Tuesday, May 14, 2019
By linking brain activity to an image or sound in real time, we can use simple game-like techniques to get people to train themselves to forge new neural connections and voluntarily adopt (o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]More than a century later, Chaminade and her music have been largely expunged from history, and the societies named for her have disappeared " all except one: the Chaminade Music Club of Yon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2019
The Local Television Satellite Solution that provided free service to Canadians who lost signals when TV transitioned from analog to digital in 2011 could end this year.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The Welsh government is proposing a new curriculum in which schools would be required to provide a "broad and balanced curriculum" in which the arts would become one of six core "areas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]In the years following Ader's disappearance, rumors began to swirl that it was a deliberate act that was part of the artwork. But, Anderson Ader denies this. She said her husband was making …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"There are a lot of ways our music can come into contact with others, but there isn't a lot of consistency in our field at large for how we evaluate works and provide opportunities for compo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Certainly we need to continue to push for diversity in all our organizations. Â But I do believe we need to recognize the structural limitations of our field as those limitations impact o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Once upon a time, it was not just that philosophy was a part of science; rather, science was a branch of philosophy. We need to remember that modern science began as natural philosophy " a d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"One of the oddities of this whole business is the unmistakable note of relief in so many discussions about it. In the odd cult of people who spend many nights sitting in front of symphony o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Academe, as anyone knows who's tried to leave it, is like a partner who is wrenchingly hard to quit. When it was good, it was amazing. God, the highs! The horizon of your happiness seemed u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"I concluded from my reading of classical economics that the creation of poverty is as fully intentional as the creation of wealth. Progress is dynamic, self-generating, unpredictable. Pover…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"So far the assaults have mostly been rhetorical rather than real. Universities and the press have fared somewhat worse. But straws in the wind include the rewriting of the narrative at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]People "often assume that their own interest or passion just needs to be 'found' or revealed. Once revealed, it will be in a fully formed state," said Paul A. O'Keefe, an assistant professor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]There are five, each of whom will get $75,000 to "push their art forward." " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"The moral of the story, then, is not that children should always tell the truth, but that education is paramount, enabling both liberation from a life of brutal toil, and, more important, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wadsworth founded Young Concert Artists in 1961 with the aim of finding great young musicians and giving their careers a boost. "The results speak for themselves: Among the more than 270 alu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2019
For its defenders, much of the appeal of The Bell Curve resided in the deliberate challenge it posed to post-1960s racial liberalism. Advocates cheered how Herrnstein and Murray disobe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Had anyone ever proposed that the creator of those extraordinary women might be a woman? Each of the male possibilities requires an elaborate theory to explain his use of another's name. Non…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Sontag wrote her groundbreaking essay in 1963. In 58 paragraphs, she conducted an intuitive yet rigorous examination of a phenomenon that she defined as "a badge of identity among small urba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Academics and their allies need to advocate for a fundamental shift in the social contract around the nature of higher education, moving it away from short-term job training to long-term car…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Those under age 25 will get in free. AGO director Stephen Jost says he initially pitched this idea to this staff two years ago, and wanted the age limit to be 18, but "honestly it was our st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]What's astonishing about his research is how little has changed in the last 1,000 years. Guy Shrubsole's figures reveal that the aristocracy and landed gentry " many the descendants of those…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]It happened spontaneously at a concert in Boston's Symphony Hall last Sunday. After a beat, as Ronan's awe-filled "Wow!" echoed throughout the hall, the audience burst into laughter and chee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Reporting to and partnering with the Executive Director, the Director of Development will work closely with a committed board of directors to engage in the identification, cultivation, and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Will the festival commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic Woodstock Festival actually go on this August? The advance organization is a mess, the financing has been withdrawn, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Just as the CIA sponsored leftist magazines and abstract expressionism to assert American cultural supremacy (and to make censorship seem like something that only happened in communist count…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The evidence is so compelling, in fact, that many leading researchers now believe it's conclusive. "I have no hesitation whatsoever to say that air pollution causes dementia," says Caleb Fin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
Woolly Mammoth invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of the field's leading regional companies. The next Managing Director will join Artistic Director Maria …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]The conversation about AI is full of confusion, misinformation, and people talking past each other " in large part because we use the word "AI" to refer to so many things. So here's the big …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]The ancient country, known as Doggerland, which could once have had great plains with rich soils, formed an important land bridge between Britain and northern Europe. It was long believed to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]Seventy percent said they had kept their disability hidden because of worries it would damage a relationship with a venue, promoter or festival, while two thirds said they had to "compromise…
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