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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Skills Versus Knowledge: Are We Teaching Kids The Wrong Way? by Artsjournal

What if the best way to boost reading comprehension is not to drill kids on discrete skills but to teach them, as early as possible, the very things we've marginalized"including history, sci…

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A Push To Create Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences In The Arts by Artsjournal

UK digital minister Margot James described the initiative's vision in an opening event. "Imagine being inside the world of a Shakespeare play, or in a video game as professional players batt…

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Christopher Knight Takes Issue With Peter Zumthor's Comments About How Museums Work by Artsjournal

"Presumably you didn't mean to insult these folks, who represent a core museum constituency. Every art museum serves two publics " an art public and a general public. After the affront, your…

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Hollywood Is Betting Big On Remakes. But New Study Suggests Audiences Aren't Thrilled by Artsjournal

The study found that fully 91 percent of remakes drew a less positive audience score than the original. Among critics, the remakes received a lower Metacritic score just slightly less freque…

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Bournemouth Symphony Calls On Orchestras To Employ Disabled Musicians, Touting Its Own Successes by Artsjournal

It received funding from Arts Council England's Change Makers initiative to become more accessible and inclusive. Alongside organisational changes like disability awareness training, BSO cre…

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What Happens When We Lose The Capacity To Be Bored? by Artsjournal

In the past, work was recognized for its colonizing power, expanding to fill and dominate time itself such that there might exist no clear line between work hours and nonwork hours. Our curr…

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Some Science Has Become So Theoretical It Lacks Evidence. Are We Fooling Ourselves? by Artsjournal

In the past, experiments played a vital role in developing theory and vice versa. For some time now that back-and-forth has not existed in certain fields where experiments are barely managin…

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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Goh Ballet is growing and needs an Operations Director by Artsjournal

Working direct with our Director, Chan Hon Goh, you will orchestrate the administration, operations, and oversee the financial statements of our existing and exciting growth portfolio.

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DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION by Artsjournal

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks an exceptional Director of Administration, a key executive position, to join the organization at an exciting time of institutional accomplis…

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Is Failure A New Literary Genre? by Artsjournal

Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd devoted several autobiographical volumes to everyday failures in My Struggle, and since then there has been a deluge of 'fail-lit', both in fiction and non-fiction. Cou…

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The Number Of UK Creative Jobs Is Growing Twice The Rate Of The Rest Of The Economy by Artsjournal

Between 2011 and 2018, the number of jobs in the creative industries increased by 30.6%, compared with 10.1% in the UK overall. " The Stage

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Brexiteers Protest Playing Of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony At Choral Festival by Artsjournal

"I was told that some people felt it was not an appropriate programming for a concert in an area that voted overwhelmingly for Brexit." The complainant then promised to call for other people…

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Jack Renner, Co-Founder Of Telarc Records, 84 by Artsjournal

"I used to say that my recordings are made from the perspective of the best seat in the house," he told Stereophile. "And immediately, of course, somebody says, 'Well, who are you to say wha…

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How Did Nature Get To Be Seen As A Moral Good? by Artsjournal

Today, nature is valued as a signifier of sustainability, resilience, and good quality of life not only in European and American cities, but also in new "smart" cities across Asia and the Mi…

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Why David McAllister Stepped Down From Running Australian Ballet by Artsjournal

Having presided over the company's 40th and 50th anniversaries, he was looking ahead to the 60th anniversary and planning what he could do that would "be new and different", he explains. "An…

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Will This New Museum In Istanbul Be A "Game Changer"? by Artsjournal

Thirty-five exhibitions and more than 180 art commissions produced in almost a decade at the previous space were a "testing ground", Mehli Fereli says, for an institution that aims to foster…

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New York Had 65 Million Tourists Last Year. They Shape The Culture by Artsjournal

If arts institutions had to survive on locals' loyalty alone, MoMA wouldn't be adding yet another new wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art wouldn't be open seven days a week, theaters would …

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What Our Behavior In Masses Means For Predicting The Future by Artsjournal

Rapid progress in information technology has led to the 'big data' revolution, in which gigantic quantities of information can be obtained and processed. Patterns of human behaviour can be e…

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#CriticsSoWhite (And Male) by Artsjournal

"It's 2019 and we are in the middle of a renaissance in black artistic production. And you are telling me the best people to evaluate that are the same ones who basically ignored black artis…

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Monday, July 8, 2019

Untangling Conflicting Currents Of How To Think About #MeToo by Artsjournal

It can feel as though the public discussion around #MeToo has been designed as a training program for denial, with self-reflection rarely encouraged on any side of the issue. The appearance …

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Why Concrete Truths Have Lost Their Foundations by Artsjournal

Why has assent on even basic factual claims (beyond logically demonstrable ones, like 2 + 2 = 4) become so hard to achieve? Or, to put it slightly differently, why are we"meaning people of v…

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How Technology Has Changed The Kind Of TV We Watch by Artsjournal

The ability for audiences to watch and re-watch on demand has allowed screenwriters to make scripts more complicated and less formulaic. " BBC

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90,000 Estonians Gather For 150th Edition Of Massive Choral Festival by Artsjournal

The Estonian Song and Dance Celebration attracted 35,000 singers, more than 1,000 choirs and 700 dance groups to the capital of Tallinn. The event, held every five years, started as a song-o…

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The Arts Are Finally Coming To Terms With Unsavory Philanthropic Money by Artsjournal

Sponsorships and philanthropy are tricky businesses. Philanthropy and arts patronage sanitises some truly awful personal and corporate behaviours. As tobacco and, more tentatively, alcohol s…

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Canadian Composer Michael Colgrass, 87 by Artsjournal

Eager to share his own enthusiasm for creating music, Colgrass devised his own notation system. Easy-to-draw lines and symbols allowed children to immediately start composing and performing …

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London's Parliament Building Needs £4 Billion Of Repairs. A Temporary Home Is A Missed Opportunity by Artsjournal

The recent unveiling of interim accommodation for 650 decanted MPs, who are to be shoehorned into Richmond House, the former Department of Health in Whitehall, for the anticipated eight-y…

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Improbably, Book Fairs Have Become Hugely Popular Across The Middle East by Artsjournal

Ten years ago few would have heard of the book fair in Sharjah, one of the lesser-known parts of the United Arab Emirates (uae). Today it attracts 2.3m visitors a year, double Sharjah's popu…

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Scientists Have Figured Out How To Revive Dead Brains (Now What?) by Artsjournal

"These findings," the scientists write, "show that, with the appropriate interventions, the large mammalian brain retains an underappreciated capacity for normothermic restoration of microci…

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The Real Reason Hannah Rothschild Stepped Down As Chair Of London's National Gallery by Artsjournal

What her statement didn't mention was an acrimonious dispute over the dismissals of 27 gallery lecturers and educators that has hung over the organisation for nearly two years, seen the inte…

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UK Artists Press Institutions To Stop Taking Money From Big Oil Companies by Artsjournal

On Friday, 78 British artists including Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Sarah Lucas said they had called on the National Portrait Gallery in London to cut ties with BP, saying its …

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Listening To The World: How Our Taste Is Being Reprogrammed by Artsjournal

Beyond obscuring labor, the switch to digital has reprogrammed our discovery and consumption of music. Despite the seemingly unprecedented supply of music, Damon Krukowski suggests that inte…

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