Wednesday, August 7, 2019
"[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, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"The painter, known for his wry, carefully composed investigations into the nature of art making " say, analyzing every shade of paint used in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, then rende…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]To be clear, government censorship wasn't involved, although a number of right-wing politicians criticized the show. Titled After "Freedom of Expression?", the exhibition at the Aichi Trienn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]When Avichai Scher was a young student, no teacher or other authority figure ever said a word to him about when or how to start wearing a dance belt, which led to some very embarrassing mome…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]When I watch a dance that I've also seen a few years earlier, I perceive it differently. Has it changed? Maybe. Have I changed? Of course. I've viewed and written about all but one of the Ky…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Der Rosendorn (The Rose Thorn), about a young woman's argument with her own vagina about which of them men care more about, had been thought to date from the early 16th century. But a strip …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18PM[SHARE]"Even leftwing performers in Edinburgh seem unsure what the best response to current affairs should be. Some feel that making Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Most textbooks have said that the first English sonnet sequence was Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1591). Yet three decades earlier, Anne Vaughan Lock's A Meditation of a Penitent Sin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]With many of Hong Kong's main cultural institutions being government-operated or -funded, a large number of workers in the arts-and-culture field are considered civil servants, which means t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"La Folia" seems to have appeared first as a folk-dance tune in late medieval Portugal. Over the next century, it spread to Spain and Italy and composers started adapting it; in the 17th and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]New features and series from the streaming giants deal frankly with such subjects as corruption, government dysfunction, the drug trade, religious and communal violence, and female sexuality…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]"The first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, … Ms Morrison placed African Americans, particularly women, at the heart of her writing at a time when they were largely re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]That quote comes from a longstanding guide at the museum, who added, "I did not think it was possible to show such amateurism." Paris's most visited painting has been moved while its usual r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]According to a letter from the dancers' unions at the Rome Opera Ballet to the theater's board (a letter which Italy's largest press agency published in full), Eleonora Abbagnato screamed ob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]The world's most visited museum has become a victim of its own success, with its usual crowd control problems made even worse by the move of the Mona Lisa to a new room. So reservations, whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]"Restorers at the laboratory for wooden objects at the Grand Egyptian Museum have begun fumigating the gilded coffin" " the outer one, largest of three (the two inner coffins are the ones th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
"[GlaucÃa] da Silva plays in a quartet called Orquestra de Rua (Orchestra of the Street), alongside other classical musicians from Rio's favelas. They met through a local youth music init…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Kyle V. Hiller: "I've long felt that my relationship with pop culture, media, and art have lacked something. It took me years to realize that I just wasn't finding voices like my own represe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"There need to be multiple voices channeling that learning, from multiple stakeholders who have a cultural authority in this conversation. And I think that's somewhat new, but it felt really…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"We've always been a teaching and training organization. And one of the things that we realized will help ensure our ongoing relevance is that we need museum professionals who more accuratel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"There have been quick and outwardly-positive changes that highlight inclusivity, but broad and meaningful change requires long-term work and systemic shifts in how theatres operate. … It'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"Tara Beagan's drama about a Blackfoot woman seeking to avenge her sister's murder confronts the violence suffered by Indigenous women from the standpoint of those affected." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"Making a ballet company more diverse doesn't happen overnight " and it needs to happen at the level of its youngest students, to create generations of dancers who look like all of us. PNB's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"While it was nominated for two Tony Awards, it did not win any of them. It has no stars, a tiny cast, and no special effects, and everyone both onstage and backstage are Broadway newbies. A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2019
In a Q&A, Cecelia Watson, author of the new book about the oft-misunderstood punctuation mark, talks about how the semicolon has elicited romantic love, inferiority complexes, class rese…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]"Somehow I didn't remember " or didn't see " what has been right there onscreen the whole time. Which is that Mr. M is a monster " a distillation of human moral squalor with few equals in mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]While PBS has offered on-demand streaming for a number of years, it will stream programming live on YouTube TV. "Based on their markets, 333 member stations will be available to users." " Ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]The Chronicle struggled in the first few years after Gwaltney and John A. Crowl established it in 1966, but became widely-read and influential for its coverage of unrest and social issues on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater announced Thursday that Jamar Roberts has been selected to be the company's first ever resident choreographer. Mr. Roberts, a veteran company member, will…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"It explicitly states that the cathedral must be rebuilt as it looked before the fire … and it limits derogations to the existing heritage, planning, environmental and construction codes t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Kourlas has been writing reviews and features for the Times on a freelance basis since 2000; she has also been dance editor of Time Out New York and an editor of The Paris Review. " The New …
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