The Stage senior reporter Georgia Snow talks to women working as directors, designers, and administrators in opera in the UK " who tell her that things are getting better, but not fast enoug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]"[His] humorous, freewheeling fiction traced the shocks and jolts of romance, aging and everyday life, in an experimental but plain- spoken style … [He] published well over 500 short stori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]"The shock of the first modern, 'industrial' war extended far into the 20th century and even into the 21st, and changed how people saw the world and themselves. And that was reflected in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]The new piece by composer Alex Mills and librettist Brian Mullin, titled Leonardo and premiering this weekend at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, focuses on da Vinci's relationship with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]In the $450 million project announced four years ago, two smaller buildings and a plaza have already been added to the MFAH's campus. The expansion's centerpiece, the 183,528-square foot Kin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The first female writers in the kingdom have generally been thought to be Marie de France in the 12th century and Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich in the 14th. But scholar Diane Watt argu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]It was ten years ago that the Palau de la Música Catalana's name was all over Spain's newspapers: €24 million had disappeared from the hall's bank accounts in a corruption and kickb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]I've never bought a copy of Rolling Stone. but I did buy The Rolling Stone Record Review, a mass-market paperback that came out in 1971, and I read it until the glue dried up and the pages f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PM[SHARE]"The new work, Black Exhibition" " which he developed under the pseudonym @GaryXXXFisher " "is described in the script as an attempt 'to look at a queer black male psyche through the lens of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]"That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: 'You're wrong.' So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they've always art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Leslie Jamison considers "the enduring appeal of the afflicted woman " especially the young, beautiful, white afflicted woman: our favorite tragic victim, our repository of rarefied, elegiac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"The 76-year-old screen icon … had a 'very limited stroke which is reversible', her family said in a statement. 'Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"The Justice Department is going on the offensive against the anonymous author of A Warning, telling them in a letter obtained by CNN Business that he or she "may be violating 'one or more n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"Paris's National Picasso Museum and the Giacometti Foundation are teaming up to manage the new institution for at least the first five years, from June 2020 through June 2025. (After that, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"If the question is whether, a century from now, his operas will get new productions, his symphonies will circulate more frequently, or pianists will take on his études, Mr. Glass couldn't …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Two visual-effects companies will apply CGI to surviving film footage and photographs of the actor, who was killed in a car crash at age 24 in 1955, to create "a realistic version of James D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"Countless dancers find themselves at a crossroads when they question whether they still love dance, whether the sacrifices are worth it or whether a professional career is truly what they w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Says Anthony Roth Costanzo, who plays the title role, "It brings you back to the most fundamental things about your technique. And if your house is not in order, you're not going to get thro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]The American Bible Society is building a $60 million museum, roughly halfway between Independence Hall and the National Constitution Center, that it's calling the Faith and Liberty Discovery…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Back in the 1990s, videographer Frederick Allen documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard's 280-year-old wrecked ship on the North Carolina coast. Earlier this decade, a department of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Shortly after the start of Wednesday evening's performance of this production " well-known for casting Black actors as the Loman family " audience members began to hear dripping water. About…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AM[SHARE]Most props, most props, you could hold them in your hand. A suitcase. A tooth. A (shudders) doll. They're part of the pleasure of theatre, the imagination made palpable. But sometimes, somet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]This was one the now-forgotten Warner/Reprise "Loss Leader" albums, a series of low-priced sampler albums by Warner/Reprise artists that was one of the most ingenious and effective promotion…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The following is an incredibly thoughtful response written by Carter Gilles to my post The Chasm of Disbelief. I am particularly grateful to him for pointing out the important role that doin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]One night at Hamilton in San Francisco earlier this year, right at the moment of the Hamilton-Burr duel, an audience member had a heart attack; the commotion made some people believe there w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Over a career spanning 50 years, [Juan Carlos] Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor " a Gogolian province in the tropics [s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"The 69-year-old [author of I Will Never See the World Again] was arrested in 2016 with his brother, the economist and journalist Mehmet Altan, on allegations of spreading 'subliminal messag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Ms. Laforêt won a radio talent contest as a teenager and … went on to appear in 37 feature films, including the 1961 dramas Saint-Tropez Blues,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Lionheart, by director Genevieve Nnaji, includes only 11 minutes of dialogue that aren't in English. A statement from the Academy said that even though the name of the category was changed t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"The surprise announcement was made on Tuesday, with the gallery pledging to lend 300 portraits a year to regional galleries and organisations across the UK during the … [£35.5m] revamp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]For the second time in five years, voters in North Carolina's largest city and surrounding Mecklenburg County defeated a proposal to raise the sales tax locally by a one-fourth of a percenta…
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