Thursday, October 24, 2019
Billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen said she was chosen from a group of 500 who had been nominated for the prize, narrowed down to a list of five finalists. In an interview, Berggru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"Finding performances online is a very impoverished view of the inspirational value of making live art. Art should be live. I know this myself because I've grown up throughout the whole peri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Maybe that's been happening on a global level. Maybe still we need more of it. There are always arguments for and against processing reality through genre escapism and there are always "heal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"In recent months, Senator Warren has become an even more effective storyteller. During a rally last month she conjured the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in rich detail: "It was March 25,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"The central question that the museum presents is the degree to which a national memorial to the history and culture of a marginalized people, set in that nation's capital and funded and sup…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"As a composer and researcher in cognition and music, I have been thinking about my mother's hallucinations and what they might tell us about the nature and role of music today. Neurological…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]It would be easy to say that all money under capitalism is corrupt so what can we possibly do? Well, I do know one thing we could do. We could nationalize the art museums. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]The Australian film box office numbers show a simple fact: Aussie films are less popular in Australia today than they were 30 to 40 years ago. " Spectator
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Sadie is the unlikely new Emily Post of the theatre community. In June, just before leaving for sleepaway camp, she put Magic Marker to paper and laid out what she calls her Broadway Rules, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"The problem is that Facebook doesn't offer free speech; it offers free amplification. No one would much care about anything you posted to Facebook, no matter how false or hateful, if people…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Emoji sink or swim on less democratic tides. They aren't quite words, of course, though they're certainly word-adjacent. (Three out of four Americans regularly deploy emoji in text messages,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]Bring your love of the arts to leadership positions with arts institutions through NYU Steinhardt's MA in Visual Arts Administration. Prepare for a dynamic career in the commercial or non-pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"If today's advanced economies have reached (or even exceeded) the point of productivity that Keynes predicted, why are 30- to 40-hour weeks still standard in the workplace? And why doesn't …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]In the past, many actors would list these expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions on their taxes. But the 2017 tax reform law eliminated that provision, affecting thousands of performi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]"I do not agree that the novel is doomed to become a marginal cultural force " but I can see why writers whose first successes came in the pre-digital age may think so. Gone are the days of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]In June, days before the book was expected to go on sale in the United States, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt postponed the publication and recalled copies from retailers, an unusual and costly m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]Although we're still starved of the bottom end of the list and, disappointingly yet tellingly, any box-office data for its theatrical releases, we can start to see what is and isn't working …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]In a survey conducted by the union " which represents more than 31,000 musicians, 90% of whom are freelancers " 48% of respondents said they had experienced workplace harassment. More than f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]"We've known for a long time that the Art Institutes lied to students about losing accreditation. Now, we know that the Department of Education misled them, too," said Eric Rothschild, an at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]"The effect of this legacy for mixed metaphors and a lack of public funding of the arts is a numbing of artistic innovation and an enlivening of artistic repetition. Companies often opt for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Their first two videos, for Wolf Totem, and Yuve Yuve Yu (or How Strange, How Strange) have amassed more than 45m views on YouTube over the last year, while their debut album, The Gereg, ope…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]He was part of a generation of musicians who, aided by the burgeoning recording industry, helped revive Baroque music in concert halls after World War II. That group included Nikolaus Harnon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"The recent outcry online over the low wages, high stress and professional instability that assistants face " given a voice through the hashtag #PayUpHollywood Â" has served to highlight …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]"The Academy's response to any criticism no matter how facile or valid"including accusations of radical leftism, elitism, racism, sexism, and general mustiness"has been to make vague, grand …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]"It's that disconnect between long- and short-term interests that makes frothy articles so frustrating. The feeling of curiosity promised you'd learn something and, admittedly, you did " now…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"There are different types of creepiness, and the array of things that creep us out ranges from dolls that are too lifelike to clowns in places where clowns should not be… The basic premis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]William Paul Gerhard, an engineer with the British Fire Prevention Committee, stated in a report that by May 1897 there had been 1,115 recorded theater fires in Europe and America (since rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Part of the appeal is the sheer human spectacle provided by costumed attendees (or playtrons, in Renfaire-ese). Though the village is ostensibly set in the 16th century, it most accurately …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Who is being produced on our stages? What kinds of characters are appearing on our stages? And what do these plays look like in terms of form and thematic content? " Howlround
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PM[SHARE]"If the judges felt that they needed the world to know about these two novels, shouldn't that be a cause for celebration? It seems to me that the work of these two fine writers is being over…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2019
The Army is forming a new unit with a similar mandate to be composed of commissioned officers of the Army Reserves who are museum directors or curators, archivists, conservators and archaeol…
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