Monday, February 11, 2019
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,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Augsburg University in Minnesota suspended a professor for using the N-word during a class discussion about a James Baldwin book in which the word appeared — and for sharing essays …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"(Gimme some of that) Ol' Atonal Music," by the singer Merle Hazard, details in sunny and endearing tones a love of atonality, while explaining to newbies what that is (music that isn't in o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]At some tech companies, faith in the mission is encouraged to the point that it resembles religious belief. Employees are invited to see themselves as proselytizers for the transformation of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Our ears perceive loudness in an environment by reflexively noting the dynamic range " the difference between the softest and loudest sounds (in this case, the environment is the recor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]The deal, reached between Actors' Equity, a union representing 51,000 performers and stage managers, and the Broadway League, a trade organization for producers, is a milestone, markin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Â A few years ago there was an expectation that stars such as Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price might bring a new sound and sensibility to country music. Instead, they became their own subg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]“People trying to assess Peter Martins's career should keep in mind that, in the history of ballet, he had what was probably the worst case, ever, of big shoes to fill. Balanchine was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]If you explained Twitter, the blogosphere, and newsy partisan outlets like Daily Kos or National Review to the Founding Fathers, they'd recognize them instantly. A resurrected Franklin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]“As a letter signed this week by human rights organisations, lawyers, academics and musicians argues, criminalising artists in this way is both unjust and ineffective. It is unju…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
"We are working on an opera right now called ‘A Good Boy,’ which is about families who have loved ones living on death row,” Marc Callahan, who is responsible for directing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]“The purpose of this study was to comparatively examine the ways in which Communities of Music Therapy and El Sistema programs may address the empowerment needs of individuals and comm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]The foundation in recent years has focused itself around social justice and equity issues. But this is the first time it has got into programming itself. "Art fosters representation, and we …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
Phil Kennicott: “This is a perfect film for the age of Donald Trump, a revenge fantasy perpetrated against elites, who are caricatured as venal, corrupt and beyond redemption. And desp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]"While it does take longer for artists to get to their first album, once they are there, everything accelerates. Suddenly they reach a level that might have previously been reached by album …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]Finney became the face of British cinema's international explosion after being cast in the title role of Tom Jones, directed by The Entertainer's Tony Richardson. Tom Jones, with its bawdy h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Most Americans today are so removed from the heyday of blackface, when an entertainer like Al Jolson could cement their iconic status with it, that, like the Confederate flag, it is embraced…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Laypersons and academics alike have largely viewed creativity as a positive force, a notion challenged by the philosopher and educator Robert McLaren of California State University, Fullerto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Teach Ceramics classes covering wheel throwing, hand construction, glazing, and firing for high and low temperature clay implementation at the beginning, intermediate and advanced level.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Despite the opprobrium, a spokesperson for HarperCollins UK confirmed on Thursday that there was no change to its publishing plans. A second novel from AJ Finn has been slated for a January …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Teach classes covering contemporary theories, methods, and applications in creativity, design, production, and portfolio development, including Illustration, Dynamic Sketching, Visual Develo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]The new complaint states: "Amazon has tried to excuse its action by referencing a 25-year old, baseless allegation against Mr. Allen, but that allegation was already well known to Amazon (an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Ten years ago, theatre about neuro conditions or neuroscience was rare. Now it’s everywhere, and sparking all sorts of innovation. There is a new emphasis on neuroscience as opposed to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The newest entry into the canon of bad art-world satires is director Dan Gilroy's Velvet Buzzsaw, which premiered on Netflix last weekend. All the familiar grotesques are here: greedy gal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
There’s been a fundamental change to the idea that English is pop's lingua franca. This development has been accompanied by a remarkable shift in the pop-star system itself. While bili…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:04PM[SHARE]“We know that children notice if their parents are paying attention to them and we do know that one in five children wakes up at night to check their phone for social media messages an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]A recent study following the careers of over 100,000 scientists for over 50 years found that half of university-hired scientists leave the academic life after just five years. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]According to the authors, "Hip-hop feminists embrace rap music as a culturally relevant and generationally specific art form that elicits social justice, consciousness raising, and political…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]In short, music ed is disappearing from schools, parliament was told. The government "must act quickly to ensure music does not become the preserve of a privileged few", the report claims an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]REDCAT – located below Disney Hall, and operated by CalArts – is a center for contemporary performance. Murphy quickly established the interdisciplinary performance and multimedi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]The notion of reality is one of the most basic and most abstract ones we have. Raising questions about the very idea of what's real has led to some of the most important, classic work in phi…
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