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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Why Elvis Is A Cultural Force 42 Years After His Death by Artsjournal

A few rare individuals in every period integrate, express and add to the values of their time and place in a unique way and become symbols of that time. More than any other national figure o…

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

It Just Sucks: What It's Like To Be Freelancer Worker In The Arts by Artsjournal

Freelancers in the arts hit the instability jackpot. They enter a market with no money and ask for the scraps, billing for what the organisation can afford, not what the job is worth. Unlike…

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How The Vietnam War Changed American Art by Artsjournal

The shock of Vietnam made conventional art forms such as painting and sculpture look inadequate. Its reverberations inspired a rapid expansion of the possible forms art could take and a sear…

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Chicago Symphony Musicians Strike Continues Into Second Week by Artsjournal

There are no further meetings between the sides scheduled at this time. CSO President Jeff Alexander said that after no progress was made after lengthy sessions on Friday and Saturday, both …

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How The Internet Is Changing How We Preserve Endangered Languages by Artsjournal

Across the world, language revitalization movements are attempting to reverse language loss. While levels of institutional support and overall strategies differ, the goal is the same. Langua…

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A Fan Of The Prado Museum With 100s Of Visits Already, Resolves To See It Anew And Discovers What He's Been Missing by Artsjournal

Even as I stood amid the morning rush at the Prado's entrance, scanning a floor plan with the nearly 120 galleries I would navigate, I never expected I'd be in the museum for seven hours. In…

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Apple's Plans To Compete In Hollywood Are Becoming Clearer by Artsjournal

Apple didn't need stars before, but it needs them now. Although the company was the first publicly traded American firm to be valued above $1 trillion, its most recent earnings report sho…

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Facebook Wanted To Scan Local US Newspapers For Local News. The Problem: 1800 Local Newspapers Have Died by Artsjournal

The company deems a community unsuitable for Today In if it cannot find a single day in a month with at least five news items available to share. But the social media giant said it has found…

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MySpace Finally Admits It Lost All The Music Its Users Uploaded Over 12 Years by Artsjournal

"As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace. We apologize for the inc…

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Seattle's Scarecrow Video: The World's Best Video Store? (Admittedly Now A Small Category) by Artsjournal

It survived bankruptcy, the threat of closing and the death of its charismatic founder. In 2014, it became a nonprofit. And now, after 30 years, with more than 132,000 titles " many on…

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James Corden To Host This Year's Tonys by Artsjournal

"The Late Late Show" host previously emceed the annual theater awards show in 2016, and won the Tony for best actor in a play for his performance in "One Man, Two Guvnors" in 2012. " Variety

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Monday, March 18, 2019

Winnipeg Art Gallery's Expansion: A Game-Changer For Telling The Stories Of Inuit Art? by Artsjournal

When complete, the gallery says the new centre will be home to a collection of contemporary Inuit art unlike any other in the world " and will bring new stories to the forefront. "This is a …

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How Nightclub Culture Drives Popular Culture by Artsjournal

Anyone with an Instagramaccount, a fashion magazine subscription or an interest in social activism is ultimately engaging with club culture. Nightlife is like an angel investor in pop cultur…

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AI Is Not Just Changing How Scientific Research Is Done, It's Changing The Scientific Method by Artsjournal

Some scientists see generative modeling and other new techniques simply as power tools for doing traditional science. But most agree that AI is having an enormous impact, and that its role i…

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Executive Director by Artsjournal

Artistry Theater and Visual Arts invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.

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Some Concerns About "Cultural Democracy" And What It Means For Artists And The Arts by Artsjournal

Cultural democracy is, in its essence, anti-elitist. It denounces the superiority of one form of culture over others and includes amateur arts, lifestyles, folk creativity, and traditional p…

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Is Practicing Philosophy In Public A Good Thing? by Artsjournal

It is one thing to share information about philosophy and another to offer non-philosophers a way of participating in the activity. Public philosophy aspires to liberate the subject from its…

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Prediction: Half Of All Colleges Will Go Out Of Business In Ten Years by Artsjournal

Compare Amazon's ability to deliver what you want, how you want it, and when you want it, to that of the average college or university. Or even to the growing number of online universities, …

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Okwui Enwezor, Documenta And Venice Biennale Curator, 55 by Artsjournal

Born in Kalaba, Nigeria, in 1963, Enwezor studied political science in the U.S. He entered the contemporary art world by founding a magazine focussed on African art in 1994. He curated the J…

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China's Art Collectors Open Up About How China's Art Market Works by Artsjournal

China now has around 5,000 museums, of which around 1,500 are privately run. Asked why they opened private museums, the collectors canvassed are candid. "It was good for my collection. It is…

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The Mysterious (And Disgusting) Pooper Of Broadway by Artsjournal

The stealthy stink bomber struck during tryouts for the "Magic Mike" musical at Pearl Studios at 500 Eighth Ave. on Feb. 26, and again on March 6 at the Ripley-Grier space down the block. "T…

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EU's Proposed Copyright Directive Would Make YouTube, FB, Others Not Viable (Do They Care?) by Artsjournal

More people are creating than ever before, and they're using the tools that Article 13 will punish to do so. When people have fewer places to share their content or to make money from their …

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The Internet Is Being Walled Off Country By Country. There Are Dangerous Consequences by Artsjournal

As the web becomes more splintered and information more controlled across the globe, we risk the deterioration of democratic systems, the corruption of free markets and further cyber misinfo…

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Hudson Yards' Monument To Wealth by Artsjournal

Rather than a vision of the future, Hudson Yards takes a snapshot of the concentrated-wealth present. It is the physical expression of the tensions between the developer's focus on moneymaki…

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When Culture Is At The End Of An Algorithm, We Lose The Juice Of Engaging With It by Artsjournal

Christian Lorentzen: "The new books coverage is more like litter. Endless lists of recommendations blight the landscape with superlatives that are hard to believe, especially, as is inevitab…

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Of Critics, Bullies And Trolls " How Do You Tell Which Is Which? by Artsjournal

Famous people who spend a lot of time online become especially defensive; experts point to the explosion of social media for the increase in conflating bullies with critics. After all, bully…

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Netflix Says It Will Make More Interactive Content by Artsjournal

The studio judges that its "Bandersnatch" project was a success and it's exploring extending its experiments in letting viewers have more control of the stories they're watching. But what ki…

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Indigenous Australian Artists: It's Time We Stop Being Reviewed By White Culture by Artsjournal

"It feels like a moment where we are angry and ready enough to address how white Australian review culture maligns Indigenous work by only superficially engaging with it. It feels like a mom…

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A Large Local Arts Funder Searches For A New Leader (And Ponders Some Existential Questions) by Artsjournal

Cleveland's Cuyahoga Arts and Culture is one of the country's largest local arts funders. As such it has an enormous impact on its arts community. Of course having money to spend supporting …

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Overnight Reviews Are Largely A Thing Of The Past. Is It A Good Thing? by Artsjournal

Is a review dashed out in an hour really going to be as good as one written under a more generous deadline? Sometimes, maybe: I know some critics who think British deadlines are the enemy of…

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Meet DC's National Gallery's First Woman Director by Artsjournal

The gallery's fifth director, Kaywin Feldman thinks that her appointment as the institution's first woman director broadcasts a commitment to diversity. When she started working in the field…

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