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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

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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Artists Weigh In: What We Have Lost In The Contemporary World by Artsjournal

Because the ideologies of the past century have been largely discredited as false utopias, we are bereft of the notion of a better future. Whether the idea of a utopia ever returns will depe…

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Getting Inside Our Obsession With Sleep (Or Lack Of It) by Artsjournal

According to the neuroscientist Matthew Walker"in his 2017 book, "Why We Sleep""insomnia, strictly defined, is a clinical disorder most commonly associated with an overactive sympathetic ner…

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What We Learned Having AI Analyze A Book by Artsjournal

Using AI tools to analyze this piece of literature shed new light on key elements of emotion and memory in the book " but they did not replace the skills of an expert or scholar at interpret…

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Mathematically, Where's The Center Of The Art World? by Artsjournal

We ranked each institution based on its "centrality" a mathematical concept drawn from Network Science and one that is at the core of the Google search ranking algorithm. We discovered that,…

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What Arthur Mitchell Meant To Dance by Artsjournal

"Because of him, ballet could not exclude us," said Virginia Johnson, one of Mitchell's first dancers and the current artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem. "We were his army, united …

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How Words Change Their Meaning by Artsjournal

Language is a system. Sounds, words and grammar do not exist in isolation: each of these three levels of language constitutes a system in itself. And, extraordinarily, these systems chang…

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We Measure Attention " But Is Attention A Commodity? by Artsjournal

Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It's more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the outside world. 'Instrument…

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The 70s Hit That's Now The Most-Streamed Song Of The 21st Century by Artsjournal

Boosted by the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the 1975 single and music video surpassed 1.6 billion streams globally, record company Universal Music Group said in a statement.

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The Tension Between Voice And Form by Artsjournal

By way of continued labor, poets attempt to craft language that can carry their ideas beyond the passing moment, reframing their experiments as steps toward the ultimate realization of their…

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AI Will Make Humans Better But Cost Us Control by Artsjournal

The experts predicted networked artificial intelligence will amplify human effectiveness but also threaten human autonomy, agency and capabilities. They spoke of the wide-ranging possibiliti…

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Marketing Manager, Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles by Artsjournal

The Marketing Manager develops and implements marketing strategies to help promote ticket, recruitment, and fundraising goals. Is responsible for setting and meeting annual attendance and re…

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Friday, December 7, 2018

I'm Tired Of New Plays! I Want Something More by Artsjournal

“In a word: I'm against the New Play. New Plays take many forms and have been around for years, but they seem especially prized lately. They're plays with budget-friendly cast sizes, s…

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New York's "Fame" High School Removes Nazi Symbols From "Sound Of Music" Production by Artsjournal

The principal at the elite "Fame" school, Lisa Mars, ordered Nazi flags and symbols removed from the stage set of the beloved tale of the Von Trapp family, who fled the Nazis from their nati…

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Peter Brook On The Meaning Of Theatre by Artsjournal

“And that to me is pure theater: the sharing through the imagination of something down to earth and concrete and appealing for the imagination, so that there's always that sense of "an…

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

C'Mon People " Your Behavior In The Theatre Is Dreadful! by Artsjournal

Every night there is bad and thoughtless behavior conducted by people who may have spent hundreds of dollars on theater tickets yet seemingly have no idea how to behave in an actual theater.…

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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

90 UK Theatres Announce Plan To Increase Diversity In Non-Stage Staff by Artsjournal

"Rather than putting the onus on employers to address this issue alone, we decided to assist them by using the best knowledge we had available " our members' experiences. We asked reps about…

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Wherein I Try To Plug In To The Great American Songbook by Artsjournal

“I was now connected directly to the heart of the Great American Songbook. It was like knowing a guy who knew a guy who knew God. If the comparison seems blasphemous, let's recall the …

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

What One Theatre Learned About Engaging Audiences by Artsjournal

Our big takeaway from the project was finding a common point of interest and building engagement with groups around that. If we started with people who were too far removed from the work, we…

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Monday, November 26, 2018

William Goldman Wrote "The Best Book Ever" About The Theatre by Artsjournal

Its primary accomplishment is its bluntness, reflected in the subtitle A Candid Look at Broadway. No writer has better captured the way theater insiders actually talk about their craft. G…

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Friday, November 23, 2018

Half Of England's Endangered Theatres Are On The Coast by Artsjournal

Just under half of all UK theatres currently at risk are in coastal towns, the Theatres Trust has revealed, as it issues a plea for seaside venues to be "restored and repurposed". By investi…

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Poll Suggests That Audiences Would Object To Ads During Live Theatre Intermissions by Artsjournal

The online survey was held in response to news that English National Opera is seeking permission to project adverts on to its safety curtain. Of 443 respondents to the poll, which aske…

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Man Disrupts "Fiddler On The Roof" Performance With Nazi Shouts by Artsjournal

The man, who had been seated in the balcony, began shouting "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump." Immediately after that, "People started running," audience member Rich Scherr said. "I'll be honest, I …

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

How Will Students Know About Shakespeare If They Never Go To A Play? by Artsjournal

 If Shakespeare is the only named author on the national curriculum, how is it that 31% of those surveyed failed to recognise the playwright's name? That only 53% had been on a school tri…

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Are Our Theatres Too Intimidating To First-Timers? by Artsjournal

What if you have never been to the theatre before? Could the entrance also be seen as a barrier that feels as if it is there to keep you out just as much to welcome you in? Once you get insi…

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Interactive Theatre? Fine, As Long As I Don't Need To Participate by Artsjournal

“Let me just say that although I don't mind watching other theatergoers getting into the act " as a longtime observer of how audiences behave, the psychology of these events intrigues …

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Friday, November 2, 2018

Standup Comedy's Killer Weapon? PowerPoint by Artsjournal

PowerPoint has long been employed onstage by established comedians like Eugene Mirman and long-running shows like Drunk Education in New York (which Refinery29 explored, among other PowerPoi…

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Bill Rauch Talks About How Artistic Leaders Lead by Artsjournal

“I'm collaborative perhaps to a fault, both in artistic leadership and in the rehearsal room. I think I've become a theatre artist and a theatre leader"an arts leader"because I can't d…

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Monday, October 29, 2018

Actor Robert Hooks On The Difficulties Of Sustaining Black Theatre In America by Artsjournal

The closest thing to a black theater company that is able to survive and sustain itself is the St. Louis Black Rep. And theater companies " let's just take Los Angeles, for example " the …

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Friday, October 26, 2018

Why Our Political Dramas Could Use Some Theatre Criticism by Artsjournal

“In entreating my drama students to do their part in rescuing our faltering democracy, I was simultaneously asking them to redeem an idea of theater as something more than sound and fu…

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Friday, October 19, 2018

Report: Broadway Theatre Audience Is Getting Younger by Artsjournal

The 21st publication is just out and reports the lowest age attendance since 2000, a significant bit of hope for Broadway's long-term health. During the 2017"2018 season, the average age of …

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