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Sunday, January 12, 2020

What's Lost With The Demise Of The New York Musical Festival by Artsjournal

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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Artistic Director: Australian National Academy of Music by Artsjournal

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) wishes to appoint an Artistic Director to provide exceptional leadership to Australia's pre-eminent music performance training institution.

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Pastor Tells Musicians They Are "Thieves" If They Take Money For Playing In Church by Artsjournal

Rev. Dr. David Antwi, Head Pastor and founder of UK-based church Kharis Ministries, made the controversial statement during a service. "You are a thief if you play church instruments and col…

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John Baldessari On How He Found His Art by Artsjournal

"I was doing text and photo paintings and paintings solely with text. I had ignored photography for a long time, thinking it was a high school infatuation, but now I had this idea that I wou…

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The Global Art World Flies. Should It Fly So Much? by Artsjournal

'You live on one continent and work on two others.' You have 'a firsthand knowledge of the sunrise over the Po, the sunset over Shenzhen, the crackle of the midday sun as the Acqua Alta wets…

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Here's What Happens When Community College Tuition Is Free by Artsjournal

Taking into account that actual tuition and fees are already essentially free, could there still be significant effects when students know for certain that their schooling will cost nothing?…

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What One Working Musician Earns On Different Streaming Platforms by Artsjournal

Cellist Zoe Keating publishes her yearly streaming earnings in an effort to spark conversation about music royalties and help other artists better understand their finances. "I wanted people…

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Major German Arts Construction Projects Are Careening Out Of Control by Artsjournal

Ballooning budgets and years of delay are becoming a regular feature of prestigious cultural construction projects in Germany. For a country that thrives on a reputation for efficiency and e…

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How Did The Banal Banksy Make It Big In The Art World? by Artsjournal

"Banksy is a talented graphic designer with a flair for self-promotion, no more or less. He is not an artist. His work lacks the breadth and ambiguity to carry multiple interpretations vital…

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These Big Movie Stars' Superpower? They Dance by Artsjournal

Who better to portray godlike aliens, aerial crime-stoppers and lethally elegant badasses than dancers? Dance training is excellent preparation for the bodily toll of action films and long d…

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Beethoven's Greatest Music Comes From His Greatness As A Human by Artsjournal

This year we are celebrating the anniversary not just of history's greatest composer, but also one of its greatest human beings. " The Spectator

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Why The Pieces Of Books Are Where The Pieces Of Books Are by Artsjournal

"I certainly did not know, for example, that the earliest recognised dust jacket belongs to a literary annual entitled Friendship's Offering of 1829. Nor that e.e. cummings's self-published …

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UK Puts New Regulations On Art Trade, Combating Money Laundering by Artsjournal

Britain, with London as its hub, is the second-biggest art trading nation after the United States, with 21 percent of global auction and dealer sales in 2018, according to the report. But wi…

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The Peculiar Case Of The Artists Who Lived Like They Were Living 100 Years Earlier by Artsjournal

They dressed in Edwardian clothes, drove a 1913 Model-T Ford and eschewed modern conveniences. As lovers, they shared an apartment on Avenue C that lacked a telephone, television or electric…

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David Lang Didn't Like How Beethoven's "Fidelio" Turned Out. So He Rewrote It by Artsjournal

"Before you get mad at me for saying that anything Beethoven wrote has problems, you should know that Beethoven himself was unhappy with the opera. He drastically rewrote it several times ov…

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: I-Park's 2020 Artists-in-Residence Program by Artsjournal

Fully-funded, self-directed, international, multi-disciplinary. I-Park provides generous physical and creative access to its expansive grounds. Application deadline: Jan. 15, 2020

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Friday, January 10, 2020

Experts: Don't Blame Digital Effects For "Cats" Bomb by Artsjournal

While the digital technology that helped create realistic fur in both films is "advancing all the time," it can't rescue a flawed approach to a project. "The techniques [you use] can't do it…

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Darren Walker Joins National Gallery Board by Artsjournal

Walker has emerged as one of the country's preeminent voices for the arts, and social justice, and for new strategies to ameliorate inequality. He has delivered the annual Nancy Hanks Lectur…

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Worldwide Movie Box Office Breaks Record In 2019 by Artsjournal

This is the first time worldwide exceeds $42B and the first the international box office climbs past $30B. The results come in a year when domestic dipped by 4%. " Deadline

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Which Version Of Equal Are We Talking About? by Artsjournal

One goal, "equality of resources," might be achieved by dividing the inheritance evenly, but it has the downside of failing to recognize important differences among the parties involved. Ano…

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Nope " Reading Won't Make You Better! (But That's Not Why To Do It) by Artsjournal

These studies miss a bigger point by implying that reading fiction is, at its best, a tidy cause-and-effect process. Enter intellectually weak and benighted, exit emotionally toned and trim,…

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Peaked: Record 532 Scripted TV Shows This Season. Too Many? by Artsjournal

There were 532 scripted drama and comedy series in 2019 on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, a 7 percent increase over 2018, John Landgraf told a TV critics meeting Thursday. When FX…

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How "The Irishman" De-Aged Its Stars With Artificial Intelligence by Artsjournal

When it came to de-aging De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino for The Irishman, the $140 million Netflix production opted for a specific kind of fountain of youth, created from artificial-intel…

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Learn About Iran's Rich Ancient Persian Culture by Artsjournal

The direct legacy of the ancient Iranians can be found across the Middle East, the Caucasus and Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, India and P…

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Was John Baldessari The Most Important Art Professor Of The 20th Century? by Artsjournal

Starting in the early 1970s, Baldessari became one of the first professors at the California Institute of Arts, a school in Santa Clarita that became a locus of artistic experimentation on t…

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre's New Leader Pushes To Be Artistic Leader In Fighting For Social Justice by Artsjournal

To survive long-term, companies such as Woolly need to convince social-justice-minded, cash-challenged millennials to buy tickets. The crucial challenge: Can they do this without alienating …

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An Artist Using Virtual Reality To Make Climate Change More Real by Artsjournal

"The technologies allowed me to show things to you"for example, how past landscapes can change overtime, how you can look from the scale of a beetle, how you can change your perspective. The…

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OPEN CALL FOR BLACK APPLICANTS IN THE FACULTY OF DESIGN, OCAD University by Artsjournal

OCAD U seeks Black candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences inform a deep commitment through their work to intersectional Black communities and whose theoretical, technical…

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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Closed Caption Glasses Extend The Audience Experience by Artsjournal

The glasses are aimed at D/deaf audiences and offer personal captioning, flashing the production's dialogue in front of the wearer's eyes as the actors say it. They were developed by the NT …

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How Relaxed Performances Are Changing… Performance by Artsjournal

Relaxed performance " an approach to performance that challenges what have developed as strict expectations and codes for audience and performer engagement and behaviour " is making theatre …

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A Conservative Director Takes Over A Leading Polish Contemporary Art Museum And Aims To Change Its Politics by Artsjournal

Artists are expected to make work about fighting climate change and fascism, or promoting gay rights, Piotr Bernatowicz says. "Artists who do not adopt this ideology are marginalized," he sa…

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