Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The removal of melted scaffolding requires "three levels of steel beams to be positioned around its exterior to form a stabilising "belt". Once this operation is complete, the same firm that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation has clawed its way to $38 million globally after two weeks in theaters, a dismal figure that could result in $100 million in theatrical losses, according t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Connected technologies put pressure on our normative concepts like privacy, autonomy, and manipulation by changing the world so that our old concepts no longer apply and by pushing us to com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]City officials are especially sensitive to the possibility of losing the Sarasota Orchestra after the recent relocation of two other cultural institutions outside of the city. " Sarasota Her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2019
"The 2010s were the decade the city became an App Store: an online marketplace where our choices were closely tracked, where that data became part of the products we were using, and where di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"There's a similar mixture that goes into being a computational linguistics researcher," with lots of coding, math and empirical work. It certainly helps to have a love of language and be in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]As if theater weren't already mocked enough for its hysteria and jazz hands, it now seems to be pop culture's punching bag. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"Margin. It doesn't scale. At Netflix, the more subscribers you have, the less your costs are. In streaming music, the costs follow you. And the streaming music services are utilities " they…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"The slide in revenues is still disappointing because it occurred at a time when Walt Disney Studios put nearly all of its major franchises on the field " a show of firepower that enabled th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"The reason that it feels like nothing happened in the 2010s is that too much happened. Each cultural landmark got instantly effaced by the onrush of the next, and the next. This memory-eros…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary shows how, when confronted with people across the globe who perceived their own lives "in ways radically antagonistic to the requirements of capitalist pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Look at the stuff. The Things. Objects. The products that overflow our commercial marketplace, designed for our consumption, that we loved, loathed, mocked, coveted, worried about, or just …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"The single undoubted success of the modernist movement was to spread through clever propaganda: first by co-opting the term "modern," then by covering up a long string of practical failures…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Instead, at the other end of the decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80 percent. " Vox
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Within the monoculture obsession, there are two concerns. The first is that in the digital streaming era we have lost a perceived ability to connect over media products as reference points t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"I know readers only have time anymore to read lists, but bear with me. Here are the best kinds of shows we watched over the past 10 years. Many of them belong to more than one category " a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"Within the past year, most opera companies have started holding regular sexual harassment workshops, and many distribute and read aloud their sexual harassment policy to incoming casts befo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2019
"The second decade of the 20th century began at the apex of naivete about the potential for the internet to enhance democracy and improve the quality of life on Earth. By the end of 2019, ve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"Like all stories, it's just about cats, but none of these stories work without the big issues underneath. Eliot was writing as much about humans as cats; he was writing about humans through…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The banality of encores has long been a frustration for some musicians, but, in recent years, a growing number of notable acts have taken a stand against performing them at all. " Toronto St…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]From Noam Chomsky on the responsibility of intellectuals after 9/11, to our forum on why empathy can be a bad thing, the following were all ambitious efforts and help chart a decade of think…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Writing is lonely; directing and acting, if you're overlapping them, is challenging but fun. But producing is just pushing a rock up a hill. And sometimes it rolls over you on the way back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Every morning, I wake up before dawn to take a walk with my dog around the countryside, before I return to my home (still before dawn) to bake a loaf of bread and write for four hours in my…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Yes, every culture that we know of has some kind of music"but do these diverse musics share anything in common, for example in terms of function, affect and content? An extensive ethnographi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"Egypt's Sunken Cities" helped the museum double its income from program activities to $4.9 million in the year ended June 30. Membership increased 30 percent to 52,102 members, and attendan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Results from six studies support this idea that focusing on the pursuit of a goal can be helpful in the long term. The researchers encouraged more than 1,600 people who had just achieved a p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wags had taken to calling the Met the Necropolitan and said it suffered from hardening of the galleries. The New Yorker sniped that the acting director still wrote with a quill pen and consi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]The Executive Director will provide imaginative leadership toward the development and realization of the Festival's world-class artistic and intellectual programs.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2019
From "The Big Short" to Naomi Klein to "Normal People," a list of books that made an impact. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]In 2012, Burning Man organizers reimbursed the BLM nearly $1.4 million in expenses, a 60 per cent year-over-year increase, though the event population increased by only 4 per cent that year,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]For Franzo and Marina King, who had begun taking Coltrane's music and ideas seriously as a world view, he had not passed away. He had merely ascended. Franzo had always imagined becoming a p…
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