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Thursday, September 19, 2019

A New Library In Queens Is Terrific. So Why Can't New York Build More Like This? by Artsjournal

"Compact, at 22,000 square feet and 82 feet high, the library is among the finest and most uplifting public buildings New York has produced so far this century. It also cost something north …

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Management Strategy for Arts and Cultural Executives by Artsjournal

The DeVos Institute invites applications for its Global Arts Management Fellowship " a three-year, cohort-based intensive for arts and cultural executives. Apply by Nov. 15.

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The Man Who Would Be Beckett by Artsjournal

Bill Irwin finds Beckett's remarkable use of language something of a balm at a time when the use of words has grown so imprecise. "Our culture runs away from words," he bemoaned. "It seems t…

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Silent Discos Are A Scourge! by Artsjournal

"Much like the bubonic plague of 1347, silent disco is a blood-curdling infection that spreads across the city, carried on the back of headphone-wearing fleas! Fleas! Its biggest problem is …

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Translations Say Something About Their Time. And Of Ours? by Artsjournal

Are we reducing everything we translate to standard English, whatever that might be? Or are we struggling to get close to the otherness of foreign texts?  " New York Review of Books

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Artist Plants A Forest Inside A Soccer Stadium. Cue Backlash by Artsjournal

"I have been working on this idea for 30 years, and the fact that it landed right on the dot amid this whole climate discussion feels a bit eerie to me," he says. " […] I am producing a ra…

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It's Big: eSports Gets Its Own TV Network by Artsjournal

"You have this $150 billion-a-year industry that has no TV network. CWe are a universal network "that means we will be distributed and consumed anywhere our audience is consuming gaming cont…

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What Makes An Art Fair Successful? by Artsjournal

Sometimes it's a matter of establishing the upstart fair within a specific niche or by providing a new experience for collectors and gallerists. " Artsy

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Norman Lear At 97 by Artsjournal

For Jimmy Kimmel, who produced "Live in Front of a Studio Audience" with Lear, the iconic producer is an inspiration: "To be 97 years old and looking to the future, and trying to make the wo…

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Amazon Bets There's A Market For HD Streaming Music by Artsjournal

On Tuesday, Amazon (AMZN) announced it will offer more than 50 million songs at CD quality and millions more tracks at even better than CD quality as part of a new tier to its streaming musi…

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Fire At NYC's Cathedral Of St. John The Devine by Artsjournal

Oil paintings and an 18th-century icon were destroyed and other artworks damaged. And the plumes of smoke that rose up through heating vents in the floor into the cathedral's vast interior l…

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The Shambolic Ways In Which We Learn To Write by Artsjournal

John Warner defines "the writer's practice" as a set of "attitudes, skills, habits of mind, and knowledge" that writers embody, carry with them, or engage in. He describes the most important…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]

Zombie Malls And Changing America by Artsjournal

The Great Recession of 2008 didn't touch A-grade luxury centers, but it pulverized other tiers of malls. Green Street Advisors, a California-based real estate research firm, says the country…

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A Crisis In Leadership At LA's Top Music Organizations by Artsjournal

Mark Swed: "None of this looks good on the surface. But poke a level deeper and what you find are two companies with exceptionally strong No. 2s, trailblazers in their own right who have alr…

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Dublin's Quirkiness Is Being Scrubbed. Why? by Artsjournal

The past few years have seen several of Dublin's murals painted over, street markets canceled, and bars and cultural venues closed. Often, the things replacing them are facilities for touris…

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Getty Trust Commits $100 Million To Conserve Antiquities Around The World by Artsjournal

The trust, which operates the Getty Museum, has long focused on ancient Greek and Roman antiquities. This new program, however, is designed to expand the conservation efforts it underwrites …

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Get Politics Out Of Classical Music? Well, Er… by Artsjournal

These invectives against "political" music seem to stand out more due to our current contentious climate, which may create the impression that there has been an uptick in the number of moder…

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British Council Urged To Clarify The Role Of Culture In International Promotion by Artsjournal

"Artists should not feel like salespeople. There's a real danger around [perceptions of] Empire 2.0 as a consequence of Brexit. They [the British Council] need to be very careful that UK PLC…

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The Guardian Picks The Best New Architecture Of The Modern Age by Artsjournal

Twenty-five projects make the list " from Tate Modern to housing in South America to New York's High Line. " The Guardian

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How Tate Modern Became An Iconic And Celebrated Building by Artsjournal

"Twenty years on, the project is no less powerful. In fact, it seems eerily ahead of its time. The turn of the millennium was a time when "iconic" architecture was in its overblown prime, ev…

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Three Trans-Gender Opera Singers Talk About Their Careers by Artsjournal

Baritone Lucas, who decided to keep singing with her booming, low-voice type after her physical transition rather than trying to retrain her voice to sing soprano or mezzo roles, is rising t…

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Scans Of Artists Painting Using Their Feet Show The Brain Rewiring Itself by Artsjournal

In typically developed people, the "foot" part of the map is a solid region, with no distinct representation of the toes. But in the brains of Tom Yendell and Peter Longstaff, there were cle…

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Architecture That Redefines The Relationships Between In And Out by Artsjournal

Whether any of these gestures will mitigate the pressing problems of global warming and rising sea levels is still unknown " the fix likely requires more than what one landscape architect ca…

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£1 Billion Investment In London To Create Cultural Events Centre by Artsjournal

Investment includes plans to include a 1500-seat theatre, a 1000-seat performing arts venue, a four-screen cinema and a 670,000 square foot creative co-working space, as well as two hotels, …

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Monday, September 16, 2019

A Little Art With That Wine? Wine Country Experiments With Installations by Artsjournal

Some are dubious of the so-called Vine Art Movement. "Equating wine with art flatters the people who buy wine into thinking they're participating in something larger than they are," said Jam…

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Historic Find: Milton's Notes On Shakespeare's Plays by Artsjournal

The astonishing find, which academics say could be one of the most important literary discoveries of modern times, was made by Cambridge University fellow Jason Scott-Warren when he was read…

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Meet The UK's New Minister For Arts by Artsjournal

The MP for Faversham and Mid Kent replaces Rebecca Pow, who held the role for only four months. Pow is moving to a position in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Hel…

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How Crossword Puzzles Free The Mind by Artsjournal

Ultimately, crosswords can get you to see preconceptions that you might not have realized you held. Once words signify, the puzzle gets political. Crosswords quietly have an ideological agen…

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How Country Music Became The Heart Of Nashville by Artsjournal

Nashville attracted"first downtown, because that's where the Opry was located, and then on Music Row"a creative community, and that creative community feeds off of itself. I teach at Belmont…

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Music Deserts: What We Need Is Nutritional Music by Artsjournal

"Musical malnourishment, with increasing mono-diets and over-consumption of processed, chemically treated/created culture, entails an over-reliance upon intake from manufactured commodities …

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The Internet Is Changing How We Write (For Bad And Good) by Artsjournal

The Internet is speeding up the evolution of English by increasing our ability to stay loosely in touch with, and mutually influence, one another. " Washington Post

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