Monday, January 7, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Central to this shift was the Prado's hard-won independence from government interference. Once, directors came and went with each political quarrel, creating uncertainty and malaise. "The Pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]“Mongolians are not just taking elements from Western music and just copying and pasting. So it’s not rock music performed by Mongolians. It’s Mongolian rock music.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]“I bought it in 2015 for £5,250. I probably spent the same again cleaning and reframing it. And as I stood back to admire my handiwork, up jumped our cat, landing forcefully in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Bank Street's Leadership in Museum Education Master's Program is designed for working educators. Attend classes in New York City one weekend per month and apply what you learn directly to yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Of all college majors since the financial crash of 2008, data from the National Center for Education Statistics show that none has fallen faster than history, which has experienced the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Bachtrack’s annual compilation of statistics about classical music worldwide. The headline? About 30,000 performances. Oh, and Leonard Bernstein got a big boost from his anniversary ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Curbed, the guilty-pleasure real estate porn site, makes a list of standout concert halls in America. Acoustics aren’t the criteria here – or functionality or success. Instead, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2019
The City has been growing a lot, especially the downtown. It’s ripe for a great arts scene. The trick? How to keep it lively and desirable but affordable at the same time. Artists love…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The ideal of super-smart people using those super smarts to create disruption for the betterment of all, or as Steve Jobs once put it, engineers working, quote, "to solve most of humankind&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Television was a revolution in the way people accessed information and entertainment. We forget now, but artists were intrigued not just by by the medium’s possibilities but also by it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Eric Booth: “Teachings artistry lives in the hybrid zone, where two essential human realms meet"art and learning"to enrich one another and create the most fecund human space. Indeed, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Many tribal art dealers feel that their work in restoring and preserving pieces, documenting information about them and helping to establish collections, has been misrepresented and point to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Peter Galison: “The general project that I'm working on is about the self and technology"what we understand by the self and how it's changed over time. My sense is that the self is not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]It was a big year in literary deaths. End-of-an-era stuff… – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Once a writer dies, their work is controlled by an estate. Of course. But that control can often result in censorship, unreasonable demands for fees, and suppression of scholarship. Pity the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Small gains were made in other key behind-the-scenes positions, the study found. Women accounted for a greater percentage of producers, executive producers, writers and editors, compared wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]“We assume that a search engine company builds a model of human knowledge and allows us to query that model, or that some other company (or maybe it's the same company) builds a model …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
This residency is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders who are ready, willing, and able to affect systems-level change across disciplines and cultures.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PM[SHARE]City of Austin's Economic Development Department is seeking a key senior staff member within its Cultural Arts Division, to develop, shape, and administer funding and capacity building progr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PM[SHARE]It's a particularly stark reminder that no organization is purely good when money is the major organizing principle. The art and search for meaning that constitute the best expression of hum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]The experiment has already dipped into some North American venues where the virtual likeness of deceased crooner Roy Orbison received mixed reviews a few months ago. Opera singer Maria…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]“Conceptually, one might argue, Western classical music is tailor-made for global promulgation since a score written in country A in year X could theoretically be rendered equally well…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]So much of critical authority depends on confidence of opinion. To change your mind risks undermining that authority, an act of self-subversion. But I still think the better path is honesty.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Eike Schmidt, who is German himself, said Berlin had a moral duty to give back the painting, Vase of Flowers, by the 18th century Dutch artist Jan van Huysum. It was looted from Florence …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]A revolutionary, and now widely accepted, countermodel to Freud's scheme goes by the term "predictive mind." The theory comes in different flavors, but overall it holds that automatic proces…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Tribune, which controls 33 broadcast stations across the affected markets, had asked Charter to pay more than twice what it currently does for the same content going forward, said Charter sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]London's mistreatment of its nightlife is such a tragedy. A city without clubs is a colorless place, and allowing them to disappear means marginalized communities vanish; young people fle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]The rise of the Internet and its remix culture means that a lot of people now benefit from a growing public domain in ways that weren’t true in 1998. That includes big companies like G…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The rise of cord-cutting (people ditching cable packages for cheaper digital options) is beginning to reduce financial margins at cable and satellite providers, and channels that aren&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2019
“If we truly believe in values that we can all identify with and aspire to " a recognition of truth, an understanding of science, an appreciation of the self, a respect for life and a …
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