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Thursday, October 17, 2019

Gramophone's Recording Of The Year Is Bertrand Chamayou's Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos; Jaap Van Zweden's Other Band Is Orchestra Of The Year by Artsjournal1

Chamayou's Erato-label disc of the 2nd and 5th Concertos with Emmanuel Krivine conducting the Orchestre National de France prevailed over nine other category winners to take the top prize. T…

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Leonardo's 'Vitruvian Man' Will Be Going To The Louvre's Exhibition After All by Artsjournal1

"With just days to go before its hotly anticipated Leonardo da Vinci retrospective opens, the Louvre has finally secured the loan of one of the artist's key works, following a two-year polit…

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Morphing 'Swan Lake' Into A Modern Irish Folk Tale by Artsjournal1

Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has taken the kernel of the Tchaikovsky/Petipa classic's story and transplanted to in the milieu of contemporary Ireland to create Swan Lake/Loch na hEala,…

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Shape-Shifting Screens: How Filmmakers Are Playing With Aspect Ratios by Artsjournal1

The proportions of movies' height and width have changed several times over the course of cinema history, but, for practical reasons (projectionists don't like changing equipment all the tim…

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The Rehabilitation Of Marie Antoinette by Artsjournal1

"This week, 226 years since her execution on Oct. 16, 1793, a new exhibition in Paris aims to show how the queen's image has been transformed in recent years. From reviled royal to pop icon,…

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There's Doublethink At The Heart Of Arts Awards, And This Year's Double Booker Prize Brought It To The Surface by Artsjournal1

"Everyone agrees that competition is the enemy of art. And yet, on the whole, there is also an agreement to conspire in the notion that it isn't. This paradox, this doublethink, usually work…

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How Apple Made Its Move Into TV Production by Artsjournal1

"After a few false starts and a little offscreen drama, AppleTV+ finally makes its big debut with a slate of shows, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and a billion potential customers …

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In 'Snatch-And-Run', Salvador Dalí Etching Stolen From San Francisco Gallery by Artsjournal1

On Sunday afternoon, a man walked into the Dennis Rae Fine Art Gallery, walked up to Dalí's 1966 hand-colored etching Burning Giraffe, picked it right off the easel, and walked out the op…

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Number Of Self-Published Books In U.S. Up By At Least 40% In One Year (And Probably Much More) by Artsjournal1

"According to Bowker's annual survey of the self-publishing market … the total number of print and e-books that were self-published in 2018 was 1.68 million, up from 1.19 million in 2017. …

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Longtime San Francisco Chronicle Music And Dance Critic Marilyn Tucker Dead At 89 by Artsjournal1

"Tucker's primary love was music, a devotion that she first cultivated in the Lutheran church of her childhood. But over the course of her [three decades] at The Chronicle, which began in 19…

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Five Women Sentenced For Plot To Blow Up Notre-Dame De Paris by Artsjournal1

"A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a car bomb outside Notre-Dame cathedral i…

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What English National Opera Really Needs From Its New Boss: Bankers by Artsjournal1

"Bankers" are something that ENO's previous two artistic directors didn't manage to provide many of, and it's now up to Annilese Miskimmon, their new successor, to get some. Fortunately, exp…

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The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (1) by Artsjournal1

Throughout the coming month, I'll write about one of these albums every weekday in the order in which I first heard them, starting in 1968 with the first record I ever bought with my own mon…

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Mission Creep??!! by Artsjournal1

A colleague recently shared that when they advocate for community engagement in their organization they get pushback about "mission creep." Mission creep??!! If connecting the arts with comm…

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Jane Austen Lovers Are Furious At The New Ending To Her Unfinished Novel by Artsjournal1

"Andrew Davies' TV adaptation of Sanditon, which aired on Sunday, ended with Charlotte and Sidney bidding each other a tearful farewell " in love, but not together. … The ending has enrage…

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The Opera That Reimagined The Last Habsburg Emperor And Empress For The Shattered Europe Of 1919 by Artsjournal1

