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Friday, December 14, 2018

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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Igor Says: Orchestras! Take Risks! by Artsjournal

We think we've learned not to overlook outsiders. Yet the orchestral scene today remains in thrall to safety. It favours those who've studied with the right people, at the right schools and …

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Miami's City Theatre " America's Master Of Short-Form Plays? by Artsjournal

With Kentucky's Actors Theatre of Louisville ending its short-play contests and festivals in 2017, City Theatre has emerged as the professional company most committed to championing an…

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Our "Algorithmic Music Culture" Is Making Music Poorer by Artsjournal

On the consumer side, streaming and social-media platforms have transformed the nature of music discovery, which was previously more proactive by necessity"requiring manual effort to open up…

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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Women Are Leading The Arab Gulf's Surging Art Scene by Artsjournal

To the women themselves, gender is almost a non-issue. The Art Newspaper spoke to three female directors who are shaping the future of museums in the Gulf about their efforts to build creati…

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End Of An Era: Denver Public Library Will Stop Charging Fines On Overdue Books by Artsjournal

Starting Jan.1, Denver Public Library will be eliminating fees for overdue materials to help reduce barriers for low-income patrons. Library administrators are even letting most customers…

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Uh Oh: Now We Have To Worry About Provenance Of AI Art? by Artsjournal

In the fallout of the Christie's sale it emerged that the AI was actually the work of another artist, Robbie Barrat. He had programmed it, trained it on works from Wikiart and used it to gen…

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This Year's Additions To The Rock Hall Of Fame by Artsjournal

Since 1986, the Hall has added 323 inductees to its rolls; they include 220 performers, 33 “early influencers” (a category largely composed of rock and roll’s African…

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Why Beauty Pageants Still Have A Hold On The Popular Imagination by Artsjournal

Pageants still tend to fascinate. The very word suggests why: The ceremony and accoutrements of beauty contests play a powerful role in the national imagination, with their sashes and their …

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Study: How To Build Trust In The Media by Artsjournal

It finds that news consumers are more trusting of the media"and more secure about their own ability to discern the truth"when they are exposed to a combination of fact-checking articles and …

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Walmart Buys Art.com by Artsjournal

Initially Art.com will operate independently as a standalone company, but the announcement states that soon Art.com's collection of two million images ranging from posters to limited-ed…

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Seattle Opera Has A New Home by Artsjournal

The 105,000-square-foot building, at Mercer Street and Fourth Avenue North next to McCaw Hall, is designed to allow people to take a peek behind the scenes, with walls of glass allowin…

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Detroit Symphony Executive Director Anne Parsons In Treatment For Lung Cancer by Artsjournal

In a Dec. 5 email to board members, musicians, staff and donors, the DSO announced that Parsons is being treated at Henry Ford Health System with a combination of chemotherapy and immun…

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Mental Illness And Theatre by Artsjournal

Being a mentally ill theatremaker comes with its own specific challenges. Different mental illnesses require different care, but the majority are exacerbated by lack of routine, insufficient…

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Prominent UK Musicians Write Letter Urging Canceling Brexit by Artsjournal

The letter, published by the Music4EU initiative, describes Brexit as a "significant threat" to the country's music industry, adding: "Leaving the EU's customs union, single market, VAT area…

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The MFA Degree-As-Fraud by Artsjournal

We are a long way from late-19th-century Paris, where “academic painting” signified technically dazzling neoclassical figures, lush but sterile, and where the brutal disruptions …

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Festival Mozaic " Executive Director by Artsjournal

Reporting to the board of directors and working in partnership with the Music Director, the Executive Director (ED) supervises and directs all aspects of the Festival's operations. Organizat…

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Liverpool's Everyman Theatre A Cautionary Tale For Regional Theatre? by Artsjournal

 Liverpool's plight is a reminder of just how close to the edge many regional theatres are operating and how perilously near many are to breaching their NPO agreements. As one leading i…

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What We Learned About Making Good Plays: "We Don't Care If They're Any Good" (At Least For Awhile) by Artsjournal

"What we learned working on Sinan's play, and several others at that time, completely changed our DNA. We learned that the pressure of rushing to production forced us to take safer approache…

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Truth: It Probably Doesn't Matter Where You Go To College by Artsjournal

The seemingly obvious answer is, Of course it matters! How could it not? Ivy League and equivalent institutions provide more than world-class instruction. They confer a lifetime of assi…

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New Tech Could Revolutionize How We Reproduce Art by Artsjournal

RePaint, a resin-based 3D printer that renders reproductions in color four times closer to the original than the next-best tool, utilizes a palette of 11 different inks: cyan, magenta, yello…

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American Heritage Dictionary's Word "Usage Panel" Is No More by Artsjournal

What always seemed most remarkable about the American Heritage Dictionary was its promise to be more discriminating than other dictionaries, and the evidence for this was always its pa…

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Has Gossip Gotten A Bad Rap? by Artsjournal

There's an important distinction to make here about how most of us define gossip " as a way of trash-talking someone not present " and how scientists do. In social science, gossip usually is…

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Have We Made Technology Too Easy To Use? by Artsjournal

There is nothing wrong with making things easier, in most cases, and the history of technology is filled with examples of amazing advances brought about by reducing complexity. Not even the …

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Executive Director " Performance Santa Fe by Artsjournal

Performance Santa Fe invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of the City's top leading presenting organizations located in one of the country's most vibrant ar…

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Late Night Talk Shows Are Booking Novelists by Artsjournal

In a television landscape where literature has become largely overlooked, late-night hosts like Mr. Meyers and Trevor Noah have made it their mission to put a spotlight on writers " giving t…

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Alas, Netflix Is Unlikely To Save Art Films by Artsjournal

Netflix may seem like a savior to these filmmakers right now, but the promise is illusory. Streaming services are also under tremendous economic pressure of their own, such that they're unli…

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Explore dance and cultural diplomacy through a rich digital archive by Artsjournal

DanceMotion USAâ„  connected American dancers with global communities. Now view interviews with Mark Morris, Ronald K. Brown, Seán Curran, Hubbard Street Dance, Doug Varone, Larry Kei…

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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Protesters Rally At The Whitney Museum Over Board Member by Artsjournal

The protest, organized by a group called Decolonize This Place, was to demand the resignation of the museum's vice chairman, Warren B. Kanders, 12 days after it was revealed by the websit…

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City Versus Country: How Much Of The World Is Urban? by Artsjournal

The current level of global urbanization is high: It estimates the world to be 84 percent urban already. The EC research team, led by Lewis Dijkstra, used satellite images to assess the shar…

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Man Attacks Art At The Denver Art Museum by Artsjournal

“Artworks were compromised,” museum spokesperson Shadia Lemus told Westword. “The individual was arrested at the museum and taken into police custody.” Whether …

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