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Monday, August 5, 2019

Curtis Institute Response To Sexual Harassment Charges Shows It Needs Outside Help by Artsjournal

"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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Adorno's Theories Of Culture 50 Years Later by Artsjournal

It is hardly surprising that, especially in the United States, where the arts were expected to conform to democratic tastes, the demanding high Modernism of Adorno's aesthetic philosophy has…

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Theatre Union Accuses Arts Council England Of Not Enforcing Pay Rules by Artsjournal

According to Equity, theatre employers are not always paying industry standard terms and conditions on funded projects, despite it being a requirement of receiving a grant. It described the …

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Remembering Hal Prince, Gruff Truth-Teller by Artsjournal

No figure in Broadway history had a bigger influence on how shows looked and behaved in the second half of the 20th century. " Los Angeles Times

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Orange County's Crystal Cathedral Reborn " But Music Still Doesn't Work by Artsjournal

Tim Mangan: "To put it briefly, these were cathedral acoustics: echoey, murky, swimmy, with a decay time of several seconds. Aurally, it was like playing in a high school gymnasium or Carlsb…

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Senate Confirms Trump's Pick For NEA Chair by Artsjournal

In a statement upon confirmation of her appointment, Mary Anne Carter said: "I look forward to continuing to lead a talented and dedicated staff of professionals in our important work of ens…

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Brain-To-Text: Neuroscientists Figure Out How To Decipher Words From Brain Signals by Artsjournal

With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person's speech directly from their brain. The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how a person's intention to say spe…

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The Digital Revolution That's Hitting School Textbooks by Artsjournal

As more and more coursework winds up online, the Balkanization of teaching resources cuts ever deeper. " Wired

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Study Suggests We're No Busier Than We Used To Be by Artsjournal

The authors find little proof of increasing busyness among the population. Yes, as expected, people were spending far more time on digital devices in 2015 than they were in 2000. But the dat…

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In Praise Of The Civic Plaza by Artsjournal

You sit in a ­plaza and it occurs to you that other people have been in your situation, whatever it is, and this knowledge is at the heart of civility. There are no answers, only stories"…

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Blame Video Games For Violence? First, The Evidence Doesn't Support It… by Artsjournal

Games have shifted from a broad cultural enemy"a gory medium that all types of people might hold responsible for social disgrace"to a political tool. Video-game violence was once a bipartisa…

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Friday, August 2, 2019

Study: Prices For Female Artists Rising Faster Than For Male Artists by Artsjournal

"Sotheby's Mei Moses found that between 2012 and 2018, sales results rose just eight percent for men, while women saw the price for their work go up an astonishing 73 percent. By compa…

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Science Is Having Difficulty Replicating Some Big Studies. The Question Is What To Do About It by Artsjournal

A consensus is finally beginning to emerge: Something is wrong with science that's causing established results to fail. One proposed and long overdue remedy has been an overhaul of the use o…

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Do Writing Programs Actually Make Good Writers Worse? by Artsjournal

"Can good writing truly be taught? Is the traditional workshop structure"a writer stays silent while her peers lay bare her pages"good pedagogy or licensed cruelty? What people, and what siz…

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Libraries Have Become Community Centers. But It's Still Important To Be About Books by Artsjournal

Of course, libraries have never been only about books! But reading and books are more important than ever for contemporary society, and public libraries occupy a unique position as a public …

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Tanglewood's Bet On Staying Relevant by Artsjournal

Unlike some new facilities attached to performing arts complexes " the Kennedy Center's REACH extension, opening in September, comes to mind " TLI is not aiming to be radically new or differ…

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Benjamin Millepied's LA Dance Project Announces New Dance Festival by Artsjournal

The new festival this fall will feature six world premieres from choreographers including 2013 MacArthur fellow Kyle Abraham, Jacob Jonas and Janie Taylor " plus collaborations with noted ar…

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The Indie Publisher That Soared Too High And Fell To Earth by Artsjournal

Chicago's Curbside Splendor was named "Best Indie Book Publisher" by Chicago magazine in 2014, featured on Bustle's "13 Indie Presses You Should Know" list in 2017, and even profiled in Lit …

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Lessons From The Whitney Biennial Debacle by Artsjournal

Andrea Scott: "Of course, the major power dynamic at play in this story is the one between art and money. For too long, patronage of the arts has come with patronizing attitudes toward artis…

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Should Theatre Critics Also Be Artists? Does It Make Them Better? by Artsjournal

"Why should we take seriously the words of someone who doesn't understand the great amount of work involved in creating a performance? A critic's opinion is unreliable if it's based only …

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Orlando Ballet Plays Hardball In Their Negotiations With New Performing Arts Center by Artsjournal

The Ballet leadership is definitely playing offense here. Rather than direct their side of the story to favored reporters or even just the media, these emails are going out to everyone on th…

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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Executive Director " San Bernardino County Museum Association by Artsjournal

The San Bernardino County Museum Association solicits, manages, and distributes funds, engages in programs, and advocates to benefit the mission of the San Bernardino County Museum.

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Executive Director " Louisville Ballet by Artsjournal

Louisville Ballet invites applications and nominations for this important co-leadership position.

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My Friend Oliver Sacks by Artsjournal

"We were close for a long time. I was his photographer, colleague, friend, subject, and occasional collaborator. He used to say that he wanted to take off his white doctor's coat and see Tou…

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The Summer I Worked For Hal Prince by Artsjournal

Let's put "job" in quotation marks. Being Hal Prince's apprentice was a huge honor, almost (in my family) like getting into law school, but there were different degrees of apprenticeship. " …

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"Lion King" Box Office Tops $1 Billion by Artsjournal

The movie, which features the voices of Beyonce and Donald Glover, joins Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel and Aladdin in Disney's $1bn class of 2019. " BBC

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Welsh Community Theatre Settles Aggressive Copyright Claim With 20th Century Fox by Artsjournal

The theatre had produced an adaptation of "The Greatest Showman" and the company claimed damages of £200,000. Across seven performances, the show made approximately £40,000 in ticket s…

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A Picasso Show In Beijing Provokes Debates About Censorship by Artsjournal

"Beijing brags about its humming art scene. Galleries thrive. The art schools possess a certain frisson. Art is widely taught in elementary schools. But shrouding all this creative fervor is…

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What Will Boris Johnson Mean For UK Arts? by Artsjournal

Johnson threw his weight behind expensive projects such as a new cultural and educational quarter and the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower in the Olympic Park, and relocating the Museum of London t…

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Contemporary Opera's Inspiration? Hollywood by Artsjournal

Joshua Kosman: "There is one thing that all of these works have in common. They share the challenge of standing alongside originals that live in a single, unchanging form in an audience's co…

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How Should Notre Dame Be Rebuilt? Why, As Though The Fire Had Never Happened by Artsjournal

"The idea that an old building becomes inauthentic if it is seamlessly restored is a credo that has been repeated so often it's easy to forget that this was not the way that buildings were r…

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