 40 separate pension schemes and replace them with a single points-…

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The Dark Cloud Hanging Over The Grammys by Artsjournal

For music fans, tracking such a harrowing volley of allegations and denials feels equal parts absurd and sad (especially arriving, as it has, in the midst of a Presidential impeachment trial…

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Georgia Now Ranks 49th In Arts Funding. Here's What That Looks Like by Artsjournal

Long one of the stingiest states in terms of support for the arts, Georgia is now virtually at rock bottom, not willing even to put up enough money to collect the full amount of matching fun…

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So What Is Grime Ballet? by Artsjournal

Artistic director Whitley, who has worked with the Royal Ballet and performing arts company Saddler's Wells, suggests there are "a lot of assumptions" that go with words like grime and balle…

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"American Dirt" Was Supposed To Be A Monster Hit. So What Happened? by Artsjournal

In the face of critiques, Jeanine Cummins is pushing back in public. Her publisher released a statement encouraging discussion around the title, while some authors and booksellers have come …

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Boycott Brexit Commemorative Medal Over Lack Of Oxford Comma? by Artsjournal

"The 'Brexit' 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma, and should be boycotted by all literate people," wrote the novelist Philip Pullman on Twitter, while Times Literary Supplement editor Stig …

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America's New Space Force Logo Seems To Have Been Modeled On Star Trek by Artsjournal

The striking resemblance left many critics as stunned as though they had been zapped by Captain Kirk's phaser. But others online insisted the logo was really based on the US Air Force One. "…

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Friday, January 24, 2020

The Virtue Of Being Able To Say Hard Things In Print… Have We Lost It? by Artsjournal

Writers are individuals whose job is to find language that can cross the unfathomable gap separating us from one another. They don't write as anyone beyond themselves. But today, writers hav…

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The Difficulty Of Being A Cultural Ambassador For The US In The Time Of Trump by Artsjournal

Under the Trump Administration, the challenge for cultural workers who agree to participate in official events is akin to swimming upstream in boiling waters. Civil servants, thinking of the…

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Research: How New York City's Arts Work Force Diversity Compares To The Rest Of The City by Artsjournal

"Based on responses from our survey, a high share (66%) of cultural workers identify as White (non-Hispanic), compared to just 32% of New York City's population. In contrast, Hispanics, Blac…

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As Robots Take Over There's An Opening For People by Artsjournal

"The 20th century economy rewarded being the same, suppressing whatever made you weird and interesting. But this economy doesn't reward that. This economy has shifted far more in the directi…

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When Classical Music Was Central by Artsjournal

"However difficult to imagine, across those eventful decades, countless people embraced the idea that what happened in the concert hall and the opera house was inseparable from the destiny o…

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So Much For The Grammys' New Era by Artsjournal

Ousted chief Deborah Dugan's explosive claims threatened to overshadow the star-studded show itself, which is scheduled to air on CBS. Her brutal portrait of the Recording Academy as a chumm…

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