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Monday, June 24, 2019

The Decline Of New York City's Iconic Newsstands (Once There Were 1500 Of Them) by Artsjournal

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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Historian And Curator Peter Selz, 100, Founder Of Berkeley Art Museum by Artsjournal

"Over the course of his tenure as our founding director, Peter transformed BAMPFA from a modest university art collection into the internationally renowned art and film institution it is tod…

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New York City Opera Scales Back Plans, With Do A 10-Performance Season by Artsjournal

General director Michael Capasso's original plan when the company emerged from bankruptcy in January 2016 called for 72 performances of 13 operas in 2018-19 to mark the company's 75th annive…

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A Theatre Critic Reviews Presidential Candidates' Performances by Artsjournal

Peter Marks: "Political campaigns are all about seducing audiences. So why shouldn't someone like me be out here, reviewing the art " or artlessness " of the seduction? Presidential contende…

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That Google-Docs Arts Workers Salary Spreadsheet: A Seattle Analysis by Artsjournal

"There's often a claim that there's simply not enough to provide its most essential staff a living wage, and I think because people love working for these institutions they've been willing t…

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How "Hamilton" Changed The Broadway Touring Business by Artsjournal

The 2018-19 touring season that just ended set records in box office ($1.6 billion) and attendance (18.5 million). "Hamilton" had a clear hand: There are now four productions beyond New York…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]

Harlem Is Being Radically Remade And History Is Being Wiped Away by Artsjournal

The gentrification of Harlem has been blamed on the disregard and greed of white people. The truth is much more complex. " The Guardian

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Report: Radio Still Rules As Most Ubiquitous Medium, Millennials Listen To The Most Music by Artsjournal

Across the board, the Ipsos-iHeartRadio survey found that radio reaches more consumers than any other audio channel, with 85 percent of consumers listening to a radio broadcast at least once…

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Sviatoslav Richter Was One Of The World's Great Pianists. But Then He Met A Lobster by Artsjournal

"I've known periods of chronic depression, the most serious of which was in 1974. It was impossible for me to live without a plastic lobster that I took with me everywhere, leaving it behind…

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Work Is Like Water " It Can Fill Up Your Life by Artsjournal

The 18th-century poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller warned against being driven purely by work in his "On the Aesthetic Education of Man." He wrote, "Man only plays when he is in the fu…

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The Pointlessness Of Discussing Things Today? by Artsjournal

"When I talk with Brexiteers, I certainly do not assume that what Habermas calls the "power of the better argument" will be irresistible. And I am certainly very far from assuming that an in…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019

Lorne Michaels: You Couldn't Start "Saturday Night Live" Today by Artsjournal

"You couldn't do this show now. Mostly because of budget. The depth of costumes, design, film, all of those plus the talent office and all of the people working with each other…you can't s…

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Mark Rylance Resigns 30-Year Association With Royal Shakespeare Company Over BP Sponsorship by Artsjournal

Though the Wolf Hall actor last appeared on stage in an RSC production in 1989, his very public resignation as a longstanding "associate artist" is, at the least, a public relations bl…

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Does Historic Preservation Speed Up Gentrification? by Artsjournal

Using historic preservation to preserve affordability isn't unheard of, but landmarking has something of reputation for hastening gentrification, not halting it.  " CityLab

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New Berkeley Study: Our Brains Crave Information, Reward Us With Dopamine Shots by Artsjournal

"To the brain, information is its own reward, above and beyond whether it's useful," says Assoc. Prof. Ming Hsu, a neuroeconomist whose research employs functional magnetic imaging (fMRI)…

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Why Too Much Choice Leads To All Sorts Of Bad by Artsjournal

It's easier to pick one out of two meals than one out of 50. With more options, we spend more time analyzing and tend to get stuck. Often, we'll choose to do nothing at all for a long time, …

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The Problem With Authenticity by Artsjournal

"Here is the danger with authenticity: it has a tendency to make aspiration look fake. You are trying to be something you are not. But aspiring to be a better person"or better at…

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More Information Makes Things Complicated. No Wonder We Prefer Simple by Artsjournal

"Reality is annoying like that: at every level of examination, it raises more questions than answers. There are always details that don't fit, exceptions to rules, consequences that can't…

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The Next Big Thing: Getting Rid Of Experts In Favor Of Generalists Who Can Do It All (Huge Implications) by Artsjournal

"Minimal manning"and the evolution of the economy more generally"requires a different kind of worker, with not only different acquired skills but different inherent abilities. It has implica…

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How America's Elaborate Visa System Is Choking Off Culture From The Rest Of The World by Artsjournal

As one presenter said, "These days, if you have a Muslim name, much less coming from a country on 'the list,' you can pretty much forget being granted a visa." " San Francisco Classical Voice

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Country Music Stereotype Is Redneck. But It Grew Out Of Progressive Roots by Artsjournal

These kinds of negative projections of the people who have made country music, and have listened to it, linger even unto today. The stereotype is that they all harbour conservative political…

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Too Soon? David Mamet Wrote A Play About Harvey Weinstein. It Doesn't Work by Artsjournal

"Is there anything, anything at all, to be said for a character whose name all too obviously part-rhymes with Harvey Weinstein? Well, he continues to have sympathy for illegal immigrants, de…

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The Serial Museum-Creator by Artsjournal

Seattle's Greg Lundgren has grown up to be an artist, curator and entrepreneur who has spent the past few decades hunting around Seattle for negative zones (derelict properties, soon-to-b…

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Warning: US Tariffs On Chinese Book Publishing Would Be Catastrophic For US Publishers by Artsjournal

"The US publishing industry invests in literature, children's books, educational materials, religious and historical texts, Bibles, scientific expression, and numerous other works of fiction…

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If Ideas Drive History, What If They're Really Bad Ideas? by Artsjournal

"If ideas drive history and most ideas are bad, as Felipe Fernández-Armesto believes, what follows for politics? A sceptical sort of anti-utopianism, perhaps, which regards any large sche…

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How Prosecution Of A Sex-Ad Website Will Have Profound Repercussions For The Internet by Artsjournal

Backpage.com is the site. And "maybe they should have seen it coming: The betrayals. The asset seizures. The changing zeitgeist. They were, to be sure, brazenly cashing in on the sex trade. …

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Will Audio Books And Podcasts Eventually Merge Into One? by Artsjournal

Will these different digital audio worlds continue to exist separate, parallel, and mostly unintrusive of each other? Or will they, over the medium to long term, end up colliding in direct c…

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Seeing ISN'T Believing: The DeepFake Problem Means We Can't Trust Any Video, Recording Or Image by Artsjournal

DeepFakes created by artificial intelligence can now credibly fool anyone into thinking they're real. "By combining this real clip of Albert Einstein speaking, for example, with a photo of t…

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Coming For You by Artsjournal

Tagged as "Industry 4.0," (hey, at least it's better than "Internet of Things"), this fourth industrial revolution has been unfolding over the past decade with fits and starts"largely becaus…

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

How The Baltimore Symphony Got Into Dire Straits by Artsjournal

The Baltimore Sun obtained financial documents showing the orchestra's fiscal health is in calamitous condition. Even factoring in additional state funding, the orchestra is projected to bar…

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