Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]The show will have its world premiere this fall in Chicago at the James M. Nederlander Theatre. Previews begin in October. The show's story centers on classic fairytale princesses like Cinde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]Deborah Jowitt, who has been reviewing since 1964, has probably vexed fewer choreographers than most other leading critics. She speaks of Taylor tenderly ("a genius"), and with gratitude. As…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]There's a big difference between no-platforming and not promoting. I know that's obvious, but it feels like this distinction isn't stressed enough in debates about free speech. Spotify was r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:25PM[SHARE]Lindsay Ellis has recently emerged as one of the medium's breakout stars. She earns more than $10,000 a month on Patreon, the crowdfunding site that's her primary source of revenue. It helps…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]According to the theory, if students believe that their ability is fixed, they will not want to do anything to reveal that, so a major focus of the growth mindset in schools is shifting stud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:28PM[SHARE]There are a few reasons. A presidential budget is essentially a messaging tool these days, a way to show your supporters that you're addressing their priorities; Congress has to actually dec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]James Abruzzo and the Nonprofit Practice of DHR International recently completed searches for senior executives at four leading arts and cultural organizations:
Executive and Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Spoleto Festival USA seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator to work as a liaison between a newly commissioned opera and the community at large. The position is Creative Catalysts Fellowshi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
The arts generated 4.2% of the overall U.S. GDP, with roughly 4.9 million Americans working in the sector in 2015, the latest year for which data is available. Collectively, those employed i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02PM[SHARE]On Friday, March 1, 17-year-old Melissa Ziad performed a few classical dance steps in front of a large Algerian flag at a demonstration in the country's capital city of Algiers. The steps, l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:28PM[SHARE]As part of the collaboration, Kickstarter will offer a series of incentives to companies using the platform to crowdfund their show, including support for artists before and during the festi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Covering the breadth of the creative industries " from design, fashion and crafts to performing arts and TV " it notes there has been a 24% growth in creative jobs in London since 2012, but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Graduate students in the humanities can hardly escape reading Adorno and Foucault, and if they miss out on White, they absorb his arguments indirectly. So it is odd that, as scholars unite a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]Often described as "Instapoets", there are several writers sharing short fragments online to enormous followings. The biggest of these audiences belongs to 26-year-old Rupi Kaur: the author …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]The show that night was billed as the Thelonious Monk Trio. Monk, 35, was already a prolific composer and piano innovator, yet it would take a decade for his brilliance to be fully appreciat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM[SHARE]Why do we need it? Automatically produced texts use language models derived from statistical analysis of vast corpuses of human-generated text to produce machine-generated texts that can be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]Alongside venture capital firm Exponential Creativity Ventures and tech training company IT Mentors, the Shubert Organization is launching a startup accelerator that will provide companies w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58PM[SHARE]The affected schools " Argosy University, South University and the Art Institutes " have about 26,000 students in programs spanning associate degrees in dental hygiene and doctoral programs …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]The first scent is said to include notes of, among other things, "neon light effect," "green," and "animalic"; the other scent is said to include notes of "damp concrete," "paper," and "cold…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]For the past two years, withdrawals from the endowment reached 9 percent: Shilvock said that trend cannot continue and deficits must be controlled: "To bring expenses into line with realisti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PM[SHARE]When marketers and technologists think about the applications for artificial intelligence, it's common to think along the lines of data processing, GPS route-finding, and logistics efficienc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PM[SHARE]Frances Morris, the Tate Modern director, said: "Kara Walker fearlessly tackles some of the most complex issues we face today. Her work addresses history and identity with a powerful directn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
How can satire be heard in a climate like this? By becoming louder and crasser. Subtle jabs are increasingly replaced by sledgehammer blows, clever insinuations by clumsy insults. Couple tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Modern-day Zulu Club members defend their practice by saying they are honoring the original group who were poking fun at the white actors. And there is a lot to like with this defense if …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:34PM[SHARE]Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]Their most striking finding: The best-selling pop songs almost uniformly contain violent imagery. Amazingly, 99.5 percent of the pop hits they analyzed (198 in total) referred to violent act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]Of course, translating isn't only the business of people who get paid to do it. Around 300 languages are used daily in London, and New York may be home to as many as 800, according to the En…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PM[SHARE]The dismissive term "Pinkering" has been coined to describe applying a too-sunny gloss to world events. A cartoon strip published in Current Affairs shows a crazed-looking Pinker st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29PM[SHARE]The key to making the most out of small talk, according to Harvard researchers, is to simply ask the other person follow-up questions. In a series of experiments, researchers analyzed more t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]When you hear music " or any rhythmic sound " it activates the portion of the brain that coordinates and times movement, the same neural pathways that regulate your running pace. While any u…
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