Friday, October 4, 2019
"People arrested on low-level misdemeanors in Brooklyn will now have the option to complete a one-day arts course at the Brooklyn Museum instead of ever having to appear in court, thanks to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]After ten years, and as the ever more popular show expands from the US to the UK (with plans for Canada and Australia), it's impossible to deny that Drag Race has brought drag a once-undream…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]"Music industry figures have said a no-deal Brexit would make touring 'simply unviable for many artists', after new government guidelines for cultural, heritage and sporting professionals to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]"The sprawling science, tech and business museum on the city's South Side will become the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry after the museum's board voted to accept Griffin's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]It's not just a matter of slangy terms like "happy dust" (German and Spanish have their own words for cocaine). Finding equivalents for the contractions and non-standard grammar in the libre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]"He got hooked on the idea that movie title sequences could be more than just 'book covers,' as he once described it, and he parlayed that concept into a 50-year career designing title seque…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]"Working with dancers, a lot gets communicated non-verbally, but with untrained dancers you need to find a specific and deliberate language around movement because there is no shared languag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]Barely more than a week ago, the board of the Seattle company said there wasn't money to continue operating even for another month and was prepared to close. (This just nine months after Int…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:05AM[SHARE]Just a couple of months ago, it looked like the foreign administrators brought in to reform Italy's museums would all be chased out of the country by the populist government. Then that gover…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The news that Darren Walker has been named as one of the National Gallery of Art's five general trustees gave me pause. My misgivings arose from what struck me as his astonishingly clueless …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]With virtually no public money flowing in, U.S. arts organizations have, understandably, been most concerned with the interests of those who fund the enterprise. This narrowness of attention…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm assembled their book of stories as folklorists, not children's authors, and they intended their book for adult students of German culture, not for parents to read to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the uses of well-placed pauses for the purposes of acoustical clarity, rhetoric, drama, surprise, and even humor, traveling from chanting monks and Monte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Spoken-word artist and author Abd el Malik is staging Camus's The Just Assassins, now considered a classic play in France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet with R&B and hip-hop accompan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]At the city's major museum for Tibetan and Himalayan art, "staff will be reduced by 25%, going down from 89 to 67 employees, across operational and curatorial departments. Starting in Januar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Major publishers will do right by their cookbook authors, who are usually already established, but there's a larger set of small publishers who work with newer writers. "With these smaller p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"Now, with Madea behind him " he was fed up with playing her " Perry's cultural legacy remains complex, ever evolving, and dependent on what he does next. In the short term, that means openi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"A full-length ballet is 'like a Broadway show,' according to [the company's artistic director]. It's generally a big, splashy production with elaborate sets and costumes, familiar music, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Kancheli's work became known in the West as early as the 1970s " his Fourth Symphony, "In Memoria di Michelangelo," was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1978 " but it was in the 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The RSC announced that after months of deliberations and a vociferous campaign from artists, the public and environmentalists, it had decided to curtail its eight-year relationship. The mov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Over the next few weeks voters will face a deluge of information aimed at swaying them for or against a quarter-cent sales tax hike in Mecklenburg County. The controversial measure would br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"If board members can be forced out because of what they do for a living, what does that mean for cultural institutions that depend on their generosity to survive? … Anyone who scans the f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
"In [Soft Power], a stand-in for Hwang named DHH is hired by a Chinese producer to try to stage a theatrical production in Shanghai. Then, after a stabbing that mirrors Hwang's own, he falls…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM[SHARE]"What started as a quiet digital backwater is now increasingly growing in prominence, drawing the attention of audiences and moneyed interests alike. … And the story of how we go here can …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"While [Kristin Colvin] Young's job involves the responsibilities that immediately come to mind when you think of stage management " like calling the lights and sound during shows " her role…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"[She] painted bold, colorful works, often inspired by nature or music, and traveled in the same circles as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other artists who were redefining painting …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Radio Ambulante has a Facebook group with thousands of members in more than 19 countries. Editors there decided, "Let's go back to the first place and do this but offline. We don't want to h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Anne Midgette: "No figure in classical music is more iconic than the conductor, or more misunderstood. … No job in music is harder to quantify, and no job is, when it's done well, more imp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The MacArthur-winning modern choreographer is creating a new solo on the star ballerina for the opening of this year's Fall For Dance festival in New York. Brian Seibert talks with the two o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]A collective called Culture Declares Emergency argues that the new funding strategy proposed by Arts Council England "neither addresses the urgency of the climate and ecological emergency no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]With more than 22,000 works hanging in the chain's roughly 1,300 restaurants, Nando's is arguably the best place in the world to check out work by contemporary South African artists. And the…
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