"The year 1919 was pivotal in European culture, with bold portents for the postwar future " it was the year that Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus and Marcel Duchamp painted a mustache on t…

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A Dance Critic Assesses Joaquin Phoenix's 'Joker' Moves by Artsjournal1

Gia Kourlas: "You can't completely banish your true self when you dance; Arthur Fleck is still somewhere inside of Mr. Phoenix, even after Arthur transforms himself into the Joker. What make…

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Museums Are Finally Paying Real Attention To The Needs Of Visitors With Disabilities by Artsjournal1

Well, some of them are. Reporter Claire Voon looks at some museums who are doing well in this area (the new MoMA) and some that have a way to go. " Artsy

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Harold Bloom, Bestselling And Controversial Literary Critic, Dead At 89 by Artsjournal1

"From a vaunted perch at Yale, he flew in the face of almost every trend in the literary criticism of his day. Chiefly he argued for the literary superiority of the Western giants like Shake…

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'My Actual Goal Is To Be The Anthony Bourdain Of Theatre': Helen Shaw, New York Magazine's New Critic by Artsjournal1

"I want to say to readers: You have no idea that you want to go to this weird corner and eat these spicy noodles, but trust me, you'll love it. If I could do one millionth of that for theatr…

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World's Biggest Movie-Theater Chain Moves Into Streaming Video by Artsjournal1

"[AMC Entertainment's new] service, AMC Theaters On Demand, will offer about 2,000 films for sale or rent after their theatrical runs, just as iTunes, Amazon and other video-on-demand retail…

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Netflix And Director Ava DuVernay Sued For Defamation By " Wait, Who? by Artsjournal1

In the 1940s, John E. Reid and Associates developed a commonly-used, and now-controversial police interrogation method called the Reid Technique. That method is mentioned once, briefly, in W…

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A Prison Production Of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' Goes On Tour by Artsjournal1

"The cast was strip-searched before boarding the bus to their show. The leading man was shackled so tightly that he performed with abrasions on his wrists. And the moment the men finished th…

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Musician John Cohen Of New Lost City Ramblers Dead At 87 by Artsjournal1

"[He] was distinguished in at least three fields. As a photographer in the 1950s and '60s he made memorable images of contemporary American writers and painters, and of the young Bob Dylan s…

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San Antonio Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum, Thanks To A Hot-Sauce Heiress by Artsjournal1

Shortly before she died in 2007, philanthropist Linda Pace had a dream in which she saw a shining red counterpart to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz which would hold her art collection …

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Books that made me by Artsjournal1

Clive James recently filled out the Guardian's "Books That Made Me" questionnaire. I was so struck by his answers " as well as the questions themselves " that I decided to play along. " Terr…

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Hannah Svensson And Friends by Artsjournal1

One of the highlights of the 2019 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival was a concert by Hannah Svensson. Now, Ms. Svensson's new album, Places And Dreams, presents her along with the colleagues who ba…

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Is Porgy a "Stereotype"? " Take Three by Artsjournal1

Kevin Deas, the exceptional bass-baritone who is the anonymous "Porgy" of my previous blog, has written to me at greater length about singing the part " and the importance of the view "from …

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Monday, October 14, 2019

For First Time In 27 Years, And Despite The Rules, Booker Prize Is Shared By Two Titles by Artsjournal1

Yes, one of them is Margaret Atwood's The Testaments; the other is Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Over more than five hours of debate, the judges were told repeatedly that splitti…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 13, 2019

NYC's Foundry Theatre to Close After 25 Years by Artsjournal1

"In its 25-year history, the Foundry's productions earned the company 14 Obie Awards. It differentiated itself from other companies by also having a robust social justice and community organ…

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Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre by Artsjournal1

"The Foundry was never reduced to a market brand for corporate picking or seduced into the new star on the block for avant-garde propping up. Instead, it put a premium on the blue notes shot…

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