Thursday, January 23, 2020
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2020
"In an era when many of his peers have been buffeted by economic challenges, Mr. Volpe, 62, has kept the orchestra on firm footing by capitalizing on what he has referred to as its 'multiple…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]"While officially working on a fax machine project, Mr. Starkweather began to experiment in his spare time with copy machines and digital technology, in effect trying to merge the two. … […
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"From an African girl who was 'gifted' to Queen Victoria to a slave who took on his master in a British court, several little-known but remarkable chapters of black British history are being…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]On the third floor of Destination, a nightclub-turned-cultural center that's one of the few such places in the country to expressly welcome queer people, is ART.Des, a (very rare) gallery th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]The Speaker of the House told a town meeting last month, "I truly believe that [the arts are] something where we find our common ground." Would that it were so, writes Lucas Justinien Perez:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"After huge success with Python in the 1970s and early '80s, including [directing and acting in] the feature films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, Jon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Last week, Deborah Dugan was placed on "administrative leave" following what the Academy's board called "serious concerns" about her mistreatment of staff. Dugan responded by filing an EEOC …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Pete Wells: "Restaurants are loud because we're loud. With a few exceptions, when we complain about the noise, we're complaining about ourselves. … Far from being an accidental side effect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]The company's labor action is yet another part of the series of national protests against President Macron's planned pension reforms. The twist is that, as we know, ballet is not like other …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Reversing an earlier decision, the National Park Service has now denied an omnibus petition for 199 sites on public land near Moab, Utah to be listed in the National Register. The NPS agrees…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The fired-then-reinstated New York City Ballet principal was a figure in the company's recent #MeToo scandal (and accompanying lawsuit). While City Ballet's dancers and the company of West S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Arthur Brand has recovered one of the oldest surviving copies of the Divan of Hafez, one of the most important and beloved works in all of Persian literature. The volume was the only still-m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]There exists in the hearts and minds of at least some in the nonprofit arts sector a sense that the work they present is superior to most or all popular culture " and that those who patroniz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]After many years, I recently re-opened The Closing of the American Mind and discovered that Allan Bloom was prophetic. In effect, he prophesied identity politics and political rectitude " an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2020
"Serebrennikov was a particularly Russian type of rebel: one who sought, and attained, mainstream success, often with the blessing and support of the state." Until, that is, his sudden arres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"I am also interested in consent, by far the least attended to aspect of the play, which we encounter in the especially difficult junction between sexuality and trauma. At this strained inte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Doubts about the authenticity of the painting, which depicts the artist giving some serious side-eye, first arose in 1970. But research conducted jointly by the National Gallery of Norway (w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"A few minutes into the speech, secretary of culture Roberto Alvim said, 'The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national, it'll be endowed with great capacity fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"A usually cheery online community of quilters has been ripped apart by a sewing challenge depicting a No. 2 pencil erasing the 'in' from the word injustice. Some members of the National Qui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]The sessions, attended by leaders from New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Charlotte Ballet, were held i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Dutch design company Jora Vision will use Pushkin's works as inspiration for the 17,000-square-meter Lukomorye park, named after the mythical Slavic land in which Pushkin's fairy tales take…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"[Alice] Guy-Blaché was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first-ever cinema screening, in Paris in March 1895. By the following year, she was making her own films. And while t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Writing on her blog, Not Another Music History Cliche!, and standing as a pillar of classical music's niche on Twitter, Linda elegantly deployed her encyclopedic knowledge, research skills,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Rianto, is a master of the Lengger Lanang, a traditional [Javanese] dance performed by men dressed as women. But Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, has seen rising intolerance i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"But as is the case with other musical genres indigenous to Spain, they initially developed with no ties to one political ideology over another. Zarzuela is nowadays perceived in the nationa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
The metropolis does not have a high profile in generally accepted narrative of jazz and other progressive music, although it should: Mexico City has a thriving community of skilled, sophisti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]When we talk about organizations, or other forms of collective action by groups of people, we often speak as if we have dominantly conscious control. But evidence from a range of disciplines…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2020
It's been 10 years since I published what seems to have been some prescient commentary about the now (belatedly) completed Jean Nouvel-designed 1,050-foot tower (known to CultureGrrl readers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:07AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
"Funding cuts over the past 10 years are impacting cultural organisations ability to deliver non-artistic operations, such as site maintenance and recruitment, Arts Council England has warne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PM[SHARE]"In 1997, a group of German classical musicians moved to the village of Klein Jasedow, a tiny, nearly abandoned hamlet close to the Baltic Sea. The performers were looking to escape the care…
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