Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Just because an academic field is timeless doesn't mean it should never change. If the humanities are ever to enjoy a true resurgence, it will come as a result of a reinvention that embraces…
SOURCE: Boston Globe Subscription at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra seeks a Vice President, Marketing.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:20PM[SHARE]The historic Town Hall Theater in Middlebury invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.Â
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17PM[SHARE]Most of the tickets to the blockbuster musical about Alexander Hamilton have been sold, but the Kennedy Center's handling of sales has been marked by confusion and complaints, with many patr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PM[SHARE]Three members of the secretive committee that selects the winner of the Nobel prize for literature have resigned from the jury in protest at how it has handled the sexual harassment allegati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PM[SHARE]Manipulated video will ultimately destroy faith in our strongest remaining tether to the idea of common reality. As Ian Goodfellow, a scientist at Google, told MIT Technology Review, "It'…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 04:25PM[SHARE]While disruptive innovation is inextricably linked to variations of business models and low-end market encroachment, radical innovation is reliant on organizational capabilities and individu…
SOURCE: hbr.org at 03:01PM[SHARE]I have discovered that most people, including any number of scientists, remain cloudy on the issues involved in struggles over consciousness. Another analytical philosopher, John Searle, has…
SOURCE: lareviewofbooks.org at 02:32PM[SHARE]If script is dying, it cannot complain that its day has been short. Its solitary reign may have been ended by the printing press, but it lived on as a citizen in the new republic of letters:…
SOURCE: www.the-tls.co.uk at 02:02PM[SHARE]Mr. Buck, who died March 30 at 79 after a battle with cancer, was an instrumental figure in Buffalo's visual arts scene, both at the gallery and in the community. His decade-long stint as di…
SOURCE: buffalonews.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Under the contract, France will help create a blueprint for museums, archaeological digs and conservation in the region, as well as develop transport, hotels, crafts, education and training,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2018
In Washington, Andrew Jorgensen worked with Francesca Zambello on casting of such highlights as the 2016 "Ring" cycle and "Appomattox," as well as the new operas commissioned for the annual …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:23PM[SHARE]Tchaikovsky had 14 entries in the Classic FM Hall of Fame, revealed on Monday. Mozart was the most popular composer, with 23 works in the Top 300.
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]The specific reasons for Debora Spar's abrupt exit are so far unclear. In her letter, she wrote, "We understand you may have questions about this change," adding that there would be a meetin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:57PM[SHARE]"Approximately the same amount of hardcovers are being sold today as they were in past years," writes a research team led by Albert-László Barbási. "The increasing availability o…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]The ongoing dispute over where and how the gospels should be kept, and who may see them, is intensely local yet symbolic. It revolves around the age-old traditions of an isolated monastery, …
SOURCE: www.economist.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Google tells me that between 2000 and 2010, could revolutionize appeared on indexable websites fewer than fourteen thousand times. Since then, it's seen what venture capitalists might …
SOURCE: thebaffler.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Protopia is a state that is better today than yesterday, although it might be only a little better. Protopia is much much harder to visualise. Because a protopia contains as many new problem…
SOURCE: qz.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]It's certainly true that observation plays a crucial role in science. But this doesn't mean that scientific theories have to deal exclusively in observable things. For one, the line between …
SOURCE: aeon.co at 12:32PM[SHARE]Taylor's legacy is his sound: He played the piano with a furious attack, using the entire range of the instrument to create a unique musical language. His approach inspired other musicians a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2018
The official video of the catchy Spanish-language track, featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, on Wednesday surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube " becoming the first video …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]Research revealed 67 percent of those surveyed had experienced at least one theater-related head impact. Astonishingly, 39 percent respondents sustained more than five head injuries and 77 p…
SOURCE: bit.ly at 05:34PM[SHARE]How did Uber's ratings become more inflated than grades at Harvard? That's the topic of a new paper, "Reputation Inflation," from NYU's John Horton and Apostolos Filippas, and Collage.com CE…
SOURCE: qz.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]If you want to avoid crashing and burning because of overconfidence, find a group of women classmates, and start collaborating. When it comes to studying biology, it's not so much the frog y…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]The channel " derided by critics for formulaic, low-budget fare with dialogue inspired by Hallmark cards " is carving out a space in this divisive, Trumpian age. The worse things get in the …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:24PM[SHARE]Streaming reflects what people will actually listen to on their own, when provided with infinite choices that aren't entirely constrained by what radio programmers, retailers and record comp…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:02PM[SHARE]"The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 01:29PM[SHARE]After a report last month by The New York Times detailing a pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Meier, more women have come forward to share their own upsetting encounters with him. But in r…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PM[SHARE]It's looking as if the scarcely-changed Dublin competition has now become the old fogey, and it's a reconceived Leeds that's pushing the envelope.
SOURCE: The Irish Times at 12:32PM[SHARE]It's a truism that no one accepts anyone else's reading of Hamlet. And for at least two hundred years, no generation has been comfortable with its predecessor's take on the play. It's …
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 11:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Learn from national arts leaders & address current issues; do so from wherever you are through our limited-residency program -- M.A. in Arts Administration at Goucher
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