Monday, April 8, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]"To be a perennial adjunct professor is to hear the constant tone of higher education's death knell. The story is well known"the long hours, the heavy workload, the insufficient pay"as acade…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Zachary Small: "The answer is a thumping no. The cultural keystone of the Far West Side development is a haughty hybrid-performance venue in a city already overflowing with them at places li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]Many of the best young players coming out of music conservatories aren't headed for orchestra jobs (there aren't many of those). Instead they're forming ensembles with hip names, and explori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25PM[SHARE]People who think they're giving solely to this massive, illustrious arts institution by buying a ticket are actually giving some of their money directly to dozens of other, smaller cultural …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM[SHARE]The Shed is unconventional. Unusual building, unusual spaces, and a different way of engaging with artists and audiences. The opening weekend was a first chance to see what all the unusuals …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]"The basic criteria should always be to not confuse what happens mechanically with insight, to not needlessly use statistical tools for far simpler operations, to present inferences that are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PM[SHARE]In the 1920s, with the creation of the record industry that followed the development of recording technology and the pre-Depression economic boom, genre began to shift from function to demog…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]It goes without saying that Fosse and Verdon are far from the only people ever to struggle with internal conflict and resort to self-deception. It's by virtue of their inner landscape, rathe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]Academia being what it is (a place where everything is contested), there has been considerable debate over what exactly qualifies as bullshit. Most of that debate centers on the question of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Arts organizations continually seek to deepen the connection between art and audience. The deeper the connection, the more likely we are to have a positive arts experience...and keep coming …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]The war for your attention is a zero-sum game. If Netflix retains four hours of your day, that's four hours HBO can't get. The way for companies to remain competitive is to ensure a never-en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Douglas Rushkoff: "In some ways, we're all hostage to our technologies, or we're simply at the mercy of this system. We're being steamrolled by our devices, and the result is a kind of emoti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
Reporting to and working closely with the board of directors, the Executive Director (ED), in partnership with the Artistic Director, will be responsible for the overall success and creative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:11PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2019
Joseph Giovannini: "What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of an institution whose history has been chaotic, whose architecture has been less than perfect, but that was at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Recent turnover in some of America's most important theatres has helped diversify leadership. And there's work to diversify boards and staff. But there's a long way to go to expand the audie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Brexit's greatest impact on music looks likely to be on the live sector, both on British musicians going abroad, and on foreign artists and fans travelling to the UK. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]This is how universities could break the tuition cost curve"by making the price of online degrees proportional to what colleges actually spend to operate the courses. So far, colleges have b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]The works for sale aren't unimportant. They're by Montreal native and Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson. They will be included in Heffel Fine Art Auction House's upcoming auctions, beginnin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25PM[SHARE]St. Olaf College in Minnesota has one. You can buy violin strings, rosin and reeds. One enthusiastic Reddit user said: "I was there a few weeks ago for a horn audition and actually bought…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]There's Slow Food. There's Slow (Longform) Journalism. Now there's Slow Art. To get people in the mood for slow art, Christie's, the V&A and the Natural History Museum have been offering…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:25PM[SHARE]A non-profit had been doing so, in part because the state's library is under-resourced. But the state says it doesn't have the ability to check all the books that come in. Now Books to Priso…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Blue was once little-known in the Western palette. Homer's sea was "wine dark"; blue would not be used as water's color until the seventeenth century. It has evolved from its original associ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]Work on artificial intelligence suggests that our brains engage in constant battles between what we think we know versus what we actually experience. It's a kind of constant skepticism that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
Take creative expertise to the next level with classes in Finance, Marketing + Leadership. The MSLCE program at Northwestern University develops innovative and entrepreneurial business leade…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:56PM[SHARE]Chip Colwell: "As a museum curator and scholar of the repatriation movement, I am stunned by the pace of these unfolding events, which seemed unlikely not long ago. I now understand that the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]It's a $44 billion business. But recently there have been layoffs. Workers have no protection. And some parts of the workforce barely make $10 an hour. Not the picture you thought, right? " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PM[SHARE]Christopher Knight: "What was once a project designed to add nearly 50,000 square feet of critically needed gallery space committed to showcasing the museum's impressive and still-growing pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group, the Shed is meant to be the cultural giveback that compensates for the vulgar mess of the larger Yards project. Looking a bit like a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]"We kind of stepped off a cliff and proposed a multi-use, multi-genre space that wasn't devoted either to visual or performing arts, but could embrace that whole spectrum and anything we cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Pianist and teacher Thelma Wilson has performed for the Queen, taught thousands of students, and is the mother and wife in a family of illustrious musicians, including one of the founders of…
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