Thursday, February 14, 2019
Sociologists Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport have studied the ways that protest tactics and schemes have spread out of political culture and into other spaces, especially entertainment. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]The documentary focuses on a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York and warns that fascism could happen here. The movie – A Night At The Garden – is competing in the documentary categor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]For us, time is a sequence of events, a measure of gradually changing content. That explains why we remember recent events better than ones from long ago, and why when a certain memory comes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Adams has seven Grammys and 16 albums, and was seen as a champion of women artists’ careers. But some now say that Adams's rock-star patronage masked a darker reality. In interviews, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]“What I don't understand is why everyone in this business thinks there is one template that is gonna be the unified field theory of "windowing" [or how long a movie screens in theaters…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
So what happened? Instagram has now tweeted that the follower loss was not the result of a fake user account culling, but instead due to a glitch they are still looking in to. – Fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04PM[SHARE]Every great city has a vibrant arts and craft culture, and schools and colleges are a critical. In Portland, our art and craft worlds have suffered an ongoing erosion. Go to a public school …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Russell Crowe, not nominated for anything this year, chimed. "The Academy is removing cinematography, editing and make up from the televised show? This is just such a fundamentally stupid de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Ostensibly the goal of the legislation is to protect the Russian internet from the US, which has an offensive cybersecurity strategy and lists Russia as one of the major sources of hacking a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]A human has finally notched up a win against our future robot overlords. Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a live showdown against IBM’s Miss Debater AI at the company&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Michael Philips: “If ABC and the Oscars keep this up, by 2028 we may be watching a 90-minute infomercial with no host, no technical or design awards, no sense of craft or history, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]The founders are quick to point out that the word alphabet is used as a shorthand for many different writing systems. Abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, and pictographic systems are also i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Roden Crater is located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, and has been under construction for 45 years. In the early 1970s, Turrell spent the night in the bowl of the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]“It found students who took an elective arts class in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade had significantly higher grade point averages (GPAs), and better scores on standardized reading an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]The takeaway? Raising money in an arts philanthropy climate focused on issues like equity and access is not a zero-sum game. You can build a modern and expensive new building and roll out pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Although the red carpet has been a part of Hollywood premières since the silent era and a part of the Academy Awards since the early sixties, it became a beast unto itself in large part bec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Neuroscience, it turns out, can help change how companies think about new opportunities, and specifically, within the emerging field of applied neuroscience. Applied neuroscience is be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. among the world's best presentation for venues for dance, seeks Programming Manager.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]“Look at any piece of city marketing material, from promo videos to airline magazine ad inserts. It's amazing how so many of them rely on the same basic ingredients: hipster coffee sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Something that sets us apart from these ancestors and primate relatives, and should be of special interest to anthropology, is our unique propensity to laugh. Laughter is a paradox. We all k…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Only so many movies are chosen, and the road isn’t straight. Here is a movie-by-movie account of how each got to be a best picture nominee. – Deadline
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]“Modern thinking around disability looks to a social model: people are disabled by society's structures, the stairs they can't climb and the doors a wheelchair can't fit though are sim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]“Since the financial crash of 2008, across Europe and in the United States, there has been (to borrow a phrase from Frank Kermode) a "sense of an ending". Liberal orthodoxies have fall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Writing in 1994, Sven Birkerts worried that distractedness and surficiality would win out. The "duration state" we enter through a turned page would be lost in a world of increasing speed an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Former Hollywood film director Anthony Wilkinson " now director of Wimbledon International Music Festival " is looking to raise around £100 million for the concert hall. Wilkinson told th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]“Fiscal responsibility is good business. But it is immaterial with respect to, and when contrasted with, a nonprofit's impact. Fiscal responsibility, then, has no place anywhere near a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
The weekends revolve around the concerts, held on Fridays. There are sometimes other notable events, like hot-air balloon rides. Mr. Bocelli performed on the same weekend as a well-known …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]English has lost more students than other subjects. Undergraduate enrolments on English degrees have also fallen: from an all-time high of around 51,000 in 2011/12 to 39,000 last year, altho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]This may not feel like a particularly revolutionary time. But, if we look closely, we can see current economic, social, and political forces pulling us in two directions. One direction will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Photography has long played a crucial role in how we shape the narrative of our lives. Milestones are documented, creating an archive that can be looked back on for years to come. But the va…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]This idea that animals are conscious was long unpopular in the West, but it has lately found favor among scientists who study animal cognition. And not just the obvious cases"primates, dogs,…
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