Tuesday, March 31, 2020
With libraries and bookstores closed across the U.S., and with teachers searching for materials to use for remote teaching, the Internet Archive decided to lift all restrictions on access to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The city's largest theatre nonprofit, which operates the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, will maintain health insurance for its workers but send half of them ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]She brought to Miami (and, later, Fort Lauderdale) such artists as Vladimir Horowitz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Itzhak Perlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Beverly Sills, Dmitri Hvorostov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]With its building closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum's administration let go most of its employees with a promise to pay them only through April 4; that promise …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"The Aldeburgh Festival is the latest cultural casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The classical music event founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead, it has been announced." …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]I can't believe I'm posting this message, but…after looking at this morning's stats, Mrs. T's doctors now believe … " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project's genesis during a Christmas party. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2020
"With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre visited Jamaican dance halls, Brazilian favelas, Appalachian churches, Egyptian temples, South African workers' hostels and Bollywood soundst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]In a project called "One on One", the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, known as one of the most innovative in Russia, will let 850 people (as many as the auditorium could hold) register for a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tuany Nascimento grew up in Complexo do Alemão, a poor and often dangerous group of hillside slums in Rio de Janeiro. She studied dance with hopes of becoming a professional ballerina, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]All salary and benefits for the players wil be maintained through the end of the 2019-20 season in June " thanks, according to executive director Danny Beckley, to increased support from pat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Anticipating lost revenues of more than $5 million because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced it will immediately furlough all part-time staff and temporaril…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"The new two-month National Theatre at Home programme will begin with One Man, Two Guvnors, the Richard Bean comedy starring James Corden. The films will be shown at 7pm every Thursday to tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"The bill includes $75 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 'to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for fiscal stabilization grants to public telecommu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"It is the middle of a plague " 'a pestilence so great and universal, that already it has been three months since it started, and many have died and many more continue to die.' This does lit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Art Basel has now moved its Swiss edition " which regularly convenes nearly 300 galleries and is considered to be among the biggest art events each year " to run from September 17"20, with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The employees who are to be paid and receive benefits through the dark season include the dancers, musicians, stagehands, costume designers, security personnel, ushers and administrators. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Said festival founder Martin T. Engstroem, "There were far too many uncertainties. Our audience and our musicians come from all over the world with a large population mix. We could not take …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2020
"Dance curators do a lot more than program a season. They spot raw talent, develop and shape careers, identify trends and create context around what they are presenting. But what does it tak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Bret Stephens pays tribute to Annette Nancarrow (the composer Conlon was the third of her four husbands), a genteel, well-to-do Manhattan Jewish girl who ran off to Mexico City, became besti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"Book festival Wordplay, originally slated to take place in Minneapolis in May, will now happen virtually in April and May in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the original 100+ part…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"First, you should know that neither group is on the brink of institutional disaster. The Playhouse has $10 million more to raise [out of almost $50 million] before the fall. The ballet's pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"[Online conference calls] come with problems " technical, cultural, and practical. And a lot of the challenges we have with [them] come down to the many small quirks of the internet. … De…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Since March 16, the [Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale's] four ensembles have been hosting nine Zoom rehearsals every week, while its sister organization, Philadelphia Girls Choir, is run…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"The opera company's drivers have been using their cabs to help deliver food to Tesco stores in Scotland, as supermarkets face unprecedented demand from shoppers during the coronavirus crisi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Yes, 50 billion-with-a-b. The package, which covers both small enterprises and the self-employed, "will come in the form grants designed to help with overhead costs like venue rentals and ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"Arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies, … Turan is known as a soft-spoken gentleman … in a [city] filled with brash and attentio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]"We are deeply troubled by the far-reaching repercussions of [the school's closure]," wrote the students to the dean, "which has … severely curtailed the viability of the unrivaled visual …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]"Earlier this month, the theater industry announced that Broadway venues would go dark through April 12, and as the pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, that date is expected to be pushed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]At a moment when museums around the country are shattered, shuttered and bracing for hard times, what could be more shockingly tone-deaf than Holland Cotter's 3,000-word "manifesto"? " Lee R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48AM[SHARE]I am ecstatic to report that I just got off the phone with Mrs. T. It was, of course, a one-way conversation, since she's intubated, but her nurse informed me that she is now fully conscious…
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