Friday, January 10, 2020
Joshua Helmer, 31, had been an assistant director at the PMA and was viewed as a rising star in the art world when, in early 2018, he "was separated" from the museum. Several female staffers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The gut renovation of Cologne's opera house is running eight years late and more than double the original budget " and that's only up to now, since the basements are full of ductwork, cablin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"The museum's educators provide lessons in art and art history as well as English language arts, social studies and even science and math. … The list of past subject areas includes surreal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"[Lyndsey Winship] talked to dancers and choreographers [Shobana Jeyasingh, Céline Gittens, and Final Bow for Yellowface co-founders Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin] about ballet's slow pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]In overruling the lower court's injunction barring Netflix from continuing to stream The First Temptation of Christ, Supreme Federal Court President José Antonio Dias Toffoli said, "One can…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]For his album Long Waves, the Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist assembles a group of contemporaries to play his compositions and a couple of cherished standard songs. Ambrosetti's fluid im…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
Yes, classical music types have rolled their eyes at dead-Maria Callas and dead-Glenn Gould tours, but rock is another matter. Since the long-departed Tupac Shakur (re-)appeared at the 2012 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]As reporter Jeffrey Brown visited the headquarters of the Agency of Artists in Exile, "an Ethiopian man belted out a traditional song with accompaniment from this phone. Across the hall, a Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Writer and dramaturg Loren Noveck was skeptical of the Play On Shakespeare project, and not because she's a purist: "The Bard," perhaps the paradigmatic Dead White Male, takes up so much spa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"First published, in English, in 2008, [Mohammed Hanif's] A Case of Exploding Mangoes is a dark satire about the possible reasons for the death of [dictator] General Zia [ul-Haq] in a plane …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"One series will include books for middle-school readers inspired by Time Trials, a set of videos from the National Museum of American History that introduces figures from the past, like the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[He] created the satirical spy sitcom Get Smart with Mel Brooks, was a frequent early host of Saturday Night Live and turned plastics into a countercultural catchword with his Oscar-nominat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"The sepulchre of Frederick (Friedrich) III, emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493, the greatest monument in Vienna's cathedral of St Stephen's, in the city's historic centre, has been s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[Samantha] Barbash alleges her character and likeness have been exploited and is seeking $20m compensation and $20m in punitive damages. Court documents show Barbash is targeting production…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[The museum] has invited the illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme to take over its Instagram account every Monday during 2020. On the account he will post a different drawing each week, depic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]She had two hits onstage (Murray Schisgal's All About Town and Terrence McNally's The Ritz) and numerous flops, adoring profiles in The New York Times and People magazine, three criminal tri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"The film entitled The First Temptation of Christ, by the Brazilian production company Porta dos Fundos, came out on December 3 and drew strong criticism from conservative politicians in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
"As Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's second unit director, and the first woman to ever hold the megaphone on a Star Wars movie, [Victoria] Mahoney got to experience all of it. Now that the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Some of these developments are already underway (dealing with ballet's ethnic stereotypes, more varied colors in ostensibly skin-tone dancewear, more women running companies, the tap revival…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]In 2013, construction of the new metro system for Greece's second city uncovered, in an unusually well-preserved state, the major commercial crossroads of the town during the Byzantine era. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"Some grew up functionally bilingual, while others had to learn English from scratch. All overcame linguistic, cultural, and a variety of other hurdles to translate their acts for an English…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05PM[SHARE]"The US's most prestigious awards for romance writing, the Ritas, have been cancelled after a host of judges and entrants pulled out over an ongoing racism row involving the industry's large…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Under Assembly Bill 5, "Uber and Lyft drivers, musicians, dancers, singers, artists of all kinds, freelance journalists, etc., under contract now will have to be employed, rather than paid a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Gina Gibney's ever-expanding organization already operates two buildings (which include five theaters, 23 studios, a conference room and a media lab), a six-member dance company, and several…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Byron Stripling, the former lead trumpet of the Count Basie Orchestra, "has conducted the [PSO] as a guest and will make his debut as principal [pops] conductor in October. This is only the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The plan, the American Federation of Musicians and Employers' Pension Fund " which covers more than 50,000 people, including Broadway musicians, players in some orchestras, and freelance mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Her memoir, published in 1994, when she was 27, "established her as one of the most provocative writers of her generation, generating awe among readers who saw in her work an honest depictio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"[Clive] Davis has more than thirty years of journalism experience, and was a regular freelance writer for The Times and The Sunday Times covering music, radio, theatre, comedy, and contribu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
It was disheartening to realize that almost all of the statements issued yesterday by museums and their professional organizations "condemn[ing] the targeting of cultural sites for destructi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]"This genre is called solarpunk. It attempts to radically reimagine the future, with technological solutions to environmental problems " think green cities, solar planes, recycle artists, bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to [King] Louis XIV. … While …
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