Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]The mission of Benoit Swan Pouffer, formerly artistic director of the now-closed Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and now at the helm of Rambert, "is to reinvigorate a repertory company founde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]"Following the release of the six-part documentary Who Killed Malcolm X? " which launched on the streaming platform on 7 February " the Manhattan district attorney will look into the case of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]"What you get in a period orchestra are three things: greater individuality of timbre, more transparency of texture and an increased dynamism once all the instruments are stretched to their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:43PM[SHARE]That city is Aurora, an outer-ring suburb of Chicago with about 200,000 people, and the theatre is the twice-restored, 1,885-seat Paramount. in fact, writes Chris Jones, "with the exception …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]As the company's founding artistic director, Alice Reyes, retires after 50 years, its board of directors selected as her successor Mikhail Martynyuk, a star of the Kremlin Ballet in Moscow. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2020
Just last year in L.A., the Marciano and the Main Museum ended operations, and the year before that, the Pasadena Museum of Californian Art. In recent years there have been similar closings …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The bill, which is called AB5 and which went into effect on Jan. 1, says that outlets may not accept more than 35 submissions a year from any individual freelance journalist; any more, and t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Hildur Guðnadóttir is actually three-quarters of the way to an EGOT: she has an Oscar (and a Golden Globe) for her score to The Joker and an Emmy and a Grammy for her music for HBO's C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Pyotr Pavlensky " who gained notoriety in Russia for sewing his lips shut in solidarity with Pussy Riot and nailing his scrotum to Red Square, and who, having received political asylum from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]In a joint project for the Royal Ballet of Great Britain and the National Ballet of Canada, McGregor will create MaddAddam, a three-act work based on Atwood's trilogy Oryx and Crake, The Yea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]It will be the job of Ofcom to "ensur[e] that firms such as Twitter and Facebook comply with a new legal 'duty of care' requiring them to protect their users from illegal material. … Under…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]"Movie releases have been canceled in China and symphony tours suspended because of quarantines and fears of contagion. A major art fair [and a performing arts festival] in Hong Kong [were] …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Lily Janiak, the only theatre critic in the entire Bay Area to have a staff position, writes about her friend and colleague Sam Hurwitt, who was earning all too little money before the law A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]That's not a typo. The country's total movie ticket revenue for the past 20 days is down from $1.52 billion for the same period last year to $3.9 million, and the movie industry there may ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Stories of visitors praying or breaking down in tears before the portraits circulated on social media." (Not unlike Jerusalem or Lourdes.) Says the director of the National Portrait Gallery…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The 81-musician orchestra, based in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk (a few hundred miles northeast of where the borders of Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia meet), was to have made a t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"A group dedicated to protecting the German capital's nightlife took its campaign to parliament on Wednesday, urging more protection as more venues are closed to make way for new-builds and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
The script was first produced by the Negro Ensemble Company (Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and David Alan Grier were in the cast) back in 1982, and Fuller never did anything like it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"[She] began her career in the 1960s performing with the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle dance companies … [and] became a leading black performer on Broadway … and later tu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Two bookstores in England are offering book(s)-of-the-month services in which, after some discussion with the customer, a knowledgeable staffer selects and ships books the staffer thinks the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"As scholar in residence, [Naomi] André acts as an adviser to help Seattle Opera become more inclusive, both for audiences and behind the scenes. … Her most visible role involves a series…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"The RNZ board has backed down on the decision to take Concert off the FM transmission. The move comes after widespread criticism from the arts community and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]With a public outcry having convinced Radio New Zealand's management not to eviscerate its classical service, advocates for the country's MÄori-language radio stations are arguing that th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Todd Ellison's contract took effect last July 1, and on January 21 he and the Pops "separated," according to a statement from the orchestra. Principal guest conductor David Charles Abell has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Four owners in a condo building had gone to court for an injunction requiring the museum to screen or block off part of its popular 10th-floor viewing gallery so that "hundreds of thousands …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"For generations, dancers have been thrust into professional life at a young age without much preparation or tools, sinking or swimming on their limited industry know-how. Today, some indepe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Actually, U.S. viewers were getting more comfortable with subtitles even before Parasite became this year's Oscar hit. That's thanks to two major entities: the FCC and Netflix. " The New Yor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"To learn more about AB5's effect on artists, The Times asked readers to write in. We received more than 120 responses from artists across California " jazz and classical musicians, director…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Don't be lulled into false complacency, art-lings, on the theory that Congress will again resist the President's call to ax support for NEA, NEH, IMLS and CPB. Contact your Congressional rep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PM[SHARE]"For readers, the anonymous author holds a simple and compelling promise. Here is someone who " by concealing their identity " can reveal the complete and shocking truth. … [Yet] this is t…
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