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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]“I don't fault my friend for fleeing the theatre. This is art that hurts, though, to me, the pain seems entirely appropriate, even welcome. It's not art of the cloying variety; it does…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]“Disney princesses have extremely small waist-to-hip ratios that are nearly impossible to achieve naturally,” write anthropologist Toe Aung of Pennsylvania State University…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Charles McNulty: One of a kind, Channing was a like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Gracie Allen, with a personality voice that could make a tune completely her own. When she sang, pixie …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]“The dictionary meanings of words are only potentially meaningful until they are actually employed in a context defined by the relation between author and audience. So how did it happe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]“While our political transformation was reflected emphatically at the ballot box in 2016 and even more so in 2018, the effects of O.C.'s increasing diversity haven't been felt everywhe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Of course he was better-known as a politician. But he was also a considerably accomplished amateur artist. His artistic work has had relatively little notice next to his political career, bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The rise of Taipei, a realignment in New York, Saudi money… the art world has never been so internationally dispersed… – Artsy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Gregory Tucker: “What has long been hailed as Baltimore's ‘other major league team’ is about to risk losing its major-league status. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Boar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]And yet, that’s what some thought when push buttons first appeared on machines: “Do you not think that this prodigious diffusion of mechanism is likely to render the world terrib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Audiences for podcasts are growing quickly. And the number of podcasts is also exploding. Podcasters are scrambling to find ways to support their work and business models that work.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]Shot as 40-minute films in vibrant high-definition colours, the Bite-Sized Ballets series will kick off with an adaptation of the Tortoise & the Hare, to be followed by Elves &…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]Often, reporting results after a grant can be long, arduous and ultimately not of much use. To anyone. So now there’s a new initiative to see if reporting can be made more useful and l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]The “School of Rock” features very talented students who can really play their instruments and sing. So just where do you find the talent that can carry the show?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]“Today, experimental philosophers and philosophically inclined psychologists are designing experiments that can help to answer some of the big philosophical questions about the nature …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]“The virtue of reading like a historian is that critique or disavowal is not the primary goal. On the contrary, reading historically provides something more destabilising: it requires …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Historically, diversity is something America fights, or accepts begrudgingly with remorse and reservations, or fights anew when it challenges economic dominance. In a country born of the ori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]The mayor called the structure an "iconic and historic theater that holds a special place in the hearts of Stratford residents." The fire was just devastating, she said. – Hartford Cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]When exactly did Broadway theatre become a popular phenomenon? When it embraced other media that spilled into the public consciousness. – Commentary
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]“Traditionally, forgetting has been regarded as a passive decay over time of the information recorded and stored in the brain. But while some memories may simply fade away like ink on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]The union says actors wages for staged readings in developing projects haven’t increased since 2007. But it believes that actors in this early stage ought to get a cut of future profit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM[SHARE]New York, March 21-22; San Francisco, April 29-30; & Toronto, June 18-19. Build Your Next Generation Strategies for Revenue Growth. Sign up by Jan. 31 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world's leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and commun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]One of the paradoxes of life is that our big decisions are often less calculated than our small ones are. We agonize over what to stream on Netflix, then let TV shows persuade us to move to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]The stolen silkscreen was old enough that concerns about it being used once again to make new prints are nonexistent. But as a relic of a those heady, prolific Factory days when Warhol an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The new channel will compete with SiriusXM's "On Broadway," which also features songs and such hosts as Seth Rudetsky and John Tartaglia. – Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PM[SHARE]“In the unlikely chance that anyone knows who broke into my car tonight and stole my bag, please try and persuade them to at least return my script. Many weeks worth of notes and ideas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Given the scope of the looting, the task ahead remains mountainous. In Berlin, for example, at the Central and Regional Library, almost a third of the 3.5 million books are suspected to have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]As the music festival-industrial-complex has become another way of American life, it's also been increasingly and reasonably subjected to litmus tests reflecting the increased social awarene…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Sans Forgetica is purposefully hard to decipher, forcing the reader to focus. One study found that students recalled 57 percent of what they read in Sans Forgetica, compared with 50 percent …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]The results were underwhelming. “Outreach risks taking on a missionary, self-satisfied glow, getting caught up in the innate value of sharing such great music with those who have not b…
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