Wednesday, September 18, 2019
"There has at last been an arrest in a high-profile string of suspected Old Master forgeries uncovered in 2016. An Italian painter, Lino Frongia, 61, was taken into custody in northern Italy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"We will note that 'they' has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular 'they' mirrors the development of the singular 'you' from th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]It's kind of calling-for-immediate-attention bell that invites a sharp smack with palm or finger, and drives Basil Fawlty to the very verge of derangement. Ping! It's a comedy device " an in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]Think you (or your organization) don't understand the people you are trying to reach? If you are talking about people other than your current attendees/donors and their peers, you are 100% c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Sediqa Sherzai founded Radio Roshani in Kunduz in 2008. The Taliban fired rockets at the station the next year. In 2015 they stole the station's equipment and planted mines in the building. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"The accompanying political narrative was that the creative industries would champion the social utility of arts and culture as progressive realms to engage fractured communities, realise pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"With just 10 dancers, [Ballet X is] a model of what is possible for small contemporary ballet troupes " and it embodies many of the ideals that larger companies are striving for today. It c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"These tufty mammals are the stars of Philippe Quesne's The Moles, which ran at N.Y.U. Skirball over the weekend and kicked off with a Friday afternoon parade through the West Village. A roc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"As the wind goes around the building, it accelerates, and it creates vortices that alternate, causing the building to move from side to side. Sometimes we can use that phenomenon, cutting o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Three years ago, the invention of Vantablack, a carbon nanotube coating that absorbs up to 99.965% of all light, made headlines, especially when artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"As the 2019 school year gets underway, ProjectArt, an initiative founded by Ardash Alphons in Harlem in 2011, is expanding to New Orleans and San Francisco, bringing arts access to two citi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The Orchestre Métropolitain, where native Montrealer YNS held his first music director position (beginning in 2000) and which he brought to international attention, has appointed him Artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"After a great deal of reflection," said Woods in a statement, "I have concluded that my hopes and aspirations lie elsewhere, and as a result, I have tendered my resignation." He served in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The 2019 laureates for the Â¥15 million ($141,000) award, created by the Japan Art Association as a sort of Nobel Prize for the arts, are William Kentridge (painting) Mona Hatoum (sculptur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]"Fans of the surreal, the bizarre and sardonic anthropomorphic cows are in a fervour after The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson's website was updated this weekend with promises of 'a new onli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Q: How do you invite thieves to steal a famous, expensive, publicly exhibited artwork? A: Publicly announce that no guards are protecting it. " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AM[SHARE]Dave Douglas is a trumpeter whose adherence to basic jazz values fully justifies the title of the new album he shares with pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille in their unusual trio.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2019
Kate McLeod, Head of School and Teacher Services at Atlanta's High Museum of Art: "One of the High's overarching goals in the past few years is to grow and expand inclusive programming for a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met's history. It's a step on the museum's rocky road towar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate " being staged at the Donmar " has become …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Photographer Richard Ross has documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for the better part of a decade. In tonight's 'Brief But Spectacular', Ross shares what it feels like to honor the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"[The Kennedy Center has] long struggled with a sense of isolation, a geographic and elite island apart from the surrounding city. To counter that, the center began its popular and free Mill…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Making classical music a more equitable place demands a cultural change " and cultural changes don't happen without conversation and action. Just in the past five or so years, there has bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
"The latest episode is tied to the fight for control of the commission, which will shift from the mayor's office to an independent agency Oct. 1," pursuant to legislation by the city council…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]The Las Vegas-based network, which operates a classical station in the city and a news station which is re-transmitted throughout the state, expanded into Reno (a market that already had two…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]An Armenian born in Iran and raised in Iraq, Martin came to New York to study and met Scorsese in the early 1960s. He worked on the director's first feature (Who's That Knocking at My Door?)…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]There was a point at which a number of African-American composers were writing serious, important work, writes Joseph Horowitz. "Racial prejudice, personal and institutional, obviously inhib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"It turns out that there are a lot of forces converging to make this shape ideal, and to get the whole picture, we'll have to look from three angles: the anatomy of a reader, the history of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf "has been part of the canon since it became a Broadway hit in 1976. Still, [the play] doesn't get a lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]"Jenet Le Lacheur " a transfeminine Brit who earned recognition, before coming out, in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " has … [recently starred] as Hamlet in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Davis, now 77, will have been music director and principal conductor at Lyric for 21 years when he retires at the end of next season (2020-21) Succeeding him will be Italian conductor Enriqu…
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