Monday, June 17, 2019
The Cuban government, which regularly arrests artists and journalists, also expected to welcome a record-breaking 5.1 million tourists this year. Cuba's leaders are well aware that cultural …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]In the past 10 years, northern and Indigenous music has been winning over bigger and bigger audiences, and some artists have leveraged that into international recognition. But the cost…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"In the era of Donald Trump " and YouTube " the most fevered version of the case against postmodernism has become increasingly visible. That is, the claim that a coalition of critical theori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Mac made every recording session, every gig, and every musical encounter better just by being there. He knew what to add. He knew what to subtract. He brought the best out of everyone in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]The most common theory is that the 500-year-old artwork is sitting in storage in Switzerland " specifically in Geneva, where, according to The New York Times, more than a million works of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Burning Man organizers had proposed raising the current 80,000 limit as high as 100,000 in coming years. But the Bureau of Land Management said in releasing the final environmental impact st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]The critics sometimes found his work overstuffed, with more attention paid to décor than to human beings. But audiences ate it up for decades. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"When satire is doing a good job, it's not just punching up. It's reminding us of our complicity." But there's no double meaning in outrage: "Outrage tells you, 'Here is the thing, here is t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]"His personality isn't so different from one of those determined entrepreneurs from the 1900s who wanted to stick a motor on a carriage and get people moving without having to hitch a horse.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Across Britain and Ireland indies are doing what they do best: hosting readings and signings, cooking up literary lunches and generally feeding curiosity. Bookshop crawls are quite the thing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]The opening of a €600m super-museum in Berlin has been postponed to next year, raising sceptical eyebrows among locals wary of the German capital's growing tendency to deliver large pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Today's young adults are just as likely to endorse traditional racial and gender stereotypes as members of previous generations. And by age 30, those who have earned college degrees enjoy in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Despite the progress made in recent years, she said, female conductors were still judged differently from their male counterparts while on the podium. "The thing about conducting is it's all…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]The top letter, in which Cohen wrote in December 1960 about being "alone with the vast dictionaries of language," fetched almost $75,000 compared to an original high estimate of $13,000. " C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2019
The short story is on a huge upwards trajectory, yet attitudes persist that collections can't be as successful as novels. To be fair, most of those prehistoric views emanate from London rath…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Brian Seibert: "It all feels, in the end, like what it is: a late-generation copy. After a five-year absence, the fungus is still alive but not showing many signs of growth. " " The New Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]About 53% of people born between 1983 and 1996 now pay for gaming services, versus 51% who pay for television, according to a survey from the accounting and professional services firm Deloit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]In fact, David Lang is, with a re-imagining of Beethoven's Fidelio. Anne Midgette explores the idea of revisiting classics in new form. " Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]A new study quantifies it. "The study examined data from nearly 20,000 people in England who took part in the Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment Survey from 20…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]It was 1926. "On the evening of Dec. 4, Agatha Christie, carrying nothing but an attaché case, kissed her daughter good night and sped away from the home in England that she shared with her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]YouTube's recommendation engine can lead you astray pretty quickly, jumping down rabbit holes of unsafe or misleading content. Figuring out an algorithmic fix is more difficult than it seems…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"Blockbusters are not their thing. But don't let the hush of the Beacon galleries mislead you; a profound transformation is afoot." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"Constantly demanding data, while changing formats, metrics, methodology and requirements every few years, creates the illusion of order and control, while actually making meaningful insight…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"All the ordinary limitations under which most writers and scholars labor " deadlines, money, family obligations " have never contained the force of Caro's curiosity, which he describes as s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Campaigners from Extinction Rebellion descended on the big-screen event, which live-streamed a Royal Ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet for free on June 11. BP has sponsored the free scr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]During Cuba's Special Period, a time of deprivation following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many cinemas closed due to lack of funding, so the state opened small "video rooms" to scre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Last year, a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him. How did they get there? " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"The grand columns that you see all around the complex are about creating space. You fill in that space, then you have something that was designed to be open becoming cluttered and oppressiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]"An accomplished pianist and violinist, she is also a composer, having written concertos for piano and violin and an opera. In December, she will make her debut at Carnegie Hall, where she w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Nancy Bass Wyden: "My dad's proudest moment came in 1996, when he finally saved up enough money to buy the building that had housed the store since he was a young man. He'd watched rents cli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2019
"Critics sometimes reproached Mr. Zeffirelli's opera stagings for a flamboyant glamour more typical of Hollywood's golden era, while Hollywood sometimes disparaged his films as too highbrow.…
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