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Thursday, April 18, 2019

If AI Composes Music, Does That Make It An Artist? by Artsjournal

Music is based on influences of music that has come before. So music created by artificial intelligence is composed based on the data and algorithms provided to it. So if AI-made music sound…

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Method Actors Lose Themselves In Their Roles. Just What Does That Mean And How Does It Work? by Artsjournal

They don't literally forget who they are, since their actual beliefs and desires remain the same. (Put in terms of the model: their Belief and Desire boxes retain their original contents.) H…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]

Helvetica Gets An Update by Artsjournal

Is there any more ubiquitous font than Helvetica? It's everywhere. Except it's not. In recent years more and more publishers have eschewed it for other, newer typefaces. And there are some b…

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Why Are TV Writers Are Firing Their Agents? (The People Who Get Them Work)?? by Artsjournal

We have questions. New York Magazine's Jordan Crucchiola has some answers. " New York Magazine

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Here's What America's Biggest Orchestras Looked Like Online In The Early Days Of The Web by Artsjournal

It was back in the late 1990s and the idea of being online was new. Hence explanations of how the web and websites worked… " Classical Dark Arts

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Exciting new job opportunity at Opera Philadelphia! by Artsjournal

Join our talented Marketing & Communications team as the Director of Audience Development. The Director will play a key role in the team's efforts to maximize earned revenue and market g…

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Opportunity at The Kennedy Center for a Senior Press Representative! by Artsjournal

The Senior Press Representative for WNO & Classical is responsible for the strategic communications and public relations efforts for Washington National Opera and its constituents and pr…

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Arts And Science Each Have Their Stereotypes. Time To Rethink by Artsjournal

Just as scientists tend to be quiet about the 'inspiration' phase of their work, artists are a little cagey about the 'laboratory' phase of theirs.

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What Does It Mean When We Talk About The "Soul" Of A City? by Artsjournal

Often, it's really about politics, nostalgia, and the fear of community change…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]

If We're Living In Peak TV, Why Did TV Production Just Plummet Precipitously In LA? by Artsjournal

Amidst a whopping 60.3% decline in pilots from Q1 2018, a single feature that was awarded tax incentives filming in the city, a 15% drop in Commercials and more bad news, overall production …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]

Cognitive Science: What We Know About How Fake News Works by Artsjournal

Creative people that have a strong ability to associate different words are especially susceptible to false memories. Some people might be more vulnerable than others to believe fake news…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]

Murdoch Empire 2.0? Son James Said To Be Investing $1 Billion In New Media Ventures by Artsjournal

The Financial Times cited sources close to James Murdoch tonight that said his new three-comma fund could include a long-rumored liberal-leaning news outlet. " Deadline

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Peter Sellars: On Art, On Culture, On The Artist's Job Description by Artsjournal

"The world is moving in a direction that does require intervention and does require comment and does require a shift in direction. That's the job description for artists. We're the people wh…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]

San Diego Public Library Forgives $2 Million In Library Fines by Artsjournal

"Libraries are known as the 'great equalizers' because we provide equal access for all patrons, regardless of their socio-economic status. Wiping the slate clean of outstanding fines means w…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:23PM[SHARE]

Notre Dame's Fire Is Tragic. Great Buildings Have Repeatedly Survived Tragedy by Artsjournal

Philip Kennicott: "History tells us these things are all too common, even as modern media saturation makes it seem somehow unprecedented. Flip through the pages of any tourist guide to an ol…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]

In Cognito: We're Not Just Hardwired To Think The Ways We Do. Culture Plays A Big Role by Artsjournal

If we look closely, it's apparent that evolutionary psychology is due for an overhaul. Rather than hard-wired cognitive instincts, our heads are much more likely to be populated by "cognitiv…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]

What Happened To Shakespeare's Library? by Artsjournal

And why would we care? "We do know a few things about Shakespeare's relationship with books. He wrote plays according to a method that has been labeled plagiaristic; "appropriative" is a mor…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Hiring a Director of Marketing & Communications at Society for the Performing Arts in Houston! by Artsjournal

