Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The combination of extemporaneous performance and preëxisting art form enacts a trust across time and space. In the heyday of silent pictures, filmmakers expected that their movies would …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2019
No doubt social media in particular seems to represent the triumph of the writerly type over the writing itself. But DeWitt, Baker, Whitehead, and Atwood are among our most accomplished writ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]"A widespread public bewilderment at the 'Deconstructivist' showcase buildings that they are told is great modern architecture is well known. But less well understood is that most of the Wes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Neighborhoods with higher street density not only have more patented innovations, but more citations of the patents they generate. This suggests that neighborhoods with denser streets help f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Situated along the banks of the Huangpu River on Shanghai's version of Museum Mile, the new outpost is a collaboration with the West Bund Group, a Chinese state-owned development corporation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]"Alter the status of women and you have affected all the most intimate and significant nodes of life: the relation of wife to husband, mother to child, sister to sibling, daughter to parents…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]It's probably no surprise that Hallmark channels have increased their annual Christmas movie count by 20 percent since 2017, but Lifetime has more than quadrupled its output in the last two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Gia Kourlas: "He had a different partner this week because his regular one, Lindsay Arnold, had a death in her family. It didn't make his dancing better or worse. It remains consistent in it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Sure, there's Heinz Hall, where the Pittsburgh Symphony performs, but that's 2,700 seats, and smaller ensembles can't really fill the hall. It's depressing to be in a half-empty hall, even w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]St. John writes a letter to Roberto Diaz, president of the school: "You and the Board have failed both this venerable institution and the Curtis community." " Lara St. John
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]A new study reports that it "turns out that your penchant for variability, such as when you toss a new ingredient into a recipe or follow a creative hunch into the unknown, is often driven b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
Without the blunt, binaristic borders between zones " humanities versus sciences, humanities versus social sciences " the disciplines could connect across the much more complex and multifari…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]Vinyl sales have been surging in the last few years, as CD sales stay flat and digital downloads decrease. In the United Kingdom, data from 2016 reveals that vinyl LP sales revenue surpassed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of nation's leading regional theatres. The Executive Director will join Artistic Director N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]Published in August, Mr. Dubois's novel "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon" ("All Men Do Not Live in the Same Way") is a story narrated by a man languishing in a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]"I was never ashamed of being a sissy, and I wore the bullying as a badge of honor," he writes. "I knew what was going on and I knew who I was, so I took care of myself by being funny. Never…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]"Particularly in the past few years, conspiracy theories have been omnipresent on the internet and in social media. These modern forms of communication allow conspiracy theories to spread fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]The central library is built to serve as a kind of citizenship factory, a space for old and new residents to learn about the world, the city, and each other. It's pointedly sited across from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Like a pint-sized Cecil B. DeMille, we see Page in his family's suburban Connecticut neighborhood as he wrangles his actors, gauges camera angles and shouts, "Action!" In cut-away interviews…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The nonprofit sector started out as a vehicle for voluntary civic engagement. Nonprofit organizations are organized to advance the public, rather than private, good. But as the sector grew a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"As you reached your row, you were told to turn off your phone or put it on silent and insert it to a glove-like pouch. You keep your phone but you cannot turn it back on without unlocking t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"I won't say women are discriminated against as much as not given the same pathways as men. mostly because there is a male dominance in terms of personnel in the business. It's been generati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]The fakes made their way to Prince Charles' charity HQ in a manner befitting any art forgery, from a group of Agatha Christie characters. The work was part of a 10 year loan from 37 year-old…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]An anonymous e-mail, titled "The Threat of Burgess Clark," described what it said were the experiences of 17 former students who made a range of allegations against Clark, including three wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]What is intriguing is that the collapse of East Germany was, in many ways, a piece of theatre. The Alexanderplatz demonstration, one of the largest in GDR history, had been planned by actors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Barry Schwabsky: "To my eye, the dependence on the academic method (now perhaps even unconscious, in any case not definitively marked) remains just as inhibiting a factor for contemporary pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2019
If public libraries are not for the rich, they probably are not otherwise for the poor. To understand the public library as a benevolent form of welfare would be to entirely miss the radical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM[SHARE]Let us count the ways in which we've been force-fed dour, vitamin-deficient biopics of our favorite authors. Why. So. Serious. On top of being ponderous, such work bristles with the insecuri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM[SHARE]Paul "liked watching the dancer figure it out. He liked giving you a challenge or an obstacle or a directive and then sitting back and seeing what you would do with it. He was also famous fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"Clients are asking for storage for paintings, art, design, antiques and collectibles but we've also been moving large scale bronze as well as marble garden sculpture into storage." " The Ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Philosophy, Aristotle tells us in his Metaphysics, begins with wonder. History does too. It starts with obvious perplexities but also with our realisation of the strangeness of the everyday,…
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