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Thursday, September 5, 2019

VP Sales and Marketing by Artsjournal

The Company is a publisher engaged in global retail and wholesale distribution of museum quality limited edition prints by renowned contemporary artists.

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Boström KnausgÃ¥rd: You Don't Know Me From My Ex-Husband's Books by Artsjournal

Questions of strength and weakness have hovered around Boström KnausgÃ¥rd ever since the novelist with whom she shares a last name wrote, in rather excruciating detail, about their lif…

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The Diminished State Of Art Criticism by Artsjournal

"The six most influential art critics, according to the respondents, were all white, mostly men and mostly older. They included one woman, Roberta Smith (The New York Times), Holland Cotter …

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Inside Portland Opera's Crisis by Artsjournal

One of the biggest missteps was transitioning from a fall and winter schedule to a spring and summer schedule. Implemented in 2014, the transition was an attempt to address the opera's alrea…

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Audience Members Loudly Enjoy Play, Man Shushes Them. But Why? by Artsjournal

"I wish I could have told him that his outburst about our outbursts (if gasps and laughs are outbursts) betrayed the DNA of theater itself. Unless he plans on buying out venues to watch play…

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A Higher Education Crisis by Artsjournal

Higher education is in the middle of multiple, massive disruptions"and it isn't clear that the leaders of the sector grasp the magnitude of the waves of change breaking on their ivy-covered …

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Do Our Jobs Define Us? by Artsjournal

"A recent study of priorities among young people found that achieving one's career passion ranks highest of all " more than making money or getting married. Finding a fulfilling job is almos…

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French Architects Attack Plan For A Makeover Of Paris Gare Du Nord Train Terminal by Artsjournal

The award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel as well as historians and town planners wrote an open letter to Le Monde saying the €600m (£540m) renovation plan to create a glass st…

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Confessions Of A Sex Scene Coach: How Movie Sex Has Changed In The #MeToo Era by Artsjournal

Alicia Rodis was struck by how much more care went into staging physical interactions that were violent or dangerous than into staging those that were sexual. For a fight scene, choreographe…

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Why Do The Same Images Show Up On Book After Book? by Artsjournal

The book cover design world, it turns out, has something of an all-star squad of stock and archival image that show up on book covers time and time again. James Morrison, an editor, designer…

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How Change Happens " With A Million Tiny Steps by Artsjournal

"The unknown becomes known, the outcasts come inside, the strange becomes ordinary. You can see changes to the ideas about whose rights matter and what is reasonable and who should decide, i…

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The Disconnects Of This Year's Booker Prize Finalists by Artsjournal

"Given the thematic unity of this year's prize " from long- to shortlist, there has been an emphasis on experimentation and engagement with the present day " it's not immediately obvious whe…

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Linda Ronstadt On Her Life With Parkinson's by Artsjournal

"I have a form of Parkinsonism that doesn't respond to standard Parkinson's meds, so there's no treatment for what I have. It's called P.S.P."Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. I just have to s…

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The Scientist Who Believes Plants Can Talk by Artsjournal

Last year Dr. Monica Gagliano published a heady and meandering memoir about the conversations with plants that inspired her peer-reviewed work, titled "Thus Spoke the Plant." She believes, l…

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How Radio Technology Conspired Against Women's Voices by Artsjournal

Women who speak publicly and challenge authority have long been dismissed as "shrill" or "grating." What's less widely understood is how the design of the technology that transmits human voi…

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Cincinnati Performing Arts Centers Install Metal Detectors To Screen Patrons by Artsjournal

"Everyone entering the buildings prior to public events will be required to walk through a metal detector (magnetometer) and have their bag searched or be screened with a hand-held metal det…

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Is There A Better Way To Listen To Music? by Artsjournal

Music scholars insist that if we listened to music the way a musician would, understanding how notes trigger feelings, how tones take on their own textures and meanings, then we might experi…

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Movie Box Office Was Down This Summer " But So Is Everything Else by Artsjournal

"Out-of-home entertainment had a down summer in general. Attendance at Major League Baseball games is expected to fall for the fourth consecutive season, according to Two Circles, a sports m…

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Kansas City Rep Gets A New Leader by Artsjournal

Stuart Carden, who starts his new job within days, will be only the fifth artistic director in the Rep's 55-year history. " Kansas City Star

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When Joshua Met Michael by Artsjournal

Joshua Robison and Michael Tilson Thomas met in their junior high orchestra in North Hollywood when they were 11 and 12 years old (Robison is a year and a half younger). "I played cello, and…

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An Artist Is Turning A New Orleans Flood Wall Into A Mile-Long Story Of The City by Artsjournal

With the permission of the Flood Protection Authority and funding from the Walmart Corp., the artist embarked on the first 400 feet of a historical mural that will depict major moments in Ne…

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Fox News Commentators Ridicule GMA Apology For Dance Comments by Artsjournal

In comparing Lara Spencer's apology to a politician apologizing to an ethnic group, Arroyo is saying that he finds that practice laughable as well. But the most blatant example is Ingraham's…

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How Words Attach Themselves To Meaning by Artsjournal

"Our language is full of interjections and verbal gestures that don't necessarily mean anything beyond themselves. Most of our words " 'baseball', 'thunder', 'ideology' " seem to have a mean…

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New Understanding Of The Brain Argues For Lifelong Plasticity by Artsjournal

It's no longer a question of our brains being a product of either nature or nurture but realizing how entangled the "nature" of our brains is with the brain-changing "nurture" provided by ou…

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Christian Marclay Turns Snapchat Into Sound Into (Fleeting) Images by Artsjournal

"What's surprising is the similarity and the banality," he says. "And the fact that people around the world do the same things with their phone. … It's a new form of language " a very visu…

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Is A Market Correction Coming To Humanities Studies? by Artsjournal

"There is a certain truth to this recent narrative of humanistic decline as it plays out in liberal arts schools, but it is not that of obsolescence or expense. Nor is it reducible to the li…

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Saturday, August 31, 2019

The Lewis Prize for Music " Letter of Interest Open by Artsjournal

Champions and leaders of community youth music programs are heroes. The Lewis Prize for Music celebrates mentors who empower and inspire young people to use music as a force for good. The Le…

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Friday, August 30, 2019

What Does The Kennedy Center's New "Reach" Want To Be? by Artsjournal

Phil Kennicott: "When the Kennedy Center was built, it was designed to fulfill a specific sets of needs and functions. Now it is has been expanded to enfold an unknown number of new function…

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Kiril Petrenko Takes Over The Berlin Philharmonic And Wows by Artsjournal

Mark Swed: "I'm not so sure I buy the mystique business. The ego issue is clearly complicated. But his two concerts in the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the first a repeat of the Beethoven Nint…

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Nostalgia For Blockbuster Video? Seriously, It Wasn't That Great by Artsjournal

"I've heard Blockbuster called "the Walmart of video stores," which illustrates not only their sales strategy, but their history as an industry Goliath. Like the chain of retail megastores, …

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The New Urban Crisis And How US Cities Rank by Artsjournal

The original urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s was a crisis of economic failure, spurred on by the movement of people, jobs, and industry to the suburbs; the hollowing out of city economic…

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