Thursday, August 8, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]That's what most of Seattle's major arts organizations are doing, writing to protest Washington State proposals that would dramatically increase the number of workers eligible for overtime p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Rule changes mean that from autumn, employers wanting to recruit non-European artists will no longer have to advertise the role to citizens of the European Economic Area first, and artists w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Instead of extending promo deals to keep customers from dropping TV service, they're simply extracting more revenue from those who haven't formulated an escape plan. Either way, companies li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"He had recently read my book "Contested Will," about the controversy over the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Like most scholars today, I freely acknowledged that Shakespeare had…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The Pew data makes clear how this happens: some people are just uninformed, while others cling to opposing political values. People with a high degree of familiarity with what nutritional, m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"The program at Curtis is one of the most intense and stressful of any educational programs in the world. My cousin [a former director of the school] believed in its mission. It will and mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
"Where they are right now " making that transition between heavy construction and the other things a museum does " is the most fragile and sensitive time for any organization," said Justin J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]"I find the field to be rather bad at evaluating the quality and usability of research. Often desperate for another advocacy hook, arts leaders at all levels have historically misused resear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]In Nigeria, 65 percent of the population is under the age of 18. Unemployment is endemic. One community organization created a jobs program through dance. "At the end of the day, dance is a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"The exponential expansion of the culture sector rests entirely on a quite narrow demographic of white, middle class, educated staff and visitors who have signed a social contract on what an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"In 2019, inclusive spaces that are comprised of voices from the neurodiverse and disabled community are still extremely rare. Despite the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Nearly 16,000 pages of letters, speeches, newspaper articles and other suffragist documents are now available on By the People, a crowdsourcing platform launched by the library in 2018. The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]How is the decision going down with people who've hosted awards shows in the past? Pretty well, apparently. " New York Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"The Faber story certainly speaks volumes about the mix of passion, shrewdness, and luck that it takes to keep such an operation afloat; it also raises the question of who, ultimately, a pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Psychopaths are sick, deranged, lacking in moral conscience. In other words, they're nothing like you or me. But this is false. Rather than freakish outliers then, psychopaths reveal importa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Phil Kennicott: "Now the war has come to Walmart. And Hooters. And Sam's Club and McDonald's, and an unnamed but homey looking restaurant that has a $7.99 Lunch Special. If this doesn't look…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]"I honestly think there's almost no story you can't tell through food. If you want to read about women's lives throughout history, you can do it through cookbooks. If you want to teach math,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]Is it ego, recognition from others, the catharsis of a journey of self-discovery or the conviction the information contained in the book is something the world desperately needs? That's a co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]In a study published in a German scientific journal, anatomist and musician Andreas Otte deduced that Bach"a gifted organist and harpsichordist"had an exceptional reach at the keyboard. " Na…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]The UK's international trade secretary, Liz Truss, announced on Thursday that she hopes to launch "the world's most advanced freeport model" as soon as possible, promising it will create …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]"Everyone has these experiences. We all see pattern. We see what we like, or feel spurred on by. Some of us see the lineaments of social life like a bright line connecting the texts of an ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]"In virtually every case, there lurks a question that each musical leader must ask themselves: Should I get involved or stay on the sidelines? Â It is a valid query, but one that is filled…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The researchers come up with some startling findings. In a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Quentin Brummet and Davin Reed say that urbanites move all the time, f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]In a letter on behalf of the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Opera, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Theatre Group and a who's who of other ritzy local inst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
The humanists tried out a lot of new punctuation ideas, but most of those marks had short life spans. Some of the printed texts that appeared in the centuries surrounding the semicolon's bir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]The same challenges apply: What are the films that can work theatrically, that can compel people to come? How can we make that collective experience really rewarding and transformative so th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]The President and CEO will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the ACT project as a champion for the diversification of varied programs and cultural offe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]Speaking during its opening weekend, Fergus Linehan, a Dubliner who has been the festival's director since 2015, said many performers had refused to be paid in sterling. " Irish Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]"A credible and qualified professional from outside Curtis and the cultural community of which it is a part ought to take an unsparing look at what if anything happened, and why, and how any…
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