Tuesday, December 24, 2019
… 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2019
"The band Tinariwen hails from the deserts of Mali in North Africa. Its sound blends ancient Saharan instruments with electric guitars, and has earned the band devoted fans around the world.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"The Cleveland Institute of Music has received a $150,000 grant from the Sphinx Organization, to launch an initiative for graduate students of African American and Latin descent, young profe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"A new exhibition at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle offers a window into how the tech giant hopes to fuse art and AR for the public good." " artnet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]In Los Angeles, Portland, Shanghai,. and especially San Francisco, Pamela Conrad has worked on solutions to the problems of invasive plant species, sea level rise, and earthquake readiness. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Something that has increasingly bothered me over 20 years as a practitioner and educator, is that "music education" as we conceive it (right down to state/county/national syllabi/standards)…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monkman's two large paintings, the first in a series of commissions for the Met's Great Hall, "highlight the Museum as both a byproduct and beneficiary of colonizing forces, and illuminate h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 21, 2019
In my skeptical post last month about Cree artist Kent Monkman's plans for the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall, I recklessly ventured some premature commentary. This "squeamish critic" has …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
"[Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill] report how they carried out an analysis of 24 emotional concepts, such as anger, love and pride, across 2,474 languages. The study also included more than…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Research released by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) "shows an inverse relationship between institution size (based on operating budget) and the amount spent on artist fee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"[She] is best known for having founded, in 1968, an electronic music studio at Hunter College in New York, where she taught composition and theory from 1966 until 1989. … [She] created a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"In traditional video games, labor and capitalism have been depicted in near-frictionless harmony. Take SimCity and Civilization's dogmatic views of economic progress popular during the boom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"The anti-slam was created by British performance artist Paula Varjack, inspired by poet Jamie DeWolf's self-reflexive and satirical performance piece, The Worst Poem Ever. In DeWolf, Varjac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"This episode [of Jad Abumrad's Dolly Parton's America podcast] delves into the controversy surrounding Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly known as 'Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede') " a dinner…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Okay, Lois Smith is only 89 " and she's currently on Broadway in The Inheritance. Estelle Parsons, 92, is at the Public in Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day. Vinie Burrows is 95 and be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Just about anyone who knows a bit of ballet history has heard of Marius Petipa, the man behind Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. Yet not many people know just how he came to en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"The Czech State Opera hoisted an ornate curtain on Thursday as a three-year project to restore the 19th-century opera building to its original glory neared completion ahead of a planned reo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"Archivist Anna Rimel came upon the four pieces, executed in watercolor, ink, pastel, and tempera paint, in a manila envelope while sifting through the [Smithsonian American Art Museum's] Jo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that people who engaged in the arts more frequently " every few months or more " had a 31% lower risk of dying early when compared to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
"In the more than 50 years since its debut, the animated special, directed by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, has become a holiday classic and turned into a live-action movie, a Broadway musical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]Viengsay Valdés: "I will always defend classical technique as the artistic base for a good dancer, and from there one can grow into other types of choreography. What we must do is enrich wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"The International Sweethearts broke attendance records at places such as Washington DC's Howard Theatre, Harlem's Apollo Theater, Cincinnati's Cotton Club and the Riviera in St Louis. They …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Mexican muralism taught her the importance of expressing a political and social consciousness, but she softened the militancy that was common in the post-revolutionary era. In allegorical p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Sorkin, playwright of the Broadway adaptation: "I absolutely wanted Atticus to be a traditional protagonist, so he needed to change and have a flaw … It turned out that Harper Lee had [alr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Alexis Soloski: "These post-curtain moments have less to do with telling the story and more with telling the audience how to feel about the story they have just seen and what they should tel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"Among the findings inside the tombs were evidence of gold-lined floors, a golden seal ring and a gold pendant with the image of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. The amulet suggests that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]With funding from the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the News is hiring Tim Diovanni on a one-year, renewable basis. Tim will work with veteran Scott Cantrell, a former News staffer an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]A new facsimile publication of J.M. Barrie's handwritten first version "demonstrates how Barrie toned down Peter Pan's character to suit audiences in 1911, after having second thoughts about…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Conservators working on the five lower central panels discovered that the Van Eyck brothers' original work had been painted over as early as the mid-16th century; removal of those additions …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The House approved a $1.4-trillion spending package on Tuesday that includes a $7.25-million increase for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This increase is the largest for the NEA…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Mrs. T, who is a very private person (that's why I refer to her as "Mrs. T" in this space) and thus has been reluctant to be entirely frank about her illness in public, decided last night th…
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