Monday, April 22, 2019
This happened: "At a forum in January, Yale's top librarian outlined a seemingly uncontroversial proposal: to relocate tens of thousands of books from the heart of the undergraduate library …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wrightsman, like her husband before her, was a big donor and a trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "While giving millions to buy art and refurbish galleries, her involvement was often…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]Sure, Netflix is developing more interactive content, but Netflix is far from alone. A new game, or perhaps it's an "interactive media experience," aspires to do something slightly different…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]The country " and world " is chock-full of serious ballet competitions now. But "before YAGP was founded 20 years ago, it was a much different story. For bunheads, 'competition' was almost a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]Don't do it for the children! In other words, some parents, even in tech-obsessed San Francisco, refuse to put their kids online. "They cite reasons ranging from preserving children's safety…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Florence and the Machine sang a haunting song over the end credits of the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, and they're one of a very few groups who have gotten that opp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]If you can doodle, you are drawing. And you're not alone. "When I was a baby critic, a veteran colleague once told me to avoid drawing shows at all costs, since they were just preliminary ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]When students get a chance to write music for a documentary about a musician, one composer, who had never been into TV or movies, realizes this is the path: "I see media like TV and film in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]And it didn't always go well. '"This is offensive to me,' [a] vexed visitor complained. The security staffer found himself in the position of having to defend the activists's right to protes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Boulez erased most of his early compositions, but this one was preserved at the Paul Sacher Foundation. "After reviewing that score, 'Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo,' the Dutch pianist Ralph v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Southern California may seem dry and image-obsessed, but its Instagram garden stars " plantfluencers, perhaps " find not only fame but also community, and acolytes. "Influencers like Christi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Follow the money: "The resurgence of interest in concert films has been fuelled " in part " by streaming services' need for content without the financial burden of drama." The stars like the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]The Disney heir isn't happy with the numbers " not the raw numbers, but the pay gap. "Disney told attendees that her perspective has been informed by her interactions with Disneyland employe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
Yes, some of it is bad, or uncomfortable, or a real mess of power dynamics. But "the impulse to play dress-up in other people's cultures goes beyond teenagers wearing qipaos to prom, or Coac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]Well, they do, of course, but Nintendo Game Boys don't. The man who invented the Game Boy had a philosophy called "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology." And the Game Boy has had music,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PM[SHARE]Classical ballets present a contemporary challenge: "Ballet, like so much else in our current society, is infused with sexist elements that are also elements of beauty. To tease these apart …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sure, the conflict is about packaging and digital rights " but it's older than that, dating back to Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice and a deal brokered in 1962. Now, "the two sides se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]"On the hunt for a less problematic Simone de Beauvoir who can speak for literally all women at once and also not be so serious. This seems like it should be simple?" (Yes, this is a satiric…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]Sure, men have dominated comedy for a long time. But pregnant women aren't about to let that stop them. And actually, says one comic, "When I got pregnant with my second child, things had de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]The music festival actually commissions several massive artworks to go with each year. At first, it was connected closely with Burning Man; now, 20 years in, things are slightly more interna…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]Architects weigh in. Here's one opinion: "Surely, this is an opportunity to recreate a once-hidden " and now destroyed " timber structure with a modern, fireproof, lightweight replacement. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]Unlike English-language stories created for the U.S. market, narco novelas offer "a compelling complexity in the face of the simplistic story lines that emerge out of Hollywood. Narco novela…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]Did you notice? Some people sure did. "The alter-typeface became a trending topic on Twitter. Mitch Goldstein, a design professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, tweeted, 'Saw Helv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PM[SHARE]The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was all set to open a show on the Rosetta Stone, with accompanying Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts, when they invited University of Iow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]The façade of the UN's Secretariat Building is a mirage. " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:41AM[SHARE]Theresa Lola, 24 years old and a former finance major who preferred poetry, is actually the city's third youth poet laureate. She says, "Poetry was instrumental for me, to find my voice and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]In 2016, John Cho "became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible and Daniel Craig in Spect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sometimes, as with 2012's monster hit "Gangnam Style" and all of the K-pop since, "all it takes is one song to introduce a new culture to the mainstream, paving the way for other acts or sim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Basically: "Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google " but often don't admit it in their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]The colonial fairytale doesn't hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader " but somehow it became a children's story: "Educationists agreed that …
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