The Director of Marketing & Communications will develop, execute and evaluate comprehensive, integrated marketing and sales strategies for Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), a non-pr…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:19PM[SHARE]

The World Order Was Created For Nations. But Increasingly Cities Are Taking The Lead by Artsjournal

No, Chicago isn't about to negotiate with North Korea. And London isn't making a mutual defense treaty with New York. But on a range of issues from climate change to workers' rights, cities …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]

Game Of Thrones Premiere Shatters Ratings With 17.4M Viewers; Most-Watched Scripted Show Of The Season by Artsjournal

GoT is the extremely rare drama that has managed to grow its audience every single season (AMC's Breaking Bad was another). AMC's The Walking Deadused to top Game of Thrones i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PM[SHARE]

An Art Professor's Painstakingly Detailed Scans And Images Of Notre Dame Could Help Rebuild It by Artsjournal

In 2010, Andrew Tallon, an art professor at Vassar, took a Leica ScanStation C10 to Notre-Dame and, with the assistance of Columbia's Paul Blaer, began to painstakingly scan every piec…

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UK Survey: Forty Percent Of Those Who Drop Out Of The Arts Workforce Leave Because Of Family Obligations by Artsjournal

The survey of over 2,000 current or former arts workers, carried out by Parents and Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA) and Birkbeck, University of London, found that 43% of respondents who had…

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Outdoor Piano Concert Attracts Bats. The Ravel Made Them Furious! by Artsjournal

Boris Giltburg: "Those critters just wouldn't budge. They seemed to appear on the keyboard out of nowhere and then stayed there, lethargically, utterly unresponsive to any shooing movement I…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PM[SHARE]

Over The Next 20 Years Trillions In Wealth Will Be Inherited. How Will This Change Philanthropy? by Artsjournal

One report last year estimated that transfers to Gen-Xers and millennials over the next decade alone could yield more than $2o billion a year in new grants to nonprofits. " Inside Philanthro…

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Why We Love Music? A Battle Between Order And Disorder by Artsjournal

Human beings have a conflicted relationship to this order-disorder nexus. We are alternately attracted from one to the other. We admire principles and laws and order. We embrace reasons and …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]

The Improbable Story Of The Guy Who Bought A $1k Painting Over The Internet And Sold It As A Leonardo Worth $500M by Artsjournal

Today, of course, the contents of Lot 664 are worth far more than that: The picture has since sold once for $127.5 million and again, in a record-setting auction at Christie's, for clo…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]

Inside The Culture Of Facebook As It Struggles With The Culture Of Everyone Else by Artsjournal

This is the story of the tumultuous and chaotic past year "based on interviews with 65 current and former employees. It's ultimately a story about the biggest shifts ever to take place insid…

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Is Fighting A Bad Idea? (Philosophically Speaking, Of Course) by Artsjournal

The upside of winning is pleasure and glory, but the cost of always winning is never getting to know how much more was in you. The only way to find the limit is to cross it. But you can't lo…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01AM[SHARE]
Monday, April 15, 2019

Researcher Claims To Have Discovered Shakespeare's Home In London by Artsjournal

"The place where Shakespeare lived in London gives us a more profound understanding of the inspirations for his work and life. Within a few years of migrating to London from Stratford, he wa…

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Why Hollywood's Writers Are Firing Their Agents En Masse by Artsjournal

Short answer: The Writers Guild of America asked them to. Longer answer: The Guild says agency practices have evolved to the detriment of writers and that writers are earning less as agents …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:27PM[SHARE]

The Singularity Is Complete: Tyshawn Sorey Glues Together Jazz And Classical (And Whatever Else Appeals To Him) by Artsjournal

Sorey's work eludes the pinging radar of genre and style. Is it jazz? New classical music? Composition? Improvisation? Tonal? Atonal? Minimal? Maximal? Each term captures a part of what Sore…

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