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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Why One Trustee Quit The Board Of The British Museum by Artsjournal

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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Louvre Removes Sackler Name From Its Walls by Artsjournal

The move follows a widely publicized protest PAIN Sackler held together with the French group Aides Paris outside the Louvre. On July 1, the activists gathered outside the museum's central p…

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What Musicians Are "Terrified" Of In 2019 by Artsjournal

Basically " burnout. The need to be on all the time. It's not just performances, it's the living life in public on social media, creating a persona and constantly interacting with a public y…

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Study: Smartphone Users More Comfortable Expressing Emotions With Emojis Than In a Phone Call by Artsjournal

The majority of respondents (65%) said they are more comfortable expressing their emotions through emojis than a phone call. That number rises to 83% among Gen Z users, who represent the lar…

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Winners And Losers In This Year's Emmy Nominations by Artsjournal

It looks like HBO's back, piling up a whopping 137 nominations to Netflix's 117, with Game of Thrones, Chernobyl and Barry among the big leaders (but with Veep rather fa…

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National Film Board Of Canada Delays Strategic Plan As Critics Look For More Oversight by Artsjournal

Critics have alleged the film board's production funding has decreased since 2002, and that spending on non-filmmaker salaries and institutional, legal and human resources services has incre…

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Report: Notre Dame Was Much Closer To Collapsing Than Has Been Reported by Artsjournal

Some of what went wrong that night has been reported in the French news media, including Le Monde and Le Canard Enchaîné. Now, The New York Times has conducted scores of interviews and r…

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Curious about contemporary Indigenous Performing Arts? by Artsjournal

How are you connecting to the surge in interest in Indigenous content? Walrus Arts Management & Consulting provides program guidance, education and fosters connection to Indigenous commu…

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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

What Snowball The Dancing Parrot Is Teaching Neuroscientists About Why Humans Dance by Artsjournal

These newly published observations cement the human-ness of Snowball's dancing. His initial headbangs and foot-lifts are movements that parrots naturally make while walking or courting. But …

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A Look Inside The Ruins Of Notre Dame by Artsjournal

The man responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of Notre-Dame says the risks of a catastrophic collapse are small but that the true extent of the damage will not be known until at leas…

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Why Other Experiences Help Make Better Artists by Artsjournal

"You're trying to do something new to you, and in some cases new to anyone. One of the sources of power for doing things like that is having really broad experiences." That often requires tr…

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A History Of Celebrity (Why We Care) by Artsjournal

Celebrity distinguishes itself from other forms of public approbation because it centres on the individual personality. Celebrities reflect our personhood " they show us who we are. But they…

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The Philadelphia Orchestra's Transformative $55 Million Gift by Artsjournal

Peter Dobrin: "It's hard to overstate the significance of this recent $50 million infusion to the endowment plus an additional $5 million toward operations from an anonymous couple. In real …

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Rethinking Hipster Culture " What It Says About Our Time by Artsjournal

The grand consensuses of modern life online"the politics of approbatory or condemnatory agreement"keep culture from renewing and reinventing itself. When hipster lost its edge and went mains…

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Speakers Of Endangered Languages Find Model For A Comeback by Artsjournal

"As thousands of languages around the world are threatened"hundreds of which are in the United States"Indigenous communities are learning from the successes of the Māori and the Hawai'ian…

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Francoise Gilot Was Picasso's Muse. When She Left He Predicted Disaster. It Didn't Turn Out That Way by Artsjournal

"For one thing, Gilot ended up happily married to Jonas Salk, who was doubtless secure enough in his own accomplishments to like her for reasons that had nothing to do with Picasso. And she …

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Scarlett Johansson Says Her Comments On Casting Were Taken Out Of Context by Artsjournal

In a recent interview with As If magazine, she said actors should be allowed to play any person "because that is my job and the requirement of my job". On Saturday, Johansson said those comm…

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In Hyper-Curating Our Desires Have We Lost The Thread Of Reality? by Artsjournal

One doesn't have to subscribe to Plato's ladder of ascent or gift of the gods to appreciate his point that the realm of selfish desire is the futile and corrupting alternative to more genuin…

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Monday, July 15, 2019

Dallas Summer Musicals " Vice President of Development by Artsjournal

Dallas Summer Musicals, the preeminent nonprofit presenter of Broadway theatre in North Texas, seeks a dynamic Vice President of Development to lead its fund raising program.

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Terry Gross Talks To Emily Nussbaum About TV by Artsjournal

"Let a hundred flowers bloom. Everything is valuable in its own way and they don't need to be in tension with one another. You can love novels and love TV shows and not feel like they have t…

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Should The Roosevelt Statue In Front Of The American Museum Of Natural History Come Down? The Museum Asks Visitors by Artsjournal

"Addressing the Statue," with an accompanying video and website, examines various aspects of the monument and the president it memorializes. It explores the history of the statue's design an…

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Star Dancer, Felled By Autoimmune Disease, Gets Back To The Stage by Artsjournal

Once a soloist at New York City Ballet with an auspicious future, Kathryn Morgan was forced to leave the company in 2012, felled by an autoimmune disease that saw her hair fall out, her weig…

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The Evidence Is In On The Effectiveness Of Trigger Warnings by Artsjournal

"Like many a random supplement, trigger warnings are probably useless for most people and potentially, though not definitively, a little harmful to some. So, with no clear upside, why risk i…

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Can Science Fiction Be Useful In Imagining The Future? by Artsjournal

"The answer is one that divides futurists, writers, and academics. Some argue that there is power in narrative stories that can't be found elsewhere. Others assert that in our quest for imag…

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A Proposed New International Airport Threatens Machu Picchu by Artsjournal

The site draws up to 5,600 foreign visitors daily, more than double the 2,500 recommended by Unesco. The new airport could quadruple tourists, to 6 million from 1.5 million a year, which wou…

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Vandalism And Self-Mutilation As Art (Jail Too) by Artsjournal

For Pyotr Pavlensky, the judicial process is an integral part of the artwork. "The government's aim is to suppress or neutralize art, to reduce me to a vandal, a madman, a provocateur, but t…

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Fewer Musicians Are Auditioning For The Pittsburgh Symphony. Does It Mean Anything? by Artsjournal

In the three years since the musicians' 55-day strike took place in the fall of 2016, that number has dropped significantly, from around 250 applicants per position to 150 applicants per pos…

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Why It's Not Good To Invite A Writer Into Your House by Artsjournal

Is it a good idea to invite someone into your home whose occupation it is to observe everything? The writer as host might be no better. Even the most thoughtful guest will undoubtedly interf…

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Wondering How A Neural Network Works? by Artsjournal

Grant Sanderson has a video explainer that shows you how machines are learning to learn. " Aeon

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Yes, The Show Must Go On… Even Without Lights by Artsjournal

Performers from multiple Broadway shows gave impromptu renditions to crowds along the streets outside the theaters when the power went out in Manhattan Friday night just before shows were ab…

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The Break Out Break-dancing Millennial Counter-Tenor by Artsjournal

The singers who performed in operatic works by Handel or Vivaldi in the eighteenth century were the musical celebrities of their day, and Jakub Józef OrliÅ„ski's approach is to gleeful…

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