"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"The Colour of Music Festival announces the Nashville, TN début of Colour of Music Festival 'Petit' November 6-9, 2019 at multiple noted venues throughout downtown Nashville, a five-day fes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"In court filings, John H. McFadden " scion of one of the founding families behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art " denied claims that he stole a bronze cast of one of … Brancusi's most fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"On paper, John Zorn's Jumalattaret … looks impossible: breathless vocalise; abrupt transitions from head-spinning complexity to folk-song simplicity; and, within the span of a single meas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wesley Morris: "Maybe it's not immediately obvious. But it makes sense. He's the biggest black playwright in America. If you were a kid, teenager or barely an adult in the 2000s, living in a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Amrou Al-Kadhi: "When I started doing drag, it felt like the ultimate rejection of everything I was taught in the Middle East. … I felt like I was lying. I was trying to live out things th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Sarah Kaufman: "As a lifelong ballet lover but ambivalent dance mom, here's my cri de coeur: Do your kids a favor and banish the thought. Yes, there are options galore for parents looking fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Soraya Nadia McDonald: "Does it still make sense to present an opera written by [four whites] as the opera about black American life? Is it a collection of insulting stereotypes set against …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PM[SHARE]"Shaw was most recently theater critic at Time Out New York and 4Columns.org, and was awarded the 2018 George Jean Nathan Award for theater criticism. (The previous year's winner was Sara Ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The [Me2/Orchestra's] beginnings were humble " seven people showed up to the first rehearsal in Burlington, Vt., in 2011. Yet it has grown " almost entirely by word of mouth, [Ronald] Braun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Social media lit up with outrage when Handke's win was announced, and criticism came from some (seemingly) surprising quarters. Albania's acting foreign minister said the award was "an ignob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The final episode of Studio 360 will air in February, … [and] host Kurt Andersen's role with the program will end later this month. … John Barth, PRX's chief content officer, would not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The original manuscript of the story no longer exists, with the oldest versions of the story believed to have been transcribed by the poet Teika, who died in 1241. Until now, just four chap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"With a rich accumulation of poems, metafictions and other unclassifiable prose works, … he superimposed a psychic overlay on the city's mundane streets and terraces, its feuds and faction…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]"Bong's last two films, 2013's Snowpiercer and 2017's Okja, were his first to be made in English: they weren't exactly misfires, either critically or commercially, yet both clearly had desig…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Marina Harss: "The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man" " Robert Walser " "whose writings tended to track the mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Eve Babitz: "I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"[Historian Peter] La Chapelle explains how fiddler-politicians and politician-fans have used this oddly flexible genre to advocate for the poor and dispossessed, fight for racial justice, f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Fragments of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose " containing a double entendre-filled episode about a pilgrim at a shrine " were found in a centuries-old book binding in the public records …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"MoMA is a machine for viewing art, and the success of this latest incarnation will be gauged by how many visitors the facility can process in any given day. … The 2004 expansion created e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"The 2019 Fringe Festival page touting [a solo biofeedback session with psychologist Gary Ames] reads biofeedback will open the bridge 'between conscious and subconscious realms. Let creativ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The streaming giant is renting the Belasco Theatre in midtown Manhattan for a four-week, eight-shows-a-week Broadway-style run of its latest major feature, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The Nobel committee cited Polish novelist Tokarczuk, awarded the delayed prize for 2018, for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]More than its disappointing 1985 predecessor, the Met's vigorous new staging of Gershwin's opera manages to vindicate a controversial cultural landmark whose reputation, still unsettled, fee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"For all its intelligence and skill and its obvious desire to make the place feel friendlier, the expansion seems to me not to have solved the problem of the Modern's ambience. … You may f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Diego Ramalho grew up breakdancing in a small city in Brazil and reluctantly started taking ballet lessons at age 18. Eight years later, he's a full member of Ballet Edmonton, coaching his c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"[A] stream of stories, boasts and false leads has kept the police busy for years and has led to just two conclusions: the painting was stolen by the mafia, and it was then destroyed. … In…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]Lissner, who ran La Scala in Milan (2005-2012) before taking charge of the Opéra national de Paris, reaches France's mandatory retirement age of 67 next year, so his contract there won't be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]After decades living and working all over the U.S., actor-director-choreographer Robert Barry Fleming is now in his first season as artistic director of one of the country's most important r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]"An actor and humorist, [he] was a core figure in two of the quirkiest television shows of the 1970s, The Great American Dream Machine and the children's program Marshall Efron's Illustrated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Everything I See I Swallow, which scored a success at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe and is now touring regional England, involves "the art of shibari, the centuries-old practice of Japanese…
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