Friday, August 9, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Lidiya Yankovskaya (a fine example of the phenomenon herself): "In addition to their traditional duties within established institutions, an increasing number of conductors run independent or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"More and more, critics are going beyond reviews that focus on musicality and technique to report on problems concerning diversity, politics, and workplace culture. Independent publications …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"'It was just not what we expected.' 'I was depressed by the time I left.' '… the tour was more of a scolding of the old South.' 'The brief mentions of the former owners were defamatory.' …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey, who is supervising the show's development, told German fansite Deutsche Tolkien that the estate has refused to allow the series to be set during any period othe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"To find another ballet dancer who expanded his or her range with such fortitude and ferocity, you'd have to go back to Mikhail Baryshnikov. But he transitioned into modern dance after his b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Lyn Gardner: "Science … can give us the facts or the knowledge. But as a species we don't always respond to facts because they make us feel guilty and paralysed. What we respond to as huma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AM[SHARE]"Since the attempted coup of 2016, according to Turkey's ministry of education, … 301,878 books [have] been destroyed as the government cracks down on anything linked to Fethullah Gülen, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Despite many an international headline to the contrary (not to mention the wishes of some local campaigners and residents), no ban has yet been adopted into law or even government policy. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
"After [premiering at] Venice, American Dharma screened at the Toronto and New York film festivals and picked up strong reviews. But the idea of Bannon getting a platform at all ignited a ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"In a cultural medium whose producers, audiences and critics are still predominantly white, [Jackie Sibblies Drury's] Fairview challenges playgoers to think about how the different backgroun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]Lauren Wingenroth: "A Google search of that question will yield hundreds of results of impassioned arguments about whether or not we should consider dance a sport. The fact that breaking was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Last May, The Guardian reported that Judith Mackrell would step down from her post after a 23-year run, and Alastair Macaulay announced he was giving up his position as The New York Times' …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]I didn't read any of the program notes for the Wendy Whelan-Maya Beiser-Lucinda Childs-David Lang piece the day at Jacob's Pillow. I didn't even read the spoken text. Why then, did I find te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Getting to know opera via recording is like on-line dating " no reason why it shouldn't work, and it often does. Then you walk into something like Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane with well…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]It's been two years since I posted my effort at categorizing the benefits of the arts. The subject is an urgent one because of both the social and political pressures to justify funding and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"A French street art association is the unexpected beneficiary in the years-long legal battle brought by the French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas against Facebook over censorshi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]If they do, they can get €400 tickets. And if they try to wade in the Trevi Fountain the way Anita Ekberg did in La Dolce Vita? €450. Those guys in centurion costumes who pose wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Now that Warren Kanders ("the tear-gas CEO") has been chased off the Whitney's board, "which institution might wind up in the crosshairs next? We looked at the makeup of various museums and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Britain's biggest bookstore chain was near bankruptcy when James Daunt became CEO in 2011, and "[he] steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]It was the first symphony orchestra in the entire Far East, founded in 1879. (That's only 37 years after the New York Philharmonic, the United States' oldest orchestra.) Says music director …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"In almost all the ways that concert promoters measure the success and smooth operation of their events, Woodstock was a failure." Crowd control. Sanitation. Traffic. Profit. (The producers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Not David Marchese's writing; he does a fine job. But Cage showed up for the interview wearing "oversize sunglasses, a dragon ring the size of a walnut and a black velveteen jacket over a Br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Laura Miller: "For many kids, reading the Scary Stories books represented a first tentative step toward growing up and into independence. … Unlike, say, a Playboy magazine, they weren't ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]"In the play's first few moments " its preamble, really " [Heidi] Schreck lays out the elements for its perfect union of form and function: direct address, displayed enactment, meta-theatric…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Brooklyn director Terry Greiss worked with the NYPD to develop a program called To Serve, to Protect, and to Understand, which brings officers and civilians together with meals and acting ga…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"The pieces were originally composed by Proust in his early 20s for inclusion in his first book, Les Plaisirs et les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of poems and short stories first…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]He began his career on conventional instruments and spent six years as the Concertgebouw Orchestra's principal cellist before becoming one of the key artists of the European period-instrumen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"Directions on how institutions should incorporate these objectives were left intentionally vague. Rather than issuing blanket checklists, the city wanted individual institutions to formulat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"The settlement brought the court battle to a close just as it threatened to air more dirty laundry about both Mr. Levine … and the Met" " which would be why settlement terms weren't discl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"[Alf] Clausen joined The Simpsons during its second season and worked on the show for 27 years. When he was let go in 2017, he said he received a call from Simpsons producer Richard Sakai, …
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