Friday, February 21, 2020
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,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]When I think about the works by the brilliant Belgium-based choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker that I've seen over the years, I realize how the different New York spaces in which they …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
Comedian Alexis Pereira writes a genuine essay about the bogus essay he posted to Twitter, written by an imaginary student and marked up in red pen by Pereira as an imaginary English teacher…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]In the 1970s and '80s, Abu Obaida Hassan's singing and skill on the Nubian tambour thrilled Sudanese listeners and even gained attention overseas. Then the imposition of a stern version of S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]The now-famous video of Spot the Robot dancing to "Uptown Funk" was created (as was Spot) by a contractor for DARPA searching for new ways to make robots useful to the military. "Considering…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"With the Off Broadway production of Cambodian Rock Band now in performances at Signature Theater, [playwright Lauren] Yee and director Chay Yew appeared on Stagecraft, Variety's theater pod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Tango first emerged on the outskirts of the city, as the perfect poetic and musical medium for the outcast and marginalized to tell their stories. With this in mind, perhaps queer tango is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Blackletter, or Fraktur (as it's known in German), was used all over Europe during the Middle Ages and through the early years of the printing press. As the rest of the continent gave blackl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]"It's a little known fact that in 1972, minimalist artist Frank Stella donated the painting Isfahan III (1968) to the Museo de la Solidaridad in Chile, a new institution that invited artists…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Until just a few years ago, the very few times queer characters were shown at all in Bollywood movies were as figures of mockery. Now, very occasionally, a film with a sympathetic portrayal …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Curators intended the June exhibition, titled "Art and Cultures in Bulgaria between the 16th and 18th Centuries," to examine the influence that Islamic art had on Bulgarian Orthodox religiou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]"The question … is far more complicated that it first appears. (What does 'best' mean? What does 'the arts' mean?)" There isn't all that much evidence to look at, but Chris Jones surveys w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Ramasar, who was sacked from, and later rehired by, New York City Ballet following his role in the nude photo-sharing scandal at the company, is playing Bernardo in the new production by Ivo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]For many, many people going to a concert hall or a museum is a foreign, anxiety-producing prospect. If we want new communities to take advantage of what we have to offer, we need to develop …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]It struck me the other day that ever since Mrs. T went into the hospital, our life has come to resemble Groundhog Day, an endless succession of repeat performances. I am, like Bill Murray, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Marina Harss: "Imagine if one of America's most respected modern-dance companies realized that its funding model was no longer sustainable and had to cease operations. This despite having na…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]The fan-fic phenomenon seems to have gotten its start in the wake of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, with William Hogarth and Alexander Pope riffing on the adventures of Swift's hero (a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Victory Hall Opera in Charlottesville is working on a production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Deaf performers acting the roles in American Sign Language alongside singers. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"The Berkeley Tool Lending Library is one of the Bay Area's great public gifts, a free-to-use service for Berkeley residents looking for anything from saws to ladders to a hard-to-find screw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]"That's the message embedded within a clause recently added to the E.U.'s negotiating mandate, which says the British government should 'address issues relating to the return or restitution …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]As rumor has had it for months, Legris, a 55-year-old former étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet who has been at the helm of the Vienna State Opera's ballet company since 2010, will become bal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Blanka Zizka, who founded the company with her ex-husband Jiri about 40 years ago and has been sole artistic director since a couple of years before his death in 2012, "has recruited three n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"[He] was a master of shaggy-dog stories set on the American frontier or just beyond the Southern border, where his characters journeyed to recoup a debt, mete out justice or track down a ru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]She began her professional career in her native Melbourne at age 9, went to England and joined the RSC at 26, and was a founding member of Tyrone Guthrie's theatre company in Minneapolis. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Arts organisations and museums in England are being warned they will lose public funding unless they meet 'stretching' targets to create and attract more diverse workforces and audiences. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]It's not an elevated park, and it's not on disused train tracks (in fact, it's tied in with a new light rail line), but Destination Crenshaw (as it's called) will be a 1.3-mile-long public s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
A conductor, pianist and composer who became the Netherlands', and one of Europe's, leading specialists in new classical music, de Leeuw founded what is now the Asko | Schönberg ensemble in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]"Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, dee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]"All 12 tapestries designed by Raphael have been hung on the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel as part of celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. … All 12, made w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]"All along, while standard American English was busy convincing everyone that it was a superior dialect, it's Black English that's been a true cultural and linguistic force in contemporary s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]When the ever-provocative protest artist put online sexual images and messages sent to a woman by former Macron aide Benjamin Griveaux, thus driving him from the race for mayor of Paris, Pav…
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