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Fukuyama: Why Liberalism Is Under Attack

IDEAS Posted: October 13, 2020 12:31 pm

“The contemporary attack on liberalism goes much deeper than the ambitions of a handful of populist politicians. They would not be as successful as they have been were they not riding a wave of discontent with some of the underlying characteristics of liberal societies. To understand this, we need to look at the historical origins of liberalism, its evolution over the decades, and its limitations as a governing doctrine.” – American Purpose

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A Prominent Journal Implodes. Was It The Editor Or The Field?

IDEAS Posted: October 13, 2020 9:29 am

A narrative took hold among critics of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, The controversy, at root, wasn’t just about the journal or its editor, but also the ways in which contemporary anthropology is a morally corrupt, harmful institution in which the powerful prey upon the weak. – Chronicle of Higher Education

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Gagosian Gallery Creates Virtual Openings With Celebrities

VISUAL Posted: October 7, 2020 9:32 am

The new initiative was devised as a way to create buzz about Gagosian exhibitions even as the gallery faces an extended period with limited in-person attendance. The online celebrity programming also helps to keep artists from feeling shortchanged by the moratorium on glitzy opening parties and swanky artist dinners that traditionally help woo collectors. – Artnet

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How One Regional Foundation Smartly Diversified Its Support

ISSUES Posted: October 7, 2020 8:31 am

Seven years into its “racial equity journey,” support for BIPOC organizations has increased 670%, from $75,000 in 2013 to $578,000 in 2020. The foundation’s rapid evolution is an illuminating case study of a regional funder closing the funding equity gap while providing what Foundation president Gary Steuer referred to as “continued support and respect for the largest institutions that have sucked up the largest share of the philanthropic pie—mostly Eurocentric arts groups.” – Inside Philanthropy

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A Deacquisition Binge At American Museums?

VISUAL Posted: October 7, 2020 7:33 am

“During the height of lockdown in April, the Association of Art Museum Directors … loosened its guidelines on how members could use the proceeds of art sold from their collections. Now, … museums in the United States are likely to make more than $100 million through the sale of art this fall, according to an analysis by Artnet News. Some welcome this result as a sign that institutions are taking practical steps to change systems that were long considered intractable; others say it is a troubling indication that museums are taking the easy way out and turning their collections into cash machines.” – Artnet

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James Beard, The Great Emancipator Of American Cuisine

PEOPLE Posted: October 6, 2020 3:01 pm

“[He] was perfectly cast. Large, broad, and jovial-seeming, a Santa of the buffet table, … the happy stout man showed that you could eat well without being frightened of eating incorrectly. … The role that Beard invented and played was vital in creating a new idea of what American cooking was.” – The New Yorker

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Of Curtain Speeches, Raising Support And Being Human

ISSUES Posted: October 6, 2020 2:02 pm

“In all cases, as nonprofits, for Pete’s sake, just do something measurably impactful without resorting to counting the number of butts in seats, how many jobs you provided, and your economic impact on the community at large. If you do, people will get it and support you. If you don’t, you’ll lead the Irrelevance Day Parade.” – 501c3 Guru

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How Black Artists Are Investing In The Next Generation

VISUAL Posted: October 6, 2020 1:32 pm

Artists who have benefited either directly or indirectly from the Studio Museum’s famous residency program—as well as from an art market that is no longer undervaluing their work as much as it has in the past—are building spaces of their own to strengthen the infrastructure available to artists of color. – Artnet

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The Man Who Would Replace LACMA

VISUAL Posted: October 6, 2020 12:31 pm

“Peter Zumthor, who despises monuments, finds himself responsible for a building intended to anchor a diffuse and sporadically planned city, where the forests catch fire every fall. A year ago, when I visited him in Haldenstein, an ancient village in the low Alps where he lives and has his atelier, it seemed to him as if the project might, at the final moment, fail, and ruin his good name. He was despondent, familiarly so. “Maybe it happens, maybe it won’t,” he told me. “I always get burned.” – The New Yorker

