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Thursday, January 2, 2020

How Clyfford Still, For Better And Worse, Kept Iron Control Over The Market For His Paintings by Artsjournal1

"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'…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Lament For A Shuttered Music School, And For The Too-Rare Opportunity It Offered by Artsjournal1

"A nonprofit on the East Side that partnered with public schools, the [Turtle Bay Music School] announced in November that it would be forced to close due to a lack of funding. The entire co…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Lily Tomlin At 80 by Artsjournal1

The comedy legend talks to David Marchese about what she couldn't do when she was starting out in comedy, marrying Jane Wagner after more than 40 years as a couple, how she almost came out o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

The Cultural 'Canon' Really Is Getting More Diverse by Artsjournal1

"It's not so much that canons have been completely obliterated, as [Harold] Bloom and others feared " in any given collection, the old guard and their descendants have remained. But canons h…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

'The Four Horsemen Of Asian-American Literature' by Artsjournal1

That was Ishmael Reed's nickname for Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Shawn Wong, and Lawson Fusao Inada, who (on top of their own writing) put together the first major anthology of Asian-Amer…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Dancing While Deaf: What It's Like To Move To Music You Can't Hear by Artsjournal1

"Dance may be a visual art form, but it's tightly intertwined with sound. Even as the field strives to be more inclusive, learning to dance without two fully functioning ears remains a chall…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Jack Sheldon, Revered Jazz Trumpeter And 'Schoolhouse Rock!' Star, Dead At 88 by Artsjournal1

"While the charismatic and hilarious Sheldon boasted an impressive résumé that included serving as the music director and sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show for 18 years; releasing 23 album…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]

Bach's Own Church Vandalized On New Year's Eve by Artsjournal1

An unknown attacker lobbed heavy stones at the windows of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig on Tuesday. No one was injured, but two 19th-century stained glass windows and nearly two dozen Art Nou…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]

For The First Time, The Most Influential Person In British Theatre Is An Actor: The Stage 100 For 2020 by Artsjournal1

"Why? Actors are clearly a core part of theatre. But, while individual actors have certainly been influential " Mark Rylance has featured prominently in recent years " it is rare for them to…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]

England's Arts Funder Promises To Spend More On Early-Career Artists by Artsjournal1

Nicholas Serota: "It will be about giving more support to writers, artists, composers at an early stage in their career so that they can make a career and then flourish." " The Guardian

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

On The Edges Of A Huge South American Landfill, An Orchestra With Instruments Made Out Of Garbage by Artsjournal1

Most people who live near the Cateura dump outside Asunción, the Paraguayan capital, scratch out a living by digging out anything that can be resold, and buying a musical instrument would…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]

'Her Invention Is Ceaseless, Her Influence Is Profound' " Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Pays Tribute To Caryl Churchill by Artsjournal1

"In the course of a writing life that spans 60 years, she's changed the dramatic landscape of two centuries, and evolved more than any other British playwright our conceptions of what a play…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

How The Cha-Cha Led A Refugee Couple From Boat People To Oscar Contenders by Artsjournal1

Chipaul and Mille Cao, who grew up as members of wartime Vietnam's ethnic Chinese minority, met at a dance party just six months before the Communist takeover of the entire country; they fle…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

What John Dos Passos's '1919' (And The Rest Of The 'U.S.A.' Trilogy) Got Right About 2019 by Artsjournal1

"We're often told, in hand-wringing tones, about the growing differences between red and blue states, and about our increasingly divisive political and social rhetoric. But, in Dos Passos's …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

Alasdair Gray, Godfather Of Scotland's Late-20th-Century Literary Renaissance, Dead At 85 by Artsjournal1

"Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway, among others, were all Gray's bairns. Authors invited Gray to illustrate their books. Little magazines sported his self-portraits …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Newseum Faces Its Closing Day As A Painful Symbol by Artsjournal1

