Thursday, April 11, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tickets are expensive " $35k per person " for the "Oscars of the East." But the event, managed by Vogue is showing some signs of waning. No magazine, not even Vogue, has the same influence o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:28PM[SHARE]Peter Skerry's essay is quite pessimistic about how the world has evolved. He writes that the meritocracy structures we have built have become ingrown, timid and self-involved. He wonders if…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PM[SHARE]Jenny Odell is tired of all the exhortations to be a better you. Even the acres of digital detox books now flooding stores masquerade as reconnecting with what's real while all the while sug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31PM[SHARE]Conductor Mark Wigglesworth wrote a book to try to explain the latter. Robert Philip wrote another that tries to make music comprehensible in words. These aren't meager tasks. " Times Litera…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]The county board of supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the current plan and release $117.5 million in taxpayer funding for it, despite last-minute entreaties from some art and architecture…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
"We're hurt and disappointed," begins the letter, which is addressed to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. Their reason for calling out Spotify alone, while Google, Amazon, and Pandora were also listed …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]I understand the logic of "We'll take everyone's money" and the logic of "We won't take any ethically impure money." Those are pure. What I question is the efficacy of cherry-picking the eth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]In the nineteen-seventies, about a quarter of college faculty were on limited-term, adjunct contracts; the majority of professors were tenured or on the tenure-track. Today, it's estimated t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Instead of looking at what we're learning, perhaps we should consider the obverse: what becomes safe to forget? As the internet grows ever more powerful and comprehensive, why bother to reme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]There are vile things on the internet. And after what happened with shootings in New Zealand, there are calls to clamp down on digital content. That may be a bad idea, argues David Sullivan.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]"A 'yes' vote from the supervisors means that more than 50 years of the county project to build the last great encyclopedic art museum in the United States is over. It has driven five former…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]The American Library Association's annual list is out, and as usual, there are some head-scratchers. Harry Potter? To Kill a Mockingbird? The media darling of the list is John Oliver's parod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]"Off we went " and it was a ravishment. Nothing prepares you for the totality of Alvin Ailey: the aural, visual, physical, spiritual beauty. Up to that point, most high-culture excursions (u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]Despite some movement on dollar amounts and percentages, the two parties appear to remain essentially where they were four weeks ago on the basics. " Chicago Tribune
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:26AM[SHARE]"Slow things drive us crazy because the fast pace of society has warped our sense of timing. Things that our great-great-grandparents would have found miraculously efficient now drive us aro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15AM[SHARE]"Today, with the pollution that new technologies have brought to our information ecosystem, this distinction is no longer so easy to make. And this is the real problem, and danger, of satire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Martin Colthorpe, director of ILFDublin : "The pressure for festivals to evolve beyond the readings-and-discussion format is a hot topic right now, with the sheer portability of words allowi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]There is, of course, the economic argument. Overall, arts and culture contribute more than $760 billion a year to the US economy"4.2 percent of GDP. But there's an awful lot of "soft" power …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]Several Inuit singers quit the awards, accusing a Cree singer of appropriating Inuit culture. "Respect for different traditions shouldn't be impediment to cultural exchanges. That's how cult…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:57PM[SHARE]Justin Davidson: "The idea of a building that could be dismantled, rearranged, and reassembled has not generally fared well in the world of building codes and construction trades. The Fire D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]"More and less sophisticated arguments and argumenters are mixed and with plenty of idea exchange between them. Add anonymity, and knowing people's intentions becomes harder, knowing what th…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:52PM[SHARE]California has done a study on recidivism rates, trying to determine whether arts programs make a difference. Evidence is that they may not. But is this the right measure? " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM[SHARE]Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are waging a war of all against all"a war for all of your time, all of your money, all of your worldly interactions and desires. They want to be your o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:27PM[SHARE]The city's ability to invent and reinvent itself over and over again is no accident. Yes, the location is wonderful. But the city's layout and design have conspired to serve as a template th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:23PM[SHARE]After the intervention, working memory in the older adults improved to match the younger group and the effect appeared to last for 50 minutes after the stimulation. Those who had scored wors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]There is something undeniably glamorous about their story"the prince and princess of American dance"and something undeniably magical in the work they crafted together. In 2019, this story sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
Electronic books are becoming increasingly popular for storytime, but the researchers found the bells and whistles, such as sound effects and animation, can sometimes distract young children…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:56PM[SHARE]How? Like micro-blocks " short ad breaks that are short enough -15-60 seconds that the networks hope viewers won't fast forward through them. " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]So far the Shed has raised an astonishing $500m. As is traditional in the US, where public funding for the arts is minimal and institutions rely on philanthropy, the names of the biggest don…
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