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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Nebraska Theatre That Pops Out Of A Storefront On To Main Street by Artsjournal

The Storefront Theater is a retractable theatre disguised as a shop. It was built to re-invigorate the main street in the town of Lyons, Nebraska, and create a community space for its reside…

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FULL TIME INSTRUCTOR, THEATER ARTS by Artsjournal

Teach scheduled classes including set design, lighting design, and technical theater arts classes, and perform related duties as assigned, including timely compliance with clerical and admin…

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Monday, May 6, 2019

All Of The Earth Has Been Transformed By Humans. It's A Scary Power by Artsjournal

"In this newly designated 'human age', our species' impact on the oceans, the land and the atmosphere has become an inescapable feature of the Earth. This idea that humanity has forced a geo…

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Journalism's Dependence On Freelancers Has Impoverished It (And The Profession) by Artsjournal

"In truth, freelance journalism, as a career, is mostly an anachronism. Given the rock-bottom rates on offer, few writers actually support themselves with full-time freelancing… But for mo…

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Is your arts organization prepared for disaster? by Artsjournal

Build your emergency management plan with this online professional development course.

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Watching Together: TV Is As Much A Community Experience As It Ever Was by Artsjournal

Twitter has, for two complementary reasons, been a sustaining force for event television. The fans want to avoid spoilers. They also want to enhance the collective experience by chattering o…

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What Alan Turing Warned About Our Digital Future by Artsjournal

Our digital beings are taking us apart. Pluralism is about holding ourselves together: various mental styles interact unpredictably within us, allowing for unpredictable contact with other t…

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Development Director " Santa Barbara International Film Festival by Artsjournal

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…

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Cancel Culture, Miss Saigon, And Butterfly by Artsjournal

Cancel culture is not the same as the rising desire to engage with art's social implications. But both phenomena are indications of a country that is fundamentally shifting the way it engage…

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Digital Life Is Changing Our Brains. How You Read Turns Out To Be Important by Artsjournal

There are old rules in the brain's design that do not change: Use it or lose it. I would add, Choose it. A great deal hangs on how we work as a society to choose who we want to be"whether we…

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The Strict Rules That Celebrities Have To Follow At The Met Gala by Artsjournal

Anna Wintour rules with an iron fist. No selfies (yeah right). No unattractive food. No cellphones or smoking. And don't even think about declining the invite if you ever want to attend agai…

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The Rise Of Interest In Fascism " Among Readers, Publishers by Artsjournal

These books and classes seem to ask an underlying question: Is what the world is experiencing today a replay of the Nazis and Italian Fascists? Probably not. But the parallels these writers …

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Ralph Fiennes On The Challenges Of Making A Movie About Nureyev by Artsjournal

While other films about ballet have gone for big-name actors with body doubles for the dancing bits " think of "Red Sparrow" and "Black Swan" " Fiennes was committed to casting a dancer as N…

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What Twitter Thinks About You Based On Your Online Behavior by Artsjournal

Seeing what Twitter thinks you like can be a fun activity " but it can also be an odd experience to see what the company infers about you from your online moves. The psychology around target…

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Find Yourself Reading Novels Less? Maybe It's The Way You're Reading Them… by Artsjournal

"John Gardner, the literary critic, wrote that the job of the novelist is to create a 'vivid and continuous dream' for the reader, but I'd somehow developed a case of readerly sleep apnea. I…

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After 40 Years, NPR's Morning Edition Gets New Musical Theme by Artsjournal

The original theme " played in many versions since the program's launch in 1979 was composed by BJ Leiderman. So why the update? The show's current producers wanted to "freshen" the sound. "…

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Why Don't Men Learn More Languages? It's Not Masculine? by Artsjournal

A study from Canada reveals undergraduates consider language learning to be a feminine pursuit, and that men with traditional beliefs about the proper roles of men and women report less inte…

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We Depend On Stories To Explain Why Things Happen. We're Learning That That's A Poor Way To Understand The World by Artsjournal

"Our new engines of prediction are able to make more accurate predictions and to make predictions in domains that we used to think were impervious to them because this new technology can han…

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Friday, May 3, 2019

Perhaps The World's Biggest Theatre Empire? Cruise Ships by Artsjournal

Consider: Royal Caribbean International's cruise line directs 134 shows in 50 theatres on 26 ships around the world, including seven Broadway-originating shows, eight aqua shows, 18 ice show…

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YouTube Viewership Is Exploding. Now It's Making More Of Its Content Free by Artsjournal

"Creators are driving record audiences to YouTube," YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl told the presentation audience gathered at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. "Two-hundred mi…

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Growing Disparity: Mapping The "Brain Drain" Of US States by Artsjournal

The end result is a lopsided "winner-take-all" pattern of regional haves and have-nots. Our politics become ever more divisive and polarized as the "big sort" grows ever bigger, eating away …

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Instagram Removes #FineArtModel Hashtag From The Platform by Artsjournal

Content posted using the hashtag, "often used by live figure drawing models to attract work via the social media platform, was hidden because "some content," according to a message, did not …

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The TV Subscription Bundle Is Under Attack " And It's The Industry's Primary Business Model by Artsjournal

Every day that the TV networks keep their bundles intact is another day for the internet to undermine the bundles. Some of that comes through direct competition: Netflix remains quite disint…

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Science Lets Us Do Magic. But Believing We're "Playing God" Is Holding Us Back by Artsjournal

The more an individual thought the issue involved playing God, the more morally unacceptable they judged it to be. " Nautilus

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A Philosopher Argues Why We Should Play God by Artsjournal

"We're playing god every day. As the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes said, the natural state for human beings is a life that's nasty, brutish, and short. We play god when we vaccinate. We …

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Tin Pan Alley Buildings Owner Doesn't Want Landmark Status Because Of "Racist Songs" by Artsjournal

The owner of five buildings on West 28th Street that comprise the core of the historic "Tin Pan Alley" is trying to block them from being landmarked by pointing to racist tunes emanating fro…

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Canada's Last Bricks And Mortar Classical Music Recordings Store Is Closing by Artsjournal

"The store's closing follows a similar move by Vancouver's venerable Sikora's, a dedicated classical music store in West Hastings that shuttered in February 28, 2019 after four decades in bu…

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Alex Ross: The Fascinating, Complicated, Difficult Legacy Of Furtwangler by Artsjournal

"Could modern performers recapture Furtwängler's elasticity of style? Most likely not. Scholars such as Robert Philip and Kenneth Hamilton have shownhow the advent of recording permanently …

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

How Pittsburgh Opera Innovates to Reach New Audiences " A Multimedia Case Study by Artsjournal

The idea of attending the opera intimidates many people. How do you ease their fears, increase their comfort level, and guide their experience? For opera enthusiasts, how do you help them di…

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Plogging Anyone? Scrabble Adds 2,800 New Words by Artsjournal

A whole host of new Scrabble words relate to current lifestyle trends including plogging (picking up litter while jogging), sharenting (sharing news and images of one's children on social me…

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A Few Minutes Alone With "The Last Supper" " Surprisingly Affecting by Artsjournal

Phil Kennicott: "I'm lucky to have been given a little extra time at "The Last Supper" and even, for a few minutes, time without other tourists, and the experience is deeply moving. I'm surp…

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