Friday, March 15, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]The scheme is slated to cost nearly £300 million and is London's volley in an intercontinental game of high culture one-upmanship, which in recent years has produced Herzog & de Me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]A survey by Americans for the Arts gives an idea of salaries and demographics of arts workers across America's local arts agencies. " Americans for the Arts
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]Michael Kimmelman: "It gives physical form to a crisis of city leadership, asleep at the wheel through two administrations, and to a pernicious theory of civic welfare that presumes private …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Berkshire Opera Festival seeks applications for the position of Executive Director from individuals with broad practical experience in opera company administration and fund-raising.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:08AM[SHARE]People in a Quebec town and across the province were shocked after learning in January that footage from a derailment and explosion that killed 47 people was used in the drama starring Sandr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
The platform, called LIVR, aims to make theatre "more accessible to all" by giving users a "fully immersive 360-degree experience" of live performance from their homes. Subscribers can strea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]To exist as a book, the pages with their letters and spaces need a reader. We may think of books as unchanging material objects, but they only, as it were, happen when read; they have no …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]The nightly two-hour show, which is carried on nearly 200 radio stations nationwide and boasts an estimated audience of 1.3 million, might not identify as ideological or political, at lea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PM[SHARE]"Who and what defines art and quality, which institutions matter and how they are accessed, who knows whom, whether advantage is accumulated from a prejudiced past, and where conscious and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]The challenge is bringing the 1955 canvas " an example from de Kooning's celebrated but also contested "Woman" series, known for their grotesque, even savage renderings of the female nude " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]No-platforming is when a person is prevented from contributing to a public debate, either through policy or protest, on the grounds that their beliefs are dangerous or unacceptable. Open-spe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:28PM[SHARE]"Criticism" in The New York Times Book Review tends to look "positive," by academic standards, not because it always says the book is good but because it offers market advice as to whether y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:35PM[SHARE]As more corporations and real estate developers across the country turn to murals to hawk their products, controversy follows. In New York City, for instance, Target had to apologize for a m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]In Sotheby's recent New York Old Master sale, a copy of the Mona Lisa soared past its estimate of $80,000-$100,000 to sell for $1.69m. It seems extraordinary that someone would pay so much f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]"Whether it is photography, painting, sculpture, or design, the arts define who we are at Cartier. Some of our creations were directly linked to the aesthetics of the Mughal period in India …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
On every campus, I meet scholars eager to share what they know outside the walls of their institutions. They find themselves stalled by three factors: lack of knowledge on how media works as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says that if Spotify pays this cut it has to "artificially inflate" its prices "well above the price of Apple Music." But if it doesn't pay, Apple applies "a series of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PM[SHARE]The history of the United States is a history of bias and brutality and hubris, but it is also a history of idealism and hard work and soaring optimism. What emerges is an invitation to rega…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]For instance, on the simplest task, if someone was generally not prone to boredom, they tended to perform better when listening to the most complex form of music than with either simple musi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]"We want this public asset used for the maximum public benefit. Not only is there a housing crisis, there's also a crisis in terms of us being able to preserve culture." " KQED
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]In written English right now, there's little consensus on this question. National publications have not settled on a regular style. The Atlantic, for instance, used both (emoji, emo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PM[SHARE]"The plan recognizes the shifts in art-making in the 40-odd years since we were founded," said Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu. "Many artists create work on a larger scale, and we want to cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]TDC is a leading management consulting and research firm that works across the nonprofit sector. For 50 years, TDC has worked exclusively with nonprofit, governmental, educational, and phila…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]Rural counties that are home to performing arts organizations experienced population growth three times faster and higher household incomes (up to $6,000 higher) than rural counties lacking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]"They're moving us to a swamp, with no opportunity to grow our vision," said Sami Scott, who helped organize a petition drive against the orchestra's proposal. That petition has accumulated …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Parks and squares are littered with markers that failed at their only job: to keep their topics from falling into oblivion. You may have paused a thousand times at the feet of that mounte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Although he was never a household name, anyone with a record collection almost undoubtedly owns one of Blaine's songs. By his own count, he played on more than 6,000 tracks over the course o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]In recent years, we have witnessed public calls to decolonize the museum space: the return of objects taken from other cultures, fierce debates about who has the right to tell whose story, e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]"It's time for arts writers, critics, journalists, gatekeepers, and arbiters of culture"anyone whose job it is to bestow attention onto others"to reconsider how to allocate that currency. Mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM[SHARE]Richardson's grandest and most acclaimed project was his multivolume biography of Pablo Picasso, the first part of which was published in 1991. (Two more volumes have been put out since; a f…
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