Monday, September 23, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Public life has become like a play whose audience is unwilling to suspend disbelief. Any utterance by a public figure can be unpicked in search of its ulterior motive. As cynicism grows, eve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]The report, commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network, urges cultural districts to plan, deliver and evaluate their social impact more effectively. It says there is "more that cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Together, between the late 1960s and the 2008 financial crisis, they tore down the model of activist government intervention in the economy and replaced it with the simple idea that markets …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Yes, Wright peacocked around Chicago, and later Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in dandyish bespoke clothes, leaving unpaid creditors in his wake. He busted up two families…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon's very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"It makes me crazy reading sloppy, typo-strewn copy. Ditto for readers, as has been made clear by the hundreds of emails I receive complaining about errors and inexcusable typos. The takeawa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Pavel Ustinov had been arrested during anti-government protests last month. The backlash against the case came largely from Moscow's theatre community, which carries plenty of social capital…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2019
"Like many phrases and ideas in 2019, this one has been appropriated, bastardized, and misused to the point of not only betraying its original definition and its usefulness in checking the a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
The road to dictatorship is depressingly predictable. Once power is stolen, the problem is to keep it. Anyone who might develop a separate power base must be struck down. Eradicate rivals, r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"While the Internet was meant to allow you to reach out to any- and everyone without a hint of the cruel discriminations that blight our world, it turned into the opposite, a forum where ind…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"These findings challenge one of the most compelling narratives to have emerged within the art world in recent years: that of progressive change, with once-marginalized artists being granted…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"We've made enormous strides. A decade ago, a third of the BBC was based outside London and two-thirds was in London. Today, that balance is 50/50. We've moved from less than 10% of our netw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Anthony Tommasini: "When Mr. van Zweden's appointment was announced, it was questioned whether he would prioritize cultivating living composers, commissioning major works, bringing in a new …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Become the administrative leader of this strong organization with its robust musical footprint in dynamic Santa Fe.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The story just got better " Papillon meets The Goldfinch meets The Great Train Robbery. But it had also gone cold. "I thought: oh, I've missed it." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]From the late 1980s onward, Bruce was recognized as an expert on cutting-edge Canadian art. He knew all the artists and got all the jobs"well, not quite"and was repeatedly invited to curate …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"We've never had anything kind of like the splash that Ben has made, for better or for worse," said Ben Johnson, performing arts program director at the city of L.A.'s Department of Cultural…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The service may very well allow artists to become less beholden to the unpredictable algorithms, turbulent monetization policies, and stingy revenue-sharing of behemoth distribution platform…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2019
Equity describes the policy as one that aims to "promote sustainable, optimistic and fulfilling careers" for its members and other arts workers. To achieve this, it claims a "radical overhau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM[SHARE]The Playwrights' Center, located in Minneapolis, MN, is currently accepting applications for two positions, General Manager and Director of Marketing and Communications.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32PM[SHARE]Blumenthal's Mission: To present the best in the performing arts and in partnership with others, share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32PM[SHARE]There are two ways of telling the story of celebrity, and both are true. The first narrative holds celebrity to be a modern invention. There were always famous people, but they made their na…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"We look at cathedrals returning to being the cultural hubs that they once were. Each cathedral around the country is desperately looking for a cultural agenda for their own sustainability."…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"It was a balancing act of extraordinary deftness that only someone with strong self-discipline and steely ambition could pull off. Yet history has not dealt kindly with Gropius, especially …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"An attack on meritocracy is invariably an attack on higher education, where meritocrats get sorted and credentialed. So the turn against meritocracy prompts big questions. Has meritocracy i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"In hindsight, we can see how rarely one technology supersedes another: the rise of the podcast makes clear that video didn't doom audio any more than radio ended reading. Yet in 1913, a jou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Be wary of lists such as these. The Guardian attempts to select the best dance this century. But with dance spread out all over the world, can a critic (or group of them) choose (let alone j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sentences and phrases of human languages, all human languages, have an inaudible and invisible hierarchical structure. When we are children, we impose this structure on the sequences of soun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Dmitry Yakovlev, head of one of Russia's leading indie comic producers, the St Petersburg-based Bumkniga, was unfazed by the minister's dig. "Medinsky's comment was pure stupidity, therefore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"Compact, at 22,000 square feet and 82 feet high, the library is among the finest and most uplifting public buildings New York has produced so far this century. It also cost something north …
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