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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Madison School District " Executive Director of Madison Center for the Arts by Artsjournal

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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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The Serious Critic: How James Wood's Judgment Has Changed by Artsjournal

Wood's earlier essays are more sure of themselves, more eager to please, packed with the kind of aphoristic insights that might have undergraduates reaching for their highlighter pens… In …

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Playing On Broadway… But What, Actually, Is Broadway? by Artsjournal

The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood's rough and raffish character. Today, not even all Broadway theaters ha…

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How Go-Go Culture Stood Up To Gentrification In DC by Artsjournal

The story is already legend: In D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood, Donald Campbell had been cranking go-go music from the speakers of his store at the corner of 7th and Florida Street since 1995, and…

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Art Market Trends Report: Artists Will Need To Diversify Their Income Sources by Artsjournal

These changes are symptomatic of several wider cultural shifts that, in combination with rising costs and declining public funding, are 'squeezing' the low-to-mid end of the market: the rise…

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New Research: 950-Year-Old Bayeux Tapestry Was Made For France, Not England by Artsjournal

The textile is long-considered a major cultural icon both in France and England. In light of Christopher Norton's findings, one news source trumpets that the tapestry is definitely French " …

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By The Numbers: Who Works In Publishing by Artsjournal

2017 was the first time women held a greater share of management jobs than men, and in 2018 they once again had a majority of jobs in that area, though their share fell to 52% (from 59% in 2…

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Botticelli "Copy" That Lay In Museum Storeroom For Decades Turns Out To Be Authentic by Artsjournal

National Museum Cardiff has put on display a painting of a Madonna and child that had for decades been dismissed as a crude copy of Botticelli's style. Ironically, it had been thought a Bott…

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Chicago Brass " What Defines The Chicago Symphony by Artsjournal

Whether the Chicago brass would be recognizable in a blind test is open to debate " many of the regional styles that once differentiated orchestras have been sanded over in this age of jet-s…

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I Like Books. But I Really Like Reading On My Phone Better by Artsjournal

"Reading on my phone is not a perfect cure for my drowsiness, which seems to be a condition of aging, and stress, or both. I'll never again be 14 years old with an insatiable appetite for on…

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Latin A Dead Language? Not Hardly by Artsjournal

It's not enough that the speaker is living to say that the language he or she speaks is alive. A living language is one that endures and produces other languages, which is precisely the case…

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Monday, November 18, 2019

White House Announces Trump's First National Medal Of Arts Winners by Artsjournal

After skipping 2017 and 2018, the White House announced that Trump has chosen actor Jon Voight, novelist James Patterson, president and chief executive officer of WETA (a Washington, D.C. pu…

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Martin Filler: MoMA's Growth Imperative by Artsjournal

MoMA's endorsement of unending growth is central to the advancement of corporate values that lie at the heart of the existential crisis facing not just it and countless other cultural instit…

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We Are Our Memories, Right? So When We Get Dementia… by Artsjournal

Of course, people with dementia experience significant changes in their self-concept, self-knowledge, social relationships, perception of their own capacity, and even their physical appearan…

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Good Vibrations: A Theory Of Our Consciousness by Artsjournal

How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving information about the rest of the world out there? Why are some things conscious and others apparently not? " The Conversation

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How Some Russian Theatres Are Addressing Social Issues by Artsjournal

"Issues-based theatre when it happens falls into two categories at the moment. Moscow's Teatr.doc embodies the company that produces grimy work to challenge society " and gets targeted and c…

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A Life In Art: Dick Waller At 90 by Artsjournal

He was a clarinetist who jammed with Bernstein and Duke Ellington, played with the Cincinnati Symphony for 35 years, then gave it up to open an art gallery. Oh, and he founded a chamber musi…

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When Contemporary Theatre Struggles To Keep Up With The News by Artsjournal

When a play lands can be as crucial as the quality of the writing and the rigour of the dramaturgy. In a 'new play culture', always seeking ever newer writers, a play whose timing is just a …

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Iran Shuts Down The Internet Inside The Country by Artsjournal

The government is apparently seeing to silence protestors and quell unrest. So how does a country like Iran switch off internet to a population of more than 80 million? It's not an easy thin…

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A Movie Project BootCamp That Uses AI To Cull by Artsjournal

This year, the program received more than 11,000 submissions for just 17 spots in its third class. The Impact application consists of 70 questions, what Mitchell describes as a "thesis-like …

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Elizabeth Warren, AOC Weigh In On Taylor Swift's Music Catalog Dispute by Artsjournal

"Swift's initial post alleges that Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta were essentially holding access to her older music hostage, telling her that if she wants to be able to perform the music…

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What Makes A Great American Song? by Artsjournal

For all that composers like Jerome Kern hated jazz and pop interpretations of their work " work generally created, after all, for specific scenes and characters in specific musical plays " R…

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Next Up In Cancel Culture: Gauguin? by Artsjournal

The artist "repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls, 'marrying' two of them and fathering children," reads the wall text. "Gauguin undoubtedly exploited his position as a p…

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Thousands Of Subscribers Say They Were Hacked After Signing Up For Disney+ by Artsjournal

On 12 November, its first day live, people had technical problems and many complained on social media. Others said they were locked out of their accounts, and since they contacted Disney the…

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Why Centrism Is No Longer At The Center Of Our Politics by Artsjournal

It's often said that we are also witnessing a crisis of liberalism: liberal norms are being eroded, institutions are under threat, and across Europe, parties of the centre are haemorrhaging …

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Friday, November 15, 2019

City Of Seattle Is Reorganizing Support For A "Creative Cluster." Movie And Music Unions Aren't Happy by Artsjournal

Seattle is losing music and movie production. The City is "reorganizing" its film and music office into a a larger office that broadens the definition of creative industries to software and …

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Michael Kaiser's Prescription For Saving The Baltimore Symphony by Artsjournal

"I do not believe in board retreats," Kaiser said. "I believe we make a mistake by trying to engage everyone equally in developing a quality plan. Good plans are not written by committees. G…

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Will The New Streaming Landscape Help Or Hurt The Movies? by Artsjournal

"Abundance can be its own kind of scarcity. Without a sense of occasion, without the idea that a given experience is special, even rare, all experiences become equivalent, and our attention …

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The Dismal Art: Economics Seems To Have Detached From Reality. So Why Does Anyone Listen? by Artsjournal

Mainstream economists nowadays might not be particularly good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but wh…

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A Theory About Being A Jerk (Yes, We're Talking About You) by Artsjournal

"No one is as right about everything as the jerk thinks he is. He would learn by listening. And one of the things he might learn is the true scope of his jerkitude." " Lithub

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Disney+ Is Attaching Warnings To Its Classic Movies About "Outdated Cultural Depictions" by Artsjournal

Users of the service have seen the warnings attached to some of the company's best-known animated films, such as Dumbo, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, with text that reads: "This program …

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