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Why Conservatives Should Support Aid For The Arts

ISSUES Posted: October 6, 2020 10:31 am

Arts audiences are passionate and, especially in turbulent times, hunger for the fulfillment that a transcendent performance can bring. Even skeptics of government funding for the arts should support making those experiences possible again. As no less a conservative than Winston Churchill once said, “The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them.” – Washington Post

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The 100 Most Influential Sequences In The History Of Animation

MEDIA Posted: October 6, 2020 10:02 am

“We chose the deliberately flexible element of a ‘sequence’ because it felt the most focused: It is often in one inspired moment, more so than a single frame or entire work, that we are able to see the form progress. … This list is not intended to be comprehensive. One hundred is a crushingly compact number of slots with which to encapsulate the totality of a medium. That isn’t to say we didn’t try.” – Vulture

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Adam Smith On The Perils Of Sympathizing

IDEAS Posted: October 6, 2020 8:29 am

Sympathy, Smith believed, was inseparable from imagination and from reasoning. We can’t access what other people feel. Instead, we imagine what other people must be feeling, or rather what we believe that we would feel if we were in their position. – Psyche

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How Online Theatre And Its Audience Are Changing Each Other

AUDIENCE, THEATRE Posted: October 6, 2020 7:35 am

“Our great crisis, the coronavirus, forces us to watch plays alone, in the crannies of our homes, instead of drawing us into proximity with strangers. Our current government, unlike that led by Franklin Roosevelt, doesn’t see a connection between economic privation, social estrangement, and the kind of nourishment that can come only through an encounter with art — and has no sense of responsibility to encourage the flourishing of art and public life. And so, in a very real way, each of us is on her own. The work of playwriting, acting, and theatrical production today might be to reintroduce us to one another, one at a time.” – The New Yorker

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Using Limestone Remnants Of Ancient Greek Sculptures To Make New Reproductions: Okay Or Not Okay?

VISUAL Posted: October 6, 2020 6:34 am

2,600 years ago, the world’s largest Doric temple to Zeus stood in southwestern Sicily, and its façades incorporated 38 towering statues of Atlas, seeming to hold up the roof the way the Titan held up the sky. All but one of those statues have long since fallen to pieces, but the monument’s director wants to use pieces of the ruins to reproduce eight of the ancient Atlas figures and incorporate them into a contemporary sculpture. Archaeologists are appalled. – The New York Times

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Boston Symphony Gives Andris Nelsons Evergreen Contract

MUSIC Posted: October 6, 2020 6:02 am

“The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons have agreed to a three-year contract extension, … ensuring he will lead the symphony through the 2024-25 season and possibly beyond: An evergreen clause allows his commitment to stretch well beyond the new term. … Nelsons has signed a similar contract extension with the BSO’s sister orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.” – The Boston Globe

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Paris Opera Ballet Finally Starts Reconsidering Blackface And Other Racial Issues

DANCE Posted: October 6, 2020 5:35 am

Following a manifesto signed by nearly one-fourth of its employees, the world’s oldest ballet company, and perhaps its most tradition-bound, has invited a pair of outside experts to write a report and make recommendations about matters onstage (eliminating blackface, dying tights to match dancers’ skin tones, reworking the traditional ballets blancs that use only white tutus) and off. – France 24 (AFP)

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Jérôme Bel: The Dance World Is Going Through A Major Change

DANCE Posted: October 5, 2020 2:56 pm

Jérôme Bel has been impressed with the activist streak of younger artists. “They want to work without travelling the globe in the way my generation did,” he says. “The dance community is going through drastic change right now. It’s for us to adjust in order to remain in sync with a world in need of transformation.” – The Guardian

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Study: Demand For Diverse TV Programming Outstrips Supply

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: October 5, 2020 2:29 pm

The study highlighted that audience demand for shows with diverse casts rose 113% from 2017 to 2019. Last year, the level of demand for shows with diverse casts was 17 times greater than the demand for the average U.S. TV show (it was eight times higher in 2017). – Los Angeles Times

