http://www.artsjournal.com Copyright 2009 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:41:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Nicolai Ouroussoff: "A big surprise is how much of the school's mission still feels relevant, from the effort to come to terms with mind-bending technological advances to the desire to serve an audience beyond the usual cultural elites."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/revisiting_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/revisiting_the.shtml visual Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:41:28 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:14:35 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_the_new_chi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_the_new_chi.shtml media Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:37:16 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_akram_khan.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_akram_khan.shtml people Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:36:10 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/breaking_how_ma.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/breaking_how_ma.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:23:48 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/sothebys_hemorr.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/sothebys_hemorr.shtml visual Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:06:01 -0800 "So I talked to the team and to the dancers about bird behaviour, including my research on corvids [crows, rooks and jays]. I drew on examples such as the dance of the blue manakin, which, for me, is avian tango, and the Lawes's parotia (the six-plumed bird of paradise), which has a courtship dance that looks like a bird ballet."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rambert_dance_c_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rambert_dance_c_1.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:03:49 -0800 "As this Spider-Man tale opens, the audience sees New York City 'on fire and in ruins' as 'a section of the Brooklyn Bridge ascends with Mary Jane bound and dangling helplessly from the bridge'." The show's money troubles mean it risks passing both the Tony deadline and the expiration of the license from Marvel Comics.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_the_julie_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_the_julie_t.shtml theatre Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:59:33 -0800 Rex Reed called it "a film without a single redeeming quality"; Chuck Palahniuk called it "the best date flick ever"; professors write about its "rhetoric of masculinity" and "economics of patriarchy"; Dennis Lim says it "is surely the defining cult movie of our time."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/appalling_addic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/appalling_addic.shtml media Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:38:19 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nine_ways_of_lo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nine_ways_of_lo.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:55:32 -0800 The former New Yorker staffer, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, succeeded founding editor George Plimpton on the latter's death in 2003. Gourevitch "plans to return to writing full time."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philip_gourevit.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philip_gourevit.shtml publishing Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:51:54 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/merces_work_wit.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/merces_work_wit.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:27:06 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/out_of_cash_hon.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/out_of_cash_hon.shtml music Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:22:40 -0800 Judith Dolkart, currently associate curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum, joins the Foundation as it prepares to break ground on its new home in center city Philadelphia. She will, among her other duties, plan and oversee the special temporary exhibitions the Barnes will add to its program at the new building.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/for_the_new_bar.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/for_the_new_bar.shtml visual Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:55:05 -0800 "Brain scans of avid players of the hugely popular online fantasy world World of Warcraft reveal that areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when someone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think about their real one."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_people_get.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_people_get.shtml ideas Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:51:30 -0800 "Earlier this week the Toronto Star announced, among other changes, that it was planning to outsource some one hundred in-house, union editing jobs." In response, one of those in-house editors took a red pen to the internal memo making said announcement.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_newspapers_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_newspapers_1.shtml publishing Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:50:14 -0800 "The Hall of Fame is a notoriously top-down institution, with an elite group of insiders making up a nominating committee that pre-selects their own idiosyncratic idea of the worthy candidates. So all of us lowly peons are only allowed to vote for 5 out of 12 possible candidates, which judging from this year's nominees makes for slim pickings."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/time_to_close_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/time_to_close_t.shtml music Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:48:59 -0800 "The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bookless_li.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bookless_li.shtml publishing Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:45:14 -0800 "What is the future of this thing called college? What became quickly and painfully obvious in their deliberations is that the center will not hold. In something of an irony, higher education leaders acknowledged here Thursday that the very system that put them in the position to run the nation's colleges and universities is no longer fit to groom their successors or the rest of the U.S. work force."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_future_of_c_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_future_of_c_1.shtml issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:43:34 -0800 "Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content. The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/eu_to_give_teen.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/eu_to_give_teen.shtml media Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:54 -0800 "Today's virtuosos and super-virtuosos are reluctant members of the club. Many of the younger generation are shunning the repertoire and the older ones are shunning the label. So why are pianists wary of being associated with this tradition?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/pianists_as_sup.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/pianists_as_sup.shtml music Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:25:40 -0800 "Paris' Pompidou Center plans to fill a colorful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead, creating a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France's culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_not_art_und.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_not_art_und.shtml visual Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:23:45 -0800 Want to get appointed to the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities? It's a star-studded group. Here's a little something to think about...... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/who_advises_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/who_advises_the.shtml issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:19:09 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_red_shoes_r.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_red_shoes_r.shtml dance Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:25:58 -0800 Eight months after opening, "the Durham Performing Arts LLC [has] made a profit of $1,004,265, of which 40 percent, or $401,706, is to be shared with the city, which owns the building." (Who says the arts aren't an economic engine?)... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/durham_nc_pac_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/durham_nc_pac_1.shtml issues Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:20:29 -0800