Friday, August 16, 2019
A big part of the 1969 festival's legend is that no one involved had any idea how big it was going to get and how many people would show up, and the organizers were utterly unprepared. "Wood…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Payal Kadakia, New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrant chemists, got a degree from MIT while setting up one Indian dance group and worked a professional job at Bain & Company wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"[He] dedicated a lifetime to writing and anthologizing poetry for children, amassing troves of verse" " 120 volumes by the time he died " "to help young people navigate the unknowns of life…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"The characters were laid out on sheets of paper, frozen in dramatic poses … [and] the sets [were] storybook illustrations of extravagant palaces and howling wildernesses, to be slotted in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"The New Colossus" ("Give me your tired, your poor, …") was not mainstream American sentiment when Emma Lazarus wrote it in 1883 (one year after the Immigrant Act and the Chinese Exclusion…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca ("The Heart Is Never Wrong"), produced and set in Mexico City, is a spinoff of the popular Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia ("My Husband Has More Family"): two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The person who gave that quote actually meant it. Tim Jonze talks to three professional figure models about the worst and best parts of their jobs. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Carolina Miranda: "If ever there were an urgent moment for the various culture industries " film studios, theater companies, art museums and TV production companies " to act on issues of div…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Says one who was wounded in the 2016 shooting, "They're talking about a theme-park environment where you buy memorabilia." Of the club's owner, who runs a foundation (which pays her a six-fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"The State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin, founded in 1465 by the ruler of Brandenburg, Fredrick II, promotes 'free musical education for boys.' … Since then, the choir, now part of Berlin'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
Here's a look at the some of the design features " often touted as amenities " that keep people from lingering, stretching out, or even sitting down in various public (or should that be "pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42PM[SHARE]His movies earned 21 Oscar nominations over his four-decade career, and he garnered one himself for Best Picture for Costa-Gavras's 1982 film Missing. But he's best remembered for breaking t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Nothing but the world outside the human one." Alastair Macaulay offers an analysis (if that's the right word for a Cunningham piece) of the 1958 work Summerspace. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]It's not only because so many people learn them as second or third languages. Recent research has indicated that, even when a language is new or developing, it has to have simple rules in or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"The Royal Exchange is one of Manchester's best known theatres, the venue resembling a lunar landing craft located inside The Great Hall on St Ann's Square. … The Den is a lightweight, 180…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Americans have made a political investment in a myth of racial separateness, the idea that art forms can be either 'white' or 'black' in character … This country's music is an advertiseme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks, the first American to die in the Revolutionary War; Jesmyn Ward on the 1808 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves; Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Among the items imported from the People's Republic that will be subject to import duties as of Sept. 1 are "paintings, drawings, engraving, prints and lithographs, sculptures and statuary o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"The allegations against Jamie Thomas, Indiana's personal caretaker since 2013 and a longtime island associate, are included in a counterclaim by Indiana's estate" in response to a complicat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Five LGBTQ channels have joined together for the suit, which alleges that YouTube has discriminated against them by hiding their videos, removing subscribers, and denying advertising. They …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Their art was not only a response to Brown's death. It was also a way to bring understanding to issues that had angered and oppressed African Americans for generations." A package looking a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]In a 4-3 decision that's likely to satisfy no one, the board elected to cover the Life of Washington mural without destroying it. The estimated cost: $875,000. Wouldn't that money be better …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2019
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, … 'book fairs' have been publishing industry affairs where players meet to do deals … away from the reading public. Until recently. In the last decade and a half,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The company, which will "retain outside counsel" to look into the accusations, said in a statement that Domingo "has been a dynamic creative force in the life of LA Opera and the artistic cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Just hours after an AP story featured allegations of sexual harassment against the opera superstar, and shortly after the Philadelphia Orchestra disinvited him from its season-opening gala n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Reflecting on the contretemps over the Life of Washington murals at a San Francisco high school as well as the decision by one small Northern California museum to sell much of its art and an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]In a 4-to-3 vote, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to reverse its earlier decision to paint over the series of 13 Victor Arnautoff frescoes, collectively titled The Life of Washing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"A self-described 'instinctive scholar,' Takis" " né Panayiotis Vassilakis " "worked primarily in plaster and wrought iron before becoming fascinated by magnetism, electricity and sound " a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Of those 70,000, 12,000 signed up in the first week alone. "Cardholders at the Brooklyn, New York and Queens public libraries can gain free admission through the program at participating cul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Joshua Kosman: "Here's my request for today to creators of contemporary opera: How would it be if we had a new work that did not turn on a female character sacrificing herself to redeem a ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"[Science fiction] isn't a new genre in Indian cinema, but it has nothing like the profile it has in the West. … While Hollywood has a long tradition of making more naturalistic films abou…
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