Friday, March 8, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]"The mission of a university I believe should be to understand. And if you do a great job of research, that can be the basis for all kinds of activism later. But if you start with a commitme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]So Wikipedia cites a source for a piece of information. The source cites Wikipedia. And around and around it goes. Trying to find out the original sourcing can be a frustratingly circular ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Overall, the researchers found no significant differences in the amount of content the kids retained, regardless of which version of the lessons they received. But the arts-infused approach …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:29PM[SHARE]For Hollywood, classical music has become the trademark of villains. On screen, orchestral melodies accompany the meditations of mad geniuses and pouting serial killers. Norman Bates practic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:59PM[SHARE]Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become Managing Director of Pittsburgh Playhouse/Director of the Center for Entertainment Manag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:05PM[SHARE]The closure comes after months of troubles that seeped into public view.In October, the Art Institute of Seattle laid off most of its full-time faculty as Dream Center announced 18 of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM[SHARE]Artistic Director /Dean of the Conservatory for the Performing Arts Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA invites qualified candidates to submit applications
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:55PM[SHARE]Sunset Cultural Center, Inc. (SCC) in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, seeks a dynamic fundraising professional with an interest in community engagement for the position of Director …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:46PM[SHARE]Gone are the sound-absorbing dropped ceilings and acoustical tile, cubicle dividers, wall-to-wall carpets, and upholstered chairs. In their place are reflective high ceilings with exposed H.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:34PM[SHARE]"As an artist I like to understand how things work. I only refer to that in my performances, because I hate it when people say, "You should do this, you should do that." I never try to do th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]"We have heard stories about people finding the confidence to get their first ever job or making new friendships with people from a different generation, area or culture who they didn't thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM[SHARE]It's still obvious to even the most casual viewer that Netflix hates movies, because they won't offer their viewers something that theaters, LaserDiscs, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-rays, and even …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PM[SHARE]Composed in 1924, the 'Andante' melody had originally been scribbled by Elgar on a sheet of manuscript paper, which he signed clearly with his name. But for more than a century, it was hidde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:29PM[SHARE]The role of copies still raises larger questions about the mission of museums and the nature of authenticity. Does it matter if the works of art or historical objects on display are copies? …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]If they hadn't found each other in the New York art scene, the players involved could have met on a Spike Jonze film set: a computer scientist commanding five-figure print sales from softwar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The recent phenomenon of so-called cancel culture " the notion of withholding moral, financial and other support for prominent figures deemed problematic " has grown to become the default…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]One of this Broadway season's clearest successes, the play, directed by Ivo van Hove and also starring Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany, routinely posts weekly box office of $1 million or mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]Buddy Guy is eighty-two and a master of the blues. What weighs on him is the idea that he may be the last. Several years ago, after the funeral of B. B. King, he was overcome not only …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]While we tend to condemn clichés harshly, the scholar of rhetoric Ruth Amossy at Tel Aviv University has shown that they're in fact crucial to the way we bond with and read other human bein…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]This idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as "narrative": stories, novels, TV shows, movies, comics. We assume that works that depict characters in ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]The Internet Archive began digitising books in 2005, because "not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]When it comes to stealing from museums, Stéphane Breitwieser is virtually peerless. He is one of the most prolific and successful art thieves who have ever lived. Done right, his technique"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]"[This study reveals] how racism spans across the entire Seuss collection, while debunking myths about how books like Horton Hears a Who! and The Sneetches can be used to promote…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:27PM[SHARE]A growing number of artists claim that their works in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) have gone "missing" and may have ended up on the market without their kn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PM[SHARE]A placeholder image that went viral last month had bunheads worldwide worried. But it's merely a placeholder for engineers. " Pointe
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2019
On his website, Donald Knuth offers the following explanation for his refusal to use email: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01PM[SHARE]UK psychologist and author Sandi Mann explores how embracing boredom and letting our minds wander can get us to step off the ever-accelerating hedonic treadmill, and might even encourage cre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]"Although representing only a small portion of all private foundations in the U.S., by virtue of their strong focus in the arts and direct charitable activities involving their art assets, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM[SHARE]The ArtCenter is finally announcing plans for its Cinderella-like windfall (one that, thanks to investments, has since swollen to $100 million, more than the endowment of any other South Flo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:29PM[SHARE]Signs of an impending slowdown in charitable giving are emerging from multiple studies examining contributions last year, particularly those from donors of modest means. Â For example, a n…
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