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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Artists Rep seeks Company Manager by Artsjournal

Artists Repertory Theatre is looking for an administrative generalist who has abilities and interest in all aspects of the management of a theatre.

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The Virtuoso Of Light Who Paints It On Dance by Artsjournal

Brandon Stirling Bake: “In the same way that a painter may use a brush to create phrases and mix color, I'm doing that with light. And lighting also has rhythm and pace. My friends bac…

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Does Documentary Theatre Add To Understanding? by Artsjournal

A theatre researcher thinks not: “On the surface, theatres of the real offer authenticity and certainty in their attachment to reality. But watching one of these plays does not produce…

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Inside The Burgeoning Seduction Industry by Artsjournal

Commonly known as 'pickup' or 'game', the seduction industry first took shape in the United States in the early 2000s. What began as a few online forums and meetup groups soon gave rise to c…

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As "The Millions" Is Sold, An Elegy For The Demise Of Book Blogger Culture by Artsjournal

While other outlets butted heads over the right to be contemptuous and the still-thriving Gawker published a polemic against smarmy positivity, the Millions sidestepped the debate enti…

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The Mindfulness Industrial Complex Comes To The Museum by Artsjournal

“At its best, the mindful museum might awaken in us a dim memory of a more collective way of being. As Cage wrote, not every contemplative act needs to improve creation"but together we…

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The Essay As Art Form by Artsjournal

The essay is a marginal, even trivial form, yet is also deeply and seriously engaged with the weightiest questions of how a philosophical and political subject can be constituted out of a pa…

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Cities Of War (An Urban Plan) by Artsjournal

“Urbicide is the targeted destruction of cities as a tactic of war. The violence chronicled here is not aerial annihilation"hospitals and homes reduced to rubble"but the "gradual const…

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What Your Access To Fitness Centers Says About Who You Are by Artsjournal

America's fitness-center availability tracks closely with key markers of socioeconomic class: income, education, and occupation. – CityLab

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Music That Zigs While Others Are Zagging by Artsjournal

One of the defining characteristics of today’s classical music is the ways in which it’s breaking the usual rules. Genre-less, as some call it. So you’re not shunned if you…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Dance Place Seeks Development Director by Artsjournal

Dance Place, a nationally recognized cultural arts center in Washington, DC, seeks a Development Director. This is a 40 hour per week, salaried, year-round position with benefits. The Develo…

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The Tricky Euphemisms We Use To Judge One Story Better Than Another by Artsjournal

“There are objective criticisms you can make, you can point stuff out, but how you decide to rate or value the things done well, how much you penalise the things done less well"it's a …

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What's The Difference Between A Dialect And A Language? by Artsjournal

Okay, so maybe you haven’t spent a lot of time pondering this. But Sam Dresser’s discussion here illuminates something in how we construct systems for communicating. Are the diff…

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"Jazz Is Dying" As Metaphor For The Larger Culture by Artsjournal

Matthew McKnight examines Jazz At Lincoln Center: “While the obituary writers may have been right"something's dying"they have been preoccupied with the wrong thing. By looking for sign…

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When The DNA Test Challenges Your Cultural Identity by Artsjournal

Dani Shapiro is a writer who spent years exploring her life and identity. Then she took a home DNA test and discovered what she thought she knew about her heritage was wrong… – W…

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An Increasingly Algorithmic Culture Threatens Our Relationship With Creativity by Artsjournal

We’ve gone from having individual experiences and relationships with the objects around us to slaves of algorithmic calculation and formulas in which the actual things themselves are o…

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Fractured Atlas Committed Itself To Racial Equity. Here's How It's Going by Artsjournal

The arts service organization produced a thoughtful (and well-documented) declaration of its principles a few years ago. Now FA reports on what it’s done and how it’s going……

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Artists Rep in Portland, OR seeks Marketing Associate by Artsjournal

The Marketing Associate helps Artists Repertory Theatre achieve its strategic goals through the project management of the theatre's playbills, marketing collateral, email communications, pre…

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The Future Of Publishing? This Should Depress You by Artsjournal

Mieke Chew recalls a conversation she had with a Croatian publisher about the decrease in book criticism in the four years she has been doing publicity. "He was like, 'Yeah, that happened in…

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Increasing Number Of Fakes Of African-American Art by Artsjournal

"It's a whole generation: you could go from A to Z through the list, from Charles Alston to Charles White. I am seeing fakes attributed to all of them," Rosenfeld says. Propelling the fakes …

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Why The 87-Year-Old Founder Of Philadanco Dance Wants To Start A New School by Artsjournal

Joan Myers Brown: "We started talking about how children are no longer interested in training. They see So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars and want to do 'tric…

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Dallas Morning News Lays Off 43, Including Most Of Its Arts Writers by Artsjournal

The paper has struggled as a business for decades and has a terrible history of cutting its cultural coverage, repeatedly signalling its lack of investment in the life of the city. –DM…

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NBC Says It Will Reduce Ads In Prime Time By 20 Percent by Artsjournal

Why? Increasingly, viewers are resistant to ads cluttering programming. TV is competing for its life with streaming services and other entertainment options. And NBC is experimenting with so…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]
Monday, January 7, 2019

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Is Now Scotland's Most Lucrative Event by Artsjournal

It’s now worth £200 million. Organizers say the event's value – which has risen more than £25 million since the last official research was done in 2015 – demonstra…

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The Next Big Thing In British Art: Research Architecture? by Artsjournal

“Where the Young British Artists were about ego and in-your-face art, with its sharks and suggestive arrangements of kebabs and fried eggs, this is collaborative, research based and po…

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Claim: A Change In Ireland's National Theatre's Policy Has Devastated The Theatre Community by Artsjournal

It claims that the Irish theatre community is "in a critical situation" and that, although the Abbey may be financially buoyant, "the freelance theatre community, in particular, has been cas…

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Leisure Gap: Men Are Watching More TV On Average Than Women by Artsjournal

According to the government's American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which tracks how people spend their days, men on average are watching three hours of TV or movies per day, while women avera…

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Somebody Tried To Shame Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez By Posting A Video Of Her Dancing In College. Really? by Artsjournal

Dance Critic Sarah Kaufman: “Perhaps, somewhere, there exists a small, sad sliver of the human population that still believes, 17th-century style, that dancing is sinful, that having f…

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Pioneering Animator Don Lusk, 105 by Artsjournal

“Lusk's passing is not just the death of a great animator, but the closing of an era in American animation history. He was the last living Disney animator who had made significant cont…

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Our Obsession With Taking Pictures Is Changing Our Memories by Artsjournal

It’s not uncommon to see people spending more attention on picture-taking than focusing on the experience they’re having. But “taking photos of an event, rather than being …

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Ranking All 213 Beatles' Songs From Worst To Best by Artsjournal

This quixotic task was performed by longtime music critic Bill Wyman. It’s an admittedly deeply subjective ranking. Wyman heaps the most scorn for Paul McCartney’s “Good Da…

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