Sunday, January 20, 2019
In the museum’s storage areas and display rooms, there are some 3,800 suitcases, along with 5,000 toothbrushes and 110,000 shoes and shoe remnants. There are also mountains of human ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Duke University researchers have developed the software. The new app for TV uses databases from Politifact and FactCheck.org to check statements made on live TV. – Washington Post (AP)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]The industry has failed to represent the working population of the capital, and continues to fail to connect with regions outside London. “The report shows we have a passionate industr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]In the past few years numerous choreographers and dancers have moved to the city. There’s space and audiences. And now there’s an interesting dance scene. – Oregon Arts Wat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]It certainly looks that way. And now there are some recent sculptures (and ideas) that might need taking back… – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]After paying $15 billion for a "sustained ramp in its original content slate in '19," Netflix's cash content spend growth will "moderate" in the years ahead, BMO Capital Markets analyst Dani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Which beliefs exactly should be judged as "out of bounds""and who gets to be the referee? How wide is the circle of ideas that are not even worthy of discussion? Such questions are themselve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]“Off the top of my head, too-hot-to-handle topics now include anything to do with gender, sex, race, immigration, disability, social class, obesity and Islam (surely that list is too s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sometimes philosophers argue for conclusions far outside the domain of 'respectable' positions; conclusions that could be hijacked by those with intolerant, racist, sexist or fundamentalist …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2019
'We really see that we have a role in creating pathways for creative people who are local and who are in the community to create work, have their ideas and get their work onto a stage " path…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]It's a global phenomenon, and people ask me, "Why take on a global phenomenon?" You know what else is a global phenomenon? Gone With the Wind. I think Hamilton is probably the bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Mann didn't just lead Princeton's $23 million theatre from a respected regional outpost to a Tony-winning incubator of new work and new talent. While there she also built on an already groun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see, or hear, or touch. That deep part of you, that allows y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]White, black, young and old: this is what an inclusive theatre looks like. That is absolutely what theatre should aspire to, but it does not mean that works of art should not tell stories th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The conflict that ensued over how the theater could accommodate Mason Wicks-Lim's allergy eventually grew into a legal battle that created a rift in the community, highlighting the social st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]“I saw ‘A New Hope’ with both the NSO and the BSO in September and found that the experience confirmed something I had started to suspect: As a classical music critic, I wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]But – these stories have been rewritten before in earlier scientific study. And before we declare a definitive new theory, there are questions… – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Francis Fukuyama had a great idea. His “end of history” suggested a way of thinking about what was now happening to the world and synthesized the work of a number of philosophers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
Low value? The right-leaning group says that some arts degrees offer poor income prospects for graduates and little economic return for the government that supports such degrees. This thinki…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]For centuries, the Catholic Church was one of the world's most important collectors and patrons of art, but in recent decades, the Vatican's holiday nativity scene has often been one of its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]“It’s enough that a 12-year-old knows that a rape has taken place. They do not need to see it, no matter how discreetly it’s filmed.” – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Ann O’Loughlin: “All women writers face an uphill struggle to have their work recognised in the same way as their male counterparts, but for those of us writing bestselling comme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]These historic gardens, originally built for Agra's nobility, are two of the city's few riverfront gardens that survive today. The project of bringing them back to their original glory has i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Make-Believe is a new podcast company in Chicago, and is, as Jeremy McCarter likes to put it, is a podcast that's "one part live theater, one part TV production, one part social science̷…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Amazon is frequently blamed for not just disrupting the way people buy books, but for making it difficult for writers to make a living. Now the company is fighting back, taking aim at an Aut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"I'm especially proud of pumping up the volume on all things indigenous. We're playing a leadership role in the world here in Canada [recognising indigenous work]. We talked about that since…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]“Taken together, these two rules will subject huge swaths of online expression to interception and arbitrary censorship, and give the largest news companies in Europe the power to deci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Milwaukee’s Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has a need to attract new audiences (and don’t we all). So there’s a plan to refresh the complex’s campus, including…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Philip Kennicott: “When we remember our lives authentically, we ask a fundamental question: Why did I remember this thing, at this moment? The "Why now?" question gives memory its mean…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]The dropout rate at American universities has been high. What to do? Use mountains of data to find better ways of predicting who will do well when they get in. And no, it’s not just lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Even if the person wearing dreadlocks is not racist himself, the group says, the chosen hairstyle "conveys racism." It calls cultural appropriation "a form of passive oppression, a privilege…
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