Thursday, February 7, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Barenboim's life work is awe-inspiring. But “in musical circles, Barenboim's temper is legendary. He has thrown fits because a violist rolled his eyes, because a singer bowed in the wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Fortnite's most significant achievement may be the role it has come to play in the lives of millions. For these players, Fortnite has become a daily social square " a digital mall or v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Lists, of course, are always subjective, and of course you’re meant to quibble. That’s kind of the point. But really? Mohammed bin Salman? And get aload of the “artists and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The museum instead put the images on Twitter on Friday with the French word for "censored" over the statues' presumably private parts, adding: "Maybe it's time that this platform changes its…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]The study conducted by Dr. Stacy L. Smith found that the number of women working as artists remained stagnant at 17%. Of songwriters, women represented 12.3% of the credits affiliated …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]There is so much brio in his sheer commitment to his many apparent lies that it's hard to avoid feeling delighted. He comes off like a classic con artist, as smooth and consistent as his bel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]For 16 years, Paris-based photographer Stephan Zaubitzer has been seeking out old movie palaces and photographing them. – The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Together with an 18th-century directory of sex workers in the Covent Garden area of London, and the violent erotic works of the Marquis de Sade, the Merryland books are among the 2,500 volum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]“There’s nobody I know who does words for a living who doesn’t adhere to certain either odd or essentially irrational preferences or distastes. I think you simply need to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]“Nation-states, when they form, imagine a past. That, at least in part, accounts for why modern historical writing arose with the nation-state. For more than a century, the nation-stat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Business models for virtually every industry are changing – and many industries are seeing their foundations rocked. So how to find new ways to support the arts? In the UK the Cultural…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]“On the face of it, the story of how I wrote my fourth novel " which I was lucky enough to sell for my first comfortable yearly salary " could resemble a heartwarming success story. It…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Nobody has accused Dan Mallory of breaking the law, or of lying under oath, but his behavior has struck many as calculated and extreme. The former colleague said that Mallory was "clever and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]“Aretha stands at the pulpit, her eyes closed, her chin raised. She hums her way into and around the first note. Then breathes deeply, exhales the music. She sings the first word's fir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Bob Goldstein's posters are visually varied, ranging from psychedelic print negatives, to sharp infographic visualizations, to turn-of-the-century scientific etchings, to understated waterco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Only 1.8 percent of U.S. symphony members are African-American. When he was at Peabody, White met with the then-Dean to mull ways to make the institution more diverse and accepting, "because…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]“We are outnumbered and out-posted by other people and it can make us feel unequivocally terrible if we let it. It's never been easier to be insecure about ourselves and our achievemen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]In her 2017 essay collection, No Time to Spare, she argues that fantasy has a subversive streak, because it doesn't take the current reality for granted. "Fantasy not only asks 'What if t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]It’s not just the portrait of Hamilton that has drawn fire. Critics also say Miranda’s portrait of Burr is horribly distorted and argue that Hamilton’s sister-in-law, Angel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Carter Gillies: “Either we say that improving health, wellbeing and social outcomes is our proper motivation, or we admit that the value of the arts is different to this. If instrument…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]“Of course, we are all entitled to our opinions. But how did we come to live in a day when the opinions of those who are not experts can stand head and shoulders alongside science-info…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Last week there were thousands of layoffs at news organizations. Not just at traditional newspapers either. Buzzfeed, one of the buzziest new digital titles, downsized itself in an attempt t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
So “Mrs. Maisel” is a hit, according to Nielsen, averaging 1.9 million views in its second season. But the difficulties in coming up with an estimate of audience points to the ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]This year, the candy company Mars expanded their reach considerably with a (still pretty limited) one-night-only show in New York starring Michael C. Hall called Skittles Commercial: The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]“A nation whose citizens have no knowledge of history is asking to be led by quacks, charlatans, and jingos.” – The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Police say the duo’s song is incitement to violence. They’ve been cracking down. Police interference has undoubtedly had an impact on the scene's lyrics. "A lot of rappers are ce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]This is an excellent time for someone to tell us how to think about these things. Social media has spawned a generation of un-Strunk-and-White-ified people who appear to believe that punctua…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]That’s the contention of the CBC’s Catherine Tait. Netflix is such a force in Canada it’s difficult for homegrown productions to compete. As countries struggle to protect t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]“The basic truth of all Salvator Mundi stories is less exciting; it is an important painting with a solid connection to Leonardo da Vinci, and many rich people want to own it. Its dela…
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