Monday, January 21, 2019
Robert Alter's method of peeling down to the strangeness of the original in order to reveal another kind of beauty can be bracing, like seeing a familiar painting with its accumulations ofÂ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]The classical field is now waiting to see what Mr. Salonen will do in his career's full maturity. He has announced a benevolent little think-tank army of artists who will be helping him, inc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]“I think our job as cultural leaders is to empower that conversation, to say 'Let's elevate artists' leadership at this time when we need people to articulate a future that we can all …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]The name has become an adjective as well as a noun " Bauhaus style, Bauhaus look. And now it is coming up for the centenary of its founding, which shows both that what was called the "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]Netflix published the figures for some of their biggest recent releases – Sex Education, You and Bird Box. And those numbers were pretty impressive, with the two series on course to be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Twenty years ago Hollywood earned 30 percent of its revenue internationally. Now it’s 70 percent. And that means what Hollywood makes is more and more influenced by the international m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]“LADY FILMING IN THE 4th ROW, PLEASE STOP IT, I gotta holler just to be heard…” he rapped, according to his tweet. The clever diss replaced the line, “The problem is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Put the word "national" in your name and you become a receptacle for a country's values. In what you do, the nation will seek to see the very definition of itself; a definition perhaps vague…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Mark Wigglesworth wants to make "opera accessible to all" and "all", by definition, includes riff-raff. He sees this as the ENO's mission. "Accessibility," he writes, "is not really about th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sometimes he wrote columns in which all of the proper names had been excised, which rendered them useless as gallery PR; others featured pseudonymous composite characters like "Gaston Porcil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“The idea that opera can only work in its original form is a dangerously small step from saying that Italian or German opera can only be done well by Italians or Germans. Operas are en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]The research has shone new light on the portfolio careers of artists: 20% of respondents work three or more jobs, and of those taking jobs, a third have roles in fields with nothing to do wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Though the art market is often described as capricious, it has a clear logic: the art that commands the most money at a given moment is that which best reflects its collectors' view of thems…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]It was designed by Kahn for the 1976 Bicentennial and lived in Pittsburgh. But it’s been in disrepair for years and its elderly owner has been trying to unload it. In 2017, cellist Yo …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]The deaths of multi-instrumentalist Joseph Jarman, best known as the face-painted shaman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Alvin Fielder, Alvin Fielder, drums re-conceptualizing d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32AM[SHARE]Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren, Mare Nostrum III (ACT) This third outing by Mare Nostrum continues the international trio's close collaboration in a series of albums.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32AM[SHARE]“One of the strongest things that struck us was how many people leading these programmes have an authentic belief in social justice, democracy and building social and cultural capital.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2019
In "A Chronology of Photography" photojournalist Paul Lowe and his contributors detail the medium's swift progression from the purview of the scientists who invented it (noted astronom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]A longtime professor at Harvard University, Glazer, was among the last of the deeply-read thinkers who influenced culture and politics in the mid-20th century. Starting in the 1940s, Glazer …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]The Pocatello school district had been struggling to provide instruction for the 400 students enrolled in orchestra programs, and proposed changes that would have made it even worse. Parents…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]Her work touched millions of people deeply, and not only those who consider themselves poets or poetry lovers. Oliver's work managed to do something rare: It reached people who didn't partic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]In bringing "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico, Lin Manuel Miranda called international attention to the island's progress and also to its daunting obstacles. The island, in return, projected both it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PM[SHARE]To promote these works, it has tools other publishers can only dream about owning, including Amazon First Reads and Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's e-book subscription service. Together, they rea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]“Given that the current professional situation for music teachers might potentially be understood as characterised by instability and uprootedness, the article proposes an activist app…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Cassie Grimaldi imagines some new contenders, such as the Center for Translation Of Vague Posts: “At this research center, linguists will work to interpret vague social-media posts, pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]In the jungle of unresolved emotions, Digital promises something it can't keep: The right partner. Endless choices. The best friends. Even better friends somewhere out there. The Internet am…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Like, there are actual scientific rules that you can’t just break. So why not just ask some real, ya know, scientists? It turns out sometimes producers do, but it’s not exactly a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Ontario’s Prologue to the Performing Arts believes that connecting students with artists helps establish identity and understand community and important issues. According to the organi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Serving as the public face of ASC and the region's cultural community as a whole, the President will oversee strategy, resource development, and administration of the organization.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Every winter the Harbin (China) Ice and Snow Festival assembles 200,000 blocks of ice to make a city. Millions come to see it. “The workers, most recruited from local villages, spend o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]In the museum’s storage areas and display rooms, there are some 3,800 suitcases, along with 5,000 toothbrushes and 110,000 shoes and shoe remnants. There are also mountains of human ha…
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