Thursday, December 19, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2019
"Since 2011, from late October to January, Hallmark has broadcast Christmas movies nearly twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. … During this year's holiday season, the programming, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Laura Cappelle: "When this newspaper came up with the idea of sending an unsuspecting foreigner to a series of pantos, I wondered how different it could really be from family-friendly entert…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]"[He was] a fervent supporter of experimental choreographers as a dance critic for The New York Times and the author of critical biographies of George Balanchine and Martha Graham … [as we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]The satirical group Porta dos Fundos ("Back Door") has made irreverent holiday satires about Jesus Christ before (2018's was The Last Hangover), but this year's Netflix special, The First Te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"Until quite recently, archaeologists mostly thought about the hardware involved in ancient food " the utensils people cooked with and the pots and beakers they ate and drank from " as well …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]At the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Monday night, the performance of the musical had to stop for ten minutes after the actor playing Javert accidentally lit part of the set on fire …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]"The reputation of the orchestra lifts the reputation of the whole region," says the orchestra's CEO, and several business figures say that that reputation has led overseas companies and wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]An Austrian government commission found that, at the ballet academy at the Vienna State Opera, "it is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Laura Miller: "As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion. At the beginning of the 2010s, a generation that had grown up obsessed with Harry Potte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Staffers at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the organization that oversees the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo Mural Diego Rivera, and Museo Tamayo, shut down b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]"Perched on a wheeled stool under a bright spotlight [at the National Gallery of Art], [Robert] Price leaned into a 200-year-old marble sculpture carved by Frenchman Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tass…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]"America's forbidden composer" is Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), leader of the "Indianists" movement in music. Politically, he seems hopelessly incorrect today. But his significance is not mere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2019
"For most of his career, he was known as an accompanist, outdated nomenclature that cannot begin to describe his musical sensitivity to the needs of a singer. … His association with singer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"All these prizes are, effectively, marketing exercises. That does not make them bad things … Today, though, artists and judges alike are more attuned to the difficulty in choosing 'the be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"She will take up the position at the start of 2022 when the orchestra returns to its home at the Sydney Opera House following the two-year closure of the Concert Hall for a major upgrade, i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write " replacing the masculine 'o' or the feminine 'a' with the gender-neutral 'e' in certain words …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Ministry of Antiquities has unearthed a red granite royal bust of King Ramses II emblazoned with the Ka, a symbol of power, life force and spirit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Speaking at a public forum in Westminster this week, [BP's UK chief] Peter Mather said 'the most important debate of our generation' " climate change " was best served by BP continuing to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Breakout stars, paradigm shifters, game changers. Our annual list of the dancers, choreographers and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing has a knack for illuminating where the d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Once the most highly coveted game developer " a hit-maker with the Midas touch " [Howard Scott Warshaw] had been immortalized as the man who created E.T., the 'worst' video game in history.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Expert players vary a lot in the number of practice hours they put in, and on average amount of practice can only account for about 30% of variation in performance quality, meaning that 70%…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Mr. Clements wrote more than 80 children's books, including the text of picture books about a pampered Egyptian cat, an unbecoming fish, a Christmas in which Mrs. Claus stands in for Santa …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Linnea Valdivia discusses the weight of reviews in theatre, the failure in arts journalism to approach queer stories with respect and empathy, how a critic should react if they misgender an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
"Clare Hennessy discusses the challenges of developing a play that sheds light on eating disorders " depicting them accurately, avoiding triggers " and offers suggestions for other writers i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"A bonus for viewers as they sort through the competing options: More programming doesn't just mean more of the same. The decade has been marked by opportunities for diverse and candid voice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Art on gallery walls doesn't just materialize " the effort of displaying works is done through preparators. And a collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Joyce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Working primarily in the public realm, Bryony Roberts Studio is a collaborative practice focused on how cultures, histories, and systems of power and politics are represented or erased in s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"This article reports on the impact of music education for students in a secondary school in Victoria, Australia. Socially inclusive practices were a focus of the study as the school has a h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Museums can be hostile places for disabled visitors, with buildings that are hard to navigate by wheelchair and exhibits presented with few concessions to those with sensory or cognitive im…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Donors are often confused about the appropriate levels of social risk and reward they should target in their philanthropy. They tell us they should bring the same risk aversion to philanthr…
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