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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Streaming Wars Are Getting Serious This Fall (And It's Going To Be Expensive And Inconvenient) by Artsjournal

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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Artists For Our Pre-Internet Brains by Artsjournal

"The part of our brain that regulates our time perception has been overloaded and exhausted, causing our sense of past, present and future to melt together." " The Guardian

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The Bumper Sticker Is Wrong " Mistakes Do Define Us by Artsjournal

General infallibility is a tempting proposition. Treating an individual's attitudes and preferences as givens " as matters beyond debate or criticism " might seem to promote human dignity by…

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Max Exodus Of Leadership Of Vancouver's Arts Organizations by Artsjournal

It's an impressive roll call (and all women): Executive director of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Jacqueline Dupuis. Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar. Vancouver's Chutzp…

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Surprise: Vancouver Opera General Director Steps Down Over Disagreement On Company's Direction by Artsjournal

Kim Gaynor joined the opera three years ago, and was given the challenge of moving the company from a traditional season (or "stagione") model to a festival with a number of events during a …

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Executive Director opportunity with South Carolina State Museum by Artsjournal

DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Executive Director of the South Carolina State Museum, the state's largest and most comprehensive museum.

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800 Musicians Say They'll Boycott Amazon Festival Over Company's Work For ICE by Artsjournal

The letter " organized by a group of artists and activists including Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis, Downtown Boys' Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, Evan Greer, Adult Mom, @k8_or_die, Carmen Perry, an…

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Netflix To Let Customers Speed Up/Slow Down Viewing Speeds by Artsjournal

Whip through that "Seinfeld" at double speed? Audio books already come with this feature, allowing readers to speed up the playback. But video producers object to the idea as it changes how …

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Seattle Area Libraries Boycott MacMillan E-Books Over New Policy by Artsjournal

In response to a new policy on e-book purchases imposed by Macmillan Publishers and effective Nov. 1, King County Library System will be boycotting the publisher's upcoming e-books, declinin…

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Monday, October 28, 2019

Queen's University " Appointment of Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre by Artsjournal

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University is now seeking a new Director who will articulate a bold and dynamic vision that leverages the Agnes' impressive strengths, collections…

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Landmarks Theatre President Suddenly Quits. Is The Quality Movie Business In Jeopardy? by Artsjournal

Ted Mundorff: "Since 1927, attendance has gone down, though box office remains the same. It usually sits around $10 and a half billion dollars. I've always been very bullish on movie theater…

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Oxford University Student Union Votes To Abolish Clapping In Favor Of "Jazz Hands" by Artsjournal

"British Sign Language clapping is used by the National Union of Students since loud noises, including whooping and traditional applause, are argued to present an access issue for some disab…

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Abbie Hoffman's Papers Go To College by Artsjournal

Mr. Hoffman, whose infamously anarchic work, "Steal This Book," included tips on how to shoplift, might be amused to have his papers end up in so solemn a setting as a university research li…

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Streaming Has Changed The Ways We Listen To Music by Artsjournal

At the moment, at least, people seem to prefer podcasts and music that make them feel as if they're alone in the room with the performers. And that in turn has an appreciable effect on the k…

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The Vermont House Where People Go To Be In Jane Austen's World by Artsjournal

People come for all sorts of reasons: "One woman clearly thought it was going to be like the movie Austenland and she'd meet her husband here." " The Guardian

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University of South Wales Closes Its Dance Program by Artsjournal

A spokesman for the University of South Wales said "projected recruitment figures for the degree mean that we will not have enough students in future to be able to continue to provide a high…

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Remember When Blockchain Was Going To Change How The World Worked? It Hasn't by Artsjournal

Two years ago, ICOs lured billions of dollars into blockchain companies and spawned a cottage industry of pilot projects. For a while, a blockchain seemed a salve for just about any problem.…

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In A Surprise Move, Sotheby's Picks A New CEO by Artsjournal

In June, Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli telecommunications billionaire, took Sotheby's private in a deal worth $3.7 billion. The purchase, by Mr. Drahi's BidFair USA, returned the only publ…

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Why Theatre Isn't My "Other" Job by Artsjournal

Only two per cent of actors actually make a living from acting alone and 90 per cent of actors are out of work at any given time so that means, more often than not, actors have to make money…

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Festivals Worldwide Are Thinking Green by Artsjournal

Every industry takes a toll and holds its own responsibility when it comes to environmental impact, and as life goes on, action to minimise this is necessary. Festivals, promoters and event …

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Can Pompeii Be Saved From The Tourists? by Artsjournal

Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century, Pompeii's rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered by looters, exploited by profit-hungry private excav…

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Expanding MoMA, Expanding Art by Artsjournal

James Russell: "MoMA has long built its origin story of Euro-American Modernism around its great holdings, but that story no longer consists of a single, mainly male, heroic narrative. Inste…

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NY Is Trying To Diversify Its Monuments. Not So Easy, It Turns Out by Artsjournal

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. B…

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What Your Brain Looks Like When You're Improvising by Artsjournal

"What do the brains of jazz musicians look like as they create their art on the fly? Using an fMRI machine, Dr. Charles Limb found that activity in the medial prefrontal cortex shot up, whil…

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Why Are The NYT, WSJ And Others Making TV Shows? by Artsjournal

"So what are newspapers and web producers up to, besides making extremely expensive pivots-to-video? And why are these outlets willing to bet people like their journalism enough to watch ent…

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Rowan Williams: How Poetry Clarifies Our Language by Artsjournal

As Auden says, poetry is "a way of happening". It takes the passage of time, the reality of loss, the absorption in a sharpened kind of seeing or hearing, and makes all these into speech tha…

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Painting Spotted In Woman's Kitchen Sells At Auction For $26 Million by Artsjournal

An auctioneer spotted the painting in June while inspecting a woman's house in Compiegne in northern France and suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. It hung on a wall between…

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A Tiny Bookshop On The Greek Island Of Santorini Fights To Stay "Authentic" by Artsjournal

Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock have overrun the village of Oia on Santorini's northern tip, Atlantis Books has become an unlikely oasis of authenticity an…

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Elijah Cummings: Librarians Helped Me Most by Artsjournal

"The people who helped me the most were the librarians," Cummings told Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interview broadcast in January of this year, adding that the public library was the o…

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Argentina Believed It Found A Trove Of Nazi Artifacts. Experts Aren't so Sure by Artsjournal

Police came across the more than 80 objects by accident during a house search of an antiques dealer in a suburb of Buenos Aires. They include daggers with swastikas, a ouija board and magnif…

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Fire Breaks Out Near Getty; Area Evacuated by Artsjournal

The Getty fire, which broke out near the Getty Center along the 405 Freeway, has burned more than 500 acres. " Los Angeles Times

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