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Thursday, December 26, 2019

50 Years At The Church (Literally) Of John Coltrane by Artsjournal

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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Opera Star Peter Shreier, 84 by Artsjournal

He performed at the Berlin State Opera in his native East Germany and at Milan's La Scala, as well as a 25-year run at the famed Salzburg festival. One of his specialties was performing and …

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The Recycling Con by Artsjournal

Bailing out the recycling industry may sound like a benign proposal. The funds might even be a wise infusion at such a precarious moment for scrap buyers, processors, and sellers. But the ha…

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How Art Training Helps Doctors, Police See Detail by Artsjournal

"As I rose through the ranks, people would ask me, 'Did the art background and training have an effect?' There is something to that. By training in the art field, your brain tends to adapt a…

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French Protest Proliferation Of Street Advertising Everywhere by Artsjournal

High tech video billboards are multiplying in city spaces across the world, woven into the fabric of everyday life, from ribbon videos down escalators on the London underground, to French me…

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How Culture Was Used As A Weapon During The Cold War by Artsjournal

Not only was literature politicised: sometimes it seems that any cultural initiative had the secret services of the US or the USSR behind it. We find the Soviet Union was backing the Scienti…

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Why Are So Many Christmas Feel-Good Movies Anti-City? by Artsjournal

You don't have to watch many of these movies to see the bad rap that cities get. Before our protagonist (usually a single woman) gets enchanted by twinkling lights and prop Christmas trees, …

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What's Funny Changes. And So Does Comedy by Artsjournal

Humor is about connection"shared references, shared emotions, shared perspectives. The best comedians both surprise and unite the audience. They create a moment. But moments keep coming. Ove…

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Playwrights Turn To TV Money To Live On by Artsjournal

With the proliferation of prestige TV, show developers have been seeking out playwrights for their ability to compose sophisticated dialogue, plot turns and character. Everyone from recent M…

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Hollywood Is Digitally "De-Aging" Stars " What Will This Mean To The Business? by Artsjournal

As Hollywood continues to enjoy its ability to recast mega-stars as their younger selves, it has brought fears that younger and less experienced actors are being pushed out. At the same time…

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Anatomy Of The Classic Art World Scandal by Artsjournal

Overreaction is crucial: the work must prompt commentators to proclaim the end of art, to evoke the cliché of the emperor's new clothes. " The Art Newspaper

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Hollywood's Looming Content Crisis " Big Franchises Squeezing Everything Else Out by Artsjournal

This year, a huge chunk of total sales went to a handful of titles. The top 10 films at the domestic box office have accounted for 38% of ticket sales so far this year, according to data fir…

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Glenn Lowry On How He Thinks About The Latest Version Of MoMA by Artsjournal

"You can never be comprehensive in some absolute way. So, in a way, we've gone in the opposite direction and decided we're not even going to attempt to do that. Instead, we are going to enga…

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Wendy Whelan's Top Ten Cultural Wants by Artsjournal

What are the essential pieces of culture you have to have? For Whelan, they include Stravinsky, MoMA, socks and Chanel No. 19. " The New York Times

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How Big Data Has (Is) Transforming The Music Industry by Artsjournal

Analysts claim it's not only possible to see who's blowing up now, but more importantly, who's going to be blowing up next. Chartmetric says it can shortlist which of the 1.7 million artists…

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The Best Take Down Reviews Of Terrible Books This Year by Artsjournal

"Our friendly neighborhood book review aggregators put on our black hats and seek out the most deliciously virulent literary take-downs of the past twelve months. It's a ritual blood-letting…

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The Remix Decade: Culture Invited Us To Reconsider What We (Think) We Know by Artsjournal

"In television, film, literature, and other media over the past ten years, artists have presented information as though it is gospel, then reframed it in ways that force us to reconsider our…

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The Next Big Thing In Streaming? Human Curators by Artsjournal

While computer-generated suggestions aren't going away, companies are increasingly looking for other means to help viewers discover shows and movies they might otherwise have missed in a wor…

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Executive Director " Prescott Park Arts Festival by Artsjournal

The Executive Director will be a dynamic and experienced professional with overall strategic, financial, and operational responsibility for the Festival's programs, staff, and execution of…

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Monday, December 23, 2019

The New Yorker's List Of Top Cultural Moments Of The 2010s by Artsjournal

From Zadie Smith to Christian Marclay's clock to Beyonce and Clive James " the decade was a series of flashes. The New Yorker

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The Changing Faces Of America's Libraries by Artsjournal

"If you haven't been in a public library lately, you probably wouldn't recognize where you were if you entered one tomorrow. This is no longer, as I wrote early on, your mother's library. Th…

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Why Paul Bowles Drew Such A Long Shadow On Morocco by Artsjournal

I have tried not to think too often about the long shadow that Paul Bowles casts over Tangier, but this year's commemorations have made it hard to avoid: the twentieth anniversary of Bowles'…

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In Toronto, Classical Music Seems To Be Thriving by Artsjournal

Classical music and opera are not an old wooded sailing ship about to break into pieces in a fierce storm. They are the thin, iridescent film of soap bubbles stretched and borne aloft by the…

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How The Hallmark Channel Got Caught Up In The Culture Wars by Artsjournal

The world of Hallmark often resembles a kind of rear-guard action in a culture war that the network's prime demographic is losing. The jobs, homes, community and security in the bleached pas…

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Sensory-Friendly Orchestra Performances Tap Unserved Audiences by Artsjournal

Typically kids, adolescents and adults with autism take in information differently than their neurotypical peers. They can be easily overwhelmed by the senses, noises, visuals and smells. Th…

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End Of An Era For Penguin Books by Artsjournal

The last British owner of Penguin, Pearson, announced that it was selling its remaining stake in Penguin Random House, the book publishing joint venture it formed six years ago with Bertelsm…

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A Tale Of Two Deaths Of Two Critics by Artsjournal

While Clive James, a critic, writer and television broadcaster who left his native Australia to find fame in the U.K., received encomiums for the catholicity of his taste, the splendor of hi…

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Why High Resolution Audio Has Had Such A Hard Time Finding Takers by Artsjournal

Leaving people's personal abilities to distinguish high sonic quality from low sonic quality out of this conversation, there is a virtually insurmountable issue with mass adoption of hi-res …

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Five Historians Claim Errors In The NYTimes' Groundbreaking "1619" Project. The Times Responds by Artsjournal

Raising profound, unsettling questions about slavery and the nation's past and present, as The 1619 Project does, is a praiseworthy and urgent public service. Nevertheless, we are dismayed a…

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The Benefits Of Modesty by Artsjournal

"If modesty sucks so bad, then why did I spend so much of my time thinking about it? Because, despite all the unsavoury accumulated baggage that modesty has acquired over the years, I think …

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US Justice Department Dings Live Nation For Consent Decree Violations by Artsjournal

The DOJ investigation found that Live Nation had repeatedly violated the 10-year consent decree signed after the merger, in which the company agreed to refrain from monopolistic practices su…

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