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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Why Do We Even Need Fiction? Asks Isaac Bashevis Singer by Artsjournal1

"Why invent things when nature and life supply so many strange events? … Why bother proving a lie when truth needs no preface? I sometimes fear that all of humankind may sooner or later co…

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Ballet Helps Veteran Recover From PTSD by Artsjournal1

"'Keep your fingers straight and off the trigger. Do not point the rifle at anyone you do not intend to shoot.' That's Roman Baca, a U.S. marine and Iraq War veteran. But he's not speaking t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]

Why Wile E. Coyote Is A Great Mythic Protagonist by Artsjournal1

"The Road Runner … can run through paintings, or invisible brick walls, or across vast stretches of open sky. His pursuer cannot. Wile E. Coyote's schemes and traps sometimes fall apart du…

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Shoji Sadao, 92, Architect Who Realized Visions Of Buckminster Fuller And Isamu Noguchi by Artsjournal1

"Fuller was pursuing out-there ideas in design and architecture, and it often fell to Mr. Sadao to do the practical work of implementing them. … [He] filled a similar role with Noguchi, th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]

Should We Be Casting Only Disabled Young Actors As Tiny Tim In 'A Christmas Carol'? by Artsjournal1

"Now, in an era in which authenticity and representation have become entertainment industry watchwords, the presenters of some of the many theatrical adaptations that are staged every winter…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]

Arts Institutions In Venice Reeling From Record Flooding by Artsjournal1

Salt water from the lagoon covered 80% of the city, reaching levels of up to six feet, the second-highest since records began about 90 years ago. The Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collectio…

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Desperate Rio Art Museum Gives Layoff Notice To All Staff, May Shut Down by Artsjournal1

The Museu de Arte do Rio, opened in 2013 in the Praça Mauá on the city's waterfront, has not been receiving its scheduled payments from the Rio de Janeiro prefecture government; all 12…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]

Jayne Wrightsman's "No Loans" Edict for Gifts & Bequests to the Metropolitan Museum by Artsjournal1

Today's announcement by the Metropolitan Museum about the "exceptional bequest" by trustee emerita Jayne Wrightsman (who died in April at 99) omits mention of a crucial way in which this win…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The 'Mattress Monster': Yvonne Rainer Recreates One Of Her Oddest Avant-Garde Dances From The 1960s by Artsjournal1

"It could be a dream or a nightmare. You're 84. What would it be like to have an artistic conversation with your 30-year-old self? [Rainer] is finding that out as she reconstructs, in collab…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]

Jan Erik Kongshaug, Revered Recording Engineer, Dead At 75 by Artsjournal1

"[He] helped sculpt the rich and quietly splendorous sound of ECM Records, an influential label that has produced timeless jazz and contemporary classical recordings." " The New York Times

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Are Embassy Officials Using Diplomatic Immunity As Cover For Stealing Art? by Artsjournal1

Yes, scofflaw diplomats have been a problem for ages (ask any New Yorker who's been clipped, or worse, by a UN delegate's car), but over the past few years, artworks have been disappearing f…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]

How Do Movies Get Edited For Airlines To Show In-Flight? 'Recklessly' by Artsjournal1

"As one editor who has been doing this type of work for 30 years and worked for nearly every major studio in Hollywood tells InsideHook, 'The studios, outside of the creative groups, are ful…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]

New Documentary Play Takes On Human Trafficking by Artsjournal1

"At a table reading of Live Bodies for Sale, a new docudrama about human trafficking in Northeast Ohio, playwright Christopher Johnston addresses the assembled cast and crew. 'Everybody in t…

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Amos Oz And The Challenges Of A Language Brought Back From The Dead by Artsjournal1

"To Oz, writing in Hebrew was like sculpting in solid rock and crusted sand at the same time. With one foot in the Hebrew of the Bible and the other in the mélange of linguistic influences …

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DC's National Symphony Is Launching Its Own Record Label by Artsjournal1

"In a collaboration influenced by [music director Gianandrea] Noseda's role as principal guest conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra, the British symphony's record label " LSO Live " w…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]

