Friday, September 13, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"In a move that will be welcome news to publishers and other rights holders, advocate general Maciej Szpunar has ruled sites such as Tom Kabinet that sell second-hand ebooks 'unlawful under …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"The ancient city of Hasankeyf, which sits on the banks of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited settlements." Yet it co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"The state has reached the benchmark for 'universal arts education access', meaning each one of its public schools provides some type of school-based arts instruction during the school day f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Dvořák predicted that a 'great and noble school' of American classical music would arise from 'Negro melodies.' But the black musical motherlode migrated to popular genres; American c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
"He's just completed a residency at the Belhaven University Dance Department in Jackson, Mississippi, and teaches ballet around the state, where he resides in a small town outside Hattiesbur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Aaron Peckham started the site back in 1999 at least partly as a joke, but it quickly became a genuinely valuable reference, with users constantly submitting and updating definitions for sla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]A reporter visits Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conservator Kamila Korbela as she works on restoring Frank Stella's enormous Bampur. The challenge: the hue that's fading fastest is one o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Management had Meyerhoff Symphony Hall open and ready for rehearsal for this weekend's scheduled season opening, but the musicians say they won't play without a contract " and they've now re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]"We are witnessing a great convergence between politics and culture, citizenship and commerce, ideology and aesthetics. Civic participation has been converted seamlessly into consumer practi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]From Cannes to Shanghai to Park City to Toronto, these events bring in visitors, create jobs, build a city's brand, and nurture culture. On the other hand, they can drive up prices, strain t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]"I've seen it many times when I'm conducting, and I see young children of various colors sitting in the front three or four rows," says the new music director of the San Bernardino Symphony …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]Ryan Bancroft, a 29-year-old native of Long Beach who studied at CalArts, discovered classical music through a one-minute clip of Beethoven pre-loaded on his family's first computer, and he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play "often funny and pervasively unsettling, examines that lingering wound [of American slavery] through the frustrated sex lives, and taboo sexual fantasies, of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]This portrait of a 15th-century Greek-Italian poet-soldier has, for the past dozen years, been on loan to the Prado from the Spanish collector Doña Helena Cambó de Guardans, who hopes …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Among the writers she worked with, first at Simon & Schuster and then at Random House, are Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ruth Reichl, Salman Rushdie, Lena Dunham, Gary Shteyngart, Allegra Goodman, T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Rondi Marsh, The Pink RoomBill O'Connell And The Afro-Caribbean Ensemble, Wind Off The Hudson (Savant)" Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]When I attended the celebratory press conference in 2015 that announced multiple major benefactions to the Met's Asian Art Department, little did I know that a few years later the Met would …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]The beginning of a new academic year feels like a good time to work on making all of these resources more widely known. ArtsEngaged has the following available for people in the field who wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2019
"The [story] involves theft, adulterous affairs, a land deal gone wrong, a feud between families, two elite colleges, and some of the most famous poems in American literature." " Los Angeles…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]With four RSC plays, three other London shows, and a regional production all this year alone, the company called Rc-Annie is one of the most in-demand firms of its kind. Reporter Nick Smurth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"New technology like smartphone keyboards, language-learning apps, and digital databases makes revitalization work easier than ever, but it also requires hard conversations about which parts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]It is, as it were, a sensitive area. "Positioning a brand and crafting a suitable tone of voice is a mind-bendingly tricky thing to perfect. The Vagina Museum has built a reputation and a fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"Every weekday [for four decades], 650,000 commuters and visitors who jostled through the main concourse could gaze up at Kodak's Coloramas, the giant photographs that measured 18 feet high …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Former production coordinator Melinda McLain: "In rehearsal I saw him, at least once, grab one of the supernumeraries and just lay a kiss on her. … I also had young singers come and seek a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"[His] book, The Americans, published in this country in 1959, inspired generations of photographers, writers, filmmakers and musicians and made Mr. Frank one of the most important visual ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"I haven't made anything for three years. First, there is no money, second the job has tilted so much towards administration there is no time to make stuff. I have always said there are two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"For its first North American commission, the prize-winning firm Barozzi/Veiga … has begun formulating ideas aimed at making an inward-looking museum rooted in the 20th century more extrov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"[Her] final performance will take place at the Metropolitan Opera in the spring of 2020, when she will make her role debut as Kabanicha in performances of JanáÄek's Káťa Kabanov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"In [Autonomies], set in the near future, civil war has cut the land into two countries. The coastal State of Israel is nonreligious, with the cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv as its capital. J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
"On its face, [The Science Channel's] How It's Made is arguably about science and engineering rather than the vicissitudes of the working class, but its depiction of the everyday worker none…
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