Sunday, December 15, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Teaching middle school choral music in a culturally diverse middle school in Hawaii resulted in new knowledge about welcoming the challenges posed by diversity to the benefit of both studen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"I'm a politically minded person and have spent a lot of time thinking about poverty and income inequality. The idea of tackling this subject matter in the context of a symphony orchestra, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Black opera singers are now cast in a wide range of roles and great operas written by black composers have gained more recognition. Yet, Porgy and Bess has maintained its cultural status as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Currently Joachim is riding a wave of success for her album Fanm d'Ayiti (Women of Haiti), which The New York Times called 'an evening-length artistic exploration of matriarchy, drawing Hai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"In the 70-minute chamber opera Mila, Hong Kong playwright Candace Chong Mui Ngam has come together with composer Eli Marshall to tell the story of a Filipina woman named Mila who has travel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
Isaac Butler: "Usually when a piece from the U.K. fails to resonate in the U.S. (or vice versa), we can chalk it up to intangible cultural differences between our two countries and their fam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]The Hermitage in St. Petersburg has just opened a branch in Omsk, the Pushkin in Moscow is setting up in Samara and Nizhny Novgorod, and both museums are making plans to open outposts in Yek…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"I think I'm at the top of my game. I'm not retiring, I'm not doing this because of health. And I love teaching and coaching." And, while he loves Chicago, he's moving to L.A. "First of all,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"In recent weeks, hundreds of TV and film assistants … have begun to speak out about their experiences on the bottom rung of the industry, mounting a fight for better pay and fair treatmen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"The Opéra de Paris's pension regime is one of the oldest in France, dating back to Louis XIV. It is costly as ballet dancers are allowed to retire at 42 and technical staff can leave with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]METdance, the city's largest company after Houston Ballet, was disbanded this past summer, having never recovered financially from 2017's Hurricane Harvey. Before the summer was over, Marlan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Films such as Greta Gerwig's Little Women, Melina Matsoukas's Queen & Slim, Lulu Wang's The Farewell, Olivia Wilde's Booksmart, and Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers have been nearly shut out o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tenor Zach Finkelstein: "Below I'll show you four case studies demonstrating that the inability to continue in a performing career and support yourself financially has very little to do with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"On Monday, in a small step to preserve this tradition, the House passed the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act, named after the legendary Tewa linguist. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"Actors and directors led Monday evening's rally in Budapest against a bill that they say threatens artistic freedom and extends the nationalist government's reach into areas that should be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"A civil engineer named Tamim Kasmo, 73, has joined a team of architects and engineers, stonemasons and woodworkers who have taken on the task of rebuilding the [12th-century] mosque. … Ka…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
Just a few years ago, he was getting intrigued, often admiring press for his rocker persona, uninhibited commentary, and astonishing technical skills. (Video of his manically flying feet at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"By the 1980s, Soviet political jokes had become so widely enjoyed that even the US president Ronald Reagan loved to collect and retell them. But, 50 years earlier, under Stalin's paranoid a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"At stake [in Thessaloniki, Greece's second city,] is not one building or artefact but the entire central junction of the city as it existed in late Roman times: a covered, colonnaded space …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the BBC's 'Bouncing Botanist' was a television regular, leaping over 'wocky pwotuberwances', enthusing over 'twee pherns' or plunging his hands lovingly into …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Howard Reich: "Step into Orchestra Hall or the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Carnegie Hall or the Village Vanguard in Manhattan, Palais Garnier or Duc des Lombard in Paris, and you are entering …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"The 4.5-metre-long panel … seems to depict wild pigs found on Sulawesi and a species of small-bodied buffalo, called an anoa. These appear alongside smaller figures that look human but al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"After hearing about this, I couldn't stay silent. I wrote an op-ed for our regional paper, The Berkshire Eagle, describing how Jacob's Pillow, like many cultural institutions, is working to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"For a while we were told that books were going to be a thing of the past. A new century had dawned, our lives were being digitised and surely there was no longer any reason to lug the press…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Tired of dreadful scripts and degrading magazine spreads, the Oscar-winning actress, producer, entrepreneur and activist built an empire on her own taste and work ethic. Now she plots proje…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"[Biography] was once thought, as Michael Holroyd called it, 'the shallow end of history', unable to provide sufficient context and with a tendency to exaggerate the role of individuals in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"The theatre, which has a current operating budget of $4.5 million, stopped producing last year to focus on tackling its [$2.6 million in] debts … As they planned to reopen, … the board …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:31AM[SHARE]Early in my career, I had two contrasting contacts with Donald Marron, the much admired art connoisseur, philanthropist and financial-markets professional, who died on Friday at age 85. Both…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Emily Cass McDonnell, who stars as Hilda in the New York premiere of Lucas Hnath's The Thin Place, knows that it works because of magic. An important part of the experience happens near the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2019
A succinct statement and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to arts organizations for internal and external reasons. This post is a response to the increasing number …
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