Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:35PM[SHARE]"Curation" lends to the proceedings a certain air of quasi-professionalism. It seeks to claim for the proprietors an exquisitely refined faculty of discrimination, a sense that "objective" h…
SOURCE: www.iasc-culture.org at 04:32PM[SHARE]"Since individuals' investment in their own education is personally rewarding, you might infer that government investment in society's education would be socially rewarding. But this is a cl…
SOURCE: reason.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]The oldest of these programs is that of the Louvre, which began during the French Revolution in 1793, reportedly just a month after radical Parisians converted the royal palace into a mus…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 03:40PM[SHARE]You might wonder how people who seem so good by occupation could be so bad in private. The theory of moral licensing could help explain why: When humans are good, it says, we give ourselves …
SOURCE: nautil.us at 02:29PM[SHARE]The policy change was backed by philanthropist Susie Konkel, who is a well-known advocate for youth. All eligible visitors will also be able to sign up for the Susie Konkel Pass, wh…
SOURCE: www.artforum.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]He's Marcel Gauchet, and he's writing a magnum opus. "In our neoliberal age, democracy has come to mean little more than the pursuit of individual rights and interests, while the hope of det…
SOURCE: www.dissentmagazine.org at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
Emily Wilson's presence on Twitter is quietly revolutionary, a new kind of experience for readers, poets, translators, and really anyone who likes to watch knowledge take shape in an open fo…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:33PM[SHARE]Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is thought to be the first professional orchestra in the world to form an ensemble of disabled musicians. The group is led by a disabled conductor, James Rose,…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]It could be an early sign that the days of the barcode are numbered as technological improvements allow companies to replace them with more secure digital tickets with codes embedded in a fa…
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 04:32PM[SHARE]The only previous films to win five straight weekends in the past 20 years are 2009's "Avatar" and 1999's "The Sixth Sense." "Titanic," from 1997, holds the record, which seems unbreakable i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]At first glance, the evidence isn't encouraging. Following a loss, fans are more likely than usual to eat unhealthy food, [1] be unproductive at work, [2] and"in the case of the …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]The impact of cultural work is complex: it imparts insights, experience and attitudes that do not necessarily have to culminate in a 'work', but may create new networks, creative ideas, and …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]After the Second World War, alienation came to betoken a near-universal spiritual and psychological malaise. Existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre used it to describe a fundam…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]The goad for this stunningly resolute strike was deep cuts to retirement pensions, but as in all such vast, spontaneous outpourings from below, the issue is not the issue. The issue, rather,…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:33PM[SHARE]Behind the scenes, according to several sources close to the museum who were interviewed by artnet News, Molesworth's personal priorities, progressive politics, and constitutional aversion t…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
The belief that humans are perfectible leads, inevitably, to mistakes when 'a perfect society' is designed for an imperfect species. There is no best way to live because there is so much var…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 05:59PM[SHARE]While The Man in the High Castle, for instance, had one of the lowest costs per first stream after its first season, $63, that number jumped up to a whopping $829 following the production…
SOURCE: slate.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]"So there I was, 26 years old (but looking 16), running a jazz department for one of the world's largest record stores. The perks were manna from music heaven: I picked the music played in m…
SOURCE: nmbx.newmusicusa.org at 05:02PM[SHARE]Dreams differ not only across a single lifetime or a single night, they also differ dramatically across historical epochs. The dreams of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and indeed the dreams …
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:32PM[SHARE]The strange thing is that these moments of love and loss are not the place where language finds its truest expression of meaning but are in fact the place where meaning itself starts to brea…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:03PM[SHARE]Amazon execs, Reuters says, believe the first series you watch after signing up deserves the credit for luring you to Prime (whether you liked the show or not apparently doesn't matter, nor …
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saul Bellow never followed his Québec into the contemporary world. Before Alice Munro won in 2013, he was the only Nobel Prize recipient in literature to have been born in Canada. Yet besid…
SOURCE: lareviewofbooks.org at 03:02PM[SHARE]"As dancers, we grow up in studios surrounded by people with similar abilities. We take for granted these incredible skills that we've spent years perfecting because everybody around us can …
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]While dealers say the majority of sales are still consummated in person, often in the framework of long-term relationships, the seeds of those relationships are increasingly being sown onlin…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Founded 150 years ago and now in its fourth location within Baltimore, A.T. Jones is believed to be the oldest continually running costume shop in the country, and it's as storied as the pla…
SOURCE: www.baltimoremagazine.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]Some observers see Molesworth's ouster as symptomatic of a struggle between her progressive ideals and the status quo, epitomized by Vergne who curated three shows of white male artists "…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:50PM[SHARE]Some people have denied the existence of consciousness: conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the "what-it-is-like" of experience. Next to this denial"I'll call it "t…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 06:01PM[SHARE]"We see quite clearly that students' personalities change when they go to university," Sonja Kassenboehmer of Monash University, the paper's lead author, said in announcing the finding…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Francois Prost's photograph of the Eiffel Tower looks like it was taken on any given day in Paris. But just outside the frame are clues that the structure in his picture is nowhere near the …
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