Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"On Monday, the group announced that after careful consideration of news reports and advice from health experts, it has decided not embark next week on a tour slated to include concerts in A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]In filing for Chapter 11, the museum is "seeking relief from what museum officials characterize as a crushing debt burden [of more than $30 million] incurred by construction of its home on I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"The dancing is already at a very high standard, the repertoire is solid and the audience base is dedicated. But I want to add certain things to the repertoire that haven't yet been seen in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"'Out of an abundance of caution, the New World Symphony felt it was prudent for Cristian Măcelaru not to conduct the concert [Saturday] night after learning of his recent travels to Japa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"For much of his career, Mr. Crowley was overshadowed by gay playwrights such as Larry Kramer … and Tony Kushner. … But his 1968 examination of gay identity, repression and self-loathing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"How do you explain Hideo Kojima to someone who has never picked up a PlayStation controller? His admirers have often compared him to filmmakers: Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, George Lucas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]I am certain Beethoven was a funny guy. The evidence, the jokes are all over the music. " Bruce Brubaker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
Alex Ross revisits that odd period when the Nazi regime had driven the cream of pre-war German arts and letters " Werfel, Döblin, Viertel, Brecht, Adorno, three different Manns, along with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"During the germinal days of television, … [she] became famous as 'The Girl With the Glasses,' for un-self-consciously wearing her signature eyeglasses on camera as she delivered live, on-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Now that it's public, it's still not clear why the parties sought to keep the settlement terms private in the first place, other than the fact that NDAs and confidentiality agreements have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"The turmoil will only further damage an institution that has, for most of its existence, failed to live up to its name while presenting one mediocre exhibition after another." Aaron Betsky …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Fortunately, thanks to fear of the coronavirus outbreak that has led to this rule, it's easy to comply with. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"More than a month after the board overseeing the School of Architecture at Taliesin announced the school would close after 88 years of operation, the board has reversed its decision and pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Michael Brodeur, most recently an assistant arts editor and critic at the Boston Globe, starts work next week. " The Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Ushers in some theaters are wearing latex gloves. Museums are installing hand sanitizer dispensers as if they were pieces of art. Audience members are being told: If you have a cough, pleas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"The Southern Rep Theatre company has laid off six staff members and canceled an upcoming play as it struggles to pay expenses and debt, artistic director Aimee Hayes said Thursday. The 34-y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Jeremy Reynolds took a couple of friends to their first symphony concert and sent them home at intermission " and not because they were misbehaving or ill. Here he explains why. (Even interm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Says choreographer Andrew McNicol, "With McNicol Ballet Collective I wanted to create a new type of company that offers world-class dancers a flexible performance platform that's able to fit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
Siobhan Burke: "Divulging this information has never been simple, not during the four and a half years I spent touring, on and off, with the Irish dance extravaganza, and not in the decade s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PM[SHARE]"'Stone,' says architect Amin Taha, 'is the great forgotten material of our time. In 99% of cases, it's cheaper and greener to use stone in a structural way, as opposed to concrete or steel,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Noël Coward's fantastic, but all I could think was: What's the use of having an American one?" says Richard Greenberg. To him, writes Kurt Soller in this profile, "that comparison has al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]This Imperial Russian tale of an Indian temple dancer may be the most egregious collection of outdated orientalist caricatures in the entire ballet canon. But it remains popular, and many da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Co-founder of the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb did have well-known buildings in other cities: Place Ville-Marie (Montreal), Fountain Place (Dallas), the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Ange…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Since Sunday, the Louvre's staff had been refusing to work, fearful they might catch the coronavirus from someone among the museum's more than 30,000 daily visitors. … The museum's manage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Greenawald's position has put her in charge of both phases of the San Francisco Opera's training wing, which attracts young opera singers from around the world. Each summer, around 30 artis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]The $35 annual levy passed in a 2012 referendum by 62% to 38%; now its unpopularity is a running joke in town. Regular taxpayers don't like it because it was badly designed and implemented, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]After a career spent largely in Toronto, most recently running the city's Opera Atelier, Barretto came to the Harris as a marketer in 2015 and became CEO in 2017. One of her "singular achiev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Lili Loofbourow: "We don't have much of a vocabulary for what happens in a victim's life after the painful past has been excavated. … What is the situation of survivors who saw the injury …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Mohammad Rasoulof's [one-year] sentence came from three films he made that authorities found to be 'propaganda against the system,' his lawyer [said]. … Rasoulof [received] the Berlin Fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"The story of the theremin and its inventor has it all: drama, suspense, geopolitics, and, above all, tragedy. It's a wonder Hollywood hasn't yet made a movie about it." " Quartz
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