Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]The new database hosts profiles of underrepresented critics and journalists and invites media outlets, studios, networks, talent and film and television critics associations to find and cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Some film critics now differentiate themselves from amateurs through the practice of Extreme Film Criticism. In it, critics subject themselves to physical, film-related challenges that bear …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2020
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra seeks a dynamic, data-oriented, and business-minded leader with a strong record of financial planning, analysis, and accounting to serve as CFO. This person…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42PM[SHARE]New York, March 16-17; Los Angeles, April 14-15. Rocket Boost Your Marketing and Fundraising Into the Next Decade and Beyond! Sign up by Jan. 31 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1). D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42PM[SHARE]The key point: Home entertainment has evolved into a true multiplatform business. Universal found that consumers are using around three platforms on average, the most common bundle being dis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"If we don't reinvent drama training to reflect the different needs of students from much more diverse backgrounds " and that includes those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds " i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]A tour of some of the many paintings created in 1924. " Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]American Historical Association meetings aren't known for rousing policy debates. At this year's gathering, however, there was a sense that historians' perspectives are sorely needed in curr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]The challenge of a world without work isn't just economic but political and psychological. To paraphrase the children's author Richard Scarry: what will people do all day? You can only conte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Plaintiffs in copycat cases are largely targeting megahit songs because they've seen where the money is, and the increasing frequency of those court battles in headlines is causing an avalan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Is fiction more like the covert violation of the liar, or like the overt violation of the ironical speaker? Unlike the liar, the fiction author doesn't hide her untruthful intentions: they'r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Top-line figures obscure "hidden secrets" plaguing the film industry. Chief among these is the fact that the average occupancy rate of theaters across the country has hit a new five-year low…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Scruton, who died after a short battle with cancer, was a controversial figure throughout his career as a right-wing philosopher. Author of The Aesthetics of Architecture and The Classica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]The academic study of literature is no longer on the verge of field collapse. It's in the midst of it. Preliminary data suggest that hiring is at an all-time low. Entire subfields (modernism…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Despite a plethora of diverse films competing for Oscar love this year, the Academy largely maintained its traditional point of view, handing out the most nominations to four very male, very…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Streaming changed the way we listened to music, and music changed in response to the way we listened. Songs got shorter, genres bled into one another, and language barriers dissolved. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]If there's any lesson that the decline of Christianity holds for the painful death of the English department, it's that if you aspire to keep your faith alive even in a reduced, non-hegemoni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Perhaps not surprisingly, more than half are books for children or young readers. No. 1 is "The Snowy Day," Ezra Jack Keats's picture book that is one of the first to depict an African-Ameri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]We are looking for a self-motivated, master multi-tasker - who is based in NYC - with excellent organizational skills and an upbeat attitude.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"I imagine that Cunningham came to understand not only the value of this kind of in-depth documentation, but the independent strength of the photographs as well. The elemental vitality and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Whether Jo is tackling Amy for a most grievous sisterly infraction or the sisters are tumbling over each other to get ready for a party, Gerwig keeps the sisters in constant, surging motion…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Ben Cadwallader has been executive director of Vermont Symphony since 2015. In 2016, he was one of nine arts administrators selected by the League of American Orchestras for its Emerging Lea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Pronouns, along with conjunctions and prepositions, are generally considered a "closed class" " a group of words whose number rarely grows and whose meanings rarely change. So when pronouns …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The books have the same publisher. They credit the same authors. But they are customized for students in different states, and their contents sometimes diverge in ways that reflect the natio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]In Hitler's Germany linguistic habits shaped attitude and culture, and eventually acquiescence to a system of segregation and dehumanization. The language of the Third Reich was corrosive, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]A lot of time I don't know what I want to play. So I just start playing, and try to make it right, and make it join to some other kind of feeling in the music. Like, I play one note, maybe t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2020
Languages do exist, but they are not necessarily the things we take them for. On the one hand, we each have an understanding of at least our mother tongue that allows us to produce sentences…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Cecilia Alemani, born in Milan in 1977, has directed the High Line's art program since 2011, where she has commissioned large-scale works by artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Carol Bove,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]The Artistic Genius is male because men are most fit to be Artistic Geniuses. The goalposts of greatness are hyper-specific, socially manipulated, and ultimately less interested in the aesth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]What's worth saying with certainty is that there needs to be more opportunities for musicals to be developed and showcased outside the auspices of commercial or not-for-profit producers, wit…
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