Thursday, September 26, 2019
Zoe Madonna: "It's time for Gelb to go, and take the board with him. Time to bring in a team that wants to reclaim the beautiful living tradition of opera for the 21st century, this messy ep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]At a contentious meeting Wednesday night, Intiman's board of directors laid out a stark vision for the nearly 50-year-old arts organization, saying it was out of money and would probably hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:11PM[SHARE]The contradiction between the lofty stated values of the museum and the predatory exploits of its patrons would be great fodder for satire if it were not so deeply disturbing. " The New Repu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"With this project, Steven Holl ran with the idea that architecture could sculpt the experience of bringing together a community in a free-of-charge, 22,000-square-foot "third place,""reflec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Along with inclusion on an illustrious list of past fellows " more than 1,000 in all, since the program's first class in 1981 " each of this year's grantees gets a $625,000 stipend, meted ou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]In 2016, Rinder led the move of the museum from its original home, an architecturally significant but seismically challenged structure, to an acclaimed new building. The $112 million project…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]A modest room with fewer than 100 seats, Tula's is a movie-set-ready jazz joint: cocktail tables bathed in golden light, wood-and-mirror-paneled bar, intimate stage, flat black ceiling, slow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]Nearly 70% of its 80 full-time students can't afford to pay their tuition, which comes to about $13 USD per month, according to an official DCMA press release. While the school has received …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]For players, the NSO has become more appealing than ever. It has long been one of the best-paid orchestras in the country. Now, it's also seen as among the more dynamic ones. The orchestra i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]A recent survey of independent bookstores across Canada by BookNet received responses from a total of 69 stores, with 80 locations. One consequence of this dearth is that online book purchas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]There has been a proliferation of luxury celebrity writer "camps" that promise insight on how to be a successful writer. Is this an indulgence for the well-off or something practically usefu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]Various production choices " no host (unless you count Homer Simpson), crummy disco music, a puerile announcer " are partly to blame. But the main problem is the award itself. The Emmys don'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]According to the study, 34% of all 16-to-24-year-old music listeners surveyed admitted to using "stream ripping" apps or services to illegally copy music. When all respondents (ages 16 to 64…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12PM[SHARE]"This morning I got a request for a song called "Medicine for Melancholy," by Rivers Cuomo," Kantor said, sitting at the organ as a recent game got underway. "During batting practice, I got …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
"We are used to seeing a museum as a building, a precinct, an institution and a collection. Museums are indeed spaces of particular kinds, but these kinds of international visits, exhibition…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]The class of 2020 at the Toronto-based academy is comprised of 16 boys and 11 girls. " Newsweek
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Eliasson is known for his environmentally-themed work, which includes the installation Ice Watch, displayed during the UN Climate Summit in 2015. He is the subject of a retrospective show cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Michael Chabon: "Maybe the world in its violent turning is too strong for art. Maybe art is a kind of winning streak, a hot hand at the table, articulating a vision of truth and possibility …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]This is a textbook example of how a narrow viewpoint and blind devotion to procedure can lead you to bad ends. It's the permanent-collection equivalent of following a navigation app's direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]The metaphor of a "marketplace of ideas," where some sort of rational choice theory means the eventual selection of the best quality information, looks naive in an environment where junk new…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"Merit is a sham," the preacher saith. "Merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather"like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime"a pretense, constructed to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"Making art takes lots of time, and when time in a city becomes nothing but making that rent, you will not make art or the kind of art that requires (for its greatness) not just productivity…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Millennials aren't looking for lifehacks to win friends and influence people; they are looking for workable systems that will sanction and codify their behaviors. Luckily for them, philosoph…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"I think things have changed. We're getting a lot more story in 30 minutes or 30 seconds in today's society. (Theater is) competing with a variety of mediums that deliver lot of entertainmen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
"In 32 years of annual "most endangered" designations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Thompson Center is the youngest building ever to make the list. It's also a promi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Is it so far-fetched to wonder what could happen if " like museums, which only raised about 13% of their budgets through admissions fees and memberships in 2015 " they shifted even further a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"The disruption in the art world is not going to come from the Internet, it's not going to come from business-people. It's coming from the artists. The artists are going to change the model …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Mr. Slatkin tweeted about the mistake on Monday morning, writing, "Andre deserved better." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"In a town where everyone is always filleting everyone else, Mr. Iger floats above it all, cosseted in what some call a "a cult of nice." He may own most of the box office, but he is shielde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]For Aristotle, the virtues of character are not enough by themselves to work the magic of illumination that comes with exiting Plato's cave. We also need the intellectual virtues: practical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]A number of longtime employees at the opera house have told NPR that they are furious that the New York company is continuing its association with Domingo. These staffers believe that their …
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