"The choreographer's commitment to dance as a catalyst for social change can be seen at a museum show in Seattle and in a new work for the Alvin Ailey company." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Leon J. Hilton explores the recent production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest created by Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a company dedicated to making theatre with and for neurodiverse artists…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]"In the following conversation, theatremaker Lauren E. Turner recounts her courageous healing journey from the depths of sustained racialized trauma working in a New Orleans theatre to the l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]"News that the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the arts would fall victim to budget constraints raised a collective groan from the nation's arts advocates earlier this year. M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]"The poem we call Gilgamesh is based on copies of a work assembled over a millennium after the earliest stories were written in Old Babylonian. … A specific scribe, editor, collator, poet …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Star Wars Kabuki-Rennosuke and The Three Light Sabers, which are being staged in Tokyo, will combine plots from each of the franchise's latest trilogy, substituting plots drawn from the day…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"It's not that plays are new to recordings, or that corporations never before invested in the stage. What is novel is how this company is commissioning dramatists to write plays for its glob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Police have said they plan to seize six religious sculptures that are on display at an art museum in the Belgian town of Leuven. The authorities acted following a complaint by a Belgian chu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a longtime happy pairing. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams's words in a narra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Roberta Smith: "What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I've spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"The Conservative Party confirmed in its manifesto that it plans to move forward with the cultural Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland if it wins the UK general election on 12 Dec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"[This] is BBC Culture's biggest and most international poll yet: 761 different films were voted for by 368 film experts " critics, journalists, festival programmers and academics " who came…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"This was not entirely a source of pleasure to the man who, under duress, had invented the term" as a compromise title for his very influential 1972 book. "In a 2009 essay on outsider art an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"To arrive at this conclusion, researchers spent five years painstakingly creating a database that features music created by people across the globe. They dubbed it the Natural History of So…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Musical systems around the world and across historical eras have been diverse, but octaves are commonly a feature of them. The acoustic structure of octaves is always the same: The frequenc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The daughters of the author, the most internationally famous Arabic-language writer in modern history, have repeatedly sued the American University in Cairo Press for what they claim are lar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Uniquely for Africa, Palais de Lomé, which is housed in a restored colonial-era palace, was fully financed by the state. … Set on the seafront in the Togolese capital of Lomé, the Palai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"[Paul] Sills, who directed the show, came up to him, and said, 'Mike, I want you to meet the only other person on campus who's as hostile as you are: Elaine May.' She looked over Mike's sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"The massive cyberattack just before Thanksgiving 2014 crippled a studio, embarrassed executives and reshaped Hollywood. The FBI blamed a North Korea scheme to retaliate for the comedy The I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"The five-year extension [of his contract as general manager] … will give Mr. Gelb at least a 21-year reign at the opera house, the largest performing arts organization in the United State…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"The Conservative Party election manifesto, launched yesterday afternoon by the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, pledges the establishment of a £250m fund 'to support local libraries and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott: "The most popular movies and the movies we love most aren't always the ones that shape the industry, reflect the times or change the terms of cultural discours…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"I really want to shake up this old-fashioned, beautiful, wonderful place a bit," says composer Olga Neuwirth, 51, whose adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens on December 8. (The hous…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"Performer Harrison Knights is behind the venture, called Trans Voices Company, which aims to help address a lack of casting opportunities for non-cisgender actors." " The Stage
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"As Life magazine's art editor, Ms. Seiberling helped shape public opinion about the 20th century's foremost avant-gardist artists" " most notably, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Abstract Expressi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"Campaign groups have urged regulators to protect music and sports fans from the threat of rip-off prices after eBay agreed to sell StubHub, its ticketing business, to the Swiss ticket resel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]How do you capture the scale, the struggle, the elemental extremity of mountain climbing? In the theatre? It's simpler than you think. After all, they both use the same kit. " David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AM[SHARE]"My work is not happy work. It's very difficult work. It's very powerful work, I like to think. So I make stuff very colorful. I make it bright. I make it look like a piece of candy, so that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"The HBS Club of Chicago " Nonprofit Leadership Fund, Community Impact Scholars Pilot Program has sent its first participant to the Harvard Extension School (HES) for leadership development.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Of the nearly 22% of the city's 1.5 million residents who speak a language other than English at home, the largest group are Spanish-speaking. Here are three art initiatives in Philly aimed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice. As a part of …
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