Tuesday, January 7, 2020
"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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Even in her lifetime, she was both adored and reviled. Was she an artist stunted by society's restrictions on women who channeled her genius to become the inspiration for the men she consor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Native Americans whose ancestors suffered at the hands of 17th-century European settlers and adventurers are hoping commemorative events marking the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's jou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"The Duolingo course [in Scots Gaelic], which was launched just before St. Andrew's Day on 30 November and looks likely to be the company's fastest-growing course ever, has garnered more tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]What's more, he triumphed, and in a production that ran for at least a year longer than anyone expected. The actor is Steven Skybell, who talks with Laura Collins-Hughes about playing Tevye …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Tashkent's metro system is so much more than just a means of transportation. Over the decades of its existence, the design and names of the metro's 29 ornate stations have changed to reflec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Until the early 17th century, learning to draw meant entering an artist's workshop " often as a child " copying the master's sketches and drawing from plaster casts and live models. Student…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]"On one side is Underbelly, the London events company which claims to have taken Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations to another level. It is backed by a city council which has gleefully watche…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"The controversial practice of 'brownface' in Indian cinema, where actors with lighter skin wear brown makeup to play certain roles " often reinforcing negative stereotypes " has been attrac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"On Dec. 20, as Cats opened in theaters domestically, Universal made an unprecedented decision to send exhibitors a new version of the film with 'some improved visual effects.' By then, howe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]No picture this time because food was so bad. The kitchen, which prepared the takeaway in front of me, tried hard and worked like crazy, getting it hot and out. " Jeff Weinstein
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]During the cultural Cold War, President John F. Kennedy delivered eloquent speeches claiming that only "free societies" fostered great creative art. But no one scanning centuries of Western …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2020
Lawrence Ware: "I'd argue that the 2010s were the most important decade for black film in America. We see dramas (12 Years a Slave), comedies (Girls Trip), horror (Get Out, Us) and documenta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"Founded by Joseph in 1994, the Foundry, which produced artistic offerings, community programs and activist conferences on issues ranging from genocide to economic inequality, created a mode…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"Inequality in the arts is holistic. It exists at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Grantmakers who are committed to seeing the arts thrive as an inclusive multiracial- an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"On a walk through the Met's galleries with Artnet News, he pointed out various works that inspired his own. But while the works in the Met's collection tend to present an image of Native pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary wartime in Iran. Aminikia first explored immersive, visceral music in a successful performan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2020
It happened in the winter of 1938 in Paris, as he was walking home from a movie with friends: a pimp named Prudent (yes, really) badgered them for money. (Later, in court, Beckett asked his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The poet fell in love with Emily Hale in 1912, while he was a graduate student at Harvard. She did not reciprocate at the time, though they corresponded until 1956, when she announced that s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Watch clips of fevered crowds, from today or the past, chanting against 'enemies of the people'; they are malignant scenes, but ones that in no small part mimic religious revivals. … Huma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"The last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage " and what's next?" Eight Black th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Uri Sands, who founded the St.Paul-based TU Dance in 2004 with his spouse, Toni Pierce-Sands (both are former Ailey dancers), after "a lawsuit was served on a member of the company's board i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"Since 2016, California musicologist Linda Shaver-Gleason has been using [her] site" " called Not Another Music History Cliché! " "to compile a clear-eyed and level-headed accounting of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]William Robin: "Linda tackled subjects from the purported ugliness of contemporary music to the contested idea of the 'masterpiece' to myths around Beethoven's deafness to whether music is a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]"'We can't become anaesthetised and think, 'Oh, he won [the election]. There's nothing we can do," said [Edu] Krieger, who has written songs for some of Brazil's most celebrated female voice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Seventeen stalls will be moved from sites including the Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. However, eight of the 17 will still be able to trade on streets away f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]A month after the disastrous flood of November 12, the president of the historic church's governing body said that the building cannot withstand repeated exposure to salt water it has faced …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 through to 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just 4.8 percent of directors were women, yet that spiked to 10.6 percent in 2019 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]I gave the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art a test it was bound to fail by revisiting on the Sunday after Christmas"a tourist-heavy time of year. Below is my report card, along with some …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2020
"Titled Kinotavr. Special Edition as a reference to the Russian national festival Kinotavr, … the festival will run for the first time in Moscow from late January through early February. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"In 1951, the Abstract Expressionist stopped working with galleries and became his own dealer. He continued to paint for nearly three decades, retaining complete authority over his canvases'…
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