Wednesday, August 14, 2019
"[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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Goli Sheikholeslami, who since 2014 has led a major turnaround as Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ), will take the helm at New York Public Radio (which includes WNYC, classical station WQXR, NJ Pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The eponymous avians in Ashton's The Two Pigeons are meant to be living symbols of the relationship between the two human leads, called the Young Man and the Young Girl. Reporter Jennifer Lu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"In a video recorded during the airport protest Friday, hundreds of demonstrators can be seen participating in a sit-down and heard singing and clapping to an a cappella version of 'Do You H…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"Many in this new generation of female producers are taking alternate paths to the industry's top rung " picking up skills in the nonprofit theater world, which has become an important breed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]My own views on this contretemps are conflicted. By all accounts I've seen by art professionals, this is a powerful work, intended by the Russian-American artist to be seen as a critique of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
As one senior ACE executive put it this spring, "Relevance is becoming the new litmus test. It will no longer be enough to produce high-quality work." Now many ballet company execs, choreogr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch, along with English, assign Greek this particular honor. In the Baltic languages, it's Spanish; the Bulgarians use "Patagonian." And the Gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Mark [Rosewater, head designer,] explains how, once he and his team come up with the creative concept for a particular Magic set, there are lots of other things to think about. They have to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"On Saturday afternoon, the orchestra's board voted unanimously for a transition plan … which calls for the exit of the orchestra's top leadership [and] brings a temporary close to weeks o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"The art collective teamLab's new, immersive museum in Tokyo attracted more visitors than the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year, and twice the combined number of visitors to the three D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"While other budding jazz musicians of the 1940s were enamored of the daring bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Mr. Wilber, … a clarinetist and saxophonist who was a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, which recounts his escape from Iran to Indonesia and onward to Australia by boat, has just won the $25,000 National Biography Award, the fourt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Francis Ford Coppola: "No one wants to make a pro-war film, everyone wants to make an anti-war film. But an anti-war film, I always thought, should be … something filled with love and peac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Slowly at first " but now in increasing numbers " Russian female comics are taking to the stage to challenge the status quo. Embedded in the humor are also serious reckonings on their count…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]"University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust's board agreed to continue funding a pilot scheme initiated last year, suggesting that creative activities could reduce the need for certai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]We have learned that the superlative clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber died at his home in England earlier this month. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]That Levant was what he seemed was doubtless a key to his appeal. His authenticity has never appeared more exceptional: no present-day mainstream media personality " not even our President "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]It's difficult to remember when I first met Iris Murdoch and John Bayley " in my experience, they were inseparable. " Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]The gray-haired man standing outside Jacob's Pillow's Ted Shawn Theater during intermission is explaining his reaction to Andrea Miller's Boat to two attentive listeners. The members of her …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2019
"Over four years, the fund" " a group of eight foundations " "made 89 grants to 67 groups totaling $2.27 million, helping 'build a broader commitment to a fairer and more equitable arts ecos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"The push towards gender balanced line-ups, or so-called '50/50′ pledges, is led by the PRS Keychange initiative which calls for equal numbers of male and female performers at high pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Today I ask to what extent it is a positive development that there are no discussions of race and religion in Danny Boyle's and Richard Curtis's film Yesterday, whose protagonist Jack Malik…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Its 'participatory grant making' model, where control of the money is ceded to the community it serves, has drawn notice from bigger foundations and young philanthropists." " The Chronicle …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Amos C. Brown, the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, said in an interview today that the artist was simply 'presenting a critique about the warp and woof of George Washing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"In a unique new exhibition, works from artists such as Andy Warhol and Nan Goldin, highlight the progression of transgender models and subjects." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Speaking to colleagues and journalists at the show's opening, curator Clare Lilley was frank that she would have liked to include a 50/50 split of men and women " but had been unable to do …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
"At college, we were assigned Barthes's S/Z , which made me understand what I could do in radio. … In S/Z, Barthes takes apart a short story by Balzac, line by line. He asks: How does this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]"Among the goods seized in the multinational operation, which was dubbed Pandora III and organised by Europol, were an ancient Mesopotamian crystal cylinder seal, a 15th-century bible that h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Hallstatt, a pretty lakeside hamlet of 800 people, got 19,344 tour buses last year (that's an average of 53 a day, year-round) and more than a million visitors. Residents have encountered st…
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