Friday, July 5, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Because the benefits of the jobs " it's work that's interesting, even fun… " are worth it? " The Telegraph (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]It was the region's dance support organization. A spokesperson for Dance Manchester said that as an "old school" company, the organisation was too reliant on public funding to remain "fit fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]"The policies that were in place almost parodied themselves. They were so specific on the one hand and totally missing the forest for the trees on the other that you really had to embed your…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]"Whether the religious creeds of our childhoods helped or harmed us, whether we retain or reject them as adults, "something inside of us" is what those teachings remain: a language we'll alw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2019
The late architect Robert Venturi praised the designers Charles and Ray Eames for bringing back "good old Victorian clutter" into modern design. Nothing similar could be said of Apple, whose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Called POST, the new complex will feature arts and music venues, entertainment spaces, creative workspaces, dining and shops. " dezeen
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]On July 1st, California became the first state in the nation to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their "artificial identity" when they are used to sell a product…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]While for years the Academy made a concerted effort to limit the number of new member invitations and keep the number of voters to no more than 6,000, all the membership limits were abandone…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The topic of what Hannah Arendt called "public happiness" is largely ignored by those who think and write about contemporary culture. Apparently, politics and happiness don't go together any…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"Currently, Mexico is going through a change of government, which has reduced the national budget for culture and has been removed a lot of art scholarships. On top of this, more and more st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"Philanthropy is an exercise in power, by definition by the wealthy. It's an attempt to have some public influence. And in that respect, it's a plutocratic element in the democratic setting.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Francois Caradec's Dictionary, newly translated into English by Chris Clarke, lists some 850 gestures that "successively address each part of the body, from top to bottom, from scalp to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]The 200 Van Gogh paintings which Jan Cornelis Traas restored for the family between 1926 and 1933 represent nearly a quarter of the artist's works. It remains highly disturbing that a restor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]The fate of Chaucer's unfinished works suggests there may be something to be appreciated in the peculiarly suspended state in which fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Throne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Under the musical direction of Nicholas McGegan for 34 years, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) is recognized as "America's leading historically-informed ensemble" (The New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Lazy rhetorical devices plague our political discourse. But there is something especially grating about a candidate calling for a "conversation" when asked about an issue. It rings with the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]Today, only about 40 people speak the Tayap language, and Don Kulick predicts that the language will be "stone cold dead" in less than 50 years. How did that happen? Perhaps more importantly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]"We trick ourselves into thinking we know what is needed to be happy: a promotion, a new car, a vacation, a good-looking partner. We believe this even though we know there are plenty of peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]"While squabbles over session approval are not uncommon at academic conferences, the conflict in medieval studies feels like a struggle for the future of the field, one that sometimes pits o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]"When our society is having to confront the murder of women, how can we dare to applaud the killing of a woman?" said Cristiano Chiarot, the head of the opera house, the Teatro del Maggio Mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Lyndon Terracini was responding to a call from Australian composers, directors, musicians, and vocalists, who have called for a "revolution" to remove what they describe as gender bias, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Women comprise the majority of museum employees, but in most cases they earn less than their male colleagues. " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Shane Dawson is a capricious conspiracist. In the middle of his paranoid rant about the moon, he places his hands sincerely over his chest and says: "Once again, it's a theory. I don't want …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Simple stereotypes about the Middle Ages aren't just wrong; they have become weapons for white supremacy. As the great spire of Notre Dame fell, I knew the disaster, whatever the cause turn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]We want to quantify, data-fy and measure everything. And if not, then see literal images that we can quickly grasp. Are we losing the ability to imagine (and to dream)? " Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre, one of New York's leading off-Broadway theatres, is seeking a DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICES to join the senior leadership team and report to the Executive Di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2019
Given her absence from my generation's digital public square, it is a gift to "see" Morrison through reflections from Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, the critic Hilton Als and the poet Sonia Sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]"Although movies and television have long toyed with doomsday scenarios, we're now seeing deeper, more poignant treatments of the issue, with scenes of children and young adults trying to gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]In a letter to Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley dated Friday, new Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III reiterated the institution's position that it is legally bound to keep the name of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Dominique Meyer, who is French and has been director of Vienna State Opera since 2010, has been celebrated for increasing revenue at the Austrian institution at a time when many opera houses…
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