Wednesday, August 21, 2019
For a long time, the prevailing posture of the Silicon Valley élite was smugness bordering on hubris. Now the emotional repertoire is expanding to include shame"or, at least, the appearance…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]The very language of friendship, for instance, is changing right before our eyes. Facebook has convinced us that "friend" can be a verb, often deployed in the imperative mood ("Friend me on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Nora Burnett Abrams, 41, will step in to replace Adam Lerner, the director and chief animator who stepped down this June after leading the museum since 2009. The Denver museum saw its attend…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24PM[SHARE]The Djerassi Program seeks a passionate and skilled arts administrator with grantwriting skills and a commitment to the work of individual artists to fill the position of Deputy Director o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24PM[SHARE]Siobhan Burke: "Those 90-minute lessons " advancing from a warm-up of the back and feet to more complex coordinations of the torso and legs to jumping sequences that flew across the room " w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]A spokeswoman for National Museums Liverpool defended its use of the enhanced surveillance technology as an additional security measure for the exhibition, titled "China's First Emperor and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]Since the advent of sound, movies treated jazz as a marker of modernity and youth, a soundtrack to a fledgling America further distancing itself from Europe and charting a path through its s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]Attendance dropped by 1% in both 2017 and 2016, and by 0.5% in 2015. But new figures from the national tourism agency show a decisive turnaround, with attendance across 444 museums and art g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]Few of the newspaper obituarists seemed to know quite what he had done. He had been involved in something that had changed the way texts are interpreted; but it was not really clear why that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]Franz Boas concluded that "there is not one human culture but many, and he started referring to 'cultures,' in the plural. He was engaged in ethnography, and he believed that the job of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PM[SHARE]Nottage is the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: for Sweat and Ruined. The former reached Broadway, while the latter " a story about women in war-torn Congo " played a su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Louis Menand: "There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"Here there's a problem where even when the community values this, they think it'll be supported by wealthy industrialists. But those days are over, and we need to say we've got a lot of wea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]He's led the sort of life that generates fascinating stories, which is perhaps what makes his much-anticipated memoir, "Possibilities," such an occasionally frustrating read. " Los Angeles T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
"How, then, do you avoid the cringingly awful? The shows so bad you feel you're never going to get those precious moments of your finite life back again? McGowan smiles and looks up " as she…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"In both rural and urban areas, innovation is closely tied to the degree of presence of the creative class, with the innovation index being positively associated with the percent of the work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Charles Desmarais: "As important as the Arnautoff murals are, as art and as American history, the issues raised by the attempt to destroy or obscure them are larger than this single controve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"We are just as ignorant about what has been happening to our faces when they're scanned by the property developers, shopping centres, museums, conference centres and casinos that have also …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"In my late twenties (living in Portland, Oregon as an artist and emerging curator), I recognized that the art institutions at the time had settled on mission-priorities that would follow th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"I turned the essay in at the end of June, substantially the same as what appears here. A regretful Folio Society editor told me that Marvel Comics (evidently the co-publisher of the book) i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"There is anecdotal evidence that gender affects every step of the publishing process. In 2015, Catherine Nichols submitted proposals for a novel to agents and publishers under both her own …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"People think that all you have to do is have certain postures, wear certain clothes, dance to certain music" to make it hip hop, Michele Byrd-McPhee says, pointing out that simply donning t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]So why aren't there more realistic, or semi-realistic, or, dare it be suggested, hopeful films about climate change? Because, several directors said, it is hard to find financing for movies …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]This figure is still 15% short of the NT's stated 50/50 target for gender representation, which the theatre has said it will achieve by 2021. It is also below the 42% figure recorded in 2016…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Native Hawaiians agree that Mauna Kea connects humanity to the universe " as an umbilical cord between Earth and space. The peak at Mauna Kea is the "highest point where land touches the sky…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"There's a tendency among some Anglophones to see the official struggle to resist English as somewhat hysterical. That attitude partly reflects the smugness of a people who increasingly expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"His inventions and scientific theories, as well as his painstaking painting technique, were all of a piece: science and art were not separate modes of thinking. His investigations into geol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Amazon's new use case takes Rekognition to a new level. Now you can now use the software to take a pretty good guess at what a person in an image or a video is feeling. What could possibly g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
"What mobile AR adds is the ability to changefocus by actively moving around a simulated object in real space. The technology wants you to do that. So it may just not be the ideal way to exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"He would reject work, but praise the writing. His form rejections included a note: "It happens that I am both the editor of the Blue Moon and also the head of a critical revision business. …
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