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The Bigger Picture: Making Sense Of This Week’s Trending ArtsJournal Stories

October 16, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 3 Comments

This Week: Did Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature expand the category to songwriting?... Artists protest against gentrification... We're deeply conflicted about the value of creativity... Is Google rewiring our brains so they don't work so well?... Are we all living in a giant computer simulation? (don't laugh) American Wins Nobel Literature Prize (Just Not The American Anyone … [Read more...]

william osborne on Classical Music’s #MeToo Stories Are Just A First Step: “There is an important factual omission in your comment. CIM did not just pay the alleged victim in the…” Jul 30, 20:43
ariel on How a Beethoven Tweet Broke Our Twitter Feed (And Other Lessons About Social Media Today): “To most of the world the name Beethoven means nothing and the 9th, symphony even less so . One…” Jul 29, 17:26
G.M. Palmer on How a Beethoven Tweet Broke Our Twitter Feed (And Other Lessons About Social Media Today): “Re the Beethoven #9 article: Kind of reminds me of Third Reich stuff like they commissioned a new Midsummer Night's…” Jul 27, 05:07
Singer on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “It could also be argued that there WERE a lot of musicians back then as well but didn't have the…” Jun 26, 17:01
Sheryl Smith on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “I have noticed that artists look to everyone but themselves when the rent on their garret becomes harder to pay.…” Apr 14, 17:41
Jaym on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “That won't work. The vast majority of contemporary art is bought as a tool by people who want to mark…” Dec 28, 18:35
Jaym on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “Haha the arts education lobby. Must be the most impotent lobby on the face of the earth. I don't think…” Dec 28, 18:18
Peter Nelson on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “For purposes of this discussion how are we defining "artist"? Are the various creatives involved in the advertising industry, the…” Mar 17, 13:02
David Beauchesne on Some Of Our Orchestras Seem To Be Thriving – Is This A New Trend?: “The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra (& Music School) has experienced just under a decade of balanced budgets, and recent spectacular…” Mar 10, 06:09
william osborne on Is The Institutionalization Of Our Arts A Dead End?: “And finally, even the term "attention span" contains an implicit judgment that only clouds the issue. It's not so…” Feb 22, 00:05

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