Monday, September 16, 2019
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
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"Seeking to understand what was going on, I took very unscientific straw polls of family and friends. I learned anecdotally what sociologists and social psychologists have shown in more scho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"Money corrupts"which, duh"but the Epstein episode tells an even bigger story. The entire system for metabolizing philanthropic gifts, particularly private ones, into academic research is a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"Music criticism will go on " in a few papers, in small journals and on the web (some of the record reviews on Amazon are startlingly erudite, but they are in the minority). Still, for bette…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]The numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.' Not only has someone used extensive judgment in choosing what to measure, how to define cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sontag's fraught relationship with her body wasn't simply about physicality; it was about her tormented relationship to need itself"her shame at having needs in the first place. " The New Re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"It's my personal opinion that at this particular moment, the greatest challenge arts philanthropy faces is to decide what our responsibility is to the institutional nonprofit arts infrastru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Acting on the findings of a Disciplinary Committee relating to a safe and respectful workplace complaint, Equity's national Council ratified the recommendation of the Committee and expelled…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2019
Reporting to Celebrity Series of Boston's President and Executive Director, Gary Dunning, the organization seeks a seasoned professional to fill the role of Director of Finance.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18AM[SHARE]The University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts, seeks applicants for a tenure track, Assistant Professor in Arts Administration to begin August 2020.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18AM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
"It's like a lawyer: if you find that the person you're representing is a murderer you can't then go around bewailing the fact you defended them " that was your job." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]This form of advertising lets the advertiser, like the artist or the label, play a shortened version of a music video as an advertisement in front of other videos. Under some conditions " li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]Golden Age evangelists love to wax rhapsodic on the artistic triumphs of their preferred series, but those same critics are quick to pull the "mass appeal" card to defend those series' faili…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]YouTube is doing something about the proliferation of hate on its video site. According to a blog post published on Tuesday (September 3), it took down five times more channels and videos pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]The more original shows Netflix orders, the more likely it is to cancel those that don't perform well. The company relies on an "efficiency metric" to decide what shows should be kept and wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The refrain "adapt or die" haunts many performing arts organizations, so it's fascinating to find one that heeds the warning, discovers what it needs to do"and then actually does it. " The P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The system will use game mechanics to engage users " people will be able to earn "points" each time the assistant shares one of their answers. " CNBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Zukerman, 74, has Alzheimer's. She was diagnosed about three years ago after her two daughters insisted that she get checked. At the time, Zukerman thought nothing of the memory slips… " A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"The music itself is not the problem, in fact it's what we do best"it's our core product. Yet so many organizations think that if we change the product, it will help the bottom line, but it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"Recently I was asked to present a lecture on composer Julius Eastman and his work at the OBEY Convention, a music and sound festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. But rather than a fruitful disc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]How serious is the gap between experience and the words we have? Serious. The need to render experience for others is tied to a need for others to understand us, and when unfulfilled, leaves…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
Show creators traditionally get big payouts when a really popular show gets syndicated and sold over and over again. Disney wants to pay more up front and limit the back end. Creators aren't…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Fewer Americans are volunteering their time and money on a regular basis, according to the report. The national volunteer rate has not surpassed 28.8 percent since 2005, and in 2015, it dipp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]There's little mystery about where people are heading, or why: They are mostly moving toward sun and some semblance of affordability. The major Texas metros"Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]This leads us to the most critical question: if most arts leaders are white, and diversity is the business of leaders, what is required of our leaders to effect change? " ArtsHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Enrique Mazzola, who is currently the principal guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and was until recently artistic and music director of the Orchestre National d'ÃŽle-de-France…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"Giving money to higher education amplifies a billionaire's legacy. The money greases hiring decisions and shapes curriculums, and it can ricochet across the wider culture for decades, even …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Magnus is part of a wave of smartphone apps trying to catalog the physical world as a way of providing instantaneous information about songs or clothes or plants or paintings. First came Sha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]After a week of debate in Kyoto, and pushback ahead of the International Council for Museums's annual conference in the historic Japanese city, delegates voted overwhelmingly against a co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Musicians say that his uncompromising approach to music " he is famous for marathon rehearsals and recording sessions, and for late-night salons where guests recite poetry, play music and ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]This past summer, an extreme drought in the Extremadura area of Spain that caused the Valdecañas Reservoir's water levels to plummet has revealed a series of megalithic stones. " artnet
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