Wednesday, February 12, 2020
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"The César Academy has been under fire since announcing the 12 nominations for Roman Polanski's An Officer and a Spy, as well reportedly shutting out feminist personalities such as the [fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Over three decades, "millions [of Americans] have undergone an experience that can range from a board game to an immersive nightlong ordeal, complete with horseback-riding paddy rollers and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Obviously, the challenges of rendering timing, tone of voice, and wordplay into a silent medium are daunting. Worse (since comedians aren't exactly known for respecting boundaries) is when a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]"[Her work] did nothing less than heighten the stakes of what we expect from a photograph, expectations that persist. … She was an artist under the guise of a journalist and an activist un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]One local company head says that the "wild ovation" man can be very helpful, as can the step below, but anything lower stops single-ticket sales dead. The Chronicle's arts editor grants that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AM[SHARE]The 1632 Portrait of a Young Woman was attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn when it was given to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, but during the 1970s the attribution was changed to a student f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The 1916-17 Portrait of a Lady, stolen from an art gallery in Italy in 1997, was discovered hidden in a wall of that very museum this past December. Now an entry in the diary of the gallery'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The world's oldest ballet competition, held every second year on an outdoor stage in the Bulgarian seaside resort town of Varna, simply hasn't raised enough money to go ahead this summer. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]The Uruguay-born conductor will be 63 when he departs in the summer of 2021 after 18 seasons. He raised the profile of the orchestra considerably during his tenure, most notably with a very …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]No details about money or the length of the season have been announced yet; the first will probably come out later this month, and the second will be addressed in this year's contract negoti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
For the first time, the Berlinale has separated the functions of artistic and executive director. "Many hope [the new management structure] will help reinvigorate the Berlinale, which is con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"I wasn't attempting to create a generationally defining work of theater that spoke for the entire queer experience. I think that if I had started with that intention, I never would have fin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]It's going to be a series of apps, in fact " and they'll be free. The first one, now out, features the General Prologue, with text and audio in the original Middle English, a modern English …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"After beginning her artistic life as a painter, Ms. Pepper was known from the 1960s on as a sculptor of towering forms of iron, steel, earth and stone, often displayed outdoors. … [Yet he…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"Since 2012, scientists based in New York and experts at the Munch Museum in Oslo have been working on this canvas " which was stolen in 2004 and recovered two years later " to tell a story …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Yorgos Loukos, director of the Lyon Opera Ballet for 33 years, was sacked by unanimous vote of the company's board of directors. The reason was discrimination: in 2014, he had fired then-34-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Back in 2005, as they were nearing retirement from Pennsylvania Ballet, Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan decided to put together a little group to dance at the Philly Fringe. They hoped that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Starting this month, London's Battersea Arts Centre is making all its events "relaxed performances" " at which audience members may enter, leave, move around, and sometimes make noise, and f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Over the past decade, both William Grant Still and Florence Price have acquired new prominence. But the buried treasure is William Levi Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony of 1934. " Joseph Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]An Italian of Slovenian ancestry who grew up in Trieste, pianist Roberto Magris frequently tours in Europe and the United States. Here, we see and hear him and his colleagues in the Birdland…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]After making a powerful impression at last year's Whitney Biennial with her six drawings of pie charts plotting Degrees of Deaf Rage, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reached a much wider, more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The male choral group had been active in South Africa for two decades when Paul Simon featured them on his 1986 album Graceland " after which they shot to international fame, won five Grammy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Due to officially open on February 13 with a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the month-long festival was to have featured more than 120 performances of dance, music, theatre and o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]She had just finished recording some Beethoven, and movers were taking her piano from the Berlin studio; they dropped it while trying to lift it onto a hand truck, and the instrument's iron …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2020
"Our sector relies on the gambling industry for over a third of its public investment in a country where an estimated 430,000 people have a serious problem with gambling. And we seem to take…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]A traditionalist maestro who led more than 400 performances at the Met, he had to wait a while before critics gave full credit to his gifts, but singers and orchestral players adored him. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"People were more likely to stream a movie when they knew it had been released in theaters, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young … Sixty two percent of the study's respondents re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"After a tumultuous period in Hong Kong marked by continuing protests and fears of a coronavirus outbreak, Art Basel has called off its fair in the city. … MCH Group, the holding company t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"In edited excerpts below, filmmakers, awards-watchers and academy members" " among them Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, and former Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs " "tell the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]Some of them are sweet and sentimental, but they can be every bit as weird as those of actors and athletes. Sarah Kaufman talks to a dozen or so dancers from several companies about what the…
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