Wednesday, December 26, 2018
The opera house, which has been strongly criticised over the treatment of women in at least one recent production, has pledged to lead the way in making the art form fit for the future…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Movie-ticket revenue in the United States has risen 8 percent in 2018. That puts the industry on track for the largest year-to-year increase of the domestic box office in nearly a decade " a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]It got more expensive to go to the movies, and ticket prices hit a new high, averaging $9.38 over the summer. But it's not just the rising cost of admission accounting for the surge. Atte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2018
You may be surprised to learn that those big, prominent nonprofits soliciting your holiday donations, and maybe a place in your will, are very profitable for the administrators (and in some …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]“I've noticed a common thread. It's the theme of terra firma not being so firma"of finding cracks in a foundation you thought was rock solid, whether the U.S. Constitution, a time-test…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]“We came to Greensboro to attend a group exhibition presented by a cohort of artist residents whose blend of style and performance provoked laughter one minute and tears the next. Thei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]This year, rock and roll seems bored with itself. The most successful acts of the past few years have been bands bristling at the boundaries of the guitar, bass, and drums setup. The genre's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sometimes the meaning of a gesture is obvious, but mostly we have to know the culture before we can interpret it. Many are so unconscious that there's a pleasure of recognition when we encou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]Manipulation of our media environment by foreign as well as domestic actors is now the new normal. "If anything has changed since 2016,"Â writes one experienced reporter, "it's that social…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Despite the occasional marketing hurdle, clearly these books are selling just fine. That's the surprising thing about all of these supposedly irreverent titles. The premise of their humor is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The technique, known as "awake craniotomy," allows doctors to operate on delicate areas of the brain " like the right frontal lobe, the site of Mr. Manzini's tumor " without causing damage. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2018
By using music’s unique ability to imprint on the human brain, Twedt’s result is a sonic map that can help us understand how climate change is upending our world, just by listeni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2018
The decline in subscribers is upending the already fragile economics of opera, changing how companies operate and what they program. Lyric now gives a quarter fewer main stage opera performa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]When Bach's heavy reliance on parody technique came to light in the nineteenth century, scholars found it embarrassing. It ran counter to the Beethovenian principle that composers must write…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]A writer I admire once told me, "few people have an imagination when it comes to their lives." I loved this. It flipped the notion that everyone was doing life right except for me "â…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]The tradition has its roots in religion, of course, but also in immigration patterns. At the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish people were one of the largest non-Christian immigrant grou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]The most common method for evaluating a candidate's potential is the unstructured job interview, which is a weak predictor of future job performance. The interview is especially used to a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]The authority shared the call for submissions on Twitter earlier this month, asking: "Do you have a passion for design and creative branding development? Can you create a simple but visually…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Can computers actually think? Well, they are designed to perform functions that humans perform through thinking. They expertly process information, present it at appropriate points in a conv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]If the body-shaming tactics allegedly employed by many NBA dance teams are troubling, the dancers' stories suggest that the compensation is worse. Three women remembered getting paid $50 a g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"There's no definitive case law determining this." When the Copyright Act of 1976 was passed, it finally established rules around choreography, with some limited fair use cases around critic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Beloved Seattle bookstores were closing their doors throughout the aughts, and those who remained open seemed to face an impossibly uphill task " who would pay full price for a book when you…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
If there’s one thing that gets lost most consistently in the conversation over alluring technology, it’s that our devices contain multitudes. Time spent playing Fortnite ≠…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]Can you copyright the moves? There's more to the Fortnite video game complaints than copyright infringement. The plaintiffs are also bringing in their "right of publicity," a different matte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]We were looking for the Future Book in the wrong place. It's not the form, necessarily, that needed to evolve"I think we can agree that, in an age of infinite distraction, one of the stronge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Heidi Reitmaier is moving on in January to become deputy director of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where she'll also serve as chief of public programming and learning. – Toronto Star
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Proposals to maintain the salary threshold, as well as the failure to include any measures to address the challenges faced by freelances, are hugely disappointing. It demonstrates governmen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]“To many playwrights, the very existence of trans people is enough to make up an entire plot, because it's just that strange. It often doesn't end up mattering where we come from, who …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]The "wisdom of crowds" refers to the result of a very specific process, where independent judgments are statistically combined (i.e., using the mean or the median) to achieve a final judgmen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]“It's an elegantly constructed, effortlessly listenable series that does exactly what you'd hope a general-interest opera podcast would do. It also avoids most of what you'd hope it wo…
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