Friday, December 27, 2019
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]Troy Patterson's choices range from Zadie Smith's essay "Generation Why"?, through Matthew McConaughey's nihilist scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, David Lynch's art show, the Kylo Ren light…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The creator of 10 Broadway shows and contributor to several more, Herman won two Tony Awards for best musical: Hello, Dolly! in 1964 and La Cage aux Folles in 1983. He also won two Grammys …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"With technically demanding feats, male ballet training tends to emphasize jumps and batterie. In general, men are more privy to additional allegro combinations at the end of multi gender cl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]This was the year of our national discontent and contentiousness, as manifested in the artworld by the rallying cry, "Decolonize Museums!" " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2019
The issue is that the exterior of the 12th-century structure was under renovation when the fire broke out on April 15, and 50,000 tubes of scaffolding that were in place at the time are stil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"The country's media regulatory body said Disney removed the clip to avoid the film being given a higher age rating. It is PG13, which means parental guidance is advised for children under 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]In response to a quip about Cosby that Murphy made during the opening monologue of his return to Saturday Night Live, the now-jailed rapist's publicist said that Murphy "was given his freedo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]And that opera, Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), was composed by a woman " Pauline Viardot, remembered mostly for being one of the century's great mezzos. Amy Lorette Damron Kyle, a m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"In 2019, there was a paradigm shift in how social media, and pop culture broadly, perceived gay women. It was as if lesbian culture " its memes, language, and stories " was suddenly mainstr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"When the American Library Association introduced the Caldecott in 1938, the United States was an industrial giant but still a cultural stepchild of Europe. … So librarians wanted to jump-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"For directors, they provide a way to evaluate dancers they might not otherwise see. For dancers, they expedite the cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming auditions process. But multi-comp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]After Rachel Cossar retired from Boston Ballet, she started a class called Choreography in the Kitchen to teach restaurant workers healthy ways to lift, bend and reach with poise. Then she w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"I don't want to be Jasmine. She's one of my favorite princesses, but I don't want to perpetuate that stereotype: completely powerless, or overly sexualized," says the Baltimore-born daughte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Neither the identity of a murdered man found wrapped in an electric blanket by a busy [Dutch] motorway in August 1991 nor that of his killer have emerged in the decades since the discovery …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Christ Mocked, by the 13th-century Florentine painter Cimabue, had hung for decades above a cooking hotplate in the kitchen of a 1960s house near Compiègne, north of Paris, before it was s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The formidable Norwegian soprano Lisa Davidsen, making her Metropolitan Opera debut in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, is right now New York's most talked about opera singer. I caught the fin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]"Did you see my cardoons?" Mike pointed to a pile of leafless, longer celery. I have eaten cardoons, I remember, at an optimistic Sicilian-only restaurant in Manhattan, long- and quickly gon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2019
"At the top schools, administrators are fielding recruiting calls from television producers and managers, adding TV classes, and competing with high-paying shows for writers they can hire as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]"The mixture of sadness and sentimentality in 'Gift of the Magi' befits a man whose life was marked by repeated human tragedies. … The diseases of alcoholism and tuberculosis would haunt […
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"The Welsh first minister has defended his government's handling of the festive Banksy work Season's Greetings, which is to be locked behind closed doors in a former police station after bei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"In 2010, Hollywood was drunk on the success of Avatar and decided 3D tech was the wave of the future. … Large ensemble Garry Marshall rom-coms like Valentine's Day were still winners, as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]The august, tradition-bound orchestra, founded 177 years ago when Vienna was the capital of a now-vanished empire, would not allow women even to audition until 1997, despite years of critici…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"As dealers struggle to insure works of art bound for Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protestors continue to clash with police, Art Basel in Hong Kong organisers say they are working with a l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Over the years, around the world, there have been stories of ballet dancers having unhealthy diets, eating disorders and mental health issues. In more recent decades, the ballet world has r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Ded Moroz today is about what you would expect. He has a long white beard, wears a fur-lined hat, has an animal-towed sleigh, and delivers presents to well-behaved children when it is cold …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"At their best, the artists who died this year could make us see the world in new ways " even as they made us laugh and cry. Here is a tribute to some of them, in their own words." " The New…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Underlying each of the disagreements in the letter is not just a matter of historical fact but a conflict about whether Americans, from the Founders to the present day, are committed to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]How a traditional New Year's melody that dated back to the pre-Christian era (when the new year was celebrated in March), and which was introduced by a Ukrainian choir touring the U.S. while…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Do all uncooked foods talk back? Snap crackle crunch; that's how cerealized infants learn words for eating. Yet the sound of celery is curbed by wilt. And then comes heat, and silence. " Jef…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]… when it seems that everybody is looking back over their shoulder more with nostalgia than disgust. I am not immune. Scrolling through some old emails, I came across this one called "from…
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