Wednesday, February 5, 2020
"Austen first emerged in penny editions in the 1890s. Penny versions were modeled on the sensational Penny Dreadfuls, those cheap stories of violence on which Britain's lawmakers were known …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]"Sometimes comic, sometimes earnest, always indignant, Chilean theatre repeatedly gives voice to the abused, the angry and the dispossessed. … All this is consistent with a festival that h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AM[SHARE]"Alberta Ballet's longest-serving artistic director, Jean Grand-MaiÌ‚tre, will step down after a three-year transition period that will see him passing the torch to [company ballet master…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]With 23 items exploiting the portraits currently arrayed for sale on the NPG's website, the Smithsonian's merchandising masterminds have found a way to turn an uplifting event into something…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Los Angeles singer Lyn Stanley frequently appears in L.A. with a big band of Swing Era veterans. But in this recording, her accompanists are six of Southern California's busiest veteran play…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The Claw, founded by authors Carmen Maria Machado and Liz Moore, "is comprised of 19 published and professional fiction and nonfiction writers. Not unlike a book club, it meets roughly once …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]"What was still considered a left-field artistic proposition a decade ago, popularised by the likes of Punchdrunk and dreamthinkspeak, has become one of theatre's biggest commercial money-ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]"His name was William Dorsey Swann, but to his friends he was known as 'the Queen.' … Beginning in the 1880s, he not only became the first American activist to lead a queer resistance grou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]"Unlike science and math, engineering and technology skills aren't typically included in the standardized tests used to evaluate students and their teachers. Because the stakes are high, sch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"Both are 69 now. As the wife and husband who founded the Los Angeles dance company in 1980, the two continue to strike the delicate balance between artist and administrator" " a job Erwin g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"Years from now, when school groups visit the National Museum of American History, they might learn about the impeachment of a president through a fidget spinner. And they will have Jon Grin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"Though her work has evolved beyond the minimalist choreography that first garnered her critical notice in the 1980s, [Anne Teresa] De Keersmaeker remains a formalist. Throughout this produc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"An essayist, fiction writer, teacher, scholar and literary critic … Mr. Steiner both dazzled and dismayed his readers with the range and occasional obscurity of his literary references." …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]"[A recent] study identifies numerous reasons: Singing in groups has been linked to better mental and physical health, a sense of belonging and feeling connected to others, better social ski…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]For the first time, Google and its corporate parent, Alphabet, broke out from overall revenue reports the income from its video platform " and that income is enormous. What's more, YouTube a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Missouri House Rep. Ben Baker introduced the bill, dubbed the 'Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act,' in January that calls for the creation of a panel made up of non-library workers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Recently we had a small dinner party at Millwood Farm, the excuse for which was to drink a special bottle, one that had been in my cellar for a very long time. It was in its own, individual …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
Classical Greek and Latin writing didn't use punctuation at all, or even spaces between words; that sort of thing was left to the person who'd be speaking the text. St. Isidore of Seville sy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Often, gangs of far-right nationalists will do it instead " burning books, protesting outside venues, bursting into buildings to disrupt an exhibition or performance, or even (in one instanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The technology to transmit color television signals was first developed in the 1920s, and all three of the major U.S. networks had switched to color in the 1960s. But in the mid-1970s, nearl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The National Asian American Theater Company is starting a partnership with regional theaters across the country, aiming to foster inclusion of more Asian-American theater artists, technicia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]A specialist in operatic villains, he only began performing in his 30s and developed a major-house career in his 40s. Even so, he had a six-decade career, switching as he aged from major to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Movies and TV can't capture what's special about Amy. She's not an actress, exactly, or a comedian, but more like someone who speaks in tongues. As opposed to myself, and just about everyon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The Super Bowl isn't just a game. It's the halftime show; it's the ads; it's the chips and guac. It is sport but also music, dance, costumes, TV production and stage design " a pop culture …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"When officials with the Shanghai Oriental Art Center informed BSO that they were canceling the concert and other events because of the outbreak, BSO followed up with their presenting partne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The sculptures are each approximately 20 inches tall and are worth between $21,000 and $52,000. They were apparently snatched by at least two thieves in a smash-and-grab operation that was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"Independent investigators are examining claims that he behaved inappropriately with Royal Ballet School students and encouraged them to send him naked photographs. … The inquiry has not c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]At WBGO in Newark, NJ, accusations that a largely white and elitist station leadership had lost touch with, and stopped paying respect to, the largely nonwhite people of its city led to ranc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]One of the nice things about collecting art is that you needn't leave home to look at it. I had to miss a major exhibition of Hans Hofmann, whose work I love passionately. Fortunately, Mrs. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
Art historian Charles Hope, in a review of three books about the world's most expensive painting, lays out an extensive argument against the attribution of Salvator Mundi to da Vinci and sug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"The ambition of the Danish architect Jørn Utzon's design, his walkout mid-project, and Peter Hall's subsequent takeover in 1966 resulted in compromises that have bedevilled the building …
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