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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"Mr. Gaines, who spent his first 15 years on a plantation near Baton Rouge, later moved with his family to Northern California, but in many ways he never left the landscape, rhythms and pain…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The November 20 event in Tel Aviv was planned as a benefit for a nonprofit providing medical care to indigent patients. But that organization's founder, an Orthodox rabbi, asked that no fema…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"As a playwright Mr. Branch delved into the black experience, both in the 20th century and earlier, in Off-Broadway plays like A Medal for Willie, about the bitterness that ensues when a bla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]After Christina Randall was released from jail after a three-year term for battery and robbery, she finished a bachelor's degree and hoped to get into social work " but with her incarceratio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The first Wal-Mart outside Arkansas opened in 1968 in Smalltown, U.S.A. Its record section had three bins of classical albums, many of them from Victrola, RCA's budget line, which featured r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33AM[SHARE]The news came from actress Dakota Johnson, who is to star in the feature, titled Crackpot; the item was buried deep in a news-and-gossip column at the trade website Deadline. The project cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]"Conlangs" (constructed languages) are hardly new: Esperanto and Volapük were created in the 19th century; Tolkien claimed he wrote his Middle Earth books so that someone would speak the El…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]Her most famous role was the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, which she originated in both London and New York (a first for an American in an ALW show), and she garnered a Tony…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]As Philip Glass's work about the monotheist pharaoh gets a major revival at the Met, news comes that a new opera on the life of King Tutankhamun is set to premiere late next year in Cairo. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Often when I work with directors, or when I'm directing myself, what you think at the beginning often changes. That's fair and normal. But with this show [American Utopia], the ideas David …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Says Billington, who began at the paper in 1971 and has written roughly 10,000 reviews, "I shall shortly be 80 and, with the years, the stress of writing to a deadline doesn't get any easier…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]A revival of Fires in the Mirror, Smith's 1992 solo show about the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and the tension between Caribbean Blacks and Hasidic Jews there, is opening in New York ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, [Camilo Fidel] López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorful…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"It's a big piece of evidence countering a major argument used by those arguing against ditching overdue fines for library books." " Forbes
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Witnesses report that three suspects rammed into the cathedral in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in southwestern France with a tree trunk strapped to their car." (Yes, a battering ram.) "Inside the ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The "East Bank" cultural quarter project " to include Sadler's Wells dance theatre, the BBC, the London College of Fashion, a new University College London campus, and both a public building…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]My father had no knowledge of or interest in classical music himself, but he brought home a record for me whenever he passed through Memphis on business. This is the one I remember best. " T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sir Jonathan Miller's direction of The Mikado " his staging, dating all the way back to 1986, is now back " is the source of the treasure-hoard that has allowed English National Opera's surv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The alto saxophonist has long found that the nine-piece-ensemble format stimulates his creativity, and over the years, he has made several nonet albums. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]"Arthur Farwell is probably the most neglected composer in our history." This assessment, by the late composer/critic A. Walter Kramer in 1973, rings ever louder today; Farwell has been deem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Cultural organizer and producer Joon Lynn Goh speaks with Janna Graham, a research-based practitioner, curator, and lecturer, about connecting cultural work with political organizing. " Howl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the country's first ever exhibition devoted solely to the works of Native American women. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Minnesota and New Mexico to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Says artist Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit's MBAD African Bead Museum, "I decided that I would open up an African Bead Museum, specially learning that the beads embodied the culture and t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"[Millicent Hodson's] reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine's 1925 Le Chant du Rossignol, the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Nearly 130 years ago, a Harvard anthropologist visited Calais, Maine, a town on the border with Canada, and recorded songs, words and stories from members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. For ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here's a look back at some of her major works.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"The Black Art Futures Fund was a topic of great curiosity at the 2019 GIA conference, if only because it seemed to the GIA crowd that founder DéLana R.A. Dameron is on to something new wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Bree Davies: "When I saw the conference workshop Innovations in Artist Housing: Inspiration from South America to address the 'Soho Effect', I was stoked. … [But] the panel on artist housi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"It takes some courage to come to a conference of funders and tell them what they do wrong. In no uncertain terms. Especially if you are an organization that could use their money. But there…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"The ADA is often mentioned as some kind of total solution to a still inaccessible world. But as was pointed out at the beginning of Monday's panel, Variations on a Theme: Funding Disability…
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