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Monday, July 8, 2019

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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Famed Napa Art Center Collection Says It Will Sell Most Of Its Collection To Fund Educational Programs by Artsjournal

In a radical shift of program, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa plans to sell off most of the 1,600 works of art in its fabled collection to focus on exhibitions and education…

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The Museumification Of Venice by Artsjournal

Nearly 5 million tourists visited the city in 2017, compared with 2.7 million in 2002, according to data from the city's hotels, which do not take into account the thousands of bookings with…

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We Evolved To Be Successful. So Which Traits Will Dominate Going Forward? by Artsjournal

Will our pre-wiring"together with toxic cultural forces, such as racism"lead to fiercer, meaner, better-armed tribal conflict? Or will the part of us that expands love from mates to friends …

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How Reality Got Jumbled Up With "Reality" by Artsjournal

It is impossible to prove a counterfactual, but without reality TV, it seems unlikely that so many people would equate "being real" and "telling it like it is" with spilling ugly secrets, fl…

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This Summer's Surprise Theatre Hit: The Mueller Report by Artsjournal

This month alone, there will be live readings of the report from theatre companies in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., starring actors like Alfred Molina and Harry Groener. " American Theat…

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MoviePass Is Struggling To Reinvent. But Competing Services Are Taking Advantage by Artsjournal

The subscription went from having more than 3 million members to around 225,000 in April 2019, according to Variety, which was first to report the service had been suspended. It's unclear…

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Maryland Governor Says He Won't Release Funding For Baltimore Symphony by Artsjournal

"With regards to the BSO, they are way out of touch with where they need to be fiscally. The governor had no alternative. He is going to come in and trim and make sure the important stuff ge…

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Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Added To UNESCO's World Heritage List by Artsjournal

Inscribed as "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright," the addition encompasses eight of Wright's more recognizable designs, spanning the various American landscapes that served…

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Does Landmarking Buildings Help Or Hurt A Neighborhood? by Artsjournal

It's a growing question. Locking important buildings up often helps to save the architecture. But it can also kill the uses inside the building, gentrify neighborhoods, and can fail to actua…

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Sunday, July 7, 2019

What Artificial Intelligence Is Showing Us About How We Perceive The World by Artsjournal

The power to see the future was previously limited to psychics and shamans. Now researchers (and, increasingly, anyone with a computer) use pattern recognition to precognitive ends, feeding …

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Why A Prize For Books Without Violence Against Women Has Proven Controversial by Artsjournal

On its face and despite the criticisms, the Staunch Prize succeeded in doing exactly what it set out to do, "to draw attention to the plethora of violence towards women in fiction, and make …

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Increasingly, Donald Trump Is Showing Up In Opera Productions by Artsjournal

These appearances may seem like acts of protest or provocation, signaling a viewpoint that opera audiences abroad are likely to share, tapping into an easy laugh along the lines of "Saturday…

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What It's Like To Try To Drag The 92-Year-Old Academy Of Motion Pictures Into The Present by Artsjournal

Eight years of change, controversy, criticism and occasional chaos have turned a Hollywood fixture, with all the pertinent connotations of calcification, into a roiling center of conversatio…

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After 67 Years, Mad Magazine Will Stop Publishing by Artsjournal

It was subversive material at a time when there was not much out there. Early on, in the 1950s, it broke with other comic books in being satirical. And then when other comics were forced to …

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Why Wealthy Art Collectors Are Turning Away From Abstract Art by Artsjournal

 The art that is doing well in the market provides a place of escape from society. Right now, that's an escape to rules and boundaries and to easily digestible culture. But the inverse is…

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Los Angeles Is Losing Its Dance Studios As Rents Rise by Artsjournal

Several L.A. dance spaces have faced displacement in recent months, posting pleas to save their studios on crowdsourcing sites like GoFundMe as rising rents create the same pressures that ha…

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The Vacant Former Home Of Cab Calloway In Baltimore Is Under Threat Of Demolition by Artsjournal

Five of Cab Calloway's family members " including two of his three living children " recently issued a statement saying they are "building a coalition of partners and friends to create a lan…

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3000-Year-Old Bust Of King Tut Sells At Auction For $6 Million Despite Claims It Was Stolen by Artsjournal

"We think it left Egypt after 1970 because in that time other artifacts were stolen from Karnak Temple," former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP. " The Daily Beast

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Did The Catholic Church Hide Art That Depicted Women In Liturgical Roles? by Artsjournal

A new scholarly paper focusses on early Christian artwork that, it argues, depicts women as priests and even bishops. "These images are especially important because of our limited evidence f…

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Mapping Artists And Geography The Whitney Biennial Has Included Over The Decades by Artsjournal

The New York area still supplies the lion's share of participants. Los Angeles still runs a distant second. This year's exhibition has no artists located in the Great Plains or Mountain West…

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Joao Gilberto " Master Of The Bossa Nova, 88 by Artsjournal

Starting with his 1958 single "Chega de Saudade," Mr. Gilberto in his late 20s became the quintessential transmitter of the harmonically and rhythmically complex, lyrically nuanced songs of …

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West End London Theatre To Be Renamed For Stephen Sondheim by Artsjournal

The composer will become the only living person to have a theatre dedicated in their honour in both the West End and on Broadway, which is already home to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. " The…

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Thirty Years Ago A Wave Of Black Directors Hit Hollywood. So What Happened? by Artsjournal

"You think, 'It's O.K. " you're like every other filmmaker,' but then you realize, 'No,'" she said. "It's like they set us up to fail " all they wanted was to be able to pat themselves on th…

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Why Are New Sports Arenas Installing Art? by Artsjournal

The answer has very little to do with game days and much more to do with ringing money out of the spaces in the off season. Art suggests high-end. And a high-end vibe, these stadiums hope, w…

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As Popular Cities Get Choked With Tourists, They Wonder: How Many Is Too Many? by Artsjournal

From now until the end of the summer season, Vancouver will be at 95 percent tourism capacity, according to Gwendal Castellan, manager of Sustainable Destination Development at Tourism Vanco…

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Friday, July 5, 2019

Woody Allen Directs Opera At La Scala by Artsjournal

He's directing "Gianni Schicchi." Along with the La Scala opera, a Milan museum is launching an Allen retrospective of his films. Placido Domingo encouraged him to direct the opera, he said.…

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When Higher Education Becomes A Partisan Political Issue (Nothing Good) by Artsjournal

What happens when the fate of local colleges is not up to the public decision but to a single politician? In Alaska at least, it has meant the decimation of the state's higher-education budg…

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Does This Video Show Banksy? by Artsjournal

It was shown on ITV London at the time but then forgotten about until the Bristol-based ITV News reporter Robert Murphy stumbled upon it when he was doing some research on Banksy. " Irish Ti…

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Why What You See Is Enormously Dependent On What You Believe by Artsjournal

"Psychologists and neuroscientists have long wondered what strategies our brains might use to overcome the problems of ambiguity and pace. There is a growing appreciation that both challenge…

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Why Are We Suddenly So Crazy For Cute? by Artsjournal

"The craze for all things cute is motivated, most obviously, by the urge to escape from precisely such a threatening world into a garden of innocence in which childlike qualities arouse deli…

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