Friday, December 14, 2018
“The vast majority of assets and growth lie with a relative few of the largest stations. Every year, the weakest go dark, or they are absorbed. … Or their licenses are spun off for c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Howard Husock, an executive at the Manhattan Institute, points out the ways that the media landscape has been transformed since the passage of the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act, not least the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The ideal upon which the University of Wisconsin was founded and expanded was not merely to train workers, but to “search for truth … [and] improv[e] the human condition,” ulti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Continuing its recovery from the crises of a few years ago, the DSO announced its sixth balanced budget in a row. Box office revenue rose by 1%, the popular neighborhood concerts were renewe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]“Ms. Wilson resisted the label of ‘jazz singer’ for much of her career, although jazz was the form to which she returned time and again and in which she had her greatest cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Travel writer Seth Kugel visits Permangolinha, a retreat in the Brazilian state of Bahia where visitors " disciples, really " study the martial arts-based movement form with Mestre Cobra Man…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Last time, in 2012, it was the “multimillion-dollar, casino-tax funded Art Park conceived " but indifferently received and later returned to its roots as a vacant lot " by Lance Fung, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]The institution, called Ocean Space and housed in a newly-restored historic church, will host workshops and lectures and “will also showcase the digital archive of oceanic projects org…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]“About 10 percent more young people caught an SPCO concert than the year before, according to a new annual report. Those young concertgoers are a big focus for the nonprofit: Since 201…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Laura Dickinson 17: Auld Lang Syne (Music & Mirror Records)David Ian: Vintage Christmas (Prescott Records)Jake Ehrenreich, with the Roger Kellaway Trio, Â Â Â A Treausury of Jewi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36AM[SHARE]It is a rare thing when a book comes along that looks as magnificent as Jürgen Ploog’s Flesh Film and reads like an hallucination. " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
No, this isn’t Stone Mountain. It’s “the largest palimpsest of Civil War memory to be found anywhere on planet Earth " the Atlanta Cyclorama, one of the great wonders of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]The Nobel laureate had evidently intended to publish them sometime in 1994. Then he lost track of them after a very, very bad day. Two decades on, a critic in Cairo came upon them while sear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]“The style guides say: keep your sentences short. … But sometimes a sentence just needs to be long. The world resists our efforts to enclose it between a capital and a full stop. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Prumsodun Ok is a Cambodian-American who studied Khmer court dance in the US and ultimately in Phnom Penh. Now he’s the founding artistic director of Natyarasa, Cambodia’s first …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]“Once a week, Max Harris is allowed to leave his 6-by-12-foot cell to go outside. The first thing he does, before the other inmates arrive in the small cement yard in Santa Rita Jail, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]David Coles, who’s been making paints for artists for 20-odd years, walks us through the process, from sourcing the linseed oil to hand-filling the tubes for shipping and sale. " Artsy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Longtime Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) president Karen Brooks Hopkins: “I call these tidbits ‘KBHisms,’ which I hope will guide you through the cold winter months ahead a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Back in 1973, the Times described the then-popular phenomenon as “restaurants that feature live theater.” Now it’s the other way around, writes Elisabeth Vincentelli: ̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]The budget shortfall for fiscal 2018 was $1.3 million, but that’s down from $4.2 million the previous year. At the orchestra’s main venue, Severance Hall, attendance rose by 8%, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“The first issue was published 25 years ago this month and distributed in bathroom stalls at the Metropolitan Opera. Now its writers are credentialed press at the Met.” Joshua Ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]The hour-long program, being developed by NBCUniversal’s Wilshire Studios, “will stay true to the original while delivering bigger, visual and variety-themed games that can’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“In a report compiled by media research agency Shift7 in collaboration with leading agency CAA, revenue for 350 high-grossing films released between 2014 and 2017 was assessed, and the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Author and professor Catherine Taylor offers an impressionistic longread, with plenty of video clips, about how her midlife crisis moved her to travel to southern Spain for serious study of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Gambling mogul David Walsh, who built and opened MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart in 2011, has announced plans for a complex he’s calling Motown. In addition to 176 high-end …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]A student group supporting UNICEF at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a prominent research institution in London, booked five comedians for a benefit performance. Then it sent the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]He was Marcel Marceau’s assistant in his U.S. debut tour, played the Fool to Orson Welles’s Lear, was a founding member of both Yale Rep and American Rep Theatre, and acted in ev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
“You have a great many very acÂcomplished people in this room, Mr. Attorney General, but the only man you should be listening to is that man [Jerome Smith] over there. That is the v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Louis Menand: “If we pick up a novel about life in the barrio, or a book by a Tibetan monk, or an avant-garde literary magazine, we know what we expect to find. We are complicit in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Says one of many admiring advocates and clients, “If a school is supposed to make programs accessible to students with disabilities " say, blindness " they might put things on tape and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]“She has to be the only 60-year-old woman in America who is expected to dance with total strangers wherever she goes. … In person, she is more blunt, introspective and interesting th…
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