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Monday, October 7, 2019

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Master's in Performing Arts Management at The New School in NYC by Artsjournal

This innovative new program in NYC empowers musicians, composers, actors, directors, and playwrights to advance their established performance practices while acquiring the skills needed to e…

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Operations Director for our Toronto Dance Studio by Artsjournal

Goh Ballet Academy is one of Canada's preeminent ballet training institutions, with an enviable international reputation for excellence.

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Arts Education For All? (Depends On How You Define It) by Artsjournal

The problem is that the offering all across the country is premised on the wealth of schools or school districts and there is a fundamental, inherent inequity to that reality.   " Barry's…

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Remembering Jessye Norman by Artsjournal

Alex Ross: "The grand-diva façade concealed a restless, exploratory spirit. In later years, Norman became increasingly adventurous in her choice of repertory." The New Yorker

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Readying For New Controversies Around Nobel Literature Prize by Artsjournal

The revamped panel at the Swedish Academy who will hand out the Nobel Literature prizes Thursday for both 2018 and 2019 would relish arguments about the winners, rather than intrigue about t…

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The Glastonbury Festival Isn't Until Next June. But Tickets Sell Out In 34 Minutes by Artsjournal

A record number of people had registered to be eligible for the sale, which started at 9am on Sunday and was finished in little over 30 minutes. A record 2.4 million people signed up to have…

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For The First Time In 136 Years, Met Opera Begins Sunday Matinees by Artsjournal

As part of three-year labor contracts agreed to in the summer of 2018, the Met has the right to present up to 17 Sunday matinees this season and 27 in 2020-21. Any Sunday show will be follow…

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Netflix Goes Around Theatre Chains, Rents Broadway Theatre For Scorsese Movie Run by Artsjournal

Stymied by the big theater chains, the streamer has booked Broadway's Belasco Theatre for its November 1 opening of Martin Scorsese's epic "The Irishman" for one of several New York theatric…

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Addicted To Your Screens? It's Your Own Fault! by Artsjournal

"We talk about addiction, but when it comes to Candy Crush, really? Facebook? We're not freebasing Facebook. We're not injecting Instagram here," Mr. Eyal said one morning over croissants at…

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Are You An Absolutist On Free Speech? Maybe It's Time To Rethink? by Artsjournal

Even if you see social media platforms as something more akin to a public utility, not all speech is protected under the First Amendment anyway. Libel, incitement of violence and child porno…

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Theoretical "Science" You Can Never Prove. Is It Real? by Artsjournal

"In our post-truth age of casual lies, fake news and alternative facts, society is under extraordinary pressure from those pushing potentially dangerous antiscientific propaganda " ranging f…

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A Worldwide War On Books by Artsjournal

Wherever authoritarian regimes are growing in strength, from Brazil, to Hungary, to the Philippines, literature that expresses any kind of political opposition is under a unique, renewed thr…

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Friday, October 4, 2019

The Fraught Art Of Page-Turning by Artsjournal

The page turner disturbs our illusion of musical command, threatening to shatter the audience's suspension of artistic disbelief, where we disaggregate the magic of the sounds we experience …

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Mind Meld: The Risks (And Rewards) Of Linking Our Brains With Computers by Artsjournal

Neural lace and other AI-based enhancements are supposed to allow data from your brain to travel wirelessly to one's digital devices or to the cloud, where massive computing power is availab…

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The Louvre Is Moving Around Its Collections And Rehanging Art by Artsjournal

The Pyramid entrance was revamped in 2014-16, and a total rehang of the collections is under way, including rewriting labels for the 38,000 works exhibited in the galleries. " The Art Newspa…

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Of The Moment: How To Capture Improvisation by Artsjournal

The drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey has a lovely phrase to describe the practice of improvisation: "the adornment of time." " New York Review of Books

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Yemen's Ancient Cultural Treasures Are Being Damaged In Its Civil War by Artsjournal

As a result of Yemen's complex civil war " now in its fifth year " many of the country's wonders have been damaged or are under threat. While the destruction pales in comparison to the human…

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Arts Council England's New Strategy For Culture Seems To Be More About Itself Than The Arts by Artsjournal

Robert Hewison: "ACE's response to its lacklustre level of achievement has been to invent three "outcomes" so inoffensive that no one would disagree with them: "creative people" " more empha…

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Did Tate Museum Outpost Revive An Ailing UK Sea Town? by Artsjournal

There's evidence it did. In some respects. But the answer is a bit more complicated. " BBC

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Students Sue Actor James Franco Over Sex Scenes Class by Artsjournal

The two named plaintiffs seek to represent a class of more than 100 former female students at Studio 4. Their complaint alleges that Studio 4 set out to "create a steady stream of young wome…

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A Case For Reconsidering New Age Music As Art by Artsjournal

How did New Age end up carrying so much baggage in our musical memory? Its fall from grace, when it once soared, might be due to New Age's status as one of the most heavily marketed musical …

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Letters From A Young Jerome Robbins When He Was Trying To Make It As A Dancer (And Failing) by Artsjournal

"I shall be firm straight and even cruel to be faithful. I SHALL DANCE. Yes . . . I shall dance. Say it over and over and over to infinatum [sic]. I shall dance I shall dance . . . I will li…

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Thursday, October 3, 2019

The Scary Apocalyptic Literature Of The Nationalist Far Right by Artsjournal

Lone wolves, domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and militiamen on the far-right fringes who have long trafficked in an expansive body of published manifestos and propagandist fiction. …

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I Used To Be An Avid Reader. But Since The Internet… by Artsjournal

"Reading books is something I was once did compulsively, willingly and joyfully. But as I get older and spend more of my life online, reading books has become harder. Studies suggest I'm not…

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Why Public Libraries Across America Are Eliminating Book Fines by Artsjournal

The decision to remove fines is a growing nationwide movement. Already, dozens of U.S. libraries have fully or partially eliminated overdue fines (usually for teens and children), according …

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Ontario Slashes Art Budget, Leaving Publishers Unable To Pay Writers, Illustrators by Artsjournal

Provincial cuts to the Ontario Arts Council will leave small magazines struggling to pay writers and illustrators, silencing important minority and marginalized voices, and putting the magaz…

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Ancient Romans Used Infographics by Artsjournal

A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies (IT) drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world and …

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New Technology Could Finally Make Ancient Pompeii Scrolls Readable by Artsjournal

The two unopened scrolls that will be probed belong to the Institut de France in Paris and are part of an astonishing collection of about 1,800 scrolls that was first discovered in 1752 duri…

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Silence's Central Role In Music by Artsjournal

As social beings, we are hard-wired to interpret breaks in the flow of human communication. We recognize the pregnant pause, the stunned silence, the expectant hush. A one-beat delay on an a…

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Former Getty Foundation Leader Deborah Marrow, Dies In LA by Artsjournal

Marrow was a lifelong champion for the arts. She began working at the Getty in 1983 as a publications coordinator, and went on to serve in various high-ranking roles. Her longest and most su…

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MoMA, Modernism, And Times Long Gone By by Artsjournal

Jerry Saltz: "Much of modernism and its concerns now feel long ago, forged in a time of rapid industrial change when white European males assumed they ruled the world. The demands of our tim…

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