"As soon as James Griffin gets off the school bus he tells his mom, 'Go dance, go dance.' James is 14 and has autism, and his speech is limited. He's a participant in a program for children …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Choi took the fiction prize for her novel Trust Exercise, while the nonfiction award went to Sarah M. Broom's memoir The Yellow House. Winning the young people's literature category was Mart…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"An 11-count federal indictment accuses Catherine Pugh of arranging fraudulent sales of her Healthy Holly books to schools, libraries and a medical system to enrich herself, promote her poli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Defined as 'a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it', Oxford said the words…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"The Metropolitan Opera has run small deficits for the past two years and faces rising capital expenses " including for the repair of its white travertine exterior " prompting S & P Glob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"The police are still looking for the missing john " an artwork called America by Maurizio Cattelan " but, so far, they remain empty-handed. … Six people had been arrested in connection wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Arte Generali saw a solid gold opportunity to penetrate the Italian art market, … [with an ad campaign that] features artist Maurizio Cattelan clowning around in the buff with only oversi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Although he has never written an opera, his appointment grew out of Cycles of My Being, a set of emotionally complex songs he composed for [tenor Lawrence Brownlee and] Opera Philadelphia e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Launched by Directors UK, the professional association for screen directors, the guidelines were, according to the organization, 'born of the need to set clear and shared professional expec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]As president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, Minton published such classics as Lord of the Flies, The Godfather, and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and he was "among the first to recognize the po…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]My work in the Pennsylvania city came in the middle of a long-term project of commissioning murals for the city. In October one was completed that impressed me so much I had to share it here…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]The cliché is that the South African Broadcasting Corporation's apartheid-era Radio Bantu churned out nothing but propaganda to bolster the government's racial separation policies. That was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Ntozake Shange didn't write the role of the Lady in Purple in her "choreopoem" for a deaf performer, but she happily approved casting Alexandria Wailes in the current New York revival. Gia K…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"These are all cultural products set firmly in the realm of values. They are not concerned with which billionaire son inherits his father's empire, but rather focus on ordinary people strugg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Even at age 89, Walter Cole dons a sequined gown and frizzy wig four nights a week to perform as Darcelle XV. And he does it at his own bar, which he opened with his first wife a few years a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack was pulled from West Virginia's Upshur County public library earlier this week, according to local press reports, after a local church minister called it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Not even 20 years ago we mostly read about things in lag, on thin slices of tree, whereas now we do " well, this, whatever this is. Yet instead of technology superannuating literature once …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]"Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were first given two-year suspended terms in 2015 after being convicted of possession of stolen goods over the huge trove of works by Picasso, including nine …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"Perth and Sydney have recognised [their responsibilities] by commissioning diverse local artists working in diverse forms. These festivals are engaging with their place in contemporary cult…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Says Max Hollein, "Art cannot solely be perceived in regard to its beauty and craftsmanship. You also have to evaluate it in light of its political messages. … If you have one of the great…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"What of the storefronts, those famous Chicago institutions where a full house can mean 80 people and where artists frequently toil for little or even no compensation? Can they claim a signi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The daughter of the late King Sihanouk. she began dancing at age 5; by age 16, she was a leader of the royal dance company and a mainstay of Cambodian cultural diplomacy. She fled the countr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The country's first post-Soviet president, the autocratic and eccentric Sapurmurat Niyazov, banned opera in 2001 as "incompatible with Turkmen mentality." His successor (and former dentist),…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The production presented this week at Suffolk University in Boston, is, according to Wilder's estate, the first time all seven one-acts will be performed together in a single program." " Ame…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]General Jean-Louis Georgelin, a brusque army man appointed by President Macron to oversee the reconstruction of the fire-damaged cathedral, was speaking to the cultural affairs committee of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Provocative subject matter isn't foreign to [the director of Queen & Slim], who was raised in the Bronx by a Cuban mother and a Jewish Greek father, whom she describes as 'freedom fight…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]After all, argues Courtney Escoyne (reacting to news of a second Polunin documentary), it only encourages him. "I'm not sure that it matters what stance this documentary takes. It's yet anot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Adam Frankel, a former member of Obama's speechwriting team: "'Something about this draft just doesn't feel right.' That, or something like it, is probably the most frequent feedback a speec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"Keeping a large collection of books in a canal city prone to flooding was always a dangerous idea, which is why Venice's Libreria Acqua Alta (High Water Bookshop) had decided to store its b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Lorna Fulton, head of Middlesbrough Town Hall, declined to book comedian Roy Chubby Brown because she thought local audiences might find his act offensive and his 2015 performance sold poorl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, a branch of the Italian carabinieri responsible for combatting art and antiquities crimes, believe the suspects are members of an crimin…
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