Monday, April 15, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM[SHARE]So many things seem bleak. Politics, the environment, the growing wealth gap, climate change. It's enough to make anyone despair. But if you despair you become paralyzed. So how, exactly sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]To be looking for bigger or better words is thought to be pretentious. But why? Isn't it better to be able to communicate with more precision? " The Outline
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]The world's biggest e-retailer would market the free music service through its voice-activated Echo speakers, sources say, and would offer a limited catalog. It could become available as ear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM[SHARE]With Bay Area-based tech companies scheduled to hold initial public offerings this year, the city of instant millionaires is about to have thousands of even newer millionaires. And many resi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM[SHARE]Twenty-first-century scholars at MITÂ ranked him the sixth most influential person who ever lived. Like Rembrandt and Michelangelo, he is so renowned that he is known by only his first nam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]The 300-plus volumes in the Richard Brautigan Library are private creations made publicly accessible, thanks to an impractical fictional concept that became an impractical reality, and resis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58PM[SHARE]We get that little jolt of pleasure when we share something online and the likes and comments pile up. It's addictive (and meant to be). But there's a case to be made that empty low-cost lik…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]The reason these writers choose old-school tools is that when it comes to writing, computers are too efficient and make changing things too easy, and this ease can slow things down. Writing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"I believe that good design can provide a critical inquiry into social responsibility and civic consciousness. Spaces should provide access to a collective consciousness, reflecting the time…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]"While the legislation does not explicitly state so, it is widely assumed that to conform with the law, online platforms will have to install filters to prevent users from uploading copyrigh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PM[SHARE]"As you all know, as you did and do and will do, in culture, we build bridges, not walls," he said. After his performance, he gestured to the bridge to his right. "I've lived my life at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]As a busy soloist, a founding member of the influential Empire Brass quintet and a partner to the acoustic guitarist Frank Vignola in the jazz group Travelin' Light, Mr. Pilafian expan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
Farrell's return to the company's studios could be further evidence that its new leaders " Director Jonathan Stafford and Associate Director Wendy Whelan " are continuing to make changes for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00PM[SHARE]"Poetry has an inherent ability to not be linear, not be logical, be at times more about sound or suggestion than about direct meaning. This sounds a little bit like how the logic of dreams …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PM[SHARE]The President will provide leadership and direction for all programming, strategic planning, board relations, and management.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PM[SHARE]Opportunities for the City of Ottawa O-Train Stage 2 Public Art Program
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:27PM[SHARE]Disney has thought about itself primarily as a maker of content. Netflix? That was the railway carrying the content to market. But Netflix has moved into content-making in a big way. So Disn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:56PM[SHARE]The findings follow years of mounting frustration from grant applicants with the "nightmare" system: the 'Grantium' hashtag on Twitter reveals virtually no positive tweets. One user…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM[SHARE]Indeed, they do. The worst environmental disasters " the ones that killed the most people " were often deliberately worsened by predatory governments, companies and individuals. Societies th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]"Most theatre professionals recognise the value of bringing in younger patrons, especially those seeking careers in the theatre, as essential to the continued welfare of the industry. But th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PM[SHARE]Cal Newport, a computer-science professor at Georgetown University, marshals evidence that the addictive properties of our devices are not accidental but, rather, the product of careful thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]"Concerns about contraband introduction led me to issue the original directive. After conducting further review, the data does not support continuing the restriction on donated, used books."…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]A case study: "First, its focus on social impact theatre provides another illuminating example of a funder embracing the red-hot field of socially focused arts programming. And second, its w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]The claim that the brain is a computer is not just a metaphor. The cognitive sciences are full of hypotheses to the effect that the brain computes such-and-such in so-and-so a way. Many of o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
"I could never find my own style, no. I have never done anything original. Everything I've done I've stolen from other people. I mean, Mozart also stole right and left, and so did Bach. All …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Andrew Ferguson used to subscribe to four print newspapers, but over the years devolved to digital (as most of us have). So he tried an experiment and subscribed again. And what did he learn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]How did such a strange project make an astounding $38 million on its release day of December 31, 2018? In the same way so many of its big-budget rivals did throughout the year"with good mark…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]The reason? Funding, of course. And more and more schools are charging for lessons, and now, even for instruments. This has decimated the number of students who sign up. It's a vicious circl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]Silkroad's Executive Director will lead its local, national, and international strategic direction and ensure programmatic integration, artistic and social impact, financial resourcing, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:20PM[SHARE]This has become a popular music genre. But "the music wasn't for anything. It merely existed to facilitate and sustain a mood, which in turn might enable a task: studying, folding laundry, m…
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