Tuesday, August 27, 2019
In late June, Gov. Mike Dunleavy exercised a line-item veto over the $3.87 million in funding for the Alaska State Council on the Arts. An attempt to override that veto in July failed and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]In response to the suspension of a government funding program for film and TV over LGBT+ projects, culture minister Henrique Pires said, "It is very clear that I am out of tune with … the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"Ramping up the drive into censorship in Brazil, its Minister of Citizenship, Omar Terra, has suspended a call for applications for governmental TV funding … Terra's announcement comes jus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]With the Broadway run of the show having ended, 14-year-old Rosdely Ciprian will travel with the production to the Kennedy Center whole 17-year-old Thursday Williams heads off to college. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]In the 1980s the singer Lisa Rich seemed on her way to a long and successful career, and she recorded Highwire in 1987. For reasons not disclosed by Tritone Records, the album was not releas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]Earlier this month I had the privilege and pleasure to speak at the Meighan Forum at the Stratford Festival. Since the Q&A was not captured in the transcript, I thought I'd reflect on a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]Zora Neale Hurston Hurston heard concert spirituals "squeezing all of the rich black juice out of the songs," a "flight from blackness," a "musical octoroon." She listed Harry Burleigh among…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 25, 2019
"Taller Leñateros is Mexico's first and only Tzotzil Maya book- and papermaking collective. Founded in 1975 [in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas] by the Mexican-American poet Amba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"A new symphonic experience showcases an original documentary covering 800 years of feminist history and the development of women's civil and human rights in 80 minutes. ​Orchestra Mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Amy Steiger: "Not only do students recognize misogynist and colonialist language in acting textbooks " as well as an insistence on the gender binary that sometimes makes them wonder if there…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"The biennial, six-day celebration known as the Gateways Music Festival has brought black classical musicians together since 1993. The festival was founded by pianist and former Eastman Scho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]"A New Green Federal Theatre would document the efforts of the Green New Deal to deliver economic justice and sustainable life-styles to the people while mitigating and adapting to the clima…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2019
Rebecca Jennings " who confesses to having read each of the Harry Potter books at least ten times and insists she's "not advocating for laziness" " points to research on "repeated hedonic ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]"As a recent graduate with a BFA in acting, I could have been stuck lip-synching to Buddy Holly at an amusement park or being cast as a Native American in a problematic outdoor drama in Chil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]At the Madhavendra Palace, just outside Jaipur, "floral murals, elaborate arches, patterned columns, dark paneled doors, and stone-lined courtyards serve as maximal backdrops for sculptures …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]The 376-foot sculpture was commissioned by Johnson, then London's Mayor, for the 2012 Olympics, and he had hoped that it would become London's answer to the Eiffel Tower (7 million annual vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"[The dissident artist] said he initially chose Germany after leaving China as it had worked so hard for his freedom, but now felt that Germany had changed and he was once again an exile. 'T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"We shouldn't be a white castle on the hill. Our new vision is about deepening the cultural life of every resident in the county. That is a very outward vision," says Los Angeles Music Cente…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Given the trend over the last few years to use comedy as therapy, to use laughter to counterpoint pain, a complicated subject like abortion is no less likely to be a topic for comedy than m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]There are more and more outlets, but they pay writers less and less; there are huge quantities of new music pouring out, but large bodies of readers are going to click on pieces about artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"New York City-based choreographer and director Jennifer Weber once worked on a project with a strict social media policy: "Hire no one with less than 10K, period' " and that was a few years…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Says the former director of public programming at Lincoln Center, who has moved on to a new arts center in Abu Dhabi, "I'm someone who dreaded talkbacks and Q&As. While I was in New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"It's 2047, 100 years after India's independence, and in the fictional nation of Aryavarta, water is scarce. The republic's authoritarian rulers are seizing children of mixed parentage from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Times change" is a time-dishonored argument for justifying moral lapses, whether they're #MeToo transgressions (Plácido Domingo) or retention of antiquities that were likely looted (Phil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2019
Natalia Dashan, who was a full-scholarship student at Yale and witnessed such imbroglios as the Halloween Costumes fiasco up close, looks at the underlying dynamic by which, among a very pri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]There are still transformiste cabarets, with what might be called female impersonators (talk about old-school) lip-synching impressions of famous chanteuses for an audience little different …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]The Montreal-based touring company Le Patin Libre is "not interested in putting contemporary dance on ice, but in doing with skating what 20th-century modern art movements have done with oth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"Few men in America are as popular among American men as Joe Rogan. It's a massive group congregating in plain sight, and it's made up of people you know from high school, guys who work thre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Okay, they didn't win every single prize there was at the annual honors for science fiction (men won for the best film and television scripts, for instance), but female creators took home th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"In a 5-0 decision, the appeals court rejected artists' contentions that the limits covering Central Park south of 86th Street, Battery Park, High Line Park and Union Square Park violated th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]"When Franklin died, at age 76, her family believed she had no will. Under Michigan law, that meant her estate would be divided equally among her sons. … But Franklin's case is especially …
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