Friday, June 7, 2019
After 70 years, most people still don't live within easy reach " in any sense " of the artistic riches enabled by Arts Council funding. After 70 years, most artists still earn very little fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Phil Kennicott: "The best thing about Ron Howard's polished new documentary, "Pavarotti," is its compassion for the man, who emerges frail but not hollow, merely human and not the pathetic c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]The concert business, according to Pollstar, set records in 2018 with more than 152 million tickets moved and $10.4 billion in sales nationally. The live industry's growth was necessary to o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Meet someone you thought was ugly but then decided they were beautiful? Or someone you thought was gorgeous but then were mystified why you ever thought so? Our sense of physical beauty is a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]When mammals stalk, hunt, and escape, they find themselves in ever-new situations and environments. Marc Bekoff, a researcher at the University of Colorado and a lifelong student of animal b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"As of August 2017, more than 70 percent of viewing time was being driven by automatic recommendations. And the content that gets promoted is even more aggressively selected for engage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"By September 2020, I will have been at the League for twenty-two years and CEO for twelve," Rosen said in his remarks to delegates during the League's 74th National Conference in Nash…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]They sold money they printed themselves as art works, and used the funds to buy up £1.2 million of debt on the secondary market, where lenders sell bad debts. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Publishers Lunch's Michael Cader writes that the deal is for "a modest $6.50 per share," putting the value of the transaction at some $477 million, "plus the assumption of long-term debt …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
As the legendary Humpty Dumpty cracked, never to be repaired, Internet 1.0 is shattering, too. Now we are hammering the internet into a splinternet of different forms. Regional digi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"We're trying to create a balance between things we know are really good and things that we maybe aren't sure about but don't 'fit in' to the typical new music ideal. It's tricky " there are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"Despite the constant avowal and assertion of the intrinsic value of arts and culture, funding for art and culture is still often treated as a discretionary spend which is somehow secondary …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"A survey from the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that, among US workers employed part-time, 64 per cent prefer it that way. Meanwhile, 20 per cent of full-time workers " that's alm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"Our results indicate that happiness is expressed only on the left side. According to some influential theories of emotion neuropsychology, we here interpreted the Mona Lisa asymmetric smile…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"Although entertainment-industry protests have previously helped derail socially conservative legislation in Georgia, studios didn't voice significant opposition to the new abortion la…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]All kinds of companies pick through our online behavior for clues about how we might be convinced to spend money. These practices particularly affect poor people, who are more dependent on c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and remember them. They pay less attention to their surroundings. And neuroscientists can now…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]When one small bookstore owner tells customers they could buy it cheaper if they ordered it themselves, she says they tell her: "Amazon doesn't play with my kids; Amazon doesn't bring author…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"I don't feel respected as a reader when I feel like the subtitle was created not to give me a feeling of what kind of reading experience I may get, but for search engines."Â " Washington…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks a creative, high energy, collaborative Public Relations Manager to design and execute all public relations outreach for this premier interna…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Contentious or not, Wilson's books have mostly addressed one theme: that we must know natural history and evolutionary theory to fully understand humanity's future on the planet. In his 1986…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PM[SHARE]The news, rumoured for months, was confirmed by the company Tuesday as it announced details of what will be House's final season at the head of one of Canada's oldest and most respected cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart made the case in the 1990s: "What kind of a role model was he, this eunuch duck, who sought only fame and fortune, who ignored the plight of the working cl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he had "deliberately aimed to mislead the public into believing he was selling a famed 1952 original" " which was stolen in 1988. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Forbes says the husband of singer Beyonce has succeeded because he built brands rather than just endorsed them. In its rankings, Forbes rejected claims that rapper and producer Dr Dre had re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Festivals are expensive. Toronto's an expensive city. Lots of entertainment choices. And what if people don't buy what you're offering? " Toronto Star
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Entitled "Art/Museum Salary Transparency," the spreadsheet has attracted more than 660 submissions after it was published just three days ago. The public push for disclosure adds to an insur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]On the day of the opening of their exhibition Impulso in old Havana, the artists Jesus Benitez and his colleague, who has asked not to disclose her name in press in fear of further repercuss…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The Treasury Department said in a statement that the U.S. will no longer allow the group educational and cultural trips known as "people to people" travel to the island. Those trips have bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]This is no small shift. For the past quarter-century, the charter school movement has been a juggernaut. Charters were originally devised by technocrats hoping to inject "free market dogmas …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Companies like Trust Science have put algorithms on the market that can help compile trustworthiness profiles of individuals and organizations. But does AI really possess such a "social" ski…
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