AJBlogs Posted:
The Talking Cure, Part One (networking)
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-03-24
A Top Ten List In Dubai
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-24
Everything I Know about Why Art Matters I Learned from My 5-year-old
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-03-24
Arts as an Engine of Unrest Or, How the Arts Ruined a Perfectly Good Childhood
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-03-24
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MUSIC Posted:
Anne Midgette: “The start of Eschenbach’s tenure appeared to be reinvigorating the orchestra, and the two international tours within eight months in 2012 and 2013, to South America and to Europe, boosted morale and the orchestra’s profile … Yet for all of the new energy, Eschenbach’s concerts with the orchestra have not consistently represented the kind of vital music-making one might have hoped.”
MUSIC Posted:
“No one is quite sure how the trend will end up, and whether it will succeed at making money or building audiences. But many music organizations say they believe such web streams will prove helpful, saying that they must find audiences where they are, in an era when sales of CDs and digital downloads are declining, and streaming services like Spotify and Pandora are growing rapidly.”
MEDIA Posted:
“After trying an array of prototypes and development kits at the Game Developers Conference here last week, I can assure you that virtual reality works. Technology is no longer the limitation. The lingering question is what game designers, artists and filmmakers should do with it.”
DANCE Posted:
“They found that women rated dancers higher when they showed larger and more variable movements of the head, neck and torso. Speed of leg movements mattered too, particularly bending and twisting of the right knee. In what might be bad news for the 20% of the population who is left-footed, left knee movement didn’t seem to matter.”
MEDIA Posted:
“Apple would deliver live and on-demand TV programming over a Comcast’s last-mile broadband networks, with guaranteed bandwidth to ensure high-quality video delivery to an Apple set-top.”
WORDS Posted:
“The ban is part of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, which allows prisoners to buy their own basic supplies using funds awarded to them for good behaviour.”
ISSUES Posted:
“France has been losing talented citizens to other countries for decades, but the current exodus of entrepreneurs and young people is happening at a moment when France can ill afford it.”
VISUAL Posted:
“An initial theory that the fresco had been taken away for conservation was quickly disproved. Another wall painting fragment, from the House of the Orchard, was previously stolen from an on-site laboratory during restoration, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports.”
VISUAL Posted:
“Redditor Shystone has laid old paintings over Google Street View photographs to create a series of perspective-bending composite images of old and new London. Modern sculptures dominate a plaza that was once wide open; neon signs reside on the same block as gas-lit streetlights; and a bridge covers over a river that was once filled with sailboats.”
ISSUES Posted:
“The sociologists are right in pointing out that if organizations want to target artists, and if governments want to use research data to shape policies geared towards them (both of which are already happening), it might help to first figure out who an artist is.”
THEATRE Posted:
“As soon as we could use things like radio-controlled servos, we started using them. As soon as we could use computers to help perform our creatures, we used them.”
MUSIC Posted:
“Who has ever heard of a major arts institution with a $15-million budget, one of the country’s top 10 opera companies, simply throwing in the towel over a deficit of a couple million dollars and not fighting to the end because there is no dignity in that?”
IDEAS Posted:
“So popular is the field that behavioural economics is now often misapplied as a catch-all term to refer to almost anything that’s cool in popular social science, from the storycraft of Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point (2000), to the empirical investigations of Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics (2005).”
PEOPLE Posted:
“It’s a city where you go to the rock show or the play or watch the fashion runway at Lincoln Center, and just about everyone on that stage is barely making ends meet even though they look like they have it all and more.”
MUSIC Posted:
“It’s not just the fame and the pop culture that make opera people suspicious. The conventional wisdom has it that you must be ready to sacrifice everything — friends, family, a personal life — for an opera career.”
MUSIC Posted:
“It’s a shocking gender gap among classical music’s soloists and conductors, and talented women are being prevented from having the successful careers they deserve.”
MUSIC Posted:
“In response to the article, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conductor Bramwell Tovey has launched a series of tweets while on vacation in Tuscany, blasting the article as inaccurate, sensationalist, Toronto-centric, plagiarized, and borderline liable.”
PEOPLE Posted:
“If Alain ruled the world – let’s say he were one of Plato’s philosopher-kings (never mind that Plato distrusted art and wished to banish it) – museum captions would offer more than bland, neutral facts like name and date, but moral instructions ‘appropriate’ to the work of art, prompting us to, for example, ‘remember to be patient’.”