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  • AUDIENCE

How Medicine Is Incorporating The Arts Into Treatment

ISSUES Posted: September 2, 2016 10:31 am

“North American medical schools are beginning to embrace literature in medical curriculum and this trend has now expanded, with physicians attending courses in the spin-off field of narrative medicine.”

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ISSUES Published: 08.28.16

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Those Studies That Found That Smiling Can Improve Your Bad Mood? Well …

IDEAS Posted: August 31, 2016 11:00 am

“This concept has been a standard in self-help for many years: Fake it till you make it; sulk until you hulk. Act the way you want to feel, and the rest will fall into place. … Smiling can make you happy or decrease your stress.” Now the studies on which the concept was based have been re-tried by researchers, and the old results haven’t been replicated. Daniel Engber lays out the history.

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IDEAS Published: 08.28.16

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Truth, Martyrdom, And Shostakovich (Richard Taruskin Takes On Julian Barnes’s Novel)

MUSIC Posted: August 31, 2016 7:30 am

“This book, I think, is a beautifully written botch, and it has me wondering anew about truth. People have been doing that, of course, for a long time – at least since Pilate confronted Christ. And the wrangling over what the truth might be about Shostakovich and his experiences under Stalin has been going on, it sometimes seems, almost as long.”

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MUSIC Published: 08.28.16

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Tchaikovsky, Meet Hubble: It’s Not Your Father’s Outdoor Classical Concert Anymore

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Posted: August 30, 2016 5:30 am

“Summer symphony audiences are supposed to be easy. Just give them pleasant weather, a nice picnic, craft beer, the 1812 Overture with a few cannons … If only.” David Patrick Stearns looks at some ways – high-tech and low-tech – that classical groups are engaging summertime audiences.

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AUDIENCE, MUSIC Published: 08.28.16

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New Russian Gérard Depardieu Gets A Cultural Center Named After Him In His New Hometown

PEOPLE Posted: August 30, 2016 4:30 am

“[The] French-born actor… on Saturday inaugurated a cultural and film centre bearing his name in Saransk, the capital of the Russian region of Mordovia in which Depardieu is a registered resident … [He moved there after] giving up his French passport as a protest against French president François Hollande’s proposal to tax France’s highest earnest earners at over 75 percent.”

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PEOPLE Published: 08.28.16

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What Does A Bad Decision Look Like In The Brain?

IDEAS Posted: August 29, 2016 7:15 am

“The brain is the most metabolically expensive tissue in the body. It consumes 20 percent of our energy despite taking up only 2 to 3 percent of our mass. Because neurons are so energy-hungry, the brain is a battleground where precision and efficiency are opponents. Glimcher argues that the costs of boosting our decision-making precision outweigh the benefits. Thus we’re left to be confounded by the choices of the modern American cereal aisle.”

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IDEAS Published: 08.28.16

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Juan Gabriel, Superstar Mexican Singer And Songwriter (On Both Sides Of The Border)

MUSIC Posted: August 29, 2016 6:30 am

“Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.”

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MUSIC Published: 08.28.16

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How The Tate Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Create A New – And Kind Of Weird – Experience

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Posted: August 29, 2016 6:00 am

“The team have created and trained a ‘brain’ to a point where it is simulating certain human attributes and unleashed it online – and it is creating a gallery.”

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AUDIENCE, IDEAS Published: 08.28.16

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Two Museum Directors From Opposite Coasts Meet At A Party …

PEOPLE Posted: August 29, 2016 5:15 am

“There were discussions of favorite architects, favorite cities and, yes, favorite museums.”

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PEOPLE Published: 08.28.16

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Top AJBlogs For 08.28.16

AJBlogs Posted: August 28, 2016 8:00 pm

What Happens When Critical Opinion Separates From An Audience?
A poll of movie critics worldwide asking about the best movies of the 21st Century so far shows a big gap between the critics and the box office. Is it inevitable as an art form matures that critical taste leaves the audience behind?… read more
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JBlog: diacritical | Douglas McLennan’s blog

This Week in Audience: Are Middle Class Values Stifling The Arts?
This Week: Have orchestra pops concerts lost the pops thread?… A decade of experimenting with pay-as-you-will theatre in Charleston… NBC confirms a shift in how audiences want to watch the Olympics… Are middle class norms … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-08-28

Borne on a West Coast Breeze
The Pacific Northwest Ballet performs during Jacob’s Pillow’s last week of the summer. Pacfic Northwest Ballet in Benjamin Millepied’s 3 Movements. (L to R): Christian Poppe, Sarah Ricard Orza, Lesley Rausch, Seth Orza, and Matthew … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-08-28

The Future of Orchestras Part IV: Attention-Span
A colleague in Music History at a major American university reports that it has become difficult to teach sonata form because sonata forms transpire over 15 minutes and more.  This topic – shrinking attention-span — … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2016-08-27

 

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This Week In Audience: Are Middle Class Values Stifling The Arts?

AUDIENCE, TOP STORIES Posted: August 28, 2016 1:58 pm

This Week: Have orchestra pops concerts lost the pops thread?… A decade of experimenting with pay-as-you-will theatre in Charleston… NBC confirms a shift in how audiences want to watch the Olympics… Are middle class norms stifling the arts?… What do regular museum goers think about the art?

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AUDIENCE, TOP STORIES Published: 08.28.16

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This Week’s AJ Highlights: That Time Nureyev And Fonteyn Got Arrested In A “Hippie Raid”

TOP STORIES Posted: August 28, 2016 11:52 am

This Week: Earthquake Devastates Historic Italian Towns… Has the audience deserted blockbuster movies?… The best new beautiful library of 2016… Is it a good idea to pay young people to try culture?… When superstar dancers were arrested in a 1960s police raid.

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TOP STORIES Published: 08.28.16

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In England, A Famous Zaha Hadid Piece Goes Back Up (For Sale)

VISUAL Posted: August 28, 2016 6:45 am

“It is very poignant. … But all the more marvellous that this master work should be presented to remind us what an extraordinary contribution she made.”

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Most Of What We Think We Know About The Brain Is Wrong

IDEAS Posted: August 28, 2016 5:15 am

“When you divide the brain into bitty bits and make millions of calculations according to a bunch of inferences, there are abundant opportunities for error, particularly when you are relying on software to do much of the work.”

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Religion Makes Its Way, Carefully, Into TV Drama

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: August 26, 2016 8:00 am

“As important as religion is in the lives of many viewers, television has had a tentative relationship with it. … But are things changing, and how? Here, the New York Times critics Margaret Lyons and James Poniewozik survey how television’s congregation has expanded and where there’s still room for improvement.”

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People! You Need To Dress Better In Public! Especially In The Theatre!

AUDIENCE, PEOPLE Posted: August 4, 2016 8:28 am

“When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of “Penn & Teller on Broadway,” many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled around in hideous cargo shorts.”

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  • Cue the Regulators! Met’s Deaccession Regression Attracts the Critical Eye of NYS Attorney General’s Office
    The Metropolitan Museum’s controversial consideration of adopting the Association of Art Museum Directors’ relaxed deaccession standards has now become a fait accompli: As the Met’s spokesperson confirmed to me yesterday, the museum’s... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Stumbling down memory lane
    In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review George Street Playhouse’s webcast of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * The premise of Theresa Rebeck’s “Bad Dates,” which is being webcast by New... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Replay: Ginette Neveu plays Chausson’s Poème
    Ginette Neveu plays the closing section of Ernest Chausson’s Poème. This rare silent film footage is synchronized with Neveu’s commercial recording of the piece: (This is the latest in a series of arts-... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Almanac: Mary Renault on love and hate
    “In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo Continue reading Almanac: Mary Renault... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-05
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on mixed feelings
    “I hope that to be of two minds about some things is not to be neutral.” Flannery O’Connor, letter to Betty Hester, May 4, 1957 Continue reading Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on mixed... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-04
  • Snapshot: Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth
    Rudyard Kipling speaks about writing and truth in an undated film clip from the Thirties. This is thought to be the only surviving sound footage of Kipling: (This is the latest in... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-03
  • Almanac: Rudyard Kipling on the prevalence of obsessions
    “Everyone is more or less mad on one point.” Rudyard Kipling, “On the Strength of a Likeness” Continue reading Almanac: Rudyard Kipling on the prevalence of obsessions at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-03
  • Lookback: on being sworn in to the National Council on the Arts
    From 2005: I am now officially the Honorable Terry Teachout, having been sworn in this morning (together with Gerard Schwarz and James Ballinger) as a member of the National Council on the Arts. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-02
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on inhibited families
    “I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.” Flannery O’Connor, letter to Betty Hester,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-02
  • Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
    The Metropolitan Museum’s premature revelation that it might take advantage of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ relaxed deaccession standards, by selling art to help pay for “care of the collection,” was... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Just because: Flannery O’Connor appears in a 1932 newsreel
    A five-year-old Flannery O’Connor appears in a rare 1932 Pathé newsreel segment about a chicken she taught to walk backwards: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Almanac: Flannery O’Connor on writers and their childhood
    “I think you probably collect most of your experience as a child—when you really had nothing else to do—and then transfer it to other situations when you write. Flannery O’Connor, letter to... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-03-01
  • Afa Dworkin Talks Diversity & Arts Leadership
    Afa Dworkin, President & Artistic Director of the Sphinx Organization speaks about the importance of diversity in the arts and leadership attributes that empower organizational excellence.... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-02-27
  • Joseph Brodsky on the Life of Books
    On the whole, books are less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors. ... Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-26
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
    A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. Maybe the biggest. Because ArtsJournal was down yesterday—I know not why—I couldn’t post this. The world didn't miss it.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-24
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