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Monday, December 17, 2018

A Debate About "After" Poems: Homage Or Theft? by Artsjournal

There's nothing straightforward about the debate, and nothing particularly new about the "after" convention. Poetry is a medium in which sampling, allusion, and conversation have always been…

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According To Uber Data: The World's Top (Car-Accessible) Destinations by Artsjournal

Two New York destinations are at the top of the list — the Empire State Building and the One World Trade Center (listed on Uber by its former name, the Freedom Tower). – CNN

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A First: In LA This Year More Women Artists Than Men Had Solo Shows by Artsjournal

The tally comes from adding up exhibitions, both major and minor, that opened since January at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art; UCLA Hammer and Fowler museums; Institute…

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Rethinking The Role Of Musicians In Culture by Artsjournal

"There is a school of thought in contemporary classical music that music should be above everything else, that it should have a purity about it. To me, that doesn't make sense. Everything we…

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Report: Research Tends To Undervalue Social Impact Of The Arts by Artsjournal

Broadening the focus to include more qualitative and mixed method techniques could make it easier to improve practice and integrate arts interventions more deeply into the healthcare and jus…

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How True Is That College Application? by Artsjournal

As college admissions become ever more competitive, with the most elite schools admitting only 4 percent or 5 percent of applicants, the pressure to exaggerate, embellish, lie and cheat on c…

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Merriam-Webster's Word Of 2018: Justice by Artsjournal

Searches for “justice” throughout the year, when compared to 2017, were up 74 percent on the site that has more than 100 million page views a month and nearly half a million entr…

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Joe Melillo Talks About His 35 Years At The Brooklyn Academy by Artsjournal

“I have worked in the performing arts for so long"presented or produced thousands of shows here, worked with thousands of artists"that I'm so preconditioned to change it's part of my D…

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Regrets: I Never Knew My Father Shared My Bond With Music by Artsjournal

“Throughout my childhood, my family had missed out on the joys of sharing music with one another. With three kids, two parents, two loud TVs, one bathroom and rarely anything approachi…

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An Artistic Approach To Helping People Understand Dire Issues by Artsjournal

“When I asked Olafur Eliasson about the impact of the work, he said he thinks that fear-based narratives tend to be unpersuasive, and he prefers to create a meaningful encounter with t…

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Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Nutcracker Industry: By The Numbers by Artsjournal

Dance/USA's most recent Annual Financial Survey (2017), shows that Nutcracker/holiday revenue now represents an average of 48 percent of the surveyed dance companies' overall season re…

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French Cultural Venues Close As Protest Riots Grow by Artsjournal

The Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysées was graffitied by rioters; TV footage showed its interior ransacked and a smashed statue of Marianne, symbol of the French republic. French Preside…

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Can A Rapper Own A Dance Move Built Into A Video Game? by Artsjournal

This case touches on more than potential damages or royalties for 2 Milly. It goes to how our brains process meaning. What is the smallest bit of information that tags a person? What fragmen…

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Why Our Meritocracy Has Failed Us by Artsjournal

“First, meritocracy segregates talent rather than dispersing it. By plucking the highest achievers from all over the country and encouraging them to cluster together in the same few ci…

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Making Art: Bacchanal Or Fierce Discipline? by Artsjournal

The process of giving artistic birth is said to court a kind of violence that the maker must reckon with. Recent books have wondered about the tension between varieties of addiction and crea…

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A Trillion Photos " How You Gonna Organize Your Personal History? by Artsjournal

Kodak once touted 2000 as a landmark year, when the number of photos taken worldwide first eclipsed 80 billion. Fast forward to 2017, when just about everyone has a cellphone camera in…

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Does Becoming A More Expert Reader Increase Pleasure Of Reading? by Artsjournal

Does one kind of literature afford a more refined pleasure than another kind? Can we compare the pleasure induced by Virginia Woolf with, say, that induced by Agatha Christie? Is "Casey at t…

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Can You Be A Successful Artist Without Being On Instagram? by Artsjournal

If an artist is supposed to propose new ways of seeing and creating, it's worrying when social media platforms feel like they're turning us all into sycophantic clones. – New York Maga…

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Movie Special Effects Are So Astonishing We're Bored. So What's Next? by Artsjournal

How have we gotten to the point where we somehow feel like we've seen it all before, even as movies desperately keep trying to show us things that we've never seen before? – New York M…

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Music As A Spark For Social Justice by Artsjournal

IKAR's services incorporate Sephardic and Mizrachi-style drumming, chanting and droning (using a low-pitched, sustained tone as a harmony) with what Tigay called a "catchy melody on top" as …

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LA Philharmonic Violinist Vijay Gupta Leaving Orchestra To Focus On Music Activism by Artsjournal

Gupta told The Times that he will give up his seat as one of the L.A. Phil's first violins to focus on his activism, to teach and to develop his nonprofit Street Symphony, which since 2011 h…

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Extraordinary Things Happen In Schools That Integrate Arts Into Their Classrooms by Artsjournal

Ken Robinson: “Schools operate as they do not because they have to but because they choose to. They don't need to be that way; they can change and m…

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How Shaw Pong Liu Uses Music To Reach Beyond Music by Artsjournal

Code Listen is part of a multi-dimensional sequence begun in 2016, including workshops, discussions, music making and performances. Liu uses music to catalyze dialogue and healing around …

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Friday, December 14, 2018

San Bernardino County Museum Association " Executive Director by Artsjournal

Reporting to and partnering with the Association Board of Directors (BOD), the Executive Director (ED) is the Association's primary ambassador and chief fundraiser. OrganizationThe San Berna…

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Did Dvorak's New World Symphony Waken Americans To American Music? Nope by Artsjournal

Surprisingly, the premiere led to perplexed disappointment. Listeners agreed that the music was magnificent, but many did not hear anything "American" in it, after all. "Some of those who ap…

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Should AI Learn How To Think More Like Human Brains? by Artsjournal

Deep learning is good at learning using many fewer connections between neurons, when it has many episodes or examples to learn from. I think the brain isn't concerned with squeezing a lot of…

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Does Sartre's Philosophy Tell Us Something Useful About Today's Political Crises? by Artsjournal

“As we seek political and philosophical bearings in this time of renewed calls for a socialist alternative to capitalism, postwar efforts to bring Marxism and existentialism together h…

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Report: UK National Arts Institutions: Income Up, Government Funding Down by Artsjournal

The proportion of income generated by the institutions themselves " through fundraising, tickets, commercial activities and other means " rose from 57% to 73%. – ArtsProfessional

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The High Museum Asked Rapper Killer Mike To Join Its Board. He Has Some Ideas by Artsjournal

While society is constantly redefining what constitutes as fine art, Killer Mike has a plethora of ideas to broaden the High's scope, including more involvement by members of Atlanta's infam…

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Piracy Ring Stole 25,000 Movies, TV Shows And Music by Artsjournal

All told, the five men allegedly stole more than 25,000 digital files, including feature films, trailers, TV episodes and audio tracks, which they stored on a server in France, according …

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She Plagiarized Poetry, Tattooed It On Her Arm… And Now Her Career Is In Shreds by Artsjournal

Ailey O'Toole's bizarrely brazen act of plagiarism " stealing lines, phrases, and structural elements from the work of at least three other writers " was uncovered last Friday, unraveling he…

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