Thursday, August 1, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"Almost all of the major advances in AI development are currently being made in silos, disparate laboratories, secret government facilities, elite academic institutions, and the offices of v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
"The prevalence of freelance workers in the sector " 50% of companies surveyed had used freelancers in the past year " and EU workers among them, meant that 'one in ten businesses in the cre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]It is engraved with 13 verses from the poem recounting the adventures of the hero Odysseus after the fall of Troy. The tale was probably composed by Homer in the late 8th Century BC. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]The combination of computer use, Internet, and smart phone, I would argue, has changed the cognitive skills required of individuals. Learning is more and more a matter of mastering various a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]For most people, creativity is precisely the ability to pursue multiple interests at once, and then bring them together in new ways. "Without contraries is no progression," William Blake wro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Spotify expects to add between 2 million and 6 million premium subscribers in the third quarter, and hopes to reach between 120-125 million paid users by the year's end. The company also sai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]The breakthrough rapper smashed the record this week when the track spent its 17th week on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart " the only song to do so since Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's du…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]In an Instagram post that has received tens of thousands of likes, children and adults can be seen playing and interacting on both sides of the fence using the seesaws, which provide "a lite…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Extremophiles tell us that everything we think we know about the fragility of life is wrong. Life is indeed extraordinary, not to mention precious and deserving of reverence " but not in any…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Over his long career in the theater, Prince received 21 Tony Awards, including three special Tonys, marking the most Tonys received by any individual. The celebrated director and producer wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Most philosophers nowadays think that knowledge is fallible. In other words, they think that you can know something without its being certain for you. " 3 Quarks Daily
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]According to confidential documents leaked to the (paywalled) website Mediapart earlier this month and discussed across French media, locations surrounding the fire-damaged cathedral have re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2019
"In order for the wisdom of crowds to retain its accuracy for making predictions, every member of the group must be given an equal voice, without any one person dominating. As we discovered,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Any video that starred a child who appeared to be under the age of 13 "received nearly three times as many views on average as other types of videos." " The Verge
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]"Irish writing has never shied from experimentalism, and nor have readers been frightened off by it. There is, in general, a far more relaxed approach to genre, a less divisive bracketing of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]The Grammy Award winning Phoenix Boys Choir, located in Phoenix Arizona, seeks an engaging and results driven individual for its next Executive Director.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]We think that the way things are now depends on how they were in the past, but not on how they are in the future; we think of the laws of nature as telling the Universe how to evolve from ea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]The underlying theme of "Freedom: Art as the Messenger" was that a natural alignment exists between artistic and libertarian priorities, attitudes and approaches to the world. Artists were e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Barnum's peculiar gift lay in his relationship to his audience. Better than anyone who'd come before, the Prince of Humbugs understood that the public was willing"even eager"to be conned, pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]"Pavillon Notre-Dame would replicate the exact dimensions of the nave of the cathedral so that it feels familiar. The roof would be made from Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (EFTEC) cushions,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"Paper money, backed by the authority of the state, was an astonishing innovation, one that reshaped the world. That's hard to remember: we grow used to the ways we pay our bills and are pai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]As you can tell, the experience isn't easy to describe. Afterwards, as I walked back out into the bright, muggy New York evening, I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled, and I knew…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]True, music directors don't usually get involved in labor disputes. Also true is the severity of the money crisis, and the unlikeliness of Alsop being able to help with that. But Baltimore m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"An authoritarian state can do many things to get rid of these democratic types " put them in jail, put them on trial " but ultimately the government must attack the institutions that produc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AM[SHARE]ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE, Florida's premiere professional theatre located in Sarasota, FL seeks a dynamic development director to provide leadership
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AM[SHARE]Reporting to the Director of Advancement, the Associate Director, Individual Giving will manage a portfolio of individual prospects and donors ranging from $1 up to $100,000
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
"I think that it was possible to thrive as a regional publisher in the Northwest because we have a very healthy bookstore ecosystem. In other parts of the country, you don't have that. Like …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Father Lee was a scholar by training. His field was the classics. But he did not sound particularly dry or academic on the radio as an opera quiz panelist or as a commentator explicating cha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]"Artists have always taken political stands, but in some eras there's more of a conviction that beauty yields larger truths about the human condition that are not accessible through politics…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Helen Leahey, the aptly named 'Bass Queen', sang from a D5 to a D2 note at an incredibly deep 72.5 hertz(es) in her attempt at the Music School Wagner in Koblenz, Germany. " Guinness World R…
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