Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the owner of a provocative painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, objects to the image's use to stir up nationalist fear. " The Art Newspa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2019
Fei-Fei Li: The machines don't need to have consciousness of their own in order to predict our choices and manipulate our choices. If you accept that something like love is in the end and bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Could anyone in Dundee have imagined how the V&A project would have helped transform perceptions of the city? It has been hard to keep pace with the plaudits and accolades that have been…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PM[SHARE]A new biopic tries to pinpoint it. Nureyev's glamour and celebrity " he was a regular at Studio 54, where he hobnobbed with the likes of Liza Minnelli and Truman Capote " gave ballet a new a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Curator Ralph Rugoff: "Now that we live in a world in which you can go online and find out in two minutes that there never was a curse brings up interesting issues that seem relevant to this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:23PM[SHARE]It represented the future when it was first switched on early in the century. By mid-century it signalled decline more than it did excitement… " The Atlantic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]Alexander Adams: "British arts venues are now ripe for the taking. They are staffed by individuals schooled in cultural relativism and primed by feminism, anti-colonialism and identity polit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:26PM[SHARE]Now come the trickier questions. Should the cathedral be restored to look as it did before? Or should some modern changes acknowledge the fire? Hardly had the fire died down when French …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM[SHARE]The lack of almost any original ideas, a true understanding of the history of festival structures " other than at Do Lab " and experimentation with new images, forms, or structures seems to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]An independent assessment of ACE's reputation as an employer concludes that applicants from diverse demographic groups perceive the funder as inaccessible and feel that ACE looks for a parti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]The Canadian-American architect hopes the project will "recapture that feeling of old Hollywood splendour" that existed during its early years. "Once upon a time, Hollywood Studios had an im…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31PM[SHARE]The call to artists to apply for this self-defined professional development support encouraged applicants to include a fee for their own time. However, of the 263 applications received, 62% …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"If I had to start the service again, I would not emphasize the follower count as much. I would not emphasize the 'like' count as much. I don't think I would even create 'like' in the first …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:27PM[SHARE]Netflix's Twitter feed talks like it's a person, making comments and observations, and trying to be your best friend. It's a tough act to pull off… " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Asking a troll to define trolling is a bit like asking a terrorist to define terrorism. The question backfires; it invites prevarication and propaganda. But in the past few years, an answer …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2019
Right now, there is a generation of athletes who want to have a greater impact. They want to extend the movement to something bigger than charity backpack drives and sports camps. "There's a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2019
"What if the critic doesn't need more audacity, or more ruthlessness; what if there isn't one "tone of the time" waiting for their elucidation " indeed, what if nothing but mass popularity i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]The algorithm discouraged sharing of news. "While every subject group saw major reductions, on a percentage basis arts and entertainment referrals from Facebook to news pieces took the great…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Jesse Lavercombe: "I think Canada needs a new narrative for itself that isn't so much about buttressing a fortress or perfectly defining our national identity, but participating in a larger …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Today, many of the Staines' radical ideas " student-led teaching, community outreach, globally relevant ideologies and an emphasis on physical and mental health " are commonplace. And many o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Although still a long way from restoring natural speech, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have generated intelligible sentences from the thoughts of people without…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]Earlier this month, the country's government introduced a draft of the Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. It would authorize any minister in Singapore to order "correcti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:26PM[SHARE]The tech is now so good, it can impersonate voices you know. "The main takeaway is that human brains may not be able to distinguish a speaker's voice from its morphed version, which means th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is searching for an experienced Director of Marketing and Communication to supervise in-house marketing planning, public relations, creative, and patron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:39PM[SHARE]They're the fastest-growing segment of the books industry, a real success for an industry that has struggled to reinvent. Learn while you're doing something else. That's what successful peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31PM[SHARE]This "masculinist logic" infected the classroom. Criticism had always been central to the Workshop experience, and it was harsh by design. Engle believed "that young writers overestimated th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PM[SHARE]"Our very attempts to stave off disaster by introducing safety systems ultimately increases the overall complexity of the systems, ensuring that some unpredictable outcome will rear its ugly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
Looking at Amherst College's new Common Language Guide: What the glossary contains is not "common" language by any normal reckoning. Its very first entry defines "accomplice" as "a term coin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]"Unlike many previous studies, we are able to investigate differences between bullshitters and non-bullshitters conditional upon a range of potential confounding characteristics (including a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]The photographers used Cinema Treasures, a database of American movie theaters past and present, to track down some of the country's most spectacular movie palaces. At first they focused …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]In 2018, about 4 in 10 people said they experienced a lot of worry the day before the interview, while a third said they were stressed and nearly 3 in 10 said they felt a lot of physical pai…
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