Friday, January 17, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]What makes sense on TikTok might not make sense on the old platforms. TikTok distills music down to a brief snippet you can sing along to, or dance along to or perform a comic sketch to. Its…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2020
With HireVue, businesses can pose pre-determined questions " often recorded by a hiring manager " that candidates answer on camera through a laptop or smartphone. Increasingly, those videos …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Under the parental oversight of public libraries bill, which has been proposed by Missouri Republican Ben Baker, panels of parents would be elected to evaluate whether books are appropriate …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]The consequence of identifying so closely with the literary community is that critics often don't feel that they're part of the reviewing apparatus. They feel like they're subject to it. Thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Agencies are under growing pressure "to scale up and adapt to a changing media industry. The rise of streaming and the expected decline of TV packaging " where agencies collect fees for pack…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]At the moment, the Oscars reflect the Academy, but the Academy reflects nothing but its august name; plausible deniability and the shunning of responsibility are built into the current syste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]He will begin in the spring of 2021. Gilbert will combine his new position with the post of Chief Conductor at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the position which he took in the fall of 2019.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]40 years after enrollment, the return at liberal arts colleges reached $918,000, more than 25Â percent higher than the $723,000 median gain at all colleges. " InsideHigherEd
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"When I suggest to Gladwell he has an unusually relaxed attitude towards criticism, he returns to a theme from the night before: success is wasted on the successful. 'The weird thing about p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]All told, glass buildings are responsible for up to one billion bird deaths in the United States each year. At a time when two-thirds of North American birds are in danger of extinction from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wasting no time, the Kremlin on Wednesday posted a list of 75 members of a working group appointed to draft the constitutional amendments, including a range of political and cultural figures…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Elsewhere, we carp, battle and grind one another down for bragging rights and total triumph. Sports culture and champion-making has seeped into nearly every aspect of life. It's all just a l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Virginia Johnson, a founding member of Dance Theater of Harlem who was named artistic director in 2009, said the gift would go toward increasing the size of the company from 18 to 20 dancers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]Junior publicists work directly under Center Theatre Group's Head of Publicity and closely with playwrights, directors, actors as well as other theatre artists, producers and arts administra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48PM[SHARE]In Germany, the home of modern board-gaming, the industry has grown by over 40% in the past five years; the four-day SPIEL trade fair this year saw 1,500 new board and card game releases, wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The more popular the book, the more pervasive the SlideShare piracy. Searches for the top five fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times bestseller list (which includes authors rang…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Over the past two or three decades, the historical study of emotions has developed a rich set of tools with which to chart the ways that emotions have changed over time. Emotions such as ang…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The decline was not unexpected, as sales in 2018 were driven by strong performances of a plethora of political books and the blockbuster success of Michelle Obama's Becoming, which was the t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]At age 28, Dudamel started his appointment as the L.A. Phil's music director in 2009, his original five-year term quickly extended through the 2018-19 season and later through mid-2022. With…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Dan Lewis: "My vision is to ensure opportunities to learn, perform and create music are available to all young people. Ideally, this would be happening in every school, but that isn't the ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]There's always been a divide between what the critical culture celebrates and what audience members actually want to see. "This three-and-a-half-hour Turkish film about the struggle between …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Pop-star holograms are exploding out of a chemical reaction between three elements that have been influencing human decision-making for thousands of years: supply, demand, and survival insti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Many people no longer hold the kind of religious views according to which our time of death is not allowed to be of our choosing. There are an increasing number of countries where physician-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Seriously, is this the brave new world of streaming? Where press releases go out daily about the wildly "diverse" television creators drafted by Netflix (and to a lesser extent Amazon) but t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]After Netflix received 24 Oscar nominations on Monday " the most of any studio and the highest level to date for the streaming giant " both chains said that they wouldn't screen its movies. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff. Reversing the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friar Niccolò da Poggibonsi took notes on gesso tablets while he traveled, and when he returned to Venice in 1350, wrote down his full firsthand account. The oldest manuscript of the work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]'The' tops the league tables of most frequently used words in English, accounting for 5% of every 100 words used. "'The' really is miles above everything else," says Jonathan Culpeper, profe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]On Saturday, officials announced that the government would withdraw, at least temporarily, a plan that would have raised the full-benefit retirement age, now 62 for many workers, to 64 for a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Yup. A startup called Quibi has raised $1 billion in investment capital from every major Hollywood studio and most of the major tech companies. It has corralled an A-list tsunami to make pro…
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