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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Signs Are Pointing To A Big Slowdown In Charitable Giving by Artsjournal

Signs of an impending slowdown in charitable giving are emerging from multiple studies examining contributions last year, particularly those from donors of modest means.  For example, a n…

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Correlation Between Reading To Children And Creating Readers (Of Course) by Artsjournal

Only 32% of British children under 13 are read to daily by an adult, for pleasure, down four percentage points on the previous year, and nine percentage points down on 2012. Most parents sto…

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Stories Illustrate. Stories Mutate. Stories Grow And Change The World by Artsjournal

In many ways, stories are uncannily similar to living organisms. They seem to have their own interests. They compel us to share them and, once told, they begin to grow and change, often beco…

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Quebec Radio Stations Pull Michael Jackson's Music After Documentary by Artsjournal

Jackson's family and his estate have denounced the Leaving Neverland documentary in recent weeks through written statements, a lawsuit, and letters to HBO and Britain's Channel 4, which also…

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Blurred Lines: How Music Copyright Works Today (An Explainer) by Artsjournal

Most music copyright infringement cases are settled out of court with shared writing credit " and royalties " as it's extremely rare for these types of cases to make it to a jury. When it ge…

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Early Hollywood's Morality Code Was Silly, Self-Righteous And Obsessive. But It Provoked Some Genius Work by Artsjournal

It is usually believed that the anti-sex, anti-violence Code was harmful to art, intellectually unsophisticated, imposed from above and un-American in its disregard for First Amendment Right…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:27AM[SHARE]
Monday, March 4, 2019

State Of The Art: Survey Of 300 Art Critics Illuminates A Field In Profound Change by Artsjournal

In such moments, visual literacy, news literacy, social justice, global politics, and art become part of a rapidly moving whole that arts writers and critics contribute to and respond to. Wi…

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U Of Chicago President Says Trump's Threats To Universities Over Limiting Speech Is A "Grave Error" by Artsjournal

"I believe that any action by the executive branch that interferes with the ability of higher-education institutions to address this problem themselves is misguided and in fact sets a very p…

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Too Distracting? English National Opera To Cut Back On Supertitles by Artsjournal

The opera company said the move had been prompted by a desire to "give audiences even more choice in the new season", which will be announced in April. "This confirms ENO's commitment to sin…

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Ideas: The Mythology Of Paris And What Made It Great by Artsjournal

The major thing is that the Paris myth, in some sense, creates its own death through saturation of believers. The truly exceptional people that came to Paris pave the way for the rest of us,…

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Why The University Of California Has Taken A Stand Against One Of The Largest Academic Publishers by Artsjournal

Elsevier still made $1.17 billion in publishing in 2017, which is precisely the problem, according to its critics. At its loftiest, academic publishing is supposed to be about disseminati…

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State Arts Funding " Steady As She Goes (And Yet…) by Artsjournal

On one hand, it is a testament to the continuous hard work of a lot of people that the sector is able to, on balance, keep funding to SAAs relatively stable.  On the other hand, it is fru…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:34PM[SHARE]

It's Cold In Minnesota. Dogs (And Their Humans) Need A Place To Walk. Enter The Shopping Mall by Artsjournal

"That first weekend there were probably 300 dogs. The area has a huge dog community, and it spread like wildfire." With stores closed and escalators stopped, the two-story shopping center qu…

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Why Do We Need A Festival Of Music By Women? by Artsjournal

"The statistics offer an eloquent answer. In the 2014-2015 season, only 1.8 percent of the music performed by the top 22 American orchestras was by women, according to the Baltimore Symphony…

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Behind Steven Spielberg's Campaign To Exclude Netflix by Artsjournal

The studio complaints about Netflix break down into a few simple categories. The first is that they spent way more money on Oscars marketing this year than anybody else"reported numbers rang…

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Actor Luke Perry, 52 by Artsjournal

Perry, the Riverdale star and actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills, 90210, has died, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporteron Monday.  Perry had suf…

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The Dutchman Who Discovered Two Rembrandts by Artsjournal

"Jan Six is a 40-year-old Dutch art dealer based in Amsterdam, who attracted worldwide attention last year with the news that he had unearthed a previously unknown painting by Rembrandt, the…

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Fake Images: Can You Tell Which Of These Faces Is Real And Which Has Been Created By AI? (It's Difficult) by Artsjournal

"When a new technology like this comes along, the most dangerous period is when the technology is out there but the public isn't aware of it," Bergstrom tells The Verge. "That's when it c…

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Meet Dr. Legato, The Bay Area's Preeminent Sax Player by Artsjournal

As one fan puts it, he's the "ghost of Lester Young." The irony is that he's not that well known outside the jazz world. Nevertheless, he has hundreds of fans in social media, particularly o…

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UK Museums, Galleries Rushing To Ship Art Before Brexit Deadline by Artsjournal

British institutions and galleries are rushing to ship works to and from the European Union (EU) before the Brexit deadline of 29 March as uncertainty mounts over the free movement of goods …

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Friday, March 1, 2019

How Netflix Uses Social Media To Get Its Shows To The Center Of Popular Culture by Artsjournal

The company uses its social and brand editorial department as the engine that keeps Netflix shows and movies at the forefront of the pop-culture conversation. By imbuing its social platforms…

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Andrew Wyeth's Secret Paintings That Made A Woman Famous by Artsjournal

"Over the course of more than 15 years, Andrew Wyeth created 250 secret paintings. He hid them from everyone"including his wife, who was also his business manager"in the loft of a millhouse …

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How Do Artists Get To Be Famous? Study Says It's Who You Know by Artsjournal

While past studies have suggested that there is a link between creativity and fame, Paul Ingram and Mitali Banerjee found, in contrast, that there was no such correlation for these artists. …

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Are Outsider Artists Held To A Different Moral Standard? by Artsjournal

"I asked a few art dealers why we hold mainstream artists to different ethical standards. While one disagreed with the premise of my question, another posited a simple rationale: Our accepta…

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What It Costs To Have Fun (Ticket Prices Across Arts, Sports, Spectacle) by Artsjournal

A comparison of price data across entertainment categories throws up a few surprises. Those who claim that a night at the opera is only for the elite should know that attending a top-of-the-…

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The New York Times "Does" LA Art (Again) by Artsjournal

"As the latest New York Times critic to go spelunking in this city's museums, galleries, studios and alternative spaces, from Brentwood to Boyle Heights, let me get my verdict out of the way…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]

CALL FOR ENTRIES " 14TH INTERNATIONAL ART RENEWAL CENTER SALON REALIST ART COMPETITION by Artsjournal

COMPETE TO WIN $100,000 IN CASH AWARDS | DEADLINE MARCH 15, 2019. The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.

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Let's Delve A Bit Deeper Into How To Undermine Things You Think You Know (How Fake News Works) by Artsjournal

"Suppose you think, as I do, that knowing that something is the case (e.g. that the MMR vaccine is safe) requires being reasonably confident that it's the case and also having the right to b…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]

Report: London's Vibrant Creative Sector Has Failed To Diversify by Artsjournal

Despite "significant job growth" since 2012, the creative sector has "failed to diversify its work force" and it is still "who you know, not what you know, that counts", the report states. "…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:27PM[SHARE]

A 20th Century Book That Foresaw Our Questions About AI by Artsjournal

Nearly 70 years later, The Human Use of Human Beings has more to teach us humans than it did the first time around. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the book is that it introduces a…

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How Do Blind People Interpret Color? by Artsjournal

How does a congenitally blind person's knowledge of a rainbow"or even something as seemingly simple as the color red"differ from that of the sighted? " MedicalXpress

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