Monday, February 4, 2019
“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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The crew "just thought it was some painting, they had no idea it was worth many millions," Mather-Lees told the Observer at a superyacht conference in London last week. "They are expec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Asghar Farhadi on the impact of censorship in Iran: "Each director finds his own way of dealing with it. It's claimed restriction can lead to even greater creativity. I believe that's true i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]“We were working too hard, making these elaborate things, and all of her stuff was really stripped down. She’d do five quizzes in a day, and I’d maybe do that many in a wee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]A survey by streaming service Deezer found that the average person reaches “musical paralysis” — when she or he primarily listens to familiar tracks and does not seek out n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Officials told reporters on Saturday at the site that the chambers, which were cut out of rock, belonged to a middle-class family who probably lived during the Ptolemaic, early Roman or Byza…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Everything The Yard does is underpinned by three values, Jay Miller said. The first is that "the stories we tell have to feel like they aren't being told by mainstream culture. The second is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Students are actively integrated into a system that collects data about their behavior, quantifies it, and packages it for parents and the school itself. In an era of data rooms and standard…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
Toronto’s Canadian Stage has been a success in the theatre, less so in its financial fortunes. So with new leadership, maybe it’s time for a business upgrade rather than an artis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"We can't have it both ways. We can't keep saying we're a wonderfully endowed cultural nation and boast about our artists and our poets and our writers and everything on the one hand, and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Doug Shipman " the founding CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights before taking over running Atlanta’s Woodruff Center " seems the right person to carry the momentum forward int…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04PM[SHARE]“Our breakthrough moment was when we took ownership of the fact that we didn't need to write a "social impact statement" (which might be seen as competing with our mission statement). …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04PM[SHARE]Beyond its handful of higher-profile productions, including a feature film coming this spring, Wattpad estimates that nearly 1,000 of its stories have been turned intotraditional books, TV s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04PM[SHARE]If every age has its version of apocalypse, the soft tragedy of our own is that it can no longer be safely situated in the future. Our end-times, instead, lurk among us, furtive and fierce a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]While Aristotle suggests that gossiping was frequently a trivial, enjoyable pastime, he also makes clear that gossiping could have malicious intent when spoken by someone who has been wronge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Cornish officials believe theirs is the first arts school to reset its tuition rates alongside a growing list of small, private, liberal arts schools like the Cleveland Institute of Music, M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]So are things getting better or worse? Both, evidently"different things for different people in different places. And which way of answering the question is best: compiling statistics, or co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]First, an idea, while unpleasant, may well be correct or true, in which case we gain insight by being exposed to it. And even if it is only partially true, it can help us reach a more comple…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
At a time when half of all book purchases in the U.S. are made on Amazon " and many of those on mobile " the first job of a book cover, after gesturing at the content inside, is to look grea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]"I haven't seen a dumbing down of anything " at least not yet. Looking at new projects, you have to think about who is writing it and who is going to be involved. But I see the rising compet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The history of ideas, in fact, suggests the opposite… The assumption that the last 50 years or so have marked some unprecedented break with a previous age of truth reflects both an ina…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Lionel Shriver: “For reasons that escape me, artists' misbehavior now contaminates the fruits of their labors, like the sins of the father being visited upon the sons. So it's not enou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]In 2019, Sundance is arguably more mainstream than ever. Many options at the festival this year are the kinds of projects major studios used to make all of the time"crowd-pleasing comedies, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]"A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast was in 1980," says a new paper, published last week in the journal Science. "Useful forecasts now reach nine to 10 d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]What was new here was that formerly fringe filmmakers were now getting big crossover deals and gushy reviews, redefining indie cinema in the public consciousness. This began a snowball effec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Graham Daseler: “The good news is that cultural appropriation is here to stay, no matter how many angry Twitter mobs come to kill it. Critics of the practice can't even state their gri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]The sheet with the thumbprint is entitled The Cardiovascular System and Principal Organs of a Woman (around 1509-10). Although fingerprints have been found on other Leonardo drawings, the on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Mr. DeRogatis veers from expletive-laden indignation to choked-back tears when describing the effects of Mr. Kelly's alleged behavior with what he estimates to be at least 48 women. But he h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2019
How do your own implicit biases shape the abilities you develop and the opportunities you pursue? What effects do they have on your own mental health? How can we be liberated from the constr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]The move may signal a wider expansion by the streaming giant into capturing theatre for the small screen, which experts say could see it capitalise on a demand for more accessible ways to wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]“Like the lawsuits targeting other businesses, the claims against galleries tend to identify websites that lack special code that would enable browsers to describe images for people wi…
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