Friday, November 1, 2019
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,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Like other mass media that boomed around the same time"radio, movies, monthly magazines"syndicated news diverted people's energies and attention from local culture with alluring, slickly-pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]The Santa Fe Art Colony was established in 1986 with public funds through the Community Redevelopment Agency, allowing for the adaptive reuse of factory buildings into artist studios. A 30-y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]The major exhibitors typically insist on a 72-day period of exclusivity for the films that play on their screens. During the monthslong talks with Netflix over "The Irishman," representative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Of course, age creates physical limitations. But there is artistry in their dancing and musicality, in the way they hang a fraction behind the beat to create the lilting sensation of floatin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The Golden Age of TV, the halcyon period that dates from the premiere of The Sopranos in January 1999, has been drawing to a close for a while now, but as the streamers lay out their plans f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
We admit, this is just museum building porn, but we love looking at beautiful buildings, and Architectural Digest has compiled a list of coolest-looking museums in each state in America. " A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"Eighth graders at the bottom 10th percentile of reading achievement lost six points on the exam compared with similar students two years ago, while students at the 50th percentile lost 3 po…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]The Asphalt Art Initiative will award 10 small or mid-sized cities with grants of up to $25,000 to create colorful murals on streets, intersections, and crosswalks, or vertical surfaces of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"A Chorus Line" is the ultimate ensemble musical, a compilation of autobiographical material about the emotional travails and aspirations of Broadway dancers, as they audition for spots in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from the brains of a pair of human subjects was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]On Wednesday the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as its new director and chief executive officer. She comes to L.A. from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"The Yoko Years. The Decade of Dora. Accounts of the muse"artist relation were anchored in the idea of male cultural production as a special category, one with particular needs"usually sexua…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]When the creators of GPT-2 gave the AI model a single sentence referencing J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, the machine generated a few paragraphs of Tolkien-esque prose"capturing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"Happiness is in many ways the marketing breakthrough of the past decade, with self-care and anti-stress products now rounding out the bestseller list on Amazon (think of 'gravity blankets',…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"Was it really okay, I wondered, to let holograms stand in for once-vital, important artists and carry out new performances? Was this an inevitable development in the interweaving of high te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Lear deBessonet is best known as the founder of Public Works, a much-lauded program of the Public Theater that once a year stages a new musical adaptation of a classic story, which is perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Last week, the company announced that Sue Dixon, who has been acting general director since Christopher Mattaliano's departure, will officially take on the job. " Willamette Week
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]" They apparently kept being surprised at their experience, and not just through its now-infamous, unseen pilot, which the duo has long admitted was a complete disaster. It just seems like e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]"Given all the excellent writing about the challenges of rendering otherness, someone who asks this question in 2019 probably has not done the reading. But the question is a Trojan horse, po…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Sandra Jackson-Dumont: "I'm trying to move the idea away from people being visitors to the museum to being users. You to go to a library to use it, right? You're not a visitor to the library…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Southern California architectural historian Alan Hess called it a "real loss to the architectural heritage of Los Angeles." "It was an early Ellwood design, but demonstrated all his distinct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Boston Landmarks Orchestra seeks an inspiring leader to advance the Orchestra's mission of building community through innovative, free classical musical programming, accessibility and inclus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]"I always imagined I would be a playwright at night and a CPA or something in the day," Lauren Yee said. "I'm pretty organized and disciplined. There are times when I'm thinking about a proj…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00PM[SHARE]Joseph Young: "I went up to her and said 'I really want to go to grad school for conducting' and she said 'why don't you come study with me.' That moment changed my life. Before that I had n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"Since being elected to the Vermont House of Representatives last fall, my perspective has dramatically changed as to how best advocate for the arts and, in fact, how siloed arts organizatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]The Getty is still safe and secure, representatives said. But the fire, which has burned more than 650 acres and prompted mass evacuations, was only 15% contained Tuesday afternoon, and the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Help the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts move into the next phase of organizational development as it builds off of the success of a recently competed capital campaign.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2019
In Saudi Arabia apostasy is punishable by death. Unless artists are willing to make their host's state control of expression an explicit subject of their work, those who participate cannot e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]ATT&T said Monday its DirecTV and its U-Verse television business in the third quarter lost a staggering 1.2 million customers, as more consumers cut the cord and migrate to video stream…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]In a couple of weeks, you'll have so many options to pay for content à la carte, you won't really know where to start. And yes, you'll be paying extra for the inconvenience. " Shelly Palm…
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