Sunday, August 11, 2019
As Amazon Studios does with movies, Amazon Publishing feeds the content pipelines created by the tech giant's online storefront and Amazon Prime membership program. At its most extreme, Amaz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]It's devastating when you get to a pinnacle of your life and your career and people are like, "No. You suck. Like, literally, not just as a vampire." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Mr. Bylsma's 1979 recording of the Bach suites was widely credited with being the first performed on a period instrument using gut strings, which were typical of cellos of earlier eras. Pabl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]The grand-scale operation, code-named Pandora III, was coordinated by the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) and supported by The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Euro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]What's unusual is that instead of hanging on until Labor Day to cash in on tourist dollars, five musicals are closing in the next two weekends: King Kong (which bumped up the losses signific…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]It's part of "a new initiative by Apple called [AR]T " a curation of augmented reality art, featured in a series of guided walks. Apple worked with the New Museum to select the artists: Nick…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Through "Peanuts," Schulz wanted to tell hard truths about, as he said, "intelligent things." But the main truth he tells is that there are no answers to the big questions. " The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Netflix has been evolving its public policy strategies in recent months to align itself more with Hollywood and less with Silicon Valley, a shift driven by the streamer's maturation into a f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"I never wanted to look weak or incapable as a dancer, even if I was in a lot of pain. Even if I felt like I was going to pass out. I began feeling this way every day. From what I can rememb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Leaders from 13 of England's biggest theatres have collectively cautioned that their ability to work with schools is being significantly impacted by a narrowing curriculum and cuts to arts s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Imagine, for instance, that you are arguing with your partner. Adopting a third-person perspective might help you to recognise their point of view or to accept the limits of your understandi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]In these sprawling but welcoming communities, readers have found one another, banding together in a global, aesthetically pleasing book club that's open for discussion 24/7. More than 33 mil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Diversity data is not considered when applications are checked for eligibility, so we do not think unconscious bias is playing a role. However, as an organisation we recognise the importanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]The controversy exploded into a national and international story, with historians, politicians, educators, artists and others arguing that the board was whitewashing an important artwork, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Libraries are certainly having a moment. In the past few years dozens of new high-profile libraries have opened close to home and across the world. And they certainly don't resemble the book…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"We tend to think of aesthetic disputes as reflecting the least substantive differences between people"you like vanilla, I like chocolate, there's no arguing over taste, let's move on. But t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Dale Cockrell's "Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in in New York 1840-1917" is important.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
For Australian philosopher Roman Krznaric, author of Carpe Diem Regained, the "hijacking [of carpe diem] is an existential crime of the century"and one we have barely noticed." Krznaric is c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]After a half-decade of near unchecked dominance in the premium streaming video space that allowed it to aggressively poach entertainment's top executives and A-list creative talent, the comp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]As e-mail was taking over the modern office, researchers in the theory of distributed systems were also studying the trade-offs between synchrony and asynchrony. As it happens, the conclusio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]At the most basic level, Brexit raises concerns about the ability of musicians to tour overseas. And unless you're The Rolling Stones or Beyonce, touring teams don't come much bigger or work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]On some future day, the solution for what now seems like an insurmountable problem might in hindsight seem as obvious as mounting a motor on four wheels seems in 2019. " Baltimore Sun
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]Peter Marks: "I was curious about how an actor of color might approach entering a world not written for someone who looked like them, but I realized the question was riddled with absurdity. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]In tests, JPMorgan Chase found that Persado's machine-learning tool crafted better ad copy than its own writers could muster, as measured by the higher click rates"more than double in some c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]There are two questions surrounding artists and their archives. Why do artists keep them? And what is worth keeping? " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]It seems there's a moral spectrum in play: Scientists found that people would probably lie if they thought a big corporation, like say, Starbucks or Walmart, would foot the bill for the dece…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The movie review aggregation site is only as good as the critics it aggregates. But are the critics representative of the real movie audience? Assuredly not. So there's a problem. How to fix…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Though researchers have toiled on the subject for many years, none has categorically found that playing video games has harmful effects. Indeed, the absence of conclusive evidence was remark…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AM[SHARE]Phil Kennicott: "Death and remembrance, at least, come with the customs and norms that have been shredded in most of the rest of public life. If nothing else, death still inspires a pause in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
As ideas go, human extinction is a comparatively new one. It emerged first during the 18th and 19th centuries. Though understudied, the idea has an important history because it teaches us le…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Pacific Standard has about 20 full-time employees, 25 writers on contract and dozens of freelance writers who contributed to the publication, Nicholas Jackson said, adding that the employees…
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