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MOST RECENT- A note from Doug McLennan January 22, 2019I’d like to ask for your help. ArtsJournal has traditionally not linked to stories behind hard paywalls because our readers can’t see them unless they pay. We have, however, linked to stories behind “soft” paywalls such as the New York Times, LA Times and others. On these sites you can access stories until you reach […]
- What Happens When MLK Is A National Icon (But Your Politics Don’t Really Agree) January 21, 2019That Mike Pence and other standard-bearers within this movement can regularly lean on King’s legacy is a consequence of how the civil-rights leader has been canonized. When President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law, in 1983—reversing his own objections to the holiday, and earlier ones to King himself—he signaled that America had accepted King […]The Atlantic
- Dancing Around The World January 21, 2019Matt Bray spent a year traveling all over the world filming himself dancing with whomever was where he was. He calls it the “1000 People of Dance” project, and it’s fun. – Mother Nature NetworkMother Nature Network
- Record Numbers Of Readers Buying Poetry In The UK January 21, 2019Statistics from UK book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan show that sales grew by just over 12% last year, for the second year in a row. In total, 1.3m volumes of poetry were sold in 2018, adding up to £12.3m in sales, a rise of £1.3m on 2017. Two-thirds of buyers were younger than 34 and […]The Guardian
- Proposed New London Concert Hall Makes A Bold Statement January 21, 2019The £288 million it will cost will all come from private donations, and the hall’s backers know critics will say now is not the time for such an expensive building. “Now is never the time to do anything new,” said Sir Simon Rattle, the LSO’s music director and public face of the project. “This is not […]The Guardian
- Eye-Popping Plans For London’s New Center For Music January 21, 2019Images show a place of open foyers dotted with informal performance spaces, where mezzanines, stairs and escalators create a vertical parade of places to see and be seen. Architect Diller describes these open lobbies as “the theatre of the theatre … informal by day and very glamorous by night”. – The GuardianThe Guardian
- China’s White-Hot Movie Industry Is Cooling January 21, 2019China’s box office hit new heights in 2018, raking in about $9 billion, but it was also a year of drastic regulatory changes and a government tax crackdown that have spooked investors and put projects across the country on hold.Variety
- A KGB Museum… In Chelsea January 21, 2019The tour starts with a mock-up of a chief officer’s work space. A mannequin wearing a K.G.B. chief officer’s uniformis at a desk with a flag of Soviet Russia behind him. To the mannequin’s left sits a bronze desk lamp, which, according to the curators, sat in a villa belonging to the former Soviet dictator Joseph […]The New York Times
- Shortly Before Its Annual Conference, Workers At The Grantmakers In The Arts’ Hotel Went On Strike. What To Do? January 21, 2019It was a tough decision says Edwin Torres, the organization’s new leader. Do we live our values or not? So GIA arranged to move its sessions to cultural venues all over Oakland. It made, says Torres, for a more interesting experience… – Barry’s BlogBarry's Blog
- Rewrite The Bible? Well, Yes, Actually January 21, 2019Robert Alter’s method of peeling down to the strangeness of the original in order to reveal another kind of beauty can be bracing, like seeing a familiar painting with its accumulations of smoke and varnish gone.The New Yorker
- Disney Posts $580 Million Loss For 2018 January 21, 2019The loss is primarily because of the company’s investment in the Hulu streaming service. Disney has announced its own streaming service Disney+ which is supposed to launch later this year. Streaming is the future, but its an expensive one. – TechCrunchTechCrunch
- Facebook’s Ten Year Challenge – The Perfect Way To Train Facial Recognition Programs? January 21, 2019Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get older). Ideally, you’d want a broad and rigorous dataset with lots of people’s pictures. It would help if you knew they were taken a fixed number […]Wired
- The Next Chapter For Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre January 21, 2019“I think our job as cultural leaders is to empower that conversation, to say ‘Let’s elevate artists’ leadership at this time when we need people to articulate a future that we can all get behind.’” – Toronto StarToronto Star
- The Promise Of Esa-Pekka Salonen And The San Francisco Symphony (A Sneak Preview) January 21, 2019The classical field is now waiting to see what Mr. Salonen will do in his career’s full maturity. He has announced a benevolent little think-tank army of artists who will be helping him, including Nico Muhly, Esperanza Spalding and Julia Bullock, and their plans will germinate through next year, as the orchestra turns to celebrating […]The New York Times
- Why The Bauhaus Still Has Ahold Of Us 100 Years Later January 21, 2019The name has become an adjective as well as a noun – Bauhaus style, Bauhaus look. And now it is coming up for the centenary of its founding, which shows both that what was called the “modern movement” is now part of history and that its influence is very much still around us. – The GuardianThe Guardian
- Movies Are Global – And That’s Changing Hollywood January 21, 2019Twenty years ago Hollywood earned 30 percent of its revenue internationally. Now it’s 70 percent. And that means what Hollywood makes is more and more influenced by the international market. – BBCBBC
- Why Have Netflix’s Recent Movies Attracted Such Massive Audiences? January 21, 2019Netflix published the figures for some of their biggest recent releases – Sex Education, You and Bird Box. And those numbers were pretty impressive, with the two series on course to be watched by 40 million accounts by the end of the month. Bird Box, which features Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock as the lead, has […]BBC
- What Does It Mean To Be A “National” Theatre? January 21, 2019Put the word “national” in your name and you become a receptacle for a country’s values. In what you do, the nation will seek to see the very definition of itself; a definition perhaps vaguely articulated, but intensely felt. Change your priorities, by being too regal or not regal enough, and you upset the nation’s […]Irish Times
- Lin-Manuel Miranda Chides Audience Member Without Breaking Rap January 21, 2019“LADY FILMING IN THE 4th ROW, PLEASE STOP IT, I gotta holler just to be heard…” he rapped, according to his tweet. The clever diss replaced the line, “The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish,” and then he picked right up with the next verse. – CBSNewsCBSNews
- Study: UK Artists Earn An Average Of £16,150 – Only 1/3 Comes From Their Art January 21, 2019The research has shone new light on the portfolio careers of artists: 20% of respondents work three or more jobs, and of those taking jobs, a third have roles in fields with nothing to do with the arts. Similarly, the report finds only one in five visual artists believe their work/art balance is correct.Arts Professional
- A note from Doug McLennan January 22, 2019