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What The Anti-Smoking Campaigns Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media

MEDIA Posted: October 5, 2020 2:01 pm

The comparison is more than metaphorical. It’s a framework for thinking about how public opinion needs to shift so that the true costs of misinformation can be measured and policy can be changed. – MIT Technology Review

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Nobel Literature Prize Has A Scandal-Plagued Few Years. Look For A “Safe” Choice This Year

WORDS Posted: October 5, 2020 1:29 pm

The prize has been mired in scandal since November 2017, when the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner, was caught up in sexual abuse and financial misconduct allegations, which resulted in the conviction of Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of academy member Katarina Frostenson, for rape in 2018. The following January, Frostenson left the Academy after she was found to be the source of leaks of previous winners. The Nobel was postponed in 2018 in the wake of the controversy, but found itself fiercely criticised again over its choice of Peter Handke as winner in 2019. – The Guardian

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What Small Movie Theatres Discovered After They Reopened

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: October 5, 2020 1:01 pm

“When we opened in June I had the No. 7 theater in the country. I thought that was cool.” Yet in subsequent weeks, attendance wasn’t enough to justify keeping the lights on. After just a few weeks back in business, Chris Johnson had to make what he refers to as a “heartbreaking” decision: He closed down his theaters. He doesn’t know, realistically, when he’ll be able to welcome customers again. “We found there was a core audience who came out right away and was very excited, but those were the only ones who came out,” he said. – Variety

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Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Case Over “Stairway To Heaven”

MUSIC Posted: October 5, 2020 12:29 pm

The Supreme Court “denied a petition aimed at reviving the case, ending six years of litigation that the song’s writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, plagiarized the song’s iconic intro from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the group Spirit.” – Variety

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London Nightclub Sues City Over COVID Lockdown: What’s The Scientific Basis?

ISSUES Posted: October 5, 2020 12:01 pm

Simpson Millar said the government had not provided any evidence to support the restriction, which “seems to lack any obvious rational or scientific basis”. Critics have said the measure is not only damaging to the hospitality sector but may actually be counterproductive, due to the large number of people gathering in the streets or homes after 10pm, or crowding onto public transport at the same time. – The Guardian

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Is NYC’s The New Museum “A Sweatshop”?

VISUAL Posted: October 5, 2020 11:25 am

A former finance director says Ms. Phillips told her to mislead the museum’s board about a cash shortfall. Art handlers say they were forced to work overnight at times to meet onerous deadlines. A former exhibitions director says that when the museum could not locate a work of art, its top officials suggested just making a copy, without telling the artist. – The New York Times

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How Reading Habits Have Changed During COVID

AUDIENCE, WORDS Posted: October 5, 2020 11:01 am

While it’s still relatively early to see the influence of the coronavirus and the lockdown on creative industries, there were some striking patterns in media consumption in the early part of the pandemic. – The Conversation

