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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Artist Ai Wei Wei On The Need To Strengthen Human Rights by Artsjournal

“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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19-Year-Old Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason On His Life-Changing Year by Artsjournal

He rocketed to fame after performing at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding. “If his star was already in the ascendant before 2018, becoming the first black instrumentalist …

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Does "Catcher In The Rye" Still Resonate All These Years Later? by Artsjournal

"The Catcher in the Rye" was not originally marketed as a book for teens, but they responded to it as their anthem: More than 65 million copies have been sold. I suspect, though, that the…

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What Emojis Are Teaching Really Young Kids About Language by Artsjournal

Kids still get picture books read to them. But now that we all communicate in writing so much more often, kids also read text messages. For a kid to get a text message written directly for t…

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Is Netflix's Streaming Dominance Coming To An End? by Artsjournal

"Netflix is facing increased competition from some of its previous content suppliers," said Richard Broughton, an analyst at Ampere Analysis. "Despite its major focus on original content the…

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How Americans' Attitudes About Life Have Changed (As Chronicled By 80 Years Of Polling) by Artsjournal

“We looked in those archives to find a range of questions, dating as far back as 1938, that explored how earlier generations felt about everything from fashion to faith in Congress to …

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How Netflix Might Change The Movie Industry by Artsjournal

“Netflix has clearly taken over TV in the last 10 years. It does not seem crazy to believe that they can do the same to the movie biz as they accelerate film production.” &#…

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A Correlation Between Higher IQ And Happiness? by Artsjournal

The researchers found that both IQ and emotional intelligence were independently correlated with well-being. IQ was positively correlated with personal relationships, self-acceptance, person…

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Montreal Music Critic Claude Gingras, 87 by Artsjournal

The longtime music critic for Montreal’s La Presse was from a different era, and was not shy to pronounce… – La Presse

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How A Troubled Kid Went From Juvenile Detention To Being An Opera Star by Artsjournal

Ryan Speedo Green, 32, went from a troubled home to finding a life’s passion and success as an opera singer good enough to command the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

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Back To The Future? American News Media's Post-Ad Model by Artsjournal

“As the news business shifts back from advertisers to patrons and readers (that is to say, subscribers), journalism might escape that "view from nowhere" purgatory and speak straightfo…

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Huntington Library Reimagines Its Collection In Social Relevance by Artsjournal

The series initiated in 2016, when the Huntington invited scientists from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build a sound installation that represented the movement of the Internatio…

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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

You can now apply to study Directing at the Alternative Theatre department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague! by Artsjournal

Learn new ways to make theatre! Make professional connections! Create your own work! Study the MA in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. A tw…

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Monday, December 31, 2018

A 4000-Year History Of New Year's Resolutions by Artsjournal

Turns out, it's a time-honored tradition that started about 4,000 years ago with the ancient Babylonians. Beginning with a 12-day religious festival (are we seeing a modern equivalent …

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How Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson Perfectly Explain Our Cultural Moment by Artsjournal

Celebrity news was intertwined with some of our culture's most urgent issues, particularly involving mental health. Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade committed suicide in the same week. Dem…

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"Bird Box" Has Taken Over Netflix (And The Internet, Apparently) by Artsjournal

Netflix claimed on Friday that the movie had been watched by approximately 45 million accounts since its Dec. 21 debut " the best first seven days ever for a film released on the…

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Could California Soon Have Its Own Internet? by Artsjournal

A series of laws passed in California this year raise a new possibility: that individual US states will splinter off into their own versions of the internet. In July, California passed a …

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The Coming Era Of Fake Video by Artsjournal

In a paper presented at the SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics in Vancouver this spring, university researchers unveiled "deep video portraits," which can quickly and convincingly tran…

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The Creeping Insidiousness Of Miseducation by Artsjournal

Every person has two choices for how to cope with any aspect of society that is uncomfortable: act to change it, or surrender. Miseducation is the art of teaching people to surrender. To be …

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Nirvana Versus The Designer Over The Smiley Face by Artsjournal

The latest pop culture lawsuit that might make its way to a courtroom is the case of Nirvana and Marc Jacobs, with the band suing the designer over a smiley face image. – New York Maga…

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Have We Misunderstood The Connection Between Democracy And Social Justice? by Artsjournal

Working at the intersection of moral and political philosophy, social science, and economics, Elizabeth Anderson has become a leading theorist of democracy and social justice. She has built …

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What We Can Learn About Ourselves By Studying Those Who Are Studying Us by Artsjournal

Even the smallest action or fragment of speech, Emily Martin believes, can be a useful clue to the mostly invisible wider cultural assumptions that shape how research is done in any speciali…

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The Highest-Box-Office-Earning Actor Of 2018 by Artsjournal

The highest-earning actor of 2018 (George Clooney) didn’t even release a movie this year. But can you name the actor who earned the most at the box office with her films? (and no, she …

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The Retail "Apocalypse" as A Cultural Indicator by Artsjournal

It's been a rough time for many prominent American retail chains"and the sector's future prospects don't look rosy. But "apocalypse" might be an overstatement. – CityLab

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Why We're So Terrible At Predicting The Future by Artsjournal

The thing about tech is that even if you can see it coming, you can't be sure quite how it will arrive or what it will do when it gets here. – The Guardian

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It's A Wildly Inventive Time For Jazz (But Not A Golden Age) by Artsjournal

“The music is meant to evolve, and we're in the midst of its most wildly adaptive, thrillingly unruly evolutionary phase in some 40 years. So why do I balk whenever someone declares th…

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Reinventing A Theatre Commons by Artsjournal

Howlround’s director reflects on the remaking of the theatre commons and what has been accomplished in 2018.

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

How Children's Art Shapes Activism by Artsjournal

“The idea that our political values might express themselves in how we think about children shouldn't be surprising to us. In the wake of World War II, philosopher Theodor Adorno colla…

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Contrarian View: Has Social Justice Focus Gone Too Far? by Artsjournal

When I was young, we knew what offensive music was like. It was like the Fugs " a filthy-mouthed band once described as "the most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive" in FBI …

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Music For Social Action? Let's Help Students Acquire The Tools For Music, Says Rapper by Artsjournal

Through the Voice For Change workshops, Australian hip hop artists such as Melbourne-based rapper Mantra, will be taking to schools around Australia to not only equip young people with skill…

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Here's How You Remake A Classic Opera To Make It Politically Relevant Today by Artsjournal

“The original "Fidelio" took place in 18th-century Spain and explored the vindictive nature of a tyrannical prison governor. Heartbeat Opera's rendition takes place in modern-day Ameri…

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