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Monday, July 1, 2019

La Scala Picks A New Leader by Artsjournal

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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JFK's New TWA Hotel Reminds Us When Air Travel Was Fun (And Glamorous) by Artsjournal

Michael Kimmelman: "When was the last time you lingered for pleasure at Kennedy Airport? When was the last time you felt happy to be there? An architectural advertisement for the thrill of a…

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The Irish Film Industry Has Grown Up. So What Does It Mean To Be An "Irish" Film? by Artsjournal

"To resist globalisation, we need to insist on the importance of the local, whether that's local food, local dialects, local industries. At its most successful, Irish cinema tells local stor…

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Why You Choke Under Pressure by Artsjournal

"When we are performing our normal, practiced tasks everyday, we often are " counterintuitively " not paying attention to all the little details of what we are doing; our prefrontal cortex i…

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The Digital Age Has Been Unkind To Classical Music (It's About The Meta-Data) by Artsjournal

Browsing and accessing classical music online has been a chore. The data structures were set up for pop music, not classical. Finally, companies are working on some solutions. " The New York…

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End Of Anonymity? AI Can Match Anonymous Writing With Its Author by Artsjournal

An artificial intelligence, or AI, successfully "recognizes" an author not as a person, but instead as the likeness of features that characterize a body of work. In order to find patterns ac…

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Ideas And Progress Flow From Chaos And Complexity Of Ideas " But We're Retreating From That by Artsjournal

Felipe Fernández-Armesto: 'Confused by chaos, infantilized by ignorance, refugees from complexity flee to fanaticism and dogma.' But something else is happening too. Human history was for…

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Would You Trust A Robot More If It Had A Sense Of Humor? by Artsjournal

Some scientists believe if robots can master conversational humor, and speak like the people they serve, it could help humans accept them as part of our lives. But is that even scientificall…

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San Francisco's School Board Is Spending $600,000 To Destroy A Mural by Artsjournal

Bari Weiss: "The notion of erasing art has an American pedigree. The [immigrant New Deal-era artist] Victor Arnautoff was intimately familiar with it, having been interrogated in 1956 by the…

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Want To See A Model Of LACMA's Redesign? by Artsjournal

LACMA has dedicated a space to the exhibition of the new plan with a 15-foot model built in Zumthor's studio. The site model is a single slab of molded cement, reproducing several blocks of …

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A Thorough Consideration Of Access To The Arts In The Internet Age by Artsjournal

The challenges vary between access to the consumption of art and access to making and platforming it. In this multimedia age, these have to an extent blurred. However, a hierarchy remains.Â…

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CLASSICAL/FINE ARTS RADIO STATION MANAGER WANTED IN ST. LOUIS by Artsjournal

The Radio Arts Foundation (RAF) in St. Louis is looking for a CEO/General Manager who is an experienced and highly creative individual with a demonstrated history of thinking out of the box

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Friday, June 28, 2019

Latest Investment? Now You Can Invest In Hit Songs by Artsjournal

The fund floated on the London Stock Exchange in July 2018 and recently published its first-ever annual results. The man who founded it, Merck Mercuriadis, says hit songs are "as investable …

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Sales Of Print Books In UK Tumble In 2018; Sales Of Audio Books Surge 43 Percent by Artsjournal

The UK publishing industry was hit by a surprise fall of £168m (5.4%) in sales of physical books last year, ending a period of growth stretching back to at least 2014. " The Guardian

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Pilgrimage: Is It Better To See Tintoretto In A Museum Or In The Original Setting? by Artsjournal

Phil Kennicott: "Yes, go see Tintoretto in Venice, but never slight the power of a museum to present art with a clarity and care one rarely finds in the ordinary world in which that art was …

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Ha: New York Bookstore Owner Makes Case That His Stores Ought To Get Tax Breaks Amazon Was Going To Get by Artsjournal

His argument for assistance is simple: The stores generate $650,000 in annual tax revenue for the city and state, and his 75 staffers (on a payroll of $1.7 million in 2018) spend "virtually …

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Sixty UK Music Institutions Promise Gender Parity By 2022 by Artsjournal

More than 60 organisations, including some of the UK's highest-funded companies and prominent performing arts conservatoires, have promised to take positive action towards equality. The Keyc…

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A Creepy Way Of Thinking About Art: Investing In It by Artsjournal

Both of these reservoirs of dark matter"trophy works destined for museum accession or philanthropic donation and unsold inventory"serve to keep prices afloat and maintain artificial scarcity…

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American Library Association Cancels Inventor Of The Dewey Decimal System by Artsjournal

American librarians have voted to remove the name of Melvil Dewey, widely seen as the father of modern librarianship, from one of their top awards, citing his history of antisemitism, racism…

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Fake Science Journals Are A Blight On Research by Artsjournal

"At the most benign level of the junk industry are papers, published in journals with no effective screening process, that are obvious nonsense"about Martians being supermanagers on Mars, ch…

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Does Truth Equal Beauty? (It's A Problematic Idea) by Artsjournal

The problem is that it's difficult to defend the notion that the truth is recognisable by its beauty and simplicity, and it's an idea that has contributed to getting fundamental physics into…

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Julliard Dean Ara Guzelimian To Step Down by Artsjournal

Guzelimian has been dean and provost for 13 years and is known as the "musical gravitas" at the school. " Musical America

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Thursday, June 27, 2019

London Specialist Dance Injury Clinic Abruptly Closes by Artsjournal

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital clinic had provided free specialist healthcare to more than 1300 dancers since 2012… RNOH's plan to transfer care to other sports and exercise medic…

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Phoenix Boys Choir Seeks Dynamic Executive Director by Artsjournal

The Phoenix Boys Choir needs you, if you are a dynamic, goal driven leader. The Phoenix Boys Choir seeks an individual with a proven track record in leadership and fund development.

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Exhibition Design Manager by Artsjournal

The Exhibition Design Manager is a staff position responsible for overall planning and design of all exhibit projects and for insuring that the projects meet high museum quality standards, t…

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Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra seeks Executive Director by Artsjournal

The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra (FMSO), an 88-year-old per-service professional regional orchestra, is pleased to announce its search for a new Executive Director.

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Why Lists Of "Best" Or "Most Livable" Cities Are A Dumb Exercise by Artsjournal

By using data as a driver, such rankings present themselves as dispassionate and impartial, as if they are simply removing the lid on a machine to reveal objectively how the engine beneath i…

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UK Education Secretary Pushes Back: "We're Not Cutting Arts Education" by Artsjournal

Damien Hinds pushed back on references to the Fabian Society's Primary Colours report, which was published earlier this year and concluded there had been a "dramatic" decline in arts educati…

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Theatre On The Go: Made For Your Car by Artsjournal

This is a theatre column, after all. But I really picked up three actors who directed me around streets previously unknown to me in downtown Markham and its environs, and who each made me be…

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Designing For How People Experience Buildings Rather Than How Buildings Look by Artsjournal

That idea of beginning with human experience rather than beauty, has applications beyond the deaf and blind communities. It's a design philosophy that can be applied to tackling problems of …

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Why Have Scholars Retreated From The Public Stage? by Artsjournal

The best of what the university has to offer lies less in its specific power to advance knowledge or solve problems in any of its many fields than in its more general, more crucial ability t…

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