Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Is a home without a kettle even a home? It is at least the first step towards home. And in The Doctor " Robert Icke's coruscating new play based on Schnitzler's Professor Bernhadi " the kett…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AM[SHARE]A painter I know had this to say about his work as an artist: "Pleasantly surprised by his watercolour. But the calligraphies … I see too much repetitive strain there." Personally, I love …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia " the current head of the Hohenzollern family, which ruled in Berlin for two centuries, until Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated at the end of World War…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Growing up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Vuvu Mpofu never even heard opera until she was 15, and, with no voice teachers in town, all she had to learn from were video discs of La Traviata…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]"Our intention is to inaugurate a part of the reconstructed palace in 2022 with expositions that let us celebrate the bicentennial of Brazil's independence," said an official. And while earl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"[After] negotiations described by union Equity as the toughest in recent times, … performers' weekly minimum pay will increase from £450 currently to £459.05 over three years " leav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]As noted cinéaste John Waters put it, "Oh no! Where will old art movie fans go to see rarefied foreign films in the safety of a rich neighborhood?" And Film at Lincoln Center program direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]The Testaments, Atwood's secrecy-shrouded sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and Quichotte, Rushdie's recently-released riff on Don Quixote, are joined on the list of six semifinalists by Elif S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"[She] amassed four Emmys during her time as Rhoda [Morgenstern] " three for her sidekick role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977, and one as the lead charact…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]London dealer Joseph Nahmad, 31 and part of a powerful multibillion-dollar family network of art dealers, got a suspended sentence of 14 weeks along with the rehab order from Judge Jeffrey P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Holly Mulcahy, who has been the orchestra's concertmaster since the fall of 2013 (and who takes up a second concertmaster position at the Wichita Symphony this month), is seeking up to $25,0…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Richard Linklater's new long-term project is a silm adaptation of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, which traces, in reverse, the gradual, bitter estrangement of three longtime friends. Star…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The action comes after [Science Museum Group's] directors refused to increase a below-inflation 1.5% pay rise offered to more than 75% of staff this year. … Prospect, the union representi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]That figure, high as it seems, is down from $9.9 billion in 2017, the year that saw the completion of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. There were 148 such buildings " museums, performing arts centers, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Earlier this week in Yakima, Washington, alto saxophonist Logan Strosahl and pianist Nick Sanders demonstrated the like-mindedness that makes them one of the most riveting duos in jazz. " Do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AM[SHARE]Judging from his imprudent published pronouncements, it appears to me that Secretary Bunch may feel so estranged (arguably with good reason) from the Trump Presidency that he's cast aside hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AM[SHARE]An incident initiated by the conductor at a post-concert party at the pianist's home, just a few weeks before Horowitz retired from the stage for 12 years. " Joe Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2019
Language acquisition professor Rebecca Woods assembled what linguists call a corpus ("a representative sample of language as used by certain speakers") from a BBC show (the makeup competitio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"[Joy] Harjo interrogates both one's responsibility toward one's culture and the fear of being buried under its weight. … This 'trade language,' as she later calls English, is weak, insuff…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]The days of the in-person first audition (and maybe even second) are over, writes Melissa Errico: even well-established performers like herself and Raúl Esparza have to send in videos of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"In August 2015, the then Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini, announced the first 20 'super directors' of national museums, granting those institutions fiscal autonomy for the firs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]A new video titled Dirtiest Porn Ever shows us the basic sex on a beach " except that this beach is absolutely covered with plastic trash, which workers in Pornhub-branded protective suits p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]"Before you start loading up your fall culture calendar, take a moment this Labor Day Weekend to reflect on those people who make sure that the city's cultural events … go off without a hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Jenna Wortham writes about a set of recent films that "points a finger directly at the greed of empire, and at the deliberate and elaborate social construction of whiteness to oppress, to ra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Kathryn Lewek just finished a run as Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Salzburg Festival, one of her first performances since giving birth earlier this year. After a f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Sergey Chernyshev, 18, began learning breakdancing from his father, also named Sergey, who picked it up from VHS tapes that made it into newly de-Sovietized Russia in the 1990s. "In many way…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]With his Stanley Love Performance Group, "[he] helped shape New York's downtown performance scene since the mid-1990s with large-scale, vibrant performances that he set to pop music." " ARTn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]"In general, [new Seattle Opera general director Christina Schippelmann] and others say, the absence of women in top positions results more from systemic factors than intentional discriminat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]NYFOS's annual August concert at the tip of Long Island's North Fork is always adventurous, even by its standards. This year's program set conventional art song (Bizet, Ned Rorem) alongside …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
Mary-Kay Wilmers, co-founder and longtime editor of the London Review of Books, takes apart the ways that book reviewers do their work. " Literary Hub
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