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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Jia Tolentino: "More than a century after The Custom of the Country was published, Undine's habits, given a superficial makeover, could be rebranded not just as aspirational but feminist. To…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Reporter Claire Armitstead talks to prestidigitators who use their craft to comfort children in refugee camps, restore movement to hemiplegia patients, assist in research on cognition; treat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia's first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company " in his living room. Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]"The best argument against cancel culture is that the whole thing is a myth, existing only in the furious minds of outraged social media users. People who are canceled usually don't stay tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Over a period of 15 years, from 1967 to 1982, [he] wrote some of the most brilliant and distinctive plays on the British stage. Yet he became sour and paranoid about the failure of the arti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The unfair labor practices complaint charges that Baltimore Symphony management has failed to bargain in good faith, "unlawfully locked out the musicians … [and] failed and refused to prov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The 59-year-old conductor's contract was to have expired at the end of this season; he'll now remain on the job through 2022-23. In his 14 years there so far, he's brought the KCSO increasin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"A report from SMU DataArts ranks the most 'arts-vibrant' communities in the United States based on the number of artists and arts and cultural nonprofits it has, as well as the number of pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]Following "profound and healthy debate" at its Extraordinary General Assembly, the International Council of Museums postponed indefinitely a vote on whether to adopt a new definition of muse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]In an escalation of what has reportedly been a long feud, staffers of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities "arrived at their offices in Southeast before the holiday weekend to find…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2019
"A prolific conductor of film, television, and video game scores, Anthony Parnther may be one of Southern California's best kept musical secrets. An American conductor of West Indian and Sam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Ben Barson and Giselxanath Rodriguez, part of the Afro Yaqui Music colective, talk about artivism " what it means, what it can look like " in relation to building a jazz opera with various …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"I dont want to call it a conspiracy, because I dont think its done on purpose, but there is this falling away of women artists and artists of color that needs to stop and be corrected, says…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"The Lakota Music Project [is] a collaborative program developed with the [South Dakota Symphony Orchestra] and musicians of the tribe. The goal is to create cultural cooperation and break d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"[Opera North] has won awards before, but the one it received last December represented a first for any opera company. City of Sanctuary, an independent national movement working on solidari…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Over the last few years, [Kevin Jones and Lesli Mones, co-founders of The August Wilson Red Door Project, and retired Portland Police Bureau deputy chief Robert Day] have formed an unusual …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"'Why aren't there more Latinx murals in Kansas City?' The Flatland team reached out to historians, cultural directors, curators, sociologists and artists, many of whom identify as Hispanic …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Tara Brooke Watkins discusses how Oklahoma! has shaped the state's cultural identity, the Tulsa race Massacre, and Spinning Plates's production of the musical with an all-black cast." " How…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"This year's cohort … may suggest a shift [away from painting and toward multimedia work] for a program that has been exceedingly influential as a career-defining platform for generations …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Nicole Brewer examines a prominent racist policy in theatre " when plays written by people of color are staged by white directors " through the lens of actors, theatregoers, and playwrights…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"We live in a time when Google spreadsheets are documenting how arts administrators are underpaid and undervalued; when activists and cultural workers increasingly demand accountability from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Phil Chan, co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface: "What is emerging is a series of best practices that any performing arts organization can employ when staging works from the Western canon …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Michaela Goldhaber, current artistic director of Wry Crips, talks to the founding and early members of the disabled women's theatre group about their history." " HowlRound
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Dozens of statues went up in western European cities in the decades between the revolutions of 1848 and the outbreak of World War I. Nowhere were they used more deliberately to craft a natio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]"Imagine this scenario: Hilarion likes Giselle, but she swipes right on Albrecht, and is smitten. Little does she know, Albrecht is already involved with Bathilde. When Giselle finds out, sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"After a latish start as an artist " she was in her 30s " she made steady initial headway in a male-dominated Black Power movement and a white-dominated feminist movement. And she has held h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"Technically, the lockout ends Monday, but the musicians' first work obligation isn't until 10 a.m. Wednesday. If the players show up for rehearsal, the work stoppage would be over. If, inst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Three years after three dozen people died in the flames at the warehouse-turned-artist-colony, Max Harris, the 29-year-old resident caretaker, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Totalitarian systems don't last, it is my fervent belief. Some of them have lasted longer than others. When they come apart, what is it that causes them to fall apart? … [And] how do you …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"According to the 22nd annual Boxed In report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film …, female characters comprised 45% of all speaking characters across comedies, d…
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