Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Gili Navot, who has been leading the company since last September: "For the past 30 years, Ohad was artistic director and choreographer, and this is the first time there was a separation bet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]The Mid-Century Monster, a children's play structure created in 1952 by artist Robert Winston for the shores of the city's Lake Merritt, had by 2015 become "a washed-up husk. Its chartreuse …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Says producer Jamie Hendry, founder of the New English Shakespeare Company, "There's an appetite for this. Audiences are being developed in a lot of cities around the world. We are focusing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]"[His] multilayered, eye-popping works challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, helping to define what became known as Kinetic Art and Op Art … His work eventually …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"This will be the fourth sign that the [Emmett Till Memorial Commission] has placed at the site. The first was swiped in 2008, and no arrests were ever made in connection with the incident. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"In between Not Wanted [about unwed mothers] and Outrage [about a rape victim], Lupino had directed Never Fear, a movie depicting people surviving polio, which Lupino had contracted herself …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"After years spent measuring and analyzing the problem, the city is now asking organizations to work on fixing it. In recent months, 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property submitted…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The £215m given to London organisations in 2018/19 is a much smaller proportion of total Arts Council England (ACE) funding than they received in 2012/13, when 82% went to the capital. B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Authors Guild president Douglas Preston: "Counterfeiting, author 'doppelganging,' title cloning, ebook piracy, cut-and-paste plagiarism and other rip-offs … the variety and cleverness of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The long-running case " which carries potentially large ramifications around the use and licensing of samples in the wider music industry " revolves around a two-second drum sequence from K…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]How did Aaron Copland's film music attempt to counteract the Hollywood influence of Erich Korngold? To what degree did he draw inspiration from the master Mexican populist Silvestre Revuelta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]I've been to every single 2019 production at the stupendous opera house facing the Getty family's cricket ground at Wormsley. The Garsington/Wormsley experience is thrilling, partly because,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Avi Shoshani and Martin Engstroem are the joint artistic directors of the Tsinandali Festival, whose house ensemble, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (music director of the National Symphony i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Preparing an August 15 PostClassical Ensemble program for The Phillips Collection in DC, I discovered myself newly entranced by one of the most magical figures in the history of Western musi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2019
"How do theatre artists make art in this era of hate? A touring production of Birds Sing Differently Here, created by a cohort of Iraqi immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota, provides …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Anchored by her Native terminology, [Mohegan theatre director Madeline] Sayet [has] embraced a matriarchal theatre leadership model that, as she put it, 'invests in the community rather tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Marcus Scott: "Openly gay Black artists like [Robert] O'Hara and George C. Wolfe have created work about Black queer life over three decades, but their numbers were fewer and far between. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Cincinnati Opera has premiered a new opera that chronicles the stories of six people wrongfully convicted in Ohio and in the process, puts America's criminal justice system on trial. The ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"After its most successful edition so far, this May the volunteer-run festival received confirmation that it had qualified for Arts Council Ireland's band C funding range. However, this does…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Emily Doolittle: "In my 28 years as a composer, I have yet to hear someone say: 'But surely you wouldn't want your piece played just because it's a string quartet? Surely you wouldn't want i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2019
"Mr. Johnston was an unusual avant-gardist: His music was so melodically engaging, rhythmically vital and structurally transparent that listeners who were unaware of his tuning experiments a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Yuval Noah Harari: "As a thinker and author, I do my best to reach diverse audiences around the world, and not just readers in Western democracies. … Some will no doubt disagree, but I thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"A new report released by the Dance Data Project " a nonprofit launched earlier this year to assess gender inequity in ballet " looks at the 2018-2019 seasons of America's 50 largest ballet …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Where others concentrate on specific paintings or sculptures, [Eric] Breitung … takes a broad approach: 'My focus is the environment of the whole museum.' That means preparing the Met for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"The troubled anniversary festival … will now be at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, an outdoor amphitheater in Columbia, Md., the producers confirmed on Thursday. It will be held from Aug.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"With her soft, high voice, Ms. Yao was long referred to as one of the seven great singing stars of Shanghai, … [whose popular music] bore not only the rhythms of jazz, but also global sou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"While the iconic precision dance troupe has of course always had artistic leaders for each of its shows, its parent organization, Madison Square Garden Company, is now looking to hire someo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Wang Zhi … says he can make a tidy 2m yuan ($290,000) a year from his cross-dressing routines. … He regularly appears on nationally televised variety shows. Officials often invite him t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"At 44, he's also making a triumphant return to London after the rollercoaster ride of being music director of English National Opera from 2007 to 2015 " one of the most troubled periods of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]The drawing Reclining Nude Girl (1918) was found by a part-time art handler at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in the Queens neighborhood of Woodside and authenticated by Jane Kallir, who wro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]"Their pay