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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42PM[SHARE]"Even now, 70+ years since John Cage's seminal Suite for Toy Piano from 1948, the toy piano still feels like Duchamp's upside-down urinal (Fountain): out of place on stage, it elicits giggle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]"Dance/Movement Therapy goes beyond simply dancing. DMT uses dance and movement to promote insight, integration and well-being, as well as to diminish undesirable symptoms in various clinica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Dutch asylum court is not exactly a well-trodden topic within performance art, but last week in Amsterdam, a one-off staging of a refugee trial asked the public to determine the fate of an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"In the '60s, estimates suggest that fewer than 2,000 people could speak Hawaiian fluently, and just a few dozen of them were children. But then something remarkable happened. An unlikely Ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The location of Portrait of a Lady, one of the world's most sought-after missing artworks, has been a mystery since it was stolen in 1997. On Tuesday, a gardener clearing up ivy on an exter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"This stirring performance, titled 'Un violador en tu camino' ("A Rapist in Your Path), was first brought to life by the feminist art collective called Lastesis at a protest in the port city…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Yes, he looted much of the statuary at the ancient Greek monument (his booty now sits in the British Museum), but he also had Athenian craftsmen take plaster casts of much of what he left in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"A recent study by Northwestern University … found that 26% of independent Arab filmmakers are women … In Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon, 25% of all new directors are women. In Egypt, this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"Protesters stormed the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City on Tuesday over a painting showing revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata striking an unconventional pose. They shouted 'burn it, burn …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"The US dictionary … said that look-ups for 'they' increased by 313% in 2019 compared with the previous year, as the public investigated the word's shifting use [as a singular pronoun for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]"Stevens was known for her monumental paintings that dealt with social and political issues, as well as her activism, teaching, and writing. The artist used personal experiences and her resp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
"Mr. Auberjonois worked constantly as a character actor through several periods and forms, from the dynamic theater of the 1960s to the cinema renaissance of the 1970s to the prime period of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"Jonty Bravery, who turned 18 in October, … told the police he had to prove a point 'to every idiot' who said he had no mental health problems … As well as having an autistic spectrum di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"I felt like it was really time to move on. I could see myself doing the same thing for the next 20 years and I don't want that. … Music has never been my only interest and it's always bem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]The business school at Oxford has students try to conduct a choir. Carnegie Mellon uses a book club and art installations. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts offers courses to business types…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"Over a 40-year career, Luce … worked with the likes of Zoe Caldwell, George C. Scott and Claire Bloom as he wrote about the private lives of Charlotte Brontë, Lillian Hellman, Isak Din…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]Visits by Chinese citizens to Russia have been growing by 20% a year, and that rate will likely increase in 2020, when electronic visas become available. The extra crowds have caused particu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]Controversy has raged over the awarding of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature to the Austrian writer, acknowledged as an accomplished author but accused by many observers of denying or d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"Ana Subeliani arrived at the film premiere for And Then We Danced by foot, but left in an ambulance, blood running down her face. … Before screenings in November, far-right protesters and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"Reports and photos of two women burning a pile of books outside the Zhenyuan county library in Gansu province emerged at the weekend. According to Chinese media, an article on the county's …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]"Pointe spoke with these two young dancers" " Hortense Millet-Maurin and Vincent Vivet, both 15 " "to see what it's like studying inside the world's oldest ballet academy." " Pointe Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]The Vote, originally staged at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2015, will return in an updated form this Thursday. The 90-minute play depicts the final 90 minutes of voting at a polling place i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2019
"New York City's On Site Opera, known for staging works in non-traditional spaces, is presenting Amahl and the Night Visitors next month inside the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, which serves l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"Education discourse has recently turned toward resilience and grit. This article critiques the neoliberalism embedded in resilience education and the manner in which a resilience focus enco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"Current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists' narrowly defined art …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Bess Rothenberg, senior director of strategy and learning at the Ford Foundation: "The scale and momentum of the #MeToo movement compelled the Ford Foundation to take a long, hard look in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"As tertiary music institutions explore ways to increase the social orientation of their curricula, it is important that the student voice be present in research and scholarship. How do stud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"Columbus conductor and clarinetist Antoine Clark wants women musicians and musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to be heard. Clark is bringing his vision to the McConnell Arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"It's funny to think of art that is so topical and of-the-moment having such a long history. It's a big deal when any regional dance company turns 30, but especially remarkable for one that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"At a time when black creators are being celebrated as much as ever " from Hollywood to the fine arts " some are raising the question of whether black people are truly the main beneficiaries…
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