Monday, July 22, 2019
The disconcerting thing about such radicalism, at this moment, is that it is the activists"rather than the state or law enforcement"who have the facts on their side. One of Extinction Rebell…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]There is no full way to capture the presence of dance except through dance itself. This tension"between dance and the representation of dance"is always at the heart of dance; dancers feel it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Anne Midgette: "I often talk about the way the classical-music world tends to conflate institutions with the art form. When an orchestra closes, it's seen as an assault on Beethoven and Brah…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"As much as I'd like to dissolve the beach read label entirely, I must also admit I have a type: I want a meaty, absorbing book that takes me further into a vacation by connecting with the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]It's not the tower's unpopularity that's a surprise. The flashy but essentially functionless concept has largely been greeted with publicridicule since being unveiled last year. It's that th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]A 30-minute slide presentation provided a brief snapshot of what will be in the museum " a collection, curators said, that will include the poetic paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Today, thanks to the development of autocorrect, we could all easily write "correctly," and yet, as Gretchen McCulloch notes, we don't. We override automatic capitalization when our phones p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]The patients in the trial were either given the drug midazolam or played the song Weightless by UK band Marconi Union for three minutes, while having an anaesthetic to numb a region of the b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Ambient is often as haunting and uncanny as it is gorgeous. But the idea of music that eschews gestural rhetoric"there are no statements, no returns, no developments"is still highly experime…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Perhaps our distant evolutionary ancestors, millions of years in the past, also had an innate navigational ability that exploited magnetic field lines. This would be extremely useful, offeri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Unruliness, perversity, pigheadedness"psychologists have long been interested in this bestiary of paradoxical thought and action. Perversity is a puzzle. It's hard to explain, scientifically…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]It survived the Soviet Union, changes in taste, the rise of cheap knockoffs and fakes. But the modern world might prove too much. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"It seems there is a divergence in our artistic landscape, where we value trend and zeitgeist as highly as artistic growth and creative development. The Shed serves as a manifestation of thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Keeping track of all the scandals around museum patronage in the United States in the last few years is no easy feat. There are scandals over real estate money, prison money, oil money, fund…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre, one of New York's leading off-Broadway theatres, is seeking a FACILITIES MANAGER to join the facilities team and report to the Director of Production and Facilities.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
This year's class of honorees, the 42nd annual since 1978, is eclectic as usual. " NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PM[SHARE]The company is developing a device to implant inside the brain that supposedly will allow people to control computers and other devices with their minds. At the announcement, Musk said the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PM[SHARE]There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there, and it's amazingly difficult to determine how popular any of them really are (popularity can be purchased). But there are an awful lot …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]That makes the state the only one in the US not to have an arts agency. Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican who took office in December, used a line-item budget veto to eliminate the council's …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Cost savings may have been a motivating factor for the purchase. As cathedrals go, the diocese picked it up for a song, just $57.5 million. Some see the deal as an act of architectural prese…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"If the base salary in our field is $0, then it's no wonder that the next step up is not much higher. We know what working for free does to the chances of truly diversifying or addressing eq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"There is no pride in using Indigenous peoples as props in a settler fantasy; there is no pride in racist caricatures; and there is no pride in cultural appropriation. Because my culture is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]The company on Wednesday reported a loss of 126,000 domestic paid subscribers compared with analysts' expectations for a 352,000 gain. Netflix also missed its own forecast for global subscri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Christopher Mattaliano, who was hired as general director in 2003, will instead become an artistic consultant for the opera company, starting with the upcoming 2019-20 season. Effective imme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"The urge to rank and measure might itself seem anti-intellectual"more Top Trumps than top scholarship. But the aim is not to chase a chimera still less to deliver the results of some suppos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
How arts organizations leverage mobile technology to remove physical, cultural and perceptual barriers for audiences.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]The show that the producers dreamed up, called "Molly of Denali," ended up becoming a PBS cartoon about a 10-year-old Athabascan girl with a video blog about life in rural Alaska. PBS says i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]Call-out and outrage culture make it harder for comedies to pass muster with the vigilantes of social media. " Philadelphia Inquirer
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]"There is a competition amongst Chinese cities to create new destinations, each with their iconic cultural landmarks," said Claude Godefroy, design director at Henning Larsen's Hong Kong off…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]Ahdaf Soueif: "Public cultural institutions have a responsibility: not only a professional one towards their work, but a moral one in the way they position themselves in relation to ethical …
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