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Monday, April 1, 2019

In Search Of "Normal" (It's Become A Festering Battleground) by Artsjournal

"Normality" took a battering in the second half of the 20th century. Lots of people were angry about it and did their level best either to tear it down or render it definitively gauche. Who …

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Study: Canadian Artists Make Less Than Average Workers " Way Less by Artsjournal

The median individual income of Canada's artists is $23,100, or 45 per cent less than all Canadian workers ($41,900). A typical artist has employment income of just $15,000, a figure that is…

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Canada's Stratford Festival On A Roll, Extends Its Star Director's Contract by Artsjournal

Under Antoni Cimolino's tenure as artistic director, the Ontario institution has seen six consecutive surpluses and attendance surpass the 500,000 mark. " Toronto Star

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Can Computational Science Really Improve Our Insight Into The Humanities? by Artsjournal

Questions that historians and literary critics used to debate are increasingly scooped up by quantitative disciplines. In 2011, for instance, a team led by evolutionary biologists cooperated…

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Ingmar Bergman Grew Weary Of Making Movies. Then He Started Writing Books by Artsjournal

The books are startlingly intimate, exploring things he felt he couldn't convey in film. "In order to go back to the beginning, to explore with such startling intimacy the archetype of all t…

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Is Donald Trump Really A Great Novelist? by Artsjournal

Richard North Patterson: "The aim of the novelist is to enlist others in his fantasies, immersing them in an alternative reality so emotionally compelling that they willingly suspend disbeli…

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Charges Of Mismanagement Of Control Of Balanchine's Ballets by Artsjournal

Unlike a painting or the written score of a symphony, a dance is uniquely fragile because there is no foolproof way to preserve it and steps are easily forgotten. Even a complete work can be…

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A New Bio Of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Female Byron" Haven't Heard Of Her? (It Was Complicated) by Artsjournal

Landon has been labeled "the female Byron" and "the Sappho of a polished age." But the public figure she probably most closely resembles is Britney Spears. The two had the same gimmick: Enti…

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On Rereading Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" 50 Years Later by Artsjournal

James Parker has been reading it since it first came out, and finds that it still resonates. Find your own personal canon, he writes, and you discover and rediscover new things over the year…

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Artists' Paper Collage To Mark 30th Anniversary Of Louvre Pyramid Ripped To Shreds By Tourists by Artsjournal

No, they didn't mean to. They weren't angry or anything. But it was paper, after all. In the courtyard of the Louvre. Outside. And there were soooo many people. " The Guardian

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The Shed Opens This Week At Hudson Yards. So What Is The Shed? by Artsjournal

It's a fancy configurable space in the middle of the mega-billion-dollar New York luxury development that says it wants to be an art space that "doesn't compete with anything else." Early on…

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Will Apple's Entry Into Streaming Mean A New Golden Age For TV? by Artsjournal

Golden ages are frequently proclaimed, but a glance at the selection of television options suggests something new is happening. Even for those of us who spend most of our recreational hours …

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Study: Trigger Warnings Don't Work by Artsjournal

"Trigger warnings are, at best, trivially helpful," writes a research team led by psychologist Mevagh Sanson of the University of Waikato. The paper finds they "have no effect, or might even…

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Why Movie Westerns Are An Enduring Genre by Artsjournal

An important reason for the survival of the Western is that it has proved to be unusually adaptable to changing times and sensibilities. Younger filmmakers continue to find fresh ways to mak…

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We're Not In Kansas Anymore: Museums Dive Into Influencers, AI And The Social Maelstrom by Artsjournal

We've moved far beyond the DYI days of tech-integrated engagement with audiences. As the technology becomes higher level and more complex, it moves further way from the art. " The Art Newspa…

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Why Robots Won't Replace Us (No Matter How Smart They Are) by Artsjournal

If the goal is for them to understand us people in order to perform tasks for us they must be programmed to have their own emotional life and the insight that the ability to abstract is a hu…

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Has Instagram Become A Path To A Creative Director Career? by Artsjournal

While many people over a certain age may see social media influencers as the demon spawn of P.T. Barnum and David Ogilvy, it has emerged as a significant advertising tool. According to  a…

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Why Are We So Fascinated By Ruins? by Artsjournal

Like all architecture, abandoned and ruined spaces are animated by what people want from them. They can be massive economic boons or cynical attempts to cloak a neighborhood's rapid socioeco…

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Bournemouth Symphony Started An Orchestra For Disabled People. A Year Later, Here's What They've Learned by Artsjournal

One of the aims of the ensemble is to show young disabled people that they can pursue a career in music. As percussion player Philip Howells said: "Don't lost sight of who you want to be to …

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Apple's New News Product Could Further Worsen Journalism's Ability To Make Money by Artsjournal

Apple News+ threatens to open a massive hole in news site paywalls, allowing their best premium articles to escape. Publishers hope they'll get exposure to new audiences. But any potential n…

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Berlin's Staatsoper Struggles With Its Barenboim Issue by Artsjournal

A person who thinks of Daniel Barenboim solely as an artist might be tempted to explain or excuse his behavior: as a result of the "Latin-American blood in my body" (his, rather offensive, w…

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Local News Is Collapsing In America by Artsjournal

In a previous world, perhaps one could imagine that a million bloggers would spring up to fill the void left by all the actual reporting jobs disappearing, but that clearly did not and is no…

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Open Call: This Museum Could Be Yours If You Have A Great Idea For It by Artsjournal

The Autry will put out a call for proposals for the "revitalization and creative reuse" of L.A.'s oldest museum, a 12-acre campus near the Mount Washington-Highland Park border, plus the mus…

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Singer At Royal Albert Hall Told To Change Her Pro-EU Dress Before Concert by Artsjournal

The British soprano Anna Patalong donned the yellow-and-blue outfit, along with a necklace of gold stars redolent of the EU flag, for a Classical Spectacular performance on Saturday after ta…

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Two Very Different Australian Productions Of "West Side Story" Spark Debate About Clashing Cultures by Artsjournal

The two productions are emblematic of a broader shift in the industry as a whole: one that is trying to be more thoughtful and inclusive, but is still dominated by old habits and modes of th…

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Large Rallies Against Sweeping New EU Copyright Law by Artsjournal

Munich police said 40,000 protesters turned out under the motto "Save our internet." Organizers said Berlin's protest (pictured above) drew 30,000, with participants walking past the center …

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EU Passes Sweeping New Copyright Law. It Will Change The Very Nature Of The Internet by Artsjournal

Under the law, internet platforms will be liable for content that users upload, a burden that will fall heavily on some of the most popular online services. Years in the making, the EU Copyr…

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They Say Blockchain Is Going To Revolutionize The Publishing Business. Is This Just Hype? by Artsjournal

Perhaps not since the advent of the internet itself has a single technology buzzword captured the imagination of so many. Book publishing is no exception: a growing number of startup compani…

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The Point Of Art? Not To "Save" Us (But It Can) by Artsjournal

Christian Wiman: If there's a poem that works for me, it's showing me something of reality. It's more than that, actually: it's enabling me to participatein reality again. John Berger has a …

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The Arts In LA Are Booming. Why? Geography, For One by Artsjournal

One example: The LACMA, in an effort to reach underserved populations, announced plans to transform an 84,000-square-foot building in South Los Angeles into a center for a variety of communi…

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