Barnes & Noble Is Starting Its Own Book Of The Year Prize by Artsjournal1

"As one of the first initiatives under the leadership of new CEO James Daunt, Barnes & Noble has announced the shortlist for a new Book of the Year award. Books are nominated by B&N …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]

The Movement To Turn Away BP's Money Is Giving Britain's Arts Fundraisers Heartburn by Artsjournal1

BBC arts editor Will Gompertz: "It has never been an easy task, but … what has become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it come…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]

Cristian Măcelaru Appointed Music Director Of Orchestre National De France by Artsjournal1

Best known in the U.S. for his years as assistant and associate conductor and conductor-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemp…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]

Zadie Smith Is Writing Her First Play, A Take On Chaucer by Artsjournal1

The Wife of Willesden will be a monologue giving Smith's modern spin on The Wife of Bath's Tale from Canterbury Tales. The piece will premiere next year in her home neighborhood, the northwe…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]

Duo Ruut plays at the Sharq Taronalari Festival by Artsjournal1

The Estonian kannel is primarily a plucked folk instrument, but these two young ladies " both of whom have studied music academically " had not played it until they found one, and decided to…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]

Big Learning Curve for Sotheby's New CEO in a Season of Lowered Expectations: My Q&As by Artsjournal1

At last week's very sparsely attended press preview for this week's major auctions, I got a chance to chat about Sotheby's era of uncertainty with four of the company's principals. " Lee Ros…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Seattle's Intiman Theatre May Be Pulling Itself Away From The Edge Of The Cliff by Artsjournal1

"Shortly after a fundraising gala-brunch on Saturday, Nov. 2, Intiman announced it had raised $130,000 in one month (including the brunch), putting the theater close to its year-end goal of …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]

A Body-Language Expert Analyzes Conductors' Gestures by Artsjournal1

Consultant Lauren Tan watched footage of Leonard Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel, Manfred Honeck, and others for what their hands, eyes, faces and postures can show the rest of us about non-verba…

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Boy Thrown From Tate Modern Balcony Can Now Move Legs by Artsjournal1

The six-year-old French tourist who was hurled from the London museum's 10th-floor viewing platform in August has now been moved from intensive care (in a "full armour of splints") to a reha…

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Inside The 1811 Louisiana Slave Rebellion Re-Enactment by Artsjournal1

"It took years [for the organizer, artist Dread Scott,] to raise the funds of over $1m, which included money from 500 individual donations, to pull off the spectacle. But as word of mouth ab…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]

Shelley Duvall's Performance In 'The Shining' Was Actually Brilliant by Artsjournal1

"Many viewers " even some who love The Shining " find Duvall's acting strangely cartoonish with its wild expressions of anxiety and fear. … Stephen King himself … was downright offended …

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Why Are There So Many Asian-American Hip-Hop Dance Crews? Community by Artsjournal1

"In many Asian countries, hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes. … But the contemporary boom o…

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Who's The US's Busiest Publisher Of Literature In Translation? Amazon by Artsjournal1

"Amazon Crossing, Amazon's publishing imprint focused on literary translation, … has published more than 400 books, from 42 countries and in 26 languages … Crossing has also produced som…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]

Indie Publishers Nervous As Amazon Cuts Way Back On Orders For Holiday Gift Season by Artsjournal1

Several independent presses tell PW that the mega-retailer's weekly orders have fallen since late October; one publisher says the most recent order was down 75% from this time last year. The…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]

Arts Groups In Belgium's Richest Region Brace For (More) Funding Cuts by Artsjournal1

"Flemish Culture Minister Jan Jambon … envisages cuts of up to 6% in the subsidies given to cultural institutions to cover their operating funds and 60% in the subsidies given to cover the…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]

'Carpetbaggers' Keeping Aboriginal Australian Artists In 'Modern-Day Slavery', Say Advocates by Artsjournal1

The artists' collective APY has warned the Australian federal and South Australian state governments that certain outside art dealers, referred to as "carpetbaggers," have been manipulating …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]

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