"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Artist Angela Washko spent four years studying Neil Strauss's notorious womanizing instruction manual The Game, along with other materials of its kind, to develop The Game: The Game, a video…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Last week in Montreal was the annual conference of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Kathleen McGuire was there's and she brings news of nine interesting pieces of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]It's happening more and more, as part of the curtain speech or separately: a speaker formally acknowledges that, for example, "we are on Lenape land" (in the case of New York City). Lauren W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"The first major touring exhibition of artifacts from King Tut's tomb was a product of financial necessity. In 1961, archaeological sites in Egypt were in danger of flooding and the country …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) wore black, dyed his hair green, broke with his family, refused to get a regular job, did absinthe and opium, had too much illicit sex, and, of course, died youn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]He created, and often wrote scripts for, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, Love on a Rooftop, The Girl With Something Extra, and Bridget Loves Bernie. (He also wrote 17 episodes of Bewit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]In September, the trustees of The Roundhouse declined to accept a £1 million grant from the Sackler Trust, controlled by the family which owns the company that makes OxyContin. Said a Rou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Before it lost public sympathy with a badly misjudged action on the London Underground, the British activist group's agitprop had had a good deal of success, thanks to its "instinctive under…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]In news received with consternation by many city arts organizations, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Finkelpearl would be stepping down by what the ex-commissioner called "mutual agreeme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"[The company's] 2018 annual report lists both 'censorship' and 'the need to adapt our content and users interfaces for specific cultural and language differences' as business risks. But as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"When the museum reopened last year, Aline Nyirahumure, who is from Rwanda and runs the African cultural center Kuumba in Brussels, was not impressed. Much of the money went into a new build…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Forty-nine years after the fact, I can't remember how or why I first got interested in Miles Davis. Not that you would have needed a reason to be interested in Miles in 1970. " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]Do you ever wonder how choreographers choose their titles? After seeing James Whiteside's New American Romance on the last day of American Ballet Theatre's fall season at the former New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]The aggressively transgressive new MoMA, trying to combat museum-ennui by shaking up its displays, has aimed its cannon at the canon. Its disruptive installation strategy audaciously breache…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]"An unsigned painting of an unidentified bald man with a beard has aroused excitement among historians and art buffs after lying largely unnoticed in the collection of a historic chateau in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]GES-2, a center for contemporary art(s) designed by Renzo Piano and constructed inside a disused 1907 power station, will open next September. Leonid Mikhelson, the billionaire funding the p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]Ever since Michael Smuin founded Smuin Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco in 1994, the company has had to scrounge rented studio space as it could, sometimes even ending rehearsals so that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"When construction crews dismantled the chapel's acoustical ceiling tiles this summer to prepare the building for a new skylight, they found the concrete support walls were built without ste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]Officials ranging from the country's minister of culture to UNESCO executives say that restoring museums, ancient churches and mosques will not only provide employment and (eventually) reven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"The conversation is often depicted in the media as a binary: On one side are those who argue that only writers from marginalized backgrounds should tell stories about people who share their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"[He spent] a long career of playing crotchety yet lovable men whose working-class roots mirrored his own. The actor, who worked until the day before his death, had a remarkable fluency with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"Unpaid overtime, precarious contracts, working hours so antisocial your only friends are people who do the same job … after a minimum of seven years' education and professional training, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42PM[SHARE]"'I consider this the ultimate in fan-fiction, basically,' [says] Lopez, … [who] wanted to know, 'How faithful can you be to the novel while simultaneously blowing it up?' For those who kn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house, is presenting a staging of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by provocative director Romeo …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Dave says there are seven types of stories in the world (starting with 'rags to riches'). Josh says there are ten types of stories in the world (starting with 'a threshold crossing'). One of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]This was one of the first jazz albums to be widely owned by people who didn't usually buy jazz albums, my father among them. I found a mint-condition copy in his record cabinet that looked a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]"Instead of singing Mozart or Verdi, she has made a precocious impact on the concert stage and as a curator, serving as artist in residence last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art " wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]"Indeed, the world's love of flamenco has long created problems within Spain, where the performance was once considered a vulgar and pornographic spectacle. Over the years, many Spaniards co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM[SHARE]"Last year The Sun ran a story that started: 'Convicts at a drug-plagued prison performed a lavish version of musical Les Misérables for the public " to boost lags' morale.' Two years earli…
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