Friday, August 30, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The Fox Theatre Tucson invites applications for the position of Executive Director.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Her village doesn't have a stage, so she gathers her performers under a walnut tree in her garden for rehearsals while they do their domestic chores. Her love of theatre is apparently…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"The authoritative Theatres Trust reckons there are currently 263 theatres in London. It's about the same number as Tokyo, whereas Paris has around 350. New York tops the list with well over…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]The top-line message from the organization is that the combined revenue of the participating publishers for the first six months of the year was nearly US$6 billion. The previous caveat in p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Combined with rising production costs and, as Interim General Director Sue Dixon puts it, "the shifting philanthropic landscape of Portland," there was the very real possibility of the organ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"Academic freedom is no simple matter. We have distinct ways of understanding it, often according to class, discipline, race, gender, and ideology. At base, academic freedom entitles us, as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Once we thought drivers, doctors, accountants, and lawyers were irreplaceable. And yet we are beginning to see computers encroaching on those fields. Now, even the most human of professions"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"Theatre is ephemeral, we explain endlessly. Every time we raise five thousand dollars to put up a show in some under-lit black box, we find ourselves trying to justify the existence of a wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
"In the decades since the 1980s, and after the victory of capitalism over communism in the cold war, we have lived, Chantal Mouffe told me, within a sense of the "normal" to which there has …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]"The bottom line is that classical streaming is here, and, despite the kinks and quirks, it works. The problem of access has been solved. Although classical music is a very small piece of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that contaminated books"particularly ones lent out from libraries"could spread deadly dise…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]Max Anderson: "If their portfolios continue to be awash with stocks in petroleum companies, big pharma, and arms merchants, they will remain open to charges of hypocrisy. But if they change …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]The report says that 41% of visual arts audiences are aged between 16 and 34, whereas for other artforms this demographic comprises 13% of visitors. In contrast, 41% of museum audiences are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"Going to so many shows in such a short period of time underscored the reality that while the majority of Broadway productions are good and worth seeing, the truly great shows are rare, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Charles Schulz did not create Charlie Brown and Linus and Lucy to talk"or act"like normal children. He created them to be funny, and to act out what became a deeply personal theater of cruel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]It's fascinating work, but lately, something else is pulling me back to my computer late at night. I get carried away in such guilty pleasure that if my husband walks in unexpectedly, I'm pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or other traditionally gender-specific female nouns, like stewardess or daugh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]In a letter to Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, the senators, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota " both Democrats " called…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Your passion for arts programming will re-imagine and stimulate the artistic and cultural life of Toronto.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Parul Sehgal: "Salman Rushdie fills a shelf, even two, nicely. He is the author of nearly 20 books " six published in the last 11 years alone, but of diminishing quality. The novels are imag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]As political advertisements already twist candidates' words and manipulate the truth for the perfect soundbite, can you believe anything you hear when it can all be manufactured on any lapto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"The leading city, Washington, D.C., has nearly three times the concentration of the creative class of the most lagging city, Detroit. In the four leading cities, the creative class make…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"These are some of the founding documents of New Orleans funk. These tapes were part of that incredibly rich creative period that laid the groundwork for a lot of New Orleans music that foll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]For the first four editions of Future Fair, all 36 of the "Founding Galleries" who participate in the first version will split 35 percent of the profit. That might be nothing the first time …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"Content collapse" and "narrative deficiency" are phenomena that characterize social media, where users have multiple distinct communities"friends, family members, colleagues"collated into a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Proper captions should not only fit the right words to a video's audio content"a feat that automation struggles to achieve"but also use correct grammar and punctuation, describe sounds like …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"At the highest levels of art collecting, board memberships and other institutional affiliations are table stakes: it can be almost impossible to collect the most coveted art without them. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"In the case of working with particular individuals, it's clear there is a line. We would not accept donations from high-level visible criminals, or organisations that are egregious and viol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"The more time we have to prepare before superintelligent AI is achieved, the more likely we'll survive what follows. But you'll get total disagreement from scientists on how soon this might…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Step into your potential and take a Leadership program at Banff Centre this fall.
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