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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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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President & Chief Executive Officer by Artsjournal

The Jacksonville Symphony is pleased to be working with HC Smith Ltd in its search for a new President & Chief Executive Officer.

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Habits Can Make Us Better (Or Worse) But We Should Understand How They Work by Artsjournal

The fact that the brain is plastic and changeable allows habits to inscribe themselves in our neural wiring over time by forming privileged connections between brain regions. The influence o…

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Theatrical Outfit seeks Artistic Director by Artsjournal

Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, Georgia seeks a visionary Artistic Director to lead, inspire, and drive the organization toward artistic excellence and financial growth.

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Sports Coaches' New Problem: Their Players Are Obsessed With "Fortnite" by Artsjournal

"It was something that players were talking about during warmups or while they were dressing in the locker room rather than focusing on the actual hockey game that we were getting ready to p…

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Culture Shift: How Women Conductors Are Changing Orchestras by Artsjournal

In a world that expects hierarchy and venerates individual genius, some musicians prefer to see their conductor not as a collaborator, but as a dominant, almost dictatorial leader. Many male…

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Bill T. Jones On The Artistic Struggle To Make Art Useful by Artsjournal

"I wanted to make a piece about a man who saves himself through art. I don't want people to think he's just a train wreck. The most important thing an artist has is the will to do something …

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Successful Public Art Projects Can Transform A City (Sometimes In Not Good Ways) by Artsjournal

Take San Antonio, Texas: Advocates say that the "Decade of Downtown" policies launched under the administration of Mayor Julián Castro"who is now running for president in part on his mayo…

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Prescribing Art A Medical Treatment by Artsjournal

The museum prescription was inspired by a movement in what's called social prescribing. This has kind of taken off more in the UK. And in looking at the literature, we see that doctors were …

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TV Exec And Collector Blake Byrne, 83 by Artsjournal

Before he got into collecting, Byrne "didn't even know what I liked," he recalled in a 2015 interview with Art+Auction magazine. New York dealer Jack Tilton suggested that he att…

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Media and Marketing Director, Office of Arts + Cultural Programming by Artsjournal

The Office of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University is seeking a full time Media and Marketing Director responsible for the promotion of each of ACP's programs by effecti…

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Tchaikovsky " Experimentalist Avant Gardist? by Artsjournal

The idea that Tchaikovsky anticipated the experimentalism of the Symbolists and Surrealists runs counter to his conservatism as a person and as an artist, his reverence for the music of eigh…

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Why Everyone Is Hating On Hudson Yards' "Vessel" (Or Whatever We're Calling It) by Artsjournal

The Vessel has invited nearly universal vitriol, even amongst the politest architecture critics. It is an object lesson teaching us that, in our neoliberal age of surveillance capitalism"…

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The Exquisite Awkwardness Of Literary Parties by Artsjournal

 It must be that people don't remember real parties well enough to re-create them with any accuracy. There's too much missing information. Fictive parties evoke this sense of impaired tim…

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How A Medieval Costume Show Became 2018's Most-Attended Exhibition Worldwide by Artsjournal

The show appealed to such a wide audience "because it put fashion in the context of the Medieval sculpture hall, and juxtaposed art with architecture to create an experience that was like a …

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Smart People Struggling To Make The Internet Help Them Be Smarter by Artsjournal

Today, the worries of 2008 look almost endearingly naive: Forget about the web making us dumber; let's talk about how it has transformed us into tribalized rage monsters.  " Slate

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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Problem With Kids Theatre? It's Not Nutritious by Artsjournal

Noel Jordan: "I compare commercial work for children with the McDonald's Happy Meal. They think they want it, they get it, there is a buzz that comes with a little toy, it is all colourful, …

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All It Really Takes To Become A Dancer by Artsjournal

Marisa Meltzer: "Choreography, as something that isn't normally part of my life, is incredibly hard to remember and appears to use a part of my brain that has gone dormant. It took so much c…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]

The SWAT Team That Hunts Out Fakes At Europe's Elite Old Masters Art Fair by Artsjournal

Vetting, as the process is known, is expensive, invisible, and has recently undergone some major changes at TEFAF. But it remains key to ensuring that collectors can trust in the fair's offe…

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Growing Complaints: Too Many Streaming Services To Choose From by Artsjournal

For the first time in many years, there's growth in online piracy of film and TV. Some experts say it may be because fans are getting sick of paying for yet another streaming service. " N…

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Categorization: Do We Really Need "Ultra" Contemporary?? by Artsjournal

On the other hand: What important trends are we obscuring if we lump the likes of Andy Warhol, who died in 1987, and Avery Singer, who was born in 1987, into the same category? " Artnet

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Where Classical Music Has Become An Obsession by Artsjournal

Inna Faliks: "Seventy-five percent of my students at UCLA are Chinese or Chinese American. Pianists from China, after graduating from the best music schools in Europe and the United States, …

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Famous Actresses Lobby For Food Service Workers. Workers Say Leave Us Alone by Artsjournal

For more than a year, a group of Hollywood actresses waving the banner of the Time's Up movement have been pressing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to apply New York's minimum wage to workers who earn …

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What Happens To Sets From Movies? One Non-Profit Figured Out How To Get It To People Who Need It by Artsjournal

Movie productions require lots of household items to fill their sets. But then the movie is over and where does all that stuff go? It's a headache for the production team to get rid of it. A…

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Quality Versus Quantity: Has "Engagement" Become A Meaningless Measure? by Artsjournal

The quantity-vs.-quality debate is now meaningless. Quality is in the eyes of the beholder. We may yearn for a narrative to explain how and why, but that's not how the digital world works. T…

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The Disney/Fox Merger Has Forever Changed Hollywood by Artsjournal

Disney and Netflix offer the two clearest visions of Hollywood's future. The former is a media company that's as old-fashioned as they come, trying to make movies that will pull audiences en…

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UK's Sackler Trust Suspends Further Giving by Artsjournal

The growing unease amongst British museums to accept money from Sackler family members implicated in the sale of the opioid painkiller OxyContin comes in the wake of several US lawsuits file…

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How Video Game Addiction Works by Artsjournal

Many gamers seemed to struggle to find their place in society. "In our modern meritocratic society, you don't have an obvious place in the way people used to have. You have to create it for …

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The Most-Visited Museum Exhibitions Of 2018 by Artsjournal

And New York's Metropolitan Museum leads the way. The largest exhibition ever mounted by the museum, Heavenly Bodies was seen by around 1.43 million people at the Met's main Fifth Avenue loc…

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A Revolution In Foodie Culture by Artsjournal

Josephine Livingstone: "I am not a foodie. I don't even know the difference between a meuniere and a mirepoix. But from the outside looking in, it's clear that foodie culture is roiling with…

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Thomas Heatherwick Projects Are Everywhere These Days. We Deserve Better by Artsjournal

"This high-profile intercontinental spread has made Heatherwick all but ubiquitous. It has also earned him a heavy dose of suspicion mixed with contempt, both from critics and the public. Hi…

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