Friday, November 22, 2019
What we need are larger communities of musicians who take on a variety of musical tasks throughout their towns, playing early music, new music, movie music, chamber music, whatever is wanted…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Maybe it's true that if Lord Elgin had not taken the sculptures they would have been destroyed, by the Turks or the Venetians or the pollution in Athens. And it is true that, as stated in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]As you might have noticed, the use of trigger warnings has since spread beyond US universities to educational institutions around the world, and further: into theatres, festivals and even ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Academia is an honor-culture, in which recognition"in the form of citations"serves as a kind of ersatz currency. In ancient Greek, there is a word "pleonexia," which means "grasping after mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]What is real? How should one live? What government is best? Why do the good suffer and the evil prosper? Any answers can only be propositional or tentative, inviting further amplification or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]The big knowledge and tech hubs which once had such a stranglehold on attracting talent seem to be losing their allure. Many places around the country now have bundles of amenities"renovated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tyler Cowen: "The effects of pushing wealth out of the for-profit sector would be far-ranging. Wealthy donors might be more likely to pressure nonprofits for luxury consumption experiences, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]The workers come from nearly every department at MOCA, including visitor engagement, education, exhibitions, communications, retail and audio-visual, but not curatorial. Among their motivati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Our analysis is revealing. It shows that typically, where PWYC tickets and performances are publicly available, they are taken up disproportionately by existing customers. One producing thea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2019
Reading books aloud might seem like an easy way to make money " you just sit there and read " "but I can assure you it isn't. I narrated my own audiobook in 2014, an experience that I descri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]The Chicago Reader is hitching onto the train of news outlets pivoting to nonprofit life, under the umbrella of the newly-founded Reader Institute for Community Journalism, set to launch in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]The Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a two-year visiting faculty position, beginning August 2020.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]It's a study of human behavior. And it's a study of the ways in which the architecture of public spaces is designed to control the ways humans move, perhaps by funneling people towards an ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]A new study, commissioned by the mayor's office and released on Wednesday, finds that the city is home to 748 Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theater organizations responsible for 3,000 jo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:29PM[SHARE]For the third time in as many years, the White House has proposed a federal budget that would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]While the disruption has hampered the ability of newsrooms to fully cover communities, it also has damaged political and civic life in the United States, the report says, leaving many people…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]A decade long study at The Australian Ballet has delivered some surprising results as to what works in stretching and what is actually damaging to the body and increasing the risk of injury.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"To put it bluntly, the Marciano Art Foundation was never a real museum. Yes, it had access to a collection"some 1,500 pieces acquired primarily by Maurice Marciano, including L.A.'s trendie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"We hear people saying that the boom is back but that doesn't seem to be translating into a richer arts and cultural centre. Ireland has a really strange relationship with arts and culture. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]The academy, founded in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu, is the official gatekeeper of the French language whose members are known as 'the immortals'. Its mission is to keep the French languag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Andrew Norman's "Sustain" earned Grammy nominations in two key categories: contemporary classical composition, where composer Norman will square off against Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw and Wy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Fully 740 out of the 769 occupational descriptions Michael Webb analyzed contain a capability pair match with AI patent language, meaning at least one or more of its tasks could potentially…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]We are currently facing a new systemic collapse, one that has built far more swiftly but poses potent risks for all of humanity: the collapse of the information ecosystem. We see it play out…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"I feel very disappointed about the way my sculpture is treated, with nothing but contempt and not the appreciation that should be, since Charging Bull became one of the most visited attract…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Phil Kennicott: "The work done by these contemporary portraits is more fundamental. They are about seeing other people, rather than saving them. We are challenged simply to accept their exis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"The large number of arrests and objects seized hints at the massive scale and global reach of the international trade in illicit artifacts," says Tess Davis, executive director of the Antiq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]MOCA revealed plans to go free at its annual benefit in May, a switch made possible with a $10-million gift from board President Carolyn Powers. So why did the change take eight months to ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]It's remarkable that Atwood, who turned eighty in November, has reached this crest after spending six decades writing into an ever-shifting cultural landscape. When she was starting out, wri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Reproduction" is set in Brampton and explores the nature of family " both blood relatives and chosen family. The writing, as reviewers expect from Williams, is beautiful " he's written many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Over the years I've had many opportunities to question people gently about their personal identification and tastes in operas and opera productions. And it turns out that traditionalists do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Madison School District in Phoenix, AZ seeks Executive Director for The Madison Center for the Arts. Apply now for this great opportunity!
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