Monday, July 29, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Many of us who fell in love with reading at a young age then have to adapt to reading for utility " extracting information to serve some purpose. Then we forget how to read for pleasure. How…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Fire up Netflix and you'll see sweet-natured shows such as Queer Eye, which kicked off its fourth season with a public school teacher getting an enthusiastic makeover, and a slew of food pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]"As if your moral responsibility could stop at the metaphorical front door, where food, cars, packages magically arrive for your use. We are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]HBO programming president Casey Bloys explained that the network never had any intention of caving to the fan petition requesting that HBO hire new writers to do season 8 over " despite the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Co-working spaces are the spatial expression of the casualisation we see in the labour market. In theory, they cater to the "digital nomad", offering a place and a community as an antidote t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]A grand jury indicted Daniels in Harris County District Court on July 25. Also indicted on the same charge is Daniels' husband, William Walters, who goes by the name Scott. In Texas, sexual …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Curtis President Roberto Diaz: "Yesterday we communicated with all of you in a way that was not consistent with our values. We have understandably lost your trust and for that I am profoundl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Out of respect for all those involved, we request that you refrain from discussing this matter publicly, online, or on social media," Curtis spokeswoman Patricia K. Johnson wrote in an emai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Lead an organization that our peers have deemed "the model for the world...expanding the idea of what is possible."
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2019
The harm seems to come not so much from the content itself but from the fact that it replaces more enlightening ways of spending time. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"From art to science and beyond, the work of historically marginalised groups is being gloriously shared. Except within classical music, that is. And to compound matters, the errors of the p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Founders of the term provided vague justifications for lumping together anything that wasn't deemed to be from a European or American tradition " "looking at what artists do rather than what…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]We used to be able to look to Billboard charts. But there are so many ways people are accessing music it's become almost impossible to tell what the "top" music is by how many are listening.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Is it adult mainstream yet? No, but that doesn't matter." The site has 20 million unique visitors a month"more than a million more than Entertainment Weekly, and four times as many as Teen V…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Carol Bogash: "One thing is clear to me: The root cause of the financial problems that the BSO has faced over these past five years is directly related to decisions made by the management an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]When people scrutinize this moment as an era-defining case study, it will be worth assessing: What was it about this intervention that enabled it to so dramatically achieve its aims? " Ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Can anyone argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas? In the hands of these white crit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]The Cooper Hewitt's curators are illuminating how environmental challenges are scrambling the roles of designers, scientists " and the museum itself. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2019
"We suggest that activist art, including environmental art, should move away from a dystopian way of depicting the problems of climate change," they conclude. Rather, activist artists should…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]"Even statistical decision theorists do not make serious choices by consulting cold, textbook models. Like the rest of us, they resort to a knottier combination of deliberation, gut feel and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]With its promises of assisting everyone with anything and everything, the mistake of the mindfulness movement is to present its impersonal mode of awareness as a superior or universally usef…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]For the next three years, the team from la Société des arts technologiques will spend a week each year recording OSM rehearsals and concerts to create immersive acoustic projects. "For sur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]"While prejudice and disadvantage persist in 'the real world,' in the literary world we BAME writers (that's Black and Minority Ethnic folk) are insulated by liberals falling over themselves…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]A former education secretary, Nicky Morgan came under fire from the arts sector in 2015 when she claimed that young people choosing to study creative subjects at school could "hold them back…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]Weeks after Los Angeles officials gave the green light for a new development on the Hollywood site now occupied by Amoeba Music, critics are suing the city to stop it, arguing that it would …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]"Part of me wonders if audiences aren't giving these movies a pass because, like everything else, our comedies have gotten wrapped up in the interminable culture war." " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]"The way we interact with music is very much in line with developing empathy, and how we put ourselves in the shoes of the musician. Our brains mirror what we're seeing. So when we're in syn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]Every classical musician who is not from a musical background has a different story of how their interest in the art was sparked. But for most of them, their early forays into music were baf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]Sixty-seven years is a good run for anything, but, when Mad confirmed that it was joining National Lampoon and Life and Spy in the magazine graveyard, and the Elysian Fields of online archiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
According to one just-released study, original residents gain more from gentrification than the traditional neighborhood narrative lets on. And the harms of gentrification, while hard to ful…
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