Friday, March 13, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Eyebrows shot up last month when the Philadelphia Orchestra (which owns the building) and the Kimmel Center (which operates it) announced that the Academy Ball, held every year but one since…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]"Printed books and newspapers have always been zero-rated for VAT but until now their digital equivalents " such as books from Amazon's Kindle service or online subscriptions to news website…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
The Brazilian-born star will become, along with Sofiane Sylve of San Francisco Ballet, principal dancer and ballet master of the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden. In late 2017, Gomes was pressu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]The deadline for submitting applications has just passed, reportedly with few candidates showing interest in a position seen as a "poisoned chalice." Right now, a new BBC director general wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]The quote is what composer Jeanine Tesori told bass Ken Kellogg about taking his role (the young man's father, a police officer himself) in Blue, which Tesori wrote with librettist Tazewell …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Neither producers nor performers and crew nor patrons want to suspend all performances until COVID-19 is under control (whenever that may be), so the theatre owners and producers of the Broa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]TEFAF, held in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the world's leading fair for art and antiques, opened last Saturday and closed Wednesday evening (four days early), just hours after an exhibi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia, Macmillan CEO John Sargent told librarians that he would come back in March with potential alternatives to the publisher's controversial…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Justin Davidson: "It's easy for me to call for a shutdown. I'm not the one who'll be hemorrhaging millions every night or facing months of unemployment. … [But] the evidence suggests that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The Albertina Modern " housed in the newly-renovated 1868 Künstlerhaus on the Ringstrasse, the site of the Nazis' notorious 1939 "Degenerate Art" exhibit " will focus on postwar Austrian ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Until late 2017, he was one of the most admired comedians working, seen as something of an auteur of stand-up. Then reports emerged of, er, unprofessional behavior with younger female collea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Pop culture imagery and canonical works from art history were frequent subjects of Leirner's painting and collages; think Velázquez's court ladies swarmed by flies or a football stadium …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The next overall budget for the Department for Digital, Media Culture and Sport (DCMS) will increase by £100 million to £1.7 billion; it will include £250 million to support local l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]James Klosty's book is big in several ways. (Try lugging it to a sunny spot; it weighs about six pounds.) I'm in love with it. " Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
"'Plague was the single most powerful force shaping his life and those of his contemporaries,' wrote Jonathan Bate, one of his many biographers. … But the plague was also Shakespeare's sec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The government of the independence-minded Spanish region gave €3 million in subsidies to media companies connected to the New History Institute (INH) and paid €184,000 for the ri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"During his time at Houston Ballet as choreographic apprentice in 1989, and later as choreographic associate from 1995 to 2008, he created seven ballets … Although the company has returned…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"Four North American museums" " the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC " "have canceled plans to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]To mark its 40th anniversary, the East Village venue (formerly P.S. 122) turned itself over to 11 loosely connected artists of various stripes for the whole of 2020. Not even PSNY's director…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"The Echo library was founded in 2016, at the height of the refugee crisis, and relies on a 15-strong volunteer team alongside donations to stock its shelves and pay for the van's fuel " cos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]A client of Sol Hurok, she sang the major Italian dramatic roles at Europe's leading opera houses, though much of her work at the Met was as a cover, going onstage at short notice. Her caree…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"As COVID-19 … spreads inexorably across the U.S., theatres are finding themselves trying to stay both practical and realistic, even as public concerns grow. While many public gatherings a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The shutdown, ordered to prevent the spread of COVID-19, mandatory for all state-owned arts institutions and strongly recommended for others, is in effect at least until after Easter (April …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The National Gallery of Art has postponed its much-anticipated exhibition A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600"1750 because of the global coronavirus crisis." The nationwide lockdown in Ita…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"[The company] said its investigator interviewed 44 people, yielding 10 [credible] allegations of inappropriate conduct between 1986 … [and] 2019." The law firm hired by the company also f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Cahiers du Cinéma, which launched the French New Wave and gave the world the concept of the auteur, was purchased last month by a consortium that includes some of France's top movie produce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24PM[SHARE]"[He] appeared in the children's chorus for the 1926 American premiere of Puccini's uncompleted Turandot, conducted his own ending to the work some nine decades later, and in between had one…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Jeremy Gerard: "I'm all for producers and the sometimes preposterous lengths they will go to in order to promote and protect their shows. That's their job. But I've often wondered why we, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"Four security guards employed at Dresden's Royal Palace are under investigation over their alleged involvement in a huge theft of 18th-century jewellery, according to German prosecutors. In…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Devastated by having to call off this year's event due to the coronavirus epidemic " as it turns out, cancellation due to infectious disease is not covered by the festival's insurance polici…
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