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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Washington DC's Mayor Wants Her City To Be An Arts Mecca. The City's Artists Aren't Happy by Artsjournal

The mayor has instrumentalized culture as an economic driver of the capital's fortunes ever since taking office in 2014 and embarking on the creation of her Cultural Plan one year late…

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Virtue Versus Utility: Do We Need To Change The Framework For How We Address Issues? by Artsjournal

While virtue theory " the construction of a moral framework around the ideal of "the good life" and related character traits " dates back to Ancient Greece, it has been commonly associated w…

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The Sarasota Symphony Wanted To Build A New Home In A Park. The Community Didn't Like That Idea by Artsjournal

Hundreds of citizens attended the City Commission meeting Monday, and more than 70 of them spoke during public comment, which extended the meeting four hours beyond its estimated end. By the…

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In 1880 A Symphony Pointed The Way To A Distinctly American Music. Then It Was Forgotten by Artsjournal

"It's amazing that this landmark symphony could have been so easily forgotten. As with the other seminal New Englanders"George Whitefield Chadwick, Horatio Parker, and Edward MacDowell, amon…

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Trying To Combat Trolls, Rotten Tomatoes Changes Its Audience Rating Scoring by Artsjournal

The site's standard user rating will now reflect only moviegoers who can prove they've bought a ticket to see it in a theater. " Variety

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The Amazing Hidden City Beneath Paris by Artsjournal

This invisible city follows different laws of planning to its surface counterpart. Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends. Some of them curl back on themselves lik…

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We Applaud The Philanthropist Who Says He'll Pay Student Loans. But This Is A Policy Failure by Artsjournal

Students are saddled with crippling debt. And generations will be encumbered by it. The generous philanthropist who says he'll pay the Morehouse College graduating class's student debt has d…

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Is Koons' "Rabbit" Worth $91 Million? Value Isn't Measured In Cash by Artsjournal

Andrea Scott: "It became an icon of eighties excess (and, thus, of white, male privilege): fuck like bunnies, make more money, the one with the most toys wins. It was an instant classic wort…

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The Mozart Problem: Revolution In Tight Form by Artsjournal

Stephen Brown: "This is the problem that Mozart poses for our contemporary ears. His music is so balanced, clear, rational in its order, especially in comparison to the music that has come a…

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Study: Women Perform Better On Tests In Warmer Rooms by Artsjournal

The results suggest that "ordinary variations in room temperature can affect cognitive performance significantly, and differently for men and women," write co-authors Tom Chang of the …

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Butterflies, Roasted Pigs And Radios: Christopher Rountree And The Music Of Anything by Artsjournal

And he's having a moment now, with the LA Philharmonic's FLUXUS Festival. " San Francisco Classical Voice

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Study: More Millennials Are Defining Themselves By Their Work by Artsjournal

According to Jobvite's annual Job Seeker Nation survey, 42% of American workers define themselves by the jobs they perform and/or the companies they work for, and that number rises to 45%…

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Are You Obsessive Compulsive? You Fit The Age In Which We Live by Artsjournal

"There's no sugar-coating it: full-fledged OCD is pathological. It renders you unable to function, as I have experienced firsthand. But at the same time, obsessiveness suits our current cult…

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Spoiler Alert: Does Knowing The Ending Of A Story Ruin Or Enhance Enjoyment? by Artsjournal

A 2013 study Offers some answers: "After sneakily revealing the end of short stories when describing them to test subjects, he found that their enjoyment of the fictional narratives actually…

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The Next Great Indie Bookstore Chain? Shakespeare & Co. Makes A Move by Artsjournal

In addition to the flagship store on Lexington Ave., the company opened its first store in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square last October. A second New York City store, which opened the foll…

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Study: To Teach Music To Students, Ditch Mozart And Add Hip Hop by Artsjournal

A four-year study by Youth Music concluded that too many schools fail to include current musical genres and recommended that lessons should focus on "Stormzy rather than Mozart" in ord…

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Learning As Observation (First From Afar) And Then Focusing On What Can Be Known by Artsjournal

"As the conversation of the physical phenomenon under discussion grows more complex, language is revealed to be inadequate to the task of describing abstract thought. At this point, students…

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This Year's NEA Jazz Masters by Artsjournal

Jazz's highest public honor will go to Roscoe Mitchell, Dorthaan Kirk, Reggie Workman and Bobby McFerrin at a ceremony in April 2020. Held at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, it will be t…

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How To Reshuffle The Historical Great Books Canon by Artsjournal

The "great anthology" collections of books drew readers' attention to books of the past. But most of the works chosen were from the historical mainstream. How to change it? A couple of publi…

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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

NYTimes Executive Editor: Most Local Newspapers Will Die Within Five Years by Artsjournal

Dean Baquet: "The greatest crisis in American journalism is the death of local news . . . I don't know what the answer is. Their economic model is gone. I think most local newspapers in Amer…

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Best-Selling Big-Idea Books Riddled With Errors " Should They Be Better Than Random Tweets? by Artsjournal

"The time has come for those of us who work in book-length nonfiction to insist that professional fact-checking become as inalienable from publishing as publicity, marketing and jacket desig…

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Upon Further Consideration: Maybe New Plans For LACMA Aren't So Bad by Artsjournal

Justin Davidson: "I, too, joined the scoffer's chorus when the latest designs emerged in March, but the longer I've spent studying these paltry materials and pacing the site, the more promis…

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Comedy's A Tricky Act. It's All About The Context (And The Audience) by Artsjournal

Comedy poses a threat to sovereign power not only because of its anarchic bent, but because it makes light of such momentous matters as suffering and death, hence diminishing the force of so…

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A Crossroads For The Oregon Shakespeare Festival by Artsjournal

The nation's oldest and largest nonprofit repertory theater company is at a pivotal moment, with change at the top and challenges everywhere. It's bringing in its first new artistic director…

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How Art Became Prestige Currency For The Rich by Artsjournal

Michael Shnayerson's new book, Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art argues that contemporary art, once a thing artists made and dealers tried (unsuccessfully) t…

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Historically, Many Civilizations Have Collapsed. This Time Might Be Different by Artsjournal

In the past, civilization often declined gradually. Also, sometimes the decline was good for some members of society as their rulers were overthrown. But we live in a much more interconnecte…

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Bradley Cooper Talks About Music, Directing, And GaGa by Artsjournal

"When Cooper talks about A Star Is Born being deeply personal, you can see why. It's about art that crosses cultural lines, it's about a love of music, and it's about the conflict betw…

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Turns Out AI Machines Can Hallucinate (Or Are They Seeing Things We Can't?) by Artsjournal

Adversarial examples are like optical (or audio) illusions for AI. By altering a handful of pixels, a computer scientist can fool a machine learning classifier into thinking, say, a pictu…

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Get Ready: Now We Have Virtual Celebrities (And They're Popular) by Artsjournal

Miquela Sousa, also known as Lil Miquela, is a fictional character created by a Los Angeles startup called Brud. Miquela has 1.5m followers on Instagram, where she shares pictures of her ima…

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Monday, May 20, 2019

Turning On Ourselves: Indictment Of Humanities In Higher Ed Can Be Ugly, Unfair by Artsjournal

"It's one thing to own the ugly feelings with which one is understandably and unjustly riddled after years of hanging on by the fingernails while applying for job after job, only to be ghost…

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A NY City Ballet Star Returns " Unannounced And Under A Cloud by Artsjournal

Brian Siebert: "In short, this rushed, business-as-usual reintroduction of Amar Ramasar won't do, though I understand the company's desire to downplay it."  " The New York Times

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