Friday, March 23, 2018
"The increase in the number of network bodies in the Creative Scotland portfolio signals an acceptance of a model of competitiveness inherited from the Thatcherite government. We quite liked…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 05:01PM[SHARE]"I was by no means always an opera fan, and it was the singing that got me in the end. My grandmother and parents had taken me to see a couple of productions when I was younger in the hope o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:28PM[SHARE]"The result of BA courses in curating will be a bunch of 21 year olds who will be theoretically savvy, but have little idea why particular works of art have a particular resonance at a parti…
SOURCE: www.apollo-magazine.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]"Pat Martino had brain surgery in 1980 to remove a tangle of malformed veins and arteries. At the time he was one of the most celebrated guitarists in jazz. Yet few people knew that Martino …
SOURCE: nautil.us at 03:02PM[SHARE]"The low status of dance in schools is derived in part from the high status of conventional academic work, which associates intelligence mainly with verbal and mathematical reasoning. The st…
SOURCE: ideas.ted.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]"He rightly identifies one of the reasons behind the decline as being economic liberalism, which has led to the opening up of the Italian cultural sphere to private enterprise. He sees that …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]The civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first African American figure to be honored with a monument in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Fit…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]"Such groups are expanding their structures and missions, but for the successful artists who built them decades ago, doing so means making major changes to the way they've always operated. F…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 11:35AM[SHARE]"The final version of the federal budget was rolled out on Wednesday, and not only does it maintain funding levels for federal arts programs, it actually increases them. The NEA and NEH will…
SOURCE: consequenceofsound.net at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
Why are galleries that incubate emerging talent finding it so difficult to survive? Is it simply the pressure of rising rents in expensive cities like London and New York? Or is there a wide…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]Calling all fundraisers: What is your favorite emerging digital fundraising tool? AMT Lab is conducting a national survey of arts organizations through April 6. Tell us about your work and i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30PM[SHARE]"Gone are the days of classical repertoire standing alone and just being enough," James Williams said. "This approach would cater for less than half the new audience that wants to learn more…
SOURCE: Telegraph at 05:01PM[SHARE]A field of advice columns that lob texts at people's troubles has flowered recently, from the Times' "Match Book" to Lit Hub's "Dear Book Therapist" to the Paris Review Daily's "Poetry…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]A new report from UBS and Art Basel, The Art Market | 2018, found that the rate of galleries opening has fallen dramatically over the past decade. In 2017, just 0.9 galleries opened for…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 04:02PM[SHARE]What will cities be like when there are more women designing them? We are finally starting to find out. Women are scarce in the profession's upper echelons, but they make up more than 40 …
SOURCE: www.thecut.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]"To some cynical journalists or techno-skeptics, this maneuvering might seem like Facebook just being Facebook"that the Cambridge scandal is merely the latest in a litany of privacy intrusio…
SOURCE: Vanity Fair at 01:32PM[SHARE]The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has proposed dropping 13 majors in the humanities and social sciences " including English, philosophy, history, sociology and Spanish " while add…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41PM[SHARE]It looks like we owe Yoko an apology. New research finds rock bands have more critical and commercial success if they contain a mix of married and single musicians.
SOURCE: psmag.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]With the appointment, Hope, a virtuoso soloist who also directs other ensembles as concertmaster, becomes New Century's fourth music director, following Stuart Canin (1992-99), Krista Bennio…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Pinker is an evangelist for Enlightenment values, arguing that the philosophers of that era laid the groundwork for the scientific and social breakthroughs that have lifted millions out of p…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Social media platforms make the sharing of information ubiquitous and nonstop, but where will that information come from in the first place when all the reporters have been let go? Wha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:30PM[SHARE]"We're experiencing a Native arts revival right now," said Alaska Native playwright Vera Starbard, whose autobiographical advocacy play Our Voices Will be Heard was performed in Juneau…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:01PM[SHARE]When we in the arts champion "diversity, equity and inclusion," do we mean everyone? Do we mean conservatives? Religiously, culturally or otherwise? Are conservative artists not identifying …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:32PM[SHARE]Receiving bankruptcy protection means that secured creditors will get paid before any women suing the Weinstein Co. (Bob Weinstein is listed as an unsecured creditor, per Vari…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:32PM[SHARE]The results were striking: individuals who completed these tasks while their phones were in another room performed the best, followed by those who left their phones in their pockets. In last…
SOURCE: hbr.org at 01:29PM[SHARE]"As libraries create access to a digital future, the books that have traditionally inhabited them are being displaced at an alarming rate. This leaves many asking: Does acceptance of digital…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In less than a decade, the percentage of U.S. households subscribing to a paid streaming video service surged 450% " from just 10% in 2009 to 55% in 2017.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PM[SHARE]Christopher Knight: "Today, about a week later, we still have no answer as to why MOCA Director Philippe Vergne fired chief curator Helen Molesworth " and we likely won't. I have a few specu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:01PM[SHARE]On Sunday night John Oliver announced on HBO's Last Week Tonight that A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children's book about a gay bunny, named after a pet rabbit owned by…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 05:31PM[SHARE]"Portlandia was the moment something shifted and a new kind of person started showing up in Portland, who wasn't the same kind of hearty doer, but more of a spectator who wants to be ente…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:02PM[SHARE]Third Angle New Music, Portland's oldest new music ensemble that performs, commissions and records innovative contemporary classical music is seeking an experienced candidate for Artistic Di…
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