Thursday, March 5, 2020
"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
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
"From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]In the late 19th century, few believed that anyone, literate or not, could have memorized something as long as the Iliad or Odyssey. (The main argument at the time was whether "Homer" was on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]For The Washington Ballet, Dr. Natalie Rouland studies the history of great Russian story ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, going all the way back to the written stage direction…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"The common line among museums and theaters is that they are monitoring the situation and planning to operate as usual, unless told otherwise by county or state health departments, the Cente…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]The country's cinema has a redoubtable history (think of KieÅ›lowski and Wajda), famous auteurs at their peak (PaweÅ‚ Pawlikowski, Agnieszka Holland), and an impressive younger generat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]His various art "actions" (as he calls them), along with his apparently high pain threshold, have earned him international notoriety and a good deal of sympathy. Yet he seems to have squande…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]For essentially the same reasons that some people wanted the murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco to be covered over or removed. " Artnet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Where they came from in the first place, how they're made (and laundered), and why they got Nijinsky fired. " The Stage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]"The movie in question is the documentary Shakedown, from filmmaker and conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub. It hails from the upper echelons of the art world, where the project enjoyed a pres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]"While jazz-inspired music by the likes of Stravinsky and Weill has never been forgotten, the similar efforts of dozens of other composers from the same period have fallen into obscurity. No…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]I'm overjoyed to report that her condition has improved significantly since yesterday. The internal bleeding has stopped, she is resting comfortably, and her doctors are completely satisfied…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM[SHARE]When dealing with new communities, staff and board members of nonprofit arts organizations are sometimes puzzled when things they thought would work crash and burn. Often, there is really no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, principals of Grafton Architecture in Dublin, have already racked up some impressive awards in recent years: the World Architecture Festival's World Buil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PM[SHARE]Late last year, a one-third share of the Tribune was purchased by Alden Global Capital, an equity firm notorious for buying newspapers and stripping them bare. Contractual issues prevent Ald…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]If you think that's a ridiculous question, the woman who wrote this article agrees with you. But it became a question nonetheless, thanks in part to (no surprise here) the American Enterpris…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Kriston Capps reviews the 26-year-long process of convincing the City of New York to allow the project to happen in Central Park " and allows as how, when it was over, the biggest question w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Janielle Kastner and Brigham Mosley thought they had finished writing their play about journalism when The Dallas Morning News announced layoffs in January 2019. They had spent more than a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Quibi has been getting all the press for its plans to make video series expressly to be watched on smartphones. But Snapchat has been doing that for years, creating 95 Snap Originals (as the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Fears over the spread of the COVID-19 virus have led more than 20,000 people (so far) to join in the request that organizers call off this year's festival, which is still scheduled to run Ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Michael Billington: "A decade described as a manageable catastrophe saw an explosion in theatre, even if artists didn't always get paid. You can see the effects today in that money is tight …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"As a sexual assault survivor myself, my conscience would not allow me to be a party to an agreement than allowed the union to bury the details of Domingo's decades-long abuse of female AGMA…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]"Ebola was not a pandemic, but it created a panic rarely seen in the U.S. It was on the heels of the Ebola mania that the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History developed Outbreak:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]The ABT star, who credits the company and its physiotherapists with restoring his ability to dance following a severe injury in 2014, will take over from David McAllister at the beginning of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]"Since the early 1970s, Ulay created performances and photographs that made frequent use of his own body. Having worked collaboratively for more than a decade with Marina Abramović, his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Mrs. T survived her double-lung transplant surgery and has been moved to the cardio-thoracic ICU. As her surgeon put it, "We're not out of the woods yet, but we're moving in the right direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]In one, concentrating on songs with winter themes, she is accompanied by a distinguished European quartet. A second album finds her alone with the harmonically resourceful and swinging Chica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2020
"The shifts across the network era, magnified in the early 1980s, help us to see how variable the category of soap opera, and perhaps the ordering concept of genre itself, may be." What's mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The African nation is getting prosperous enough to begin (slowly) offering state funding to the performing arts. One beneficiary of this development is Mophato Dance Theatre, which combines …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"There is no western counterpart to Umm Kulthum, no artist as respected and beloved as she is in the Arab world." She sang everything from the most complex classical Arabic music to national…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"One of the most mysterious aspects of Poe's legacy is his untimely death at the age of 40 after being found 'delirious' and in 'great distress' on the streets of Baltimore. The author was i…
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