Wednesday, February 26, 2020
"The deal they were working on " which called for the union, the American Guild of Musical Artists, to limit its public statements about the inquiry and for Mr. Domingo to pay the union $500…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[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 05:36AM[SHARE]The English National Opera is having a tough old time, but the company is still capable of both daring and successful ventures, such as the new Luisa Miller, a Verdi rarity last staged in Lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36AM[SHARE]Alla Kovgan's new film Cunningham not only shoots its dancers in three dimensions, but collages historic, two-dimensional black-and-white images in smaller sizes on the screen, often overlai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2020
"It is a truth universally acknowledged in world cinema that a celebrated auteur, making their first film outside their native tongue, must be preparing a dud." But is it actually true? Well…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]"The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to write 'trench-coat prose' about black Americans volunteering in the International Brigades. … Hughes's 22 articles covered an angl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Carina del Valle Schorske: "If this musical is still our narrative ghetto, then the least we can do is make noise about what it feels like to live in it. In 2020, it feels exhausting." " The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"It's a truism to say our society doesn't do well when faced with competing stories about what happened; that's what 'he said/she said' has become a shorthand for. … To overcome that refle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"This last question, though seemingly simple, resists every attempt to answer it. Every theory runs into brick walls of evidence, the research is limited, and even the basic understanding of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]In late June and early July, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the orchestra in concerts at the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Across northern Italy from Venice to Milan, theatres, cinemas, museums, and opera houses (including La Scala) have been ordered to stop operations for a week as cases of the disease spread. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"After [James A.] Cincotta was hired as the museum's retail director in 2015, staffers who worked for him began reporting what they said was routinely abusive behavior. Cincotta slapped, pun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"The investigation, conducted by lawyers hired by the American Guild of Musical Artists, concluded that the accounts from 27 people showed a clear pattern of sexual misconduct and abuse of p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Charles McNulty: "I'm going to respect the tacit wishes of Mamet and not review the play as I would if it had had an official press opening. A work that's still being tinkered with before it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"Unthinkingly defending one's powerful friends has real-life consequences. What [illegally fired dancer Karline] Marion, and other dancers who may find themselves in a similar situation, wil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"Born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, she became one of the country's youngest self-made millionaires by age 4, then suffered a devastating reversal of fortune and fame in her adolescence. In adultho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]There's something a bit ho-hum, mean and pinched about the reception of Sir Tom Stoppard's new (and, he says, perhaps final play), Leopoldstadt. " Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]Tobi was among the first group of writers I invited to blog on ArtsJournal. I had read her for years and appreciated her elegance, clarity and erudition. Though her judgments were crisp, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]Alongside the the wonderful, illuminating dance criticism she wrote for decades, she wrote wonderfully well about fashion, and only when I became a mother did I realize that while Tobi was r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
"This diagram, created by WordTips, breaks down the world's 100 most-spoken languages by their roots (e.g., Indo-European for English and Spanish, or Sino-Tibetan for Mandarin) and by the nu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Between June and December of 1950, a government-backed exhibition of Moses's picturesque American scenes toured six European cities. … One Foreign Service officer who was involved with th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"At its core, gentrification is about what it means to belong. And few places in Los Angeles are more hotly contested in those terms than Boyle Heights," the Los Angeles neighborhood where t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Levit's career is a stark demonstration of the dissolving boundaries between art and commerce, journalism and public relations, particularly in Germany. … He is a friend to media personal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"A little more than two decades after a Calder museum was first proposed for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the long-dormant idea has blossomed again, funding has materialized, and backers s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]The open letter, published in the French newspaper Libération and originated by choreographer Maguy Marin and theatre director Atiane Mnouchkine, threatens to withhold rights to all signato…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"A radar survey around the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings has revealed possible evidence of further hidden chambers behind its walls. The findings … resurrect a controv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]A researcher and executive over the years at Xerox, Apple, Yahoo, and Amazon, Tesler had enormous influence over the experience most people have when using a personal computer today: in addi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Pornhub launched this particular initiative in increasing access for the disabled to the arts four years ago, hiring professional freelance writers to produce text and professional voice act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"Working with a group of social scientists, the [Oakland Museum of California] devised an innovative plan to take stock of both its ability to connect with visitors and to foster connections…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]The late Donald Marron was a class act, so it struck me as fitting (not to mention smart) that his estate's holdings of modern and contemporary art are not going to be hocked on the block at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]The project, called "50 Fanfares", will encompass chamber works as well as short fanfares and full orchestral scores commissioned from 50 Australian composers and premiered through the 2020,…
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