Friday, September 6, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"[She] overcame sexist attitudes and outright hostility to earn a place on the bandstand alongside such musical stars as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker." " The Washingto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]In 1993, there was a series of break-ins across the more expensive neighborhoods of Los Angeles in which dozens of paintings, antiques, and historic documents were taken. Two perps were capt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Show, don't tell" is one of the most basic rules of dramatic writing. Yet the ancient Greeks told-rather-than-showing all the time: convention forbid onstage violence, so messengers recount…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Simon Mellor, the Council's deputy chief executive: "To be clear, of course we're not going to be asking organisations to justify the relevance of individual works of art. We do, however, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]The tenor's performance at the benefit concert next March would have been his first appearance with The Dallas Opera since his U.S. operatic debut in 1961. (The one accuser in the latest rep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]It remains to be seen whether his cultural benefactions will be augmented by bequests. I'm guessing that museums on the receiving end of such bequests, unless encumbered by unacceptable cond…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]In Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast has some advice about hoarding: Don't hold onto anything you don't want your kids to have to sort through once you're gone. For the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2019
"What I've learned is: I love the danger. This thing I thought I hated all my life, that's why I was doing it. If the show is at 8, and it's 6, what will I be doing? Pacing. After 60 years, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"By offering vulnerable populations the opportunity to make choices, work collaboratively and express themselves creatively, dance has the power to be transformative." Writer Rachel Caldwell…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]More than 9,000 full-time school librarian positions were eliminated from 2009-2016, a 15% reduction, with teachers and their assistants having to add librarians' former duties to their work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]A special package on the great African-American playwright as she approaches her 88th birthday (Sept. 13), including a Q&A with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a feature on the undergraduate pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]"These kinds of investigations historically have raised more questions than they have answered, leaving victims and the public in the dark about what behavior was documented in the inquiry, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The flames aren't raging only in Brazil: there have been major wildfires in lowland Bolivia for weeks, and they have damaged and destroyed ancient paintings that date back as for as 1500 BC …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Additionally, "several … backstage employees described for the AP how they strove to shield young women from the star as administrators looked the other way." (These include staffers at Lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The successful candidate will be tasked with overseeing the museum's vast collection of indigenous American artifacts, including the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of more than 116 ob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]As editor at Universal Press Syndicate, beginning in 1974, "he signed up Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac and For Better or For Worse. He discovered The Boondocks and Cathy. He guided Doones…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]According to the government's spending review for 2020-21, "the budget of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will increase by 4.1% in real terms to £1.6bn, after …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tristram Hunt: "I think that the pre-history of fossil fuel companies in muddying the science about climate change, in lobbying, in their political acts, have been pretty criminal and they w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, as an experienced feature scribe who broke out with 2009's The Proposal, was to be paid a significantly higher fee than [Adele] Lim, a veteran TV writer who never…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Chris Jones recounts what happened at a recent Broadway performance of Harold Pinter's Betrayal when a cell phone went off, repeatedly, and seemed to make Tom Hiddleston cry without breaking…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]His weekly satire program, The Night Night Show, has been on television for not quite 18 months, and already Brian Tseng has become a big star. Why? Likely because he'll talk and joke openly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"In 2014, the D.C. Public Library system hired Jean Badalamenti as assistant manager of health and human services to help the city's 25 libraries better serve as a resource for the city's ro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]"Seven transfers in one season puts [the Williamstown Theater Festival] at the top of the list of New York stage feeders; no single theater, let alone one that's lit only 50 days a year, com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Several lawsuits filed against Epstein's estate "say that when [he] was luring teenagers into sexual exploitation in Florida, he was using a network of recruiters within New York City's danc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Kate Wagner: "Classical music is cruel not because there are winners and losers, first chairs and second chairs, but because it lies about the fact that these winners and losers are chosen l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Alan Harrison (who has run a few arts outfits in his time): "If a revenue budget cannot survive the number of paid hours required to reach the goals, then the organization itself is not viab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]His grandparents were Iraqi Jews who fled Baghdad in 1941, and much of his work is inspired by their experiences. He's most famous for his replica, placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Many of the artifacts that will be on display in the Humboldt Forum, a huge new museum under construction in a rebuilt Berlin palace, had for years been stored in less-than-ideal conditions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The exhibition at La Villette in northeastern Paris features the largest collection of artifacts connected with the young pharaoh ever to leave Cairo. More than 1.3 million people have atten…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Laura Eisen, then the orchestral manager of the Berlin Staatskapelle (the Staatsoper's orchestra), has come forward publicly to allege that in March of 2018, the conductor "came toward me, g…
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