Monday, April 30, 2018
"The decision to do this rests very strongly on my commitment to rewrite the postwar canon," Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford told artnet News. And while institutions sel…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 01:04PM[SHARE]Meural is one of the more notable startups in the digital art subscription space. For hardware that is ultimately just a high-end digital photo frame, the companies are more focused on the i…
SOURCE: techcrunch.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2018
How to define a word that's so slippery yet so engrained in everyday use? It's a tricky task, but moore offers the four main characteristics of fabulousness: It doesn't have to be expensive;…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
Intelligence has to be defined relative to goals and the knowledge needed to attain them. In any case the argument against the doomsday fear-mongering of existing AI extends to more powerful…
SOURCE: quillette.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]"Worthless" books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM[SHARE]Research on failure as a motivator is limited, though the evidence that does exist suggests that students can grow both from learning about the failures of other successful people and from e…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]The Supreme Court's 1948 ruling agreed that the studios were giving preference to their own theaters, which was a violation of antitrust laws. Targeted were Metro, Warners, Paramount, RKO…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PM[SHARE]Preserving a special sense of meaning is pivotal for Jane Moss. "There are lots of festivals around. You need to stay focused on a festival that has meaning of some sort." She has found that…
SOURCE: bachtrack.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Knowing that you may never get a response is disheartening. Yet many embrace the uncertainty and even lean into it. For those playwrights, rejections become the most common form of communica…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM[SHARE]Join us for an intensive 3 day seminar in the heart of New York City studying and exploring the best practices specific to arts and culture for marketing and management.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]As we try to navigate through an age defined by particularly egregious bullshit, writers have a moral obligation to avoid infecting the universe with more careless storytelling. It's a privi…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
Those who are familiar with the state's cultural agenda in Russia are no longer surprised by these kinds of events, but it's still difficult to get used to. You're a good artist if you earn …
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Bulgarian engineers and cyberneticians, champions of this new technology, increasingly worried about what this meant. In the ivory towers of places such as the Institute of Technical Cyberne…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 06:12PM[SHARE]It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer; the shelves of second-hand bookshops are the sepulchers…
SOURCE: theweek.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]A study of 234 performing-arts professionals found those who experienced intense childhood trauma"about 18 percent of the participants"reported higher levels of anxiety and internalized sham…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]If Stuart Kells wants to show that libraries are human places, he has also chosen stories that reveal their venal side. His librarians can be thieves, hoarders, or shameful caretakers. Even …
SOURCE: www.atlasobscura.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who chairs the jury, said the judges had chosen "an outstanding group of artists, all of whom are tackling the most pressing political and humanitaria…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]The Teatro Regio appointed a new superintendent, William Graziosi, this week, which means Mr. Noseda would have had to reapply to keep his post as music director, the position he has held si…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]"I never thought of music as just the basic energetic impulse that makes you want to dance; it was always like a textbook, something worth studying. If you consider choreography to be an org…
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]It was around this time in the interview that all hell broke loose. After sharing that I had made the trip from Los Angeles expressly to see her Lear, I told her that she had helped me to he…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
The Arts Professional Ethics survey tells us that 73% of arts organisation employees consider their employer to be at reputational risk through association with a sponsor or major donor whos…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 06:54PM[SHARE]The survey findings raise the question of 'whose ethics' arts organisations should adopt. "It is important to look across the whole of society and not the organisation's own immediate echo c…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 05:54PM[SHARE]The fall is mainly due to weather problems in Europe, which caused hardships for wine producers in the region. Poor weather conditions including droughts and storms hindered production in th…
SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com at 05:54PM[SHARE]Can the arrival of Western culture in the Middle East be equated simply with European imperialism? Is this how the European bourgeoisie, as Marx would say, 'creates the world after its own i…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:42PM[SHARE]BAX is seeking a dynamic, experienced Executive/Artistic leader, with the capacity and willingness to embrace the values that define BAX, while furthering the mission and vision that have ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]For more than two decades, geographers and sociologists have debated the character and role of cities in globalisation. Historians have been a step behind, producing less and more cautious w…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:42PM[SHARE]The investigation did not find "systemic discrimination" that was known to, and tolerated by, senior management. The investigation also largely absolved Laura R. Walker, the president and ch…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]Mathematics and poetry are both "formats that can convey multiple meanings." In mathematics, a single object or idea might take different forms. A quadratic equation, for example, can be und…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday on a six-acre site overlooking the Alabama state capital, is dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy. And it de…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM[SHARE]After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Drew Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake. "Drew Cloud is a pseudonym th…
SOURCE: www.chronicle.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The way to document the finished works hasn't been completed yet, but each will be accompanied by extensive musical notes, Labanotation " a method for recording dances " interviews with danc…
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