Thursday, January 9, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Yuan Yuan Tan wasn't even intending to join the company back in 1995, but no principal dancer in the history of the company has lasted as long. " San Francisco Chronicle
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]What are people looking to do? The most popular searches, by one analysis, range from the achingly prosaic to the exceedingly specific"from "how to kiss" to "how to make a rainbow-loom starb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]We are now in the mature stage of a book-to-film boom that is quietly transforming how Americans read and tell stories"and not for the better. The power of this force is hard to quantify bec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The lack of progress in adversarial philosophical exchange might rest on a simple but problematic division of labour: in professional settings such as talks, seminars and papers, we standard…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]None of us are good listeners all the time. It's human nature to get distracted by what's going on in your own head. Listening takes effort. Like reading, you might choose to go over some th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Pugh founded Ballet Memphis in 1986 with two dancers and a $75,000 budget. The organization grew over the years and now has a company of 21 dancers and a four-million-dollar budget. It al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]By being thrust forward in time at warp speed over the last few decades " fueled by seriously cranked-up air-conditioning and the bountiful oil production from beneath their deserts that beg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Since 1987, Chicago Sinfonietta has been a defiantly different kind of orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Maestro Paul Freeman to address the disconnect between the utter lack of divers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
"There are more resonances between programming and poetry than you might think. Computer science is an art form of words and punctuation, thoughtfully placed and goal-oriented, even if not n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]When they started collaborating in 2011, they didn't plan on their composing careers revolving around the stuff of nightmares. And the work, they'll freely admit, can exert a psychological t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]At least from small-press publishers, we're getting more work that looks at, not so much how do we survive the apocalypse as how do we live with nature? How do we live in this world? " Washi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]Both the retrospective and the prospective interpretations of the Hubble Constant have stoked ongoing controversy in the 90 years since Edwin Powell Hubble published the first definitive evi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]Writing to learn, as I am imagining it, is a divergent social practice fueled by a lovely cocktail of curiosity, imagination, experience, and ignorance. For my purposes, there are two kinds …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]When the Taliban destroyed the historic Bamiyan Budha, the international response "was indeed collective, a near-universal eruption of outrage and dismay at the loss. At the United Nations, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Defense secretary Mark Esper acknowledged that striking cultural sites with no military value would be a war crime, putting him at odds with the president, who insisted such places would be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The site BachTrack tracks concerts internationally: "In 2019, we listed nearly 35,000 performances of concerts, opera and dance " more than ever before." " BachTrack
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]If disinformation in 2016 was characterized by Macedonian spammers pushing pro-Trump fake news and Russian trolls running rampant on platforms, 2020 is shaping up to be the year communicatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"The messages conveyed through disinformation range from biased half-truths to conspiracy theories to outright lies. The intent is to manipulate popular opinion to sway policy or inhibit act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2020
The idea that this might be actionable is the new twist. Every song benefits from what preceded it, whether it's a melodic idea, a lyrical motif, a sung rhythm, a drum texture. A forensic an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]It's true that dance history is particularly hard to preserve, and the desire to stay true to a choreographer's original intention when restaging their work is a valid one. But treating thes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The average American household possesses more than 300,000 items. In the UK, one study found that children have on average 238 toys, but only play with 12 of them on a daily basis. We are ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra closed its doors today due to worsening air quality caused by the bushfires burning across the country. The gallery's director, Nick Mitzevich, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The questions facing the National Theatre reflect the broader themes of British politics right now: elitism, identity, diversity. In the half century since it was founded, the National has a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Science in the 2010s became more global and collaborative than ever before. These days, major breakthroughs are likelier to come from groups of 3,000 scientists than groups of three. " Natio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Twenty-four hours after the release of Emily Hale's letters, the TS Eliot Foundation published a statement from beyond the grave, written by the author of the letters himself in 1960 and exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Pigments, the common type of coloring found in almost everything around us, create color by absorbing certain wavelengths of light, or colors, and reflecting others; when the reflected ones …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"Today we can say there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also a 50% chance of the scaffolding falling on the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The new finding changes the way people look at the painting, from all sides. While some have argued that the oddity of the glass ball is evidence that the work is actually by a lesser painte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The European Parliament, which shares legislative and budgetary authority with the European Council, last year agreed a €400m increase already proposed by the European Commission, the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"We ask too much of attention and not enough of concentration. The recent cultural emphasis on attention risks subsuming too many variables of human experience, as if they could ever be held…
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