“In the last quarter century we’ve seen women at the helm of symphonies and opera houses. But what is often overlooked is that in L.A., women had a larger hand in the creation of music capital than in any other major city.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.21.14
Problems with data: measuring diversity
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Should nonprofit museums have free admission because they are tax exempt?
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2014-12-20
Art in Disguise: A Koons or Not a Koons?
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2014-12-20
Has Architecture Lost Its Connection?
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2014-12-19
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Boys Won’t Read? Give Them More Screen Time
“Boys were twice as likely as girls to spend more time with stories on touch screens than printed stories.”
These Classical Buskers Are Performing In The Subway When Along Comes … [VIDEO]
“Just when you hate, I mean truly hate, the New York City subway system, something like this has to go and happen.” (Wait for it.)
Keeping The Navajo Language Alive By Dubbing ‘Finding Nemo’
“The language is still spoken by more than half of the Navajo Nation — the largest tribe in the U.S. with more than 300,000 members — but is less popular among a critical segment of the population: children.”
Dystopian Fiction Is So Hot Because We Think Drastic Climate Change Is Inevitable
“‘It seems easier, more realistic, to dim the sun than to put up solar panels on every home in the United States,’ says Klein. ‘And that says a lot about us, and what we think is possible, and what we think is realistic.'”
Phoenix’s Actors Theatre Runs Out Of Money And, After 30 Years, Plans To Close
“Matthew Wiener, the theater’s producing artistic director, said the company has been dedicated to paying all of its staff a living wage, but with a small donor base and low ticket sales, the theater was not able to continue.”
Santatown, Or, The Place In China That Makes All Of Your Christmas Decorations
“Yiwu is home to 600 factories that collectively churn out over 60% of all the world’s Christmas decorations and accessories, from glowing fibre-optic trees to felt Santa hats. The ‘elves’ that staff these factories are mainly migrant labourers … not entirely sure what Christmas is.”
Theater J Fires Its Artistic Director After Years Of Tension And A Rabbi’s Attempt To Mediate
“Thursday, Roth was fired by Zawatsky from the job he had held for 18 years, a tenure during which he built Theater J into one of the leading Jewish theaters in the country and one of the most important outposts for plays about Israel and its neighbors.”
The Author Of ‘Unbroken’ Has Revolutionized Nonfiction Writing – Without Leaving Her House
“Perhaps the biggest challenge for Hillenbrand as a reporter are the periods when she cannot read. When the vertigo surges, as it has in recent years, she has trouble focusing her eyes on the page without dizziness.”