Thursday, June 27, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The initiative is a socially engaged art project that pays people who wouldn't otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution, flipping the script b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The bureau found Ticketmaster's advertised prices did not reflect the true cost to the consumer as the online ticket service added mandatory fees later in the purchasing process that often a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Avid readers could build autobiographies around their favorite books and come to the realization that what they have read is almost as meaningful as when they read it. So here's a list of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Among the works in this group of acquisitions, which will go on view at the museum in August, are Thomas's portrait of a transgender woman named Qusuquzah, Qusuquzah, une très belle négres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2019
"It is believed that students who spend school time in music classes, rather than further developing their skills in math, science, and English classes, will underperform in those discipline…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city startup from Google parent company Alphabet, has released its master innovation and development plan to turn a sizable swath of Toronto's Lake Ontario sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]"Most of us already lead creative and cultural lives: we join book clubs, we take craft classes, we stream music," the strategy document says. "The task for the Arts Council is to enable mor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]After over 200 studies, we know that the more people endorse materialism, the worse their wellbeing. They're less empathic, less prosocial, more competitive. They're less likely to support e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]Jeremy Dutcher incorporates in his live and recorded music an unusual and affecting act of legacy, playing transcribed wax recordings from 1911 by an early anthropologist of a tribal elder s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The group is primarily concerned about the latest design's 10% reduction in size and museum director Michael Govan's plan to disburse objects from the permanent collection to future…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The development is the latest in what has been a tumultuous year for the N.R.A. It has struggled to right its finances; faced investigations in Congress and by Letitia James, the New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Joseph Haj: "When I see artistic directors who have a five-show season directing three of the shows, I think: nobody's that interesting, nobody. I don't care how beautiful and thrilling a ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Being a philosopher on brain rest is like being a point guard on hand rest. The major asset for your profession is suddenly not working reliably. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]Amazon remains defiant that it is doing more than enough to combat the issue. In its blog post, the company claimed that in 2018 alone it "invested over $400 million in personnel and tools b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Mailer on the moonshot: loads of words, loads of money. A big deal for Life magazine. And for Mailer? Grim opportunism. Out of tune, bardically bereft, plucking (as it were) flaccid s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]This vicious circle of song optimization / playlist optimization may be the path of least resistance but it can ultimately lead to an unsatisfying overall music experience. Classical music p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM[SHARE]Some of the earliest scientific studies of creativity focused on personality. And some evidence suggests that innovation comes easier to people with certain personality types. A 1998 review …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM[SHARE]Apart from his tombstone and the old stone buildings, every Kafka attraction I visited was built in the 21st century. Czechoslovakia's uneasy leaders had tried to scrub Kafka from Prague's h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM[SHARE]For museums determined to build collections of today's contemporary art"which is also getting pricey, as works by women and artists of color steadily gain in value""it's a waiting game."Â …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Encouraging distinctly American artistic habits stands a chance of making art more accessible without making it unserious or "middlebrow." The arts are so irrelevant to most Americans' lives…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sebastian Smee: "I ask this knowing it is the wrong question. It is wrong not just because huge numbers of people think Renoir is, in fact, great, as well as adorable, joyous and life-affirm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Netflix is a business like any other, one locked in a seemingly unresolvable war with the movie-theater industry, which it views as a rival. Twelve percent of Americans see at least one movi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]It may take a musician's vocabulary to identify the devil's interval, but it doesn't take a musician's ear to notice that hospitals are acoustically stressful places. Noise is one of the top…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Far from having evaporated, 'folkloric disenchantment' is still common today in the writings of self-described magicians, shamans and witches. But we also find its analogue in academic disci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]The main factors that determined whether a person could correctly perceive each image as a fake were their level of experience with the internet and digital photography. " The Conversation
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
Baseline carbon emissions measurements are now being produced at major institutions including the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and Serpentine Galleries with an eye to creating "ambiti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"There's a lot more work, but it's a lot harder to make money on anything. It's one of the reasons the unions are up in arms right now. For low-end workers, the people on the tail of those b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Leaving people's personal abilities to distinguish high sonic quality from low sonic quality out of this conversation, there is a virtually insurmountable issue with mass adoption of hi-res …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]National Museum Wales " Amgueddfa Cymru " is the most important cultural institution in Wales and a leader in the UK in public engagement and cultural participation. It holds internationally…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]Today, the city has a little more than three hundred newsstands. They are required by law to sell printed material. But Max Bookman, a lawyer who represents the New York City Newsstand Opera…
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