As the year and decade end, "it will shut its doors for the last time, becoming a glass-and-steel white elephant " and an almost-too-obvious metaphor for the crisis facing America's newspape…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Remains Of Ancient Mayan Palace Discovered In Yucatán by Artsjournal1

"At the archaeological site of Kulubá, nestled amid the lowland forests of Mexico's Yucatán state, experts have unearthed the remains of a large palace" " six rooms, 180 feet long, 50 …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

How The 2010s Became The Queerest Decade Ever On Screen by Artsjournal1

"It feels like we're leaving this decade light years ahead of where we entered it. In 2010, salacious stories about queer people were still routinely seen in tabloids and on TV. Today, LGBTQ…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Barbara Testa, Who Discovered One Of American Literature's Great Missing Links, Dead At 91 by Artsjournal1

"Barbara Testa had enjoyed a perfectly anonymous life in Hollywood until she crawled up in the attic one day and opened a steamer trunk left behind by her grandfather, a 19th-century attorne…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Which Nights Sell Best For Dance And Classical Music? by Artsjournal1

In Pittsburgh, at least, it seems not to be nights at all: it's weekend matinees, across the genres. Sara Bauknecht and Jeremy Reynolds get into the details. " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Asia Gets Its First-Ever LGBTQ-Focused Streaming Service by Artsjournal1

"GagaOOLala brings more than 1,000 feature films, shorts, web series, and documentaries to people across Asia, where censorship and traditional attitudes mean there has been little in the wa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Are The Arts To Blame For Donald Trump? by Artsjournal1

It's a provocative claim, and I'll admit my first reaction was to dismiss it out of hand. And yet … " Douglas McLennan

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36AM[SHARE]

A Finger Picker Salutes Herbie Nichols by Artsjournal1

Spinning Song: Duck Baker Plays The Music Of Herbie NicholsIn the New York jazz scene of the 1950s and early sixties, the breadth and depth of his talent won enormous respect for pianist and…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36AM[SHARE]
Friday, December 27, 2019

This Land Art Installation Actually Helps Muffle The Noise Of Jets Taking Off And Landing by Artsjournal1

In fact, that's what it was created to do. Installed in response to neighbors' noise complaints following the opening of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport's fifth runway, the Buitenschot Land Art P…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]

You Probably Don't Know This Young Indian-Canadian Poet, But She May Be The Writer Of The Decade by Artsjournal1

"[Rupi] Kaur's achievement as an artist is the extent to which her work embodies, formally, the technology that defines contemporary life: smartphones and the internet. … I'd argue that ma…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]

Fifty Years Of The Community Museum Movement by Artsjournal1

"How should museums relate to their surroundings? What are the most meaningful ways for them to connect and work with their communities? … These questions date to the beginning of the comm…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]

After Six Years, Broadcasters Of Syrian Exile Radio Station Marooned In Istanbul by Artsjournal1

Since 2013, Radio Alwan, which started as community radio in a Syria just breaking out in civil war, broadcast politically neutral news and other programming to Aleppo and Idlib on FM as wel…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]

These Artisans Have Been Hand-Making Cymbals For 600 Years by Artsjournal1

Cymbals are now mainstays of marching bands, drum sets, and orchestral percussion batteries, but they originally came from Ottoman Janissary bands, and Istanbul can be considered their home …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]

'Beach Blanket Babylon', A San Francisco Institution, Brings Its 45-Year Run To A Close by Artsjournal1

Even as the topical revue heads toward its final performance on New Year's Eve, it still gets tweaked to reflect current news. (Donald Trump's angry tweet at Greta Thunberg " he said she nee…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]

The Biggest Art World Controversies Of 2019 by Artsjournal1

"This past year saw no shortage of controversies in both the art world and the real world. And perhaps more than ever before, the distance between those two worlds seemed to collapse, as art…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]

Christianist Extremists In Brazil Firebomb Satirical Troupe That Made Holiday Special With Gay Jesus by Artsjournal1

A previously unknown groups calling itself the "Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family" has claimed credit for a Christmas Eve incident in which Mol…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]

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