Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Marina Harss talks to four dancers from across the country about how they're staying in shape and in touch despite being more or less trapped in their houses. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Venetians are posting photos to the Facebook group Venezia Pulita (Clean Venice), saying that they've never seen the water in the canals so clear. It's not that they're suddenly far less pol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Garnet Henderson's guide includes more than just obvious advice such as "keep three to six months' worth of income in savings" (which, she acknowledges, is impossible for many dancers). One …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]Of the dozen or more such articles that we've seen so far, this one from David Patrick Stearns is our favorite so far " not only because it offers a lot of options, but also because of his s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]The replica Elizabethan theatre in the Shenandoah Valley normally thrives, in the usual hand-to-mouth way, with a mix of school groups and out-of-town visitors. Now both are gone indefinitel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]I doubt it will surprise any of you to learn that I'd been growing increasingly worried about the inability of Mrs. T's doctors to rouse her from the medically induced coma into which she wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24AM[SHARE]Jazz doesn't want to stay home and chill, so members of the Jazz Journalists Association have launched JazzOnLockdown: Hear It Here, a series of curated v-logs featuring performance videos o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24AM[SHARE]Moira Macdonald was at Pacific Northwest Ballet's final (in too many senses) dress rehearsal for a program the public won't get to attend. "There was no one in the seat in front of me, no on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]"The few people present in the hall … were asked not to applaud because such meager clapping would sound pallid to listeners tuning in from elsewhere. But for those who were there, it was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]"If you read The Plague long ago, perhaps for a college class, … perhaps you paid more attention to the buboes and the lime pits than to the narrator's depiction of the 'hectic exaltation'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Alexis Soloski, who wrote a dissertation on the subject, reminds us that playwrights from Sophocles through Shaw to Kushner and Kramer have grappled with the subject. "It's only a matter of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]With the rest of the company's summer season in Sydney cancelled, including the popular and lucrative outdoor Opera on the Harbour, CEO Rory Jeffes said, "suddenly we were in a position wher…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"After an emergency meeting over the weekend, the India Motion Picture Producers' Association said Monday that it would request the suspension of all film, TV, advertising and web series sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"In 2017, having realized how much business the gallery did through online previews before art fairs, the dealer David Zwirner decided to develop virtual viewing rooms. Now, as art fairs are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"The Society of London Theatre (Solt) and UK Theatre, the industry body that represents nearly every British theatre, announced that, as of Monday night, all its members would close their do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]A grand-niece of Susan B. Anthony, Dwyer was only the second woman ever to win a principal chair in a major U.S. orchestra. She joined the BSO in 1952 (negotiating a higher-than-usual salary…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]"We will refocus some grant programmes to help compensate individual artists and freelancers for lost earnings," said a statement from Arts Council England. "This will require further planni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]AMC will keep its theatres dark for six to 12 weeks; Regal, Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse, Showcase, Harkins, and Bow Tie have closed indefinitely; ArcLight and Pacific Theaters will close this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler's wartime broadcasts with the Berlin …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
"Inigo Philbrick probably didn't set out to become one of the art world's great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London" and went on to become a conspic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:34PM[SHARE]"[The Palais de Lomé in Togo] is a remarkable achievement for one of the world's poorest countries, where almost 70 percent of the rural population lives below the global poverty line. … …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:34PM[SHARE]It cost more than £750 million (that was well over a billion dollars then), the grand opening at the turn of the millennium was one snafu after another, actual visitor numbers were half o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Ben Brantley and Jesse Green give their takes on the 15 shows for which Sondheim wrote music and lyrics and the three for which he was lyricist (with music by Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Ben Brantley: "When it comes to emotions, Sondheim " more than any other composer from the Broadway songbook " is the one I trust to tell me the truth. That's because in the world of Sondhei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Jesse Green: "Having long taken for granted that he is the greatest composer-lyricist the United States has produced, we can perhaps now notice that he is also an artist to place in the line…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Richard Alston … and the list goes on. Writer Lyndsey Winship gives a brief survey of the various ways (and no, video alone is not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Mahraganat music, fast and loud, soared in popularity following Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which toppled the country's longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, who died last month. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]James Moody told me that his Georgia-born grandmother said one morning while looking through the newspaper, "Folks is dyin' what ain't never died befo'." The trend continues, as it always ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Miller, the survivor of the rape by Stanford athlete Brock Turner, received the autobiography award for her memoir Know My Name; Danticat's Everything Inside: Stories won the fiction prize; …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Carey Perloff, who directed Seana McKenna in the role last year in Calgary: "I am not always convinced that cross-gender casting helps illuminate Shakespeare; many of the plays focus so spec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Known for his adherence to thorny modernism and his strong opinions, Wuorinen won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for Time's Encomium (the first piece of electronic music to earn the honor) but i…
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