Wednesday, December 18, 2019
In the decades since "Merry Christmas," she has created her own evolving brand of hip-hop pop. And she has leaned"or, better, reclined"into the role of playful diva. " The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The news could signal a major shift in how France deals with repatriation, which has been a major focus for its president, Emmanuel Macron. Its government had previously resisted such effort…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]She didn't sound offended. She sounded bored. Ninety years ago, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was banned in the United States. Today, a popular literary novel can contain so many oral sex acts t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Officials at Arts Council England (ACE) said it would start monitoring for the first time next year, adding to the data it collects around gender, ethnicity and disability. Concern is regula…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]Working in partnership with Paramount Pictures, BBC and ITV, on behalf of a Kuwaiti developer, the team have concocted a perfect vision of little Britain that will bring a tear to even the m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]"As a common language of celebration or eulogy, as a means of expressing collective joy or sorrow, classical music is indeed a dying tongue. Would 2,500 people cram into the nave and transep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]While some have reacted to this trend with protests of 'art for art's sake', perhaps we should view the increasing focus on the usefulness of the arts as an opportunity. The cultural sector …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]"How will we remember the last 10 years? Above all, as a time of crises. During the 2010s, there have been crises of democracy and the economy; of the climate and poverty; of international r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]English Heritage is now asking people to get in touch if they know of an earlier family snap at Stonehenge. The earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Matthew Feargrieve was found guilty in London of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on 7 October last year. Feargrieve, 43,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]What we do know is that Aristotle viewed the present as something continually changing and that by the year 160, the Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius was describing time as a river …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Authors argue that the anatomical ingredients for speech were present in our ancestors much earlier than 200,000 years ago. In fact, they propose that the necessary equipment"specifically, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Only "a few dozen documents have survived: entries in administrative registers (bonboeken) relating to his family, the house and the mill… in which he was raised and notarial instruments. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]The Perelman Performing Arts Center is currently under
construction at the World Trade Center. Within its three
flexible and intimate performance spaces, The Perelman
will produce multiple p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2019
Cineworld previously paid $3.6 billion for Regal Entertainment Group, its entry into the U.S. market last year. The company plans to combine the operations of Cineplex and Regal to create th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]The best contemporary romance authors know that technology can inject a straight shot of chemistry into a relationship " even when partners are balancing life, work and saving the world. " W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"When I got into producing television, the business model had been the same for about 70 years and, suddenly, in the last five years it's completely different. And it looks like over the nex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]Steve Lazarides has now self-published a book of his photographs from the time he travelled the world tasked with making sure Banksy didn't get arrested or duffed up and didn't run out of sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]Producers turn down house lights about halfway, rather than putting the audience in complete darkness; vocalization from the audience is accepted; seating is limited up to 80% to allow audie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Mark Swed: "The biggest story of all has been the stellar rise of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becoming surely the most successful arts organization of the century so far through an insurmo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Cheap books make authors canonical." Thousands of mid-century readers consumed "yellowback" versions of Austen's novels, so-called because of the yellow paper stuck to the back of them on w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"When I interact with the computer, I have limited access to the events occurring within it. Thanks to the schemes of presentation devised by the programmers, I am treated to an elaborate au…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]The idea proved anything but irresistible. No one wanted to finance the project: the show's producer, Cameron Mackintosh, had to solicit small-fry investors through newspaper ads; Lloyd Webb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"By presenting itself as a means of providing equal opportunity, it has preemptively shut down opposition; it pushes inequality to ever-higher levels; it serves as an efficient mechanism for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]When I started writing criticism, in 1965, in almost pristine ignorance, I discovered that I was the world's leading expert in one thing: my experience. Most of what I know in a scholarly wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]The painting, discovered in 2017, is one of hundreds in South Sulawesi, including a red hand stencil, which was dated to at least 40,000 years ago. But the latest finding is exceptional as i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Given the art world's cherished progressive reputation, how long can it justify the extraordinarily outsize habits of its fairs, institutions, and jet-setting elites? " Artnet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wendy Perron does a survey of this year's books about dance. Ted Shawn, Tim Miller, Jerome Robbins, Ray Bolger, Merce Cunningham and more. " Wendy Perron
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
LA Opera continues to stage traditional and spectacular productions, Long Beach Opera forges ahead in its scrappy and innovative way, San Diego Opera provides yet another outlet for listener…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]Brazilian cinema " put on the map by global hits such as City of God and Aquarius " has suffered a succession of blows since Bolsonaro took office in January, from a general lack of interest…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Among stations with annual membership income above $4 million, the median change in fees is a 9% increase, according to NPR; among stations with income below $250,000, an 8% decline. " Curre…
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