Thursday, January 30, 2020
"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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Playwright Lynden Harris talks about working with condemned prisoners " first, to develop scripts for them to perform before fellow inmates and prison staff, and second, to create theater pi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]It's not just that the piece is in the final scene of Billy Elliot. A corps de ballet of muscular men as feral swans, in place of the usual ethereal women in white tutus, shows boys differen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Jeanine Cummins spent five years of her life writing this book with the intent to shine a spotlight on tragedies facing immigrants," said the president of Flatiron Books. "We are saddened t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]"No matter how Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in Manhattan turns out, the revelations about the way he used his power over women have altered Hollywood in ways big and small. … Activist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]The union for film, television, and radio performers spent six months preparing the document, which gives thorough standards for actors' contracts, communication between actors and directors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]She and her late husband, Irving Ravetch, wrote 17 feature films together, among them The Long, Hot Summer, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Sound and the Fury, Conrack, and two for wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]"Assembly Bill 5 is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. … But the law's ambiguous language " specifical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]The move to the arena, for one night only (Feb. 26), is meant to give a more diverse audience a chance to see the show; 18,000 tickets will be given for free to New York City public school s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]The 54-year-old bass-baritone fractured his ankle this week while in Bilbao to perform in a different production of Dutchman; he has returned home to Wales for surgery. The March 2 opening w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]I hadn't wanted to write anything about this beforehand (for fear of putting a dangerous idea into someone's head), but I was worried about the welfare of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts du…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2020
"If you're one of the millions of people to re-embrace vinyl records, it's worth knowing where they come from and how they're made." (It ain't pretty.) " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The plaintive question came from Sara Mearns as she and her colleagues listened to the decidedly avant-garde music choreographer Alexei Ratmansky had selected for his new work, Voices. Ratma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"The president's vow to rid cultural and educational institutions of 'leftist' values is changing the game at the institutions charged with fostering cultural production." Here's a rundown o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Actor and educator Kila Packett writes about the Los Angeles Drama Club's Shakespeare Youth Festival (active year-round in Watts and East L.A.) and the trip by four students and six teachers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The item, titled Head with Horns and acquired by the Getty Museum in 2002 for a price reported to be between $3 million and $5 million, was quietly reattributed to "unknown artist" last mont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"[He was] an implacable enemy of anyone who wanted to study the legendary Irish writer for almost any reason. … Though his ability to thwart scholars and Bloomsday fans diminished after 20…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]The movie was set to be one of Hollywood's epic disasters, on track to lose $100 million. "But a funny thing happened on the way to the cinematic scratching post. Word-of-mouth buzz began to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which operated at both Wright's original Taliesin home in Wisconsin and his Taliesin West in Arizona, will cease operations this June. The School's bo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"Outrage is the perfect negative emotion to attract attention and engagement " and algorithms are primed to pounce." Worse, "misleading content on social media tends to lead to even more eng…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"For two decades, CollegeHumor rode a number of online trends and movements. The company started as the brainchild of literal teenagers, and it outlived many competitors because of this prec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"Eight colorful banners designed [for the 1976 Bicentennial] by Alexander Calder that were lost for decades, then thought destroyed, and then serendipitously found and displayed for about si…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]When we "go to work" in the arts, we often mean actually going to an official and shared physical workspace. But there's more and more opportunity and reason to cut the tether altogether " t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Kyle Buchanan: "Of course, the decision to blow up the best-picture category wasn't greeted with nearly as much enthusiasm in June 2009 … Industry veterans worried that the expansion would…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]"While high extensions can be very exciting, it is thought that this trend has led to an increase in injuries in the lower back, hips and ankles. Adam Sklute, artistic director of Ballet Wes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]When Donald Judd, the artist who came to the West Texas desert village and attracted other artists there, died in 1994, he left his foundation with $400 in the bank and Marfa faced doom. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]Producer Greg Nobile: "Just north of 30 percent of our audience were what we call 'new to file,' which means they were actually first-time ticket buyers, which is an incredible number. Usual…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"We weren't looking to create the world's blackest material, "says the founder of Surrey Nanosystems, which introduces Vantablack in 2014. "That wasn't our thing. We were trying to solve a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"230 small and medium-sized venues in England and Wales will see a 50% reduction in business rates, a fee which is charged to most non-domestic properties. It should save each venue an avera…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]The Newbery, for best children's book, went to Jerry Kraft's New Kid, the story of a 12-year-old who's one of the few nonwhite students at a fancy private school. Taking the Caldecott, for b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]The Dudamel/L.A. Phil recording of Andrew Norman's Sustain took Best Orchestral Performance, with Caroline Shaw's Orange by the Attacca Quartet winning Best Chamber/Small Ensemble Performanc…
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