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  • The Internet Archive Is Defending Its Digital Library In Court
    The court will consider whether the Open Library violated copyright law by letting users “check out” digitized copies of physical books, an assertion several major publishers made in their 2020 suit. –... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Resurrecting The Gargoyles Of Notre-Dame De Paris
    Here’s a look-in on the sculptors who are carefully restoring or, where necessary, reproducing the delightfully grotesque waterspouts (yes, they help drain rainwater from the roof) that were damaged or destroyed in... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Why Kids Aren’t Developing A Love Of Reading
    The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this—most American children have smartphones by the age of 11—as does learning loss during the pandemic. But this isn’t the whole story.... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • The New San Antonio Philharmonic Now Has A Proper Union Contract
    “The musicians of the San Antonio Philharmonic have reached their first collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) union Local 23.” The contract for the fledgling ensemble is more... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Kleine Tiere / Small Animals — A Bilingual Edition
    These poems have been called "tears for the tongue," "dark diamonds," and "sonnets of experience" that William “Blake himself would favour." (MÜ Magazine, London). Stadtlichter Presse also publishes an elegantly produced series... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Paradise For Young Playwrights: Jeremy O. Harris Leads A Residency In The Hills Of Tuscany
    “(They’re) eating gourmet meals in a medieval village turned boutique hotel with breathtaking views of the postcard-perfect Val d’Orcia countryside. With access to a sauna and spa, as well as pasta-making classes... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Researchera May Have Just Found A “Lost” Shakespeare Sonnet Inside A Ben Jonson Play
    “Beyond ‘compelling’ stylistic evidence, the sonnet, titled ‘To the Deserving Author’, is signed with the mysterious pseudonym Cygnus, after the mythical figure who was turned into a swan – evoking Jonson’s very... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • Artists’ guaranteed income, and how to do arts policy analysis
    The New York Times reports on how the Irish experiment in giving some randomly selected artists a small guaranteed income (while also observing a control group of artists not included in the... Read more
    AJBlog: For What it's Worth Published on: 2023-03-24
  • A Major Piece Of Gospel Music’s History Has Been Rediscovered In Pittsburgh
    “Charles Henry Pace … was one of the first African American gospel music composers in the United States, and the owner of one of the country’s first independent, Black gospel music publishing... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • BET Is For Sale, And The Cable Network Has Several Bidders
    “Tyler Perry’s Black Entertainment Television? It could happen: The prolific producer/director/actor is one of several very famous, very rich businessmen who have signaled an interest in taking control of the iconic entertainment... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • How’s Ireland’s Basic-Income-For-Artists Scheme Working So Far?
    Six months into a pilot program that pays 2,000 working artists €325 per week/€16,000 ($18,200) per year, the results look good: as one recipient said, “If I didn’t have this, I wouldn’t... Read more
    AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-03-24
  • “Mahler in New York” (April 4) — Tickets Now on Sale
    One of Gustav Mahler’s most powerful New York experiences was a funeral procession he watched from a hotel window. A fireman had drowned in a burning building. It is often surmised that... Read more
    AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published on: 2023-03-23
  • Jazz journalism online, virtual reality book party
    I’m inordinately proud of the new JJANews website because it makes easily accessible the videos, podcasts, articles with photos and online-realtime activities of the Jazz Journalists Association, such as lthe March 26... Read more
    AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published on: 2023-03-23
  • Art and Morality
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” So says Oscar Wilde. Is he right? A new issue... Read more
    AJBlog: For What it's Worth Published on: 2023-03-22
  • Deserving Attention
    The news media would provide unlimited coverage to the arts if the public insisted upon it. To be valued like that we must do things that make us so.... Read more
    AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published on: 2023-03-21
  • Re-Thinking the Concert Experience in South Dakota and Minnesota
    There was a time – the 1990s, when I was running the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM – when the practice of speaking from the stage at symphonic concerts was controversial, both among... Read more
    AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published on: 2023-03-21
  • Feed your head: two (free!) research talks this week
    The Center for Cultural Affairs at Indiana University has developed a lively workshop series the past few years, and everyone is welcome to attend. They generally occur every two weeks, 12:00 noon... Read more
    AJBlog: For What it's Worth Published on: 2023-03-20
  • Nancy Peters Saved City Lights Books, Yeah!
    Dear Nancy — It's been a million years. What a thrill to see you and to hear your voice again. — Jan... Read more
    AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2023-03-20
  • Alex Laing talks about the Gateways Music Festival and his vision for the organization
    Alex Laing, incoming Executive Director of the Gateways Music Festival, principal clarinet of the Phoenix Symphony and 2018 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, talks about the impact of Gateways and... Read more
    AJBlog: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2023-03-18
  • Bellaart’s ‘Noirs’ For the Pleasure of Charcoal Sketching
    Between July 2020 and June 2022, Gerard Bellaart filled 11 spiral-bound, 80-page sketchbooks with charcoal drawings. Some sketches were preparatory for larger drawings and some were studies for paintings. But most were... Read more
    AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2023-03-17
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