Tuesday, January 28, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Sometime between 1985 and 1988, a thief took a five-century-old Latin copy of Christopher Columbus's first letter to King Ferdinand from Venice's Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and replaced i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]The original plan, announced in 2015, was for a Smithsonian museum in the planned Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; by the next year, it had been reduced to a partnership with London's Victoria …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Never seen wearing any color but blue and never drinking water when champagne was available, the impresario born Michel Catty introduced the modern drag show to France in the 1950s with the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Those nostalgic for the closed Moishe's Kosher Bake Shop in the East Village may wish to read this. (I walk the other way when nostalgia comes around the corner.) " Jeff Weinstein
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]What if I never write another book, or direct another play? Will I die a disappointed man? " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2020
Tuomas Hiltunen, the former top administrator at the Barenboim-Said Foundation who came to Fort Worth Opera after Darren Woods was fired in 2017, resigned last week, saying only that he and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
"Since the dawn of the internet, the problem of phony art being sold has only grown, experts say, and the primary coin of the forgery realm has long been the fake print, which is relatively …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PM[SHARE]"The China Independent Film Festival has held 14 editions and shown some 1,000 films since it was established in 2003 in Nanjing, the capital of coastal Jiangsu province. Many of the titles …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Researchers at InsuranceProviders.com analyzed data from the Occupational Information Network, a national organization developed through support from the U.S. Department of Labor …, to de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]"Worn by audience members during a performance, the glasses project dialogue directly onto the lens, allowing the wearer to follow the action without having to glance toward the sides of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]The author got a seven-figure advance, the first print run is half a million copies, the book jacket features gushing blurbs by famous writers, and the book got loads of coverage in The New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Zach Finkelstein: "Company X is a prestigious music apprenticeship festival for instrumentalists and singers. They take in about $15 million a year in revenue, own over $80 million dollars i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"The thinking goes: If Marfa, the pint-size Texas town located a three-hour's drive from the nearest airport, can become a site for pilgrims seeking to commune with Donald Judd's Minimalist …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Among the key findings: 74% of American adults engage with the arts via electronic media, 54.3% attend arts events, and 53.7% create or perform art themselves. Three states, D.C. and metro C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"While best known for his anchor work [as co-founder of what is now The PBS NewsHour], which he shared for two decades with his colleague Robert MacNeil, Mr. Lehrer moderated a dozen preside…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Some three-and-a-half weeks after Mehta's death, the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has appointed Reagan Arthur, currently senior vice president and publisher at Little, Brown, to succeed …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]In 2004, Steve Dunstone and Timothy Awoyemi, on a Police Expedition Society goodwill trip, were on a boat on the Niger River being greeted by the people of a southern Nigerian town. As the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"One of my happiest moments, in my years as a journalist, was when I got Ice-T to stop saying something homophobic and cruel in his live shows." " Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2020
"The BBC came very close to erasing all of the original Python tapes, at least from the first season. What happened was that we got word from our editor that the BBC was about to wipe all th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Philippa Chong asked them. "Critics were understandably ambivalent towards amateur reviewers despite their appreciation for general readers' enthusiasm about books. … If the critics I inte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]On the surface, yes, of course they were " and there are some modern-day emoji that look surprisingly like their Pharaonic predecessors. The differences, though, are deep. " The New York Tim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Michelle Herman: "In that very first class, long before I had any idea what I was doing, … I had a moment of what seemed like perfect clarity: My body and my mind were working as one. And …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Performance Space New York [formerly P.S. 122], the historic performance arts nonprofit in Manhattan's East Village, will shift to a new, artist-run model for 2020. A cohort of NYC-based ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]A key point that many people don't realize is that the site does not use any algorithms: each review that goes into a movie's or TV show's Tomatometer score is read and evaluated by a human …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Despite his success with revisionist productions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller plays, Ivo van Hove seemed an unlikely choice to direct a major revival of the Bernstein-Laurents-Son…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale was founded in 1969 as the world's first law enforcement service to specialize in art and cultural heritage. Its agents have worked from R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Erik Lee Preminger (his father was film director Otto Preminger) started traveling with his mother while still an infant, got his first jobs with her show before he was old enough to go to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Jader Bignamini's first performances with the DSO were unexpected: in 2018, due to cardiac surgery, outgoing music director Leonard Slatkin had to cancel the final concerts of his tenure wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]"According to a company press release [about the two artistic directors], Öhman is leaving to accept a directorship at Swedish contemporary dance presenter Dansens Hus. Waltz" " whose ap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Yelena Eckemoff, Nocturnal Animals (L&H Productions)Russian-born pianist and composer Eckemoff, long a New York resident, collaborates with a superb rhythm section of Scandinavian musici…
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