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Friday, November 15, 2019

Disney+ Is Attaching Warnings To Its Classic Movies About "Outdated Cultural Depictions" by Artsjournal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

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]

Idagio Launches Free Classical Music Service by Artsjournal

The Berlin-based startup says the free tier will prominently feature its 'Mood Player,' which generates a playlist based on a person's selected mood, as well as playlists curated by staff or…

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Anish Kapoor: On The Artist's Voice by Artsjournal

"So there are two different things that happen. One is, this is what I am as an artist. I have nothing to say as an artist. I let the work do its thing. The other is, of course I have a voic…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]

Fans And The False Intimacy Of Podcasts by Artsjournal

All across the podcast realm, from the heights of self-help to the depths of true crime, imagined relationships are blossoming. Listeners may press play for the content, but many of them eve…

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Associate Director of Artistic Planning by Artsjournal

Seattle Opera is seeking a personable, detail oriented, well organized person with excellent financial skills. Must have great communication skills to work with a variety of personalities. T…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42AM[SHARE]

The Phoenix Symphony, Chief Development Officer by Artsjournal

The Phoenix Symphony (TPS) is Arizona's largest performing arts organization and considered a cultural icon.

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Next-Gen Critics? by Artsjournal

"I think a big part of the role of a critic is being somebody who holds artists accountable as well. When you are an artist and you're presenting a work of art to your community, you know th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PM[SHARE]

How Gentrification Squeezes Out Culture by Artsjournal

Capitalism has its own rhythm, but also its own specific geography. Urban space is profoundly transformed by financial capitalism. Urban spaces are becoming expensive, and the closure of cul…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PM[SHARE]

Call for Applications: Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises at Northwestern University by Artsjournal

The MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program develops leaders in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your Master's in One Year.

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PM[SHARE]

Can Movies Help Preserve Indigenous Languages? by Artsjournal

For decades, elders, activists, and linguists have sought to save North America's indigenous languages, of which about a hundred and sixty-five remain. (There were around three hundred spoke…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PM[SHARE]

United Arts of Central Florida " President and CEO by Artsjournal

United Arts of Central Florida (UA) collaborates with more than 60 arts and cultural organizations, individuals, businesses, local governments, and foundations to enhance the quality and v…

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Why Curtis Institute May Have Been Ripe For Abuse by Artsjournal

"The stakes are so high to land some kind of a career, and the stature of a teacher is incredibly intimidating even if your teacher is respectful and kind. You are going to feel vulnerable b…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]

Root Of All Music: The Marginalized Fringe by Artsjournal

Ted Gioia argues that that is music's basic pattern throughout history " for symphonic music, church music, operas, chamber music, atonalism, you name it. No matter how disciplined, codified…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]

Should We Worry About Knowing The Social Class Of Our Audiences? by Artsjournal

"As long as we continue to make vague generalisations about the social background of our audiences and users, we further the conditions in which a culturally entitled minority can continue t…

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Why People's Choice Awards Mostly Get It Wrong by Artsjournal

Why, as every failed political candidate has been prompted to ask their pillow, are the people always so darn disappointing? Well, in part it's a sobering reminder that most people are not s…

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How Technology Has Changed How Comic Books Are Made by Artsjournal

"I recall in the late '80s, we were all so sure that every discipline of comics creation would switch over to being done with the aid of the personal computer. Well, 30 years later, people p…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]

China Gives Surprise Endorsement For Greece's Campaign To Get Parthenon Marbles Back by Artsjournal

Xi Jinping's support is just one measure of the growing affinity between the countries, underscored by a two-day visit during which their leaders signed 16 new agreements, and China committe…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]

LACMA's Fundraising For New Building Has Stalled by Artsjournal

LACMA's crumbling infrastructure is a genuine predicament. But weak philanthropy, a longtime but misleading L.A. stereotype, is not the reason the museum's funding campaign has stalled. Inst…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Digital Marketing Manager opportunity at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis by Artsjournal

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is looking for a Digital Marketing Manager, who will serve as both as the company's primary digital content creator and as the lead distribution manager for di…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]

BAM seeks a charismatic VP, Development by Artsjournal

BAM is home to adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. The VP, Development will to tap into new sources of support beyond the organization's current base of supporters and serve as a stra…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]

Pop Culture (For Good Or Bad) Unites Us Culturally. Will Streaming Wars Disrupt This? by Artsjournal

"Pop culture is one of the things that unites us as Americans and a lot of our pop culture is bad. But the fact that a whole bunch of people watch The Masked Singer every week or that everyb…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]

Why I Love "Bad" Movies by Artsjournal

"We bad-movie watchers have our own anticriteria, the sorts of badness we prefer. Some of us use the term "bad movies" to mean, simply, films that emerge from a supposedly lowbrow genre, or …

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The End Of The "Rude" Press by Artsjournal

When I was growing up, every major American metro area had both a polite press"the local dailies"and a rude one: the alt-weeklies. The alt-weeklies were funded by advertisers the family-frie…

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A "Decade Of Reckoning" For Classical Music by Artsjournal

Anne Midgette: "The music isn't the problem, it's the way we're offering it." Big, inflexible institutions take away the "oxygen and funds" from the smaller organizations, she argues, which …

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Why Britain's Working Classes Are In To The Classics by Artsjournal

"Classical materials have been present in the identity construction and psychological experience of substantial groups of working-class Britons. Dissenting academies, Nonconformist Sunday sc…

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On Words Out Of Cultural Context And Banning Or Favoriting Them by Artsjournal

"The United States has never been totally segregated, but this new world exposes everyone to everyone else in unprecedented intensity. Just like we sound like our friends, just like someone …

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Why Netflix Shouldn't Give In To Movie Theatres For Its Releases by Artsjournal

Netflix can deliver filmmakers a prospective audience of 300 million people (and growing) with each release. This film distribution strategy is enabling rich, diverse stories to reach a mass…

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Marin Alsop: Baltimore Symphony Has A Creativity Problem by Artsjournal

"I find this is a difficult institution to get air time in because we don't talk about the art first. Nobody ever talks to me. Barely. There's no place to actually say these things safely, s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]

Cookie Monster's Lifelong Love Affair With Art by Artsjournal

"I've suspected there is something life-affirming in Cookie Monster's unabashed love and joy for cultural stimuli " so pure and brash that if he could eat it all, he would. Cookie Monster wa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]

New York's Iconic Drama Bookstore Finds A New Home After Rents Forced It Out by Artsjournal

"It was both a destination for tourists and it was also our hub, and so we wanted to keep it close to the theater district. And, too, we're in the business of creating community, and that's …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Martin Scorsese's Cogent Critique Of The Hollywood System by Artsjournal

Scorsese isn't inveighing against fantasy but against a system of production that submerges directors' authority in a network of dictates and decisions issued from the top down"a network in …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]