Friday, May 31, 2019
Mark Swed: "It is still the quirkiest major music festival in America, and possibly anywhere. If anything, Ojai has become even more a habitat for compulsive experimentation as well as a mag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"When is a writer erudite, a renaissance person, a polymath"and when are they merely trespassing superficially into areas of knowledge they haven't mastered, imposing their own prejudices or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]The term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics "intersect" with one another and ove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Steve Slater: "This is nothing new, and it is not confined to the arts. We see the same pattern repeated again and again in fields like education, health and the police, all of which suffer …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The concept of reason itself is built on a profoundly gendered blueprint. But a surprising rapprochement might be in sight: between feminists who criticise the mind/matter split, and certain…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Andrew Doyle makes the argument: "The best critics are able to appreciate a piece of work on its own terms, whereas the worst seem to believe that success should be measured on the basis of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]It makes sense. As iconic architectural spaces that are mostly free to enter, museums have a lot to offer today's media-savvy protestors. " Museums Association
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The paper of record showcases a dozen performers " dancers, musicians, street performers " in New York, shows you their work in a multimedia package, and gives some insights into their lives…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
Facebook currently employs 25 curators and administrators to run its artist-in-residency program and its Analog Research Lab. (The company also has a designer-in-residency program run by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]"Lonnie Bunch gave 14 years. He has built an incredible foundation. We want someone just like [him], who was transforming, who could inspire the really terrific people we have at the museum …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]Esino Lario wasn't even struggling " it had attracted resources through events and volunteering schemes, and its population of 745 had dropped only slightly since the turn of the century. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]It's an alluring fantasy " you've found art that is possibly worth a lot of money. But The stories of authenticity quickly unravel in today's internet-connected world. " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]There is not a definitive reason why famous people and media lose their popularity. One theory is that as new content arrives, it simply pushes out older material. Another possible contribut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Director Martin Scorsese thinks so. When you remove wrinkles and smooth out eyes, aren't you losing crucial expressive elements of an actor's performance? " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos spoke out on Tuesday. Then Disney CEO Bob Iger was asked about the situation on Wednesday. Disney will find it "very difficult" to film in Ge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Â iTunes had a good run, there's no denying it. But it's time for the world to move on. If Apple actually moves forward with its rumored iTunes plans, life could be significantly easier fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that's a question for neuroscientists, they said. Rather,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
"What separates Schjeldahl is the tangible sense in nearly every piece in this book " say 85 of the 100 " that something existential is at stake as he writes. The same sensation is present i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]It is perhaps this apparent contradiction, between "fiction" and "facts strictly real", which can seem baffling. Is autofiction fiction, or non-fiction? Autobiography, or novel? There is no …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Dubbed "The Persistence of Chaos," the Samsung NC10 contains six viruses that have caused an estimated $95 billion in damages. Despite what you might think, it's not meant to be a tool…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]According to research by Music Week, it took an average of 5.34 people to write last year's Top 100 biggest singles. That's up from 4.84 in 2017, and 4.53 the year before. So what's going…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"What's the difference between something that's not art because it's not good enough, and something that's not art because it's the wrong sort of thing? Let's start there." " 3 Quarks …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]"Most organizations probably would have went under and failed," the drummer Adonis Rose, a charter member of the orchestra who took over as artistic director after the scandal broke, said in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]What, then, can we make of the anomaly that the elite liberals arts education so coveted today by the rich or those seeking to get rich consists largely of diatribes against the rich? " Wash…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Think of him as a modern-day Gilbert and Sullivan, or the millennial version of the piano-playing Mark Russell or Tom Lehrer " the key difference being that his get-it-out-fast production ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The booksellers association again gained membership, rising from 1,835 individual companies (all but a handful independently owned stores) a year ago to 1,887, an increase of more than 20 p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Attendance hit 14.77 million while ticket sales topped off at $1.83 billion in grosses, according the Broadway League, the national trade association tied to the Great White Way. That's a 7.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2019
"Two centuries of calumny have created sympathy for the musical devil: I found Salieri's grave festooned with bouquets. These were evidence that the man and his music are enjoying a modest c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]"Whether we look at political, economic or military capital, one thing is clear. Heritage is a top-down idea " it is defined and used by the most powerful members of society, rather than by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]What does it mean to "revitalize" something that we had a hand in extinguishing? Bunker Hill was a vital neighborhood that was dismembered by city, state and federal policies, then reassembl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Scott Cantrell: "Thirty years later, week after week, I still marvel at the acoustics of my favorite modern symphony hall " maybe my favorite of any age. The sound seems a physical, tactile …
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