"The brainchild of Rev. Yolanda Norton, a Hebrew Bible scholar and the H. Eugene Farlough Chair of Black Church Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Beyoncé Mass explores how …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24PM[SHARE]"When people talk about the healing power of music, they are generally referring to the listener, but one orchestra in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont is founded on the idea that mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24PM[SHARE]The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart's buoyant operatic comedy, is built on an infrastructure of political discontent. Although it sheathes its claws in time for a happy ending, this is an opera w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24PM[SHARE]"For years, [Heidi Gustafson] has been engaged in a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary exploration of the mineral … While there has recently been renewed interest in creating paints from natu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"'Bad light makes you unhappy,' Maurer once said. He repeatedly proclaimed his love for the light bulb, which became his trademark. While other designers saw it as something to keep hidden u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]"Why was Bologna, the largest city in northern Italy, so receptive to women artists? … 'A few factors include the city's unusual political structure and the diversity of artistic patronage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]For all the lore that exists around "Brooklynese" (not to mention the insistence of the Brooklyn borough president), a pair of linguistics researchers found that there was no evidence for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]But she did it only by email, which meant she'd have time and space to craft her answers " and, writes reporter Mark Lawson, "the precise replies suggest that her public reticence may come f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]The Las Vegas-based network made news in September when it announced "severe cash flow issues," laid off its staff in Reno, and saw its CEO resign. Now the new interim chief says "We were ve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Yes, it's a tricky issue: the video platform, along with Facebook, is facing pressure from many sides to remove violent and extremist content; review and removal by humans is slow (and traum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Brigitte Fassbaender had a long and admired career as a mezzo, and after retiring from singing she went on to run the opera house in Innsbruck, Austria. In her recently-published memoir and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Heather MacDonald: "It is a grotesque inversion of the proper hierarchy between public accomplishment and private sexual behavior to sacrifice an artist of Domingo's stature for the sake of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]The organization " which used to be called the American Dance Institute until it moved from Rockville, MD into a huge former lumberyard in Catskill, NY " lets dance artists spend one or two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Not to be left behind in such matters by Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman, the Kingdom announced that the Saudi Museum of Modern Art " to be "designed according to a modern creative concept influe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]I started exploring the long-inaccessible contents of my father's record cabinets when I was in junior high school. There I found $64,000 Jazz, a sampler released in 1955 as a promotional ti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AM[SHARE]Visitors' general state of confusion is unlikely to be dispelled unless MoMA rethinks its new installation strategy, which may satisfy curators' desire to shake up static displays, but will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AM[SHARE]Says Stuart Kells, "Shakespeare certainly did have books, and he certainly read them. Why, then, have we found none of his manuscripts, and why are there no books with an authentic Shakespea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]From the kindergarten kid who threw a snowball with a rock in it at her, to her father (the school principal), to Hal Prince humiliating her in front of the entire company of Evita, to John …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]It started with Beauty and the Beast on Broadway in 1994, followed up three years later by The Lion King. Yet Disney Theatrical Group didn't become a corporate behemoth churning out pale cop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]As of this year, the World Health Organization thinks so, and the American Psychiatric Association has included "internet gaming disorder" in the DSM. More than a few people are skeptical, i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"The once-beloved institution that has been closed for four years has delayed the [planned Nov. 3] reopening of its new Pennsylvania Avenue space. … Some of the delay was caused by unfores…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]As it begins a $7 million capital campaign to fund a new Learning Center for Arts and Intersectionality that will host workshops and after-school programs, upgrades its archives and library …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]The performance-competitions that were made famous by the documentary Paris Is Burning, introduced the world to voguing, and arguably inspired RuPaul's Drag Race have generally judged their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]"Santos started out playing Latin big band music at resorts in upstate New York's Catskills, and performed with Machito's orchestra at New York's city's Palladium in the 1950s. Over his long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]The Royal New Zealand Ballet's artistic director, Patricia Barker, "says she realized that a season devoted to women's works shouldn't be seen as a huge undertaking, but something that could…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The musicians' walkout in March and April of this year was the key factor in the increase in the CSO's deficit from $900,000 in 2017-18 to $1.1 million in 2018-19. On the other hand, operati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The project, called "Cannes on Air," includes adding another floor to the Palais des Festivals, building a new museum of cinema history and a state-of-the-art 12-screen multiplex, and establ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Edith Halpert's career as a pioneering gallery owner who specialized in modern American art is memorialized in a new exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum. " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18AM[SHARE]I can't imagine how a record of concerted works by Berg and Bartók made its way into the classical bin at the musical instrument store in Smalltown, U.S.A. Granted, Isaac Stern and Leonar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18AM[SHARE]"Touring with a message is not for the faint of heart. From considerations about how to market the work to concerns about safety, touring to cities where, in general, that message may not be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]"Whether traditional black boxes or nontraditional spaces, often in residential neighborhoods, Chicago storefront theatre prides itself on more intimacy, as well as edgier material, than an …
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