Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Within anthropology, Mead is still revered, but mostly as a way to understand the discipline's origins. In the popular mind, Mead's name has all but vanished, her reputation whittled down to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Students of Asian American literature have often been far more familiar with what is wrong with Aiiieeeee! than with Aiiieeeee! itself. From the earliest days of its publication, many Asian …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"There's a massive hole," producer Lyndsay Magid Aviner said of the lack of urban dance on New York stages. Coming from the circus world, the Aviners said they believe there's a broad audien…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Netflix has acquired all rights to the untitled Leonard Bernstein film that Bradley Cooper will direct, star in and produce from the script he co-wrote with Oscar-winning Spotlight scribe Jo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]The controversy over "Attack Helicopter" is another case study suggesting that rejecting "art's for art's sake" in favor of "art for justice's sake" doesn't necessarily yield more justice. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]AI-assisted editing won't make Oscar-Âworthy auteurs out of us. But amateur visual storytelling will probably explode in complexity. Even tools for one-to-one video messaging might evolve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]The woman next to us very politely turns round and shushes them. It does no good. They are out for the afternoon, they are going to make a loud and long fuss over a Capri Sun and they are go…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
Podcasts rich in detail and narrative are finding big audiences. But many of the stories they tell are misleading or inaccurate. How do we know? How do we vet? " Harper's
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Had Turing lived longer, perhaps the state of artificial intelligence would encompass more than drearily corporate banalities such as the Amazon checkout window making suggestions about what…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Status-mongering is the mess that results from leaving some of our ethical theorizing undone. We don't know who we think we are, and it shows. " The Point
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Using metrics designed by evolutionary biologists, they compared the rates of cultural change to the rates of biological change for finches from the Galapagos Islands, two kinds of moths, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]The announcement comes as the publicly funded BBC is facing intense political and public pressure amid a fast-changing media landscape and viewing habits. It has been criticized by both side…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Studying how people move to music is a powerful tool for researchers looking to understand how and why music affects us the way it does. Over the last few years, researchers at the Centre fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Mr. Heath's saxophone sound was spare but playful, with a beaming tone that exuded both joy and command. But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for lar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]By blurring out details from protest signs in an image of the 2017 Women's March, including the name of President Trump and references to the female anatomy " a decision the Archives publicl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The group wanted to Klein Jasedow provides a nearly perfect test case for a theory, popular within the classical music industry, which postulates that if we could just tweak the atmosphere i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"My colleagues want to better understand how people behave in the wild and how we can capture every-day behavior without asking people to self report … [because] that's a very unreliable w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Re-reading Bloom, I am thunderstruck, because my inclination is to blame it all on social media and attendant technologies favoring vicarious experience. But Bloom's 1987 narrative establish…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The conventional wisdom that now governs book publishing"that things are, for the first time in a long time, not that bad"is wrong. At the very least, it overlooks the fact that Amazon has s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Grain elevators were once an icon of Canada's west: often painted a bright boxcar red, they stood in towns across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. As the tallest structures in the vast la…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The Academy's perceived snubs"of actors such as Us's Lupita Nyong'o and Hustlers' Jennifer Lopez, along with directors such as Little Women's Greta Gerwig and The Farewell's Lulu Wang"are as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2020
Join us on the beautiful "artist" island off the coast of Maine. Your chance to develop your watercolor painting skills. For beginner/ intermediate level painters. Class size limited to 10 p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
Walker, who died in 2018 at age 96, was one of America's most distinguished composers. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1996. He was a superb pianist and an esteemed academic. His shel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]The store hadn't had any sales that day, perhaps for the first time ever, says the manager. He sent out a tweet and Twitter readers responded with a thousand pounds worth of orders. " The Gu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]The first way of reading is non-evaluative, at least at the level of craft or technique; the second is only evaluative, and wagers everything on technical success, on questions of craft and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Hysterical critics are self-centred " not because they write about themselves, which writers have always done, but because they can make any observation about the world lead back to their ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Artists have stepped up in a huge way at this dark time in Australian history by volunteering their talents and resources to support communities and firefighters. They have demonstrated arti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]China's rapidly expanding network of surveillance cameras increasingly relies upon AI-aided facial-recognition technology to achieve much of its primary mission: to keep track of, record, co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]The Walt Disney Company bought most of Mr. Murdoch's entertainment assets last year in a $71.3 billion deal. That included the 20th Century Fox studio and its art-house sibling, Fox Searchli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]The whereabouts of "Portrait of a Lady" has been one of the art world's biggest mysteries since the painting was stolen from the Ricci Oddi museum in 1997. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Say goodbye, at least for the foreseeable future, to the topic-focused lands of yore such as Adventureland or Fantasyland, and think instead of story- and plot-driven lands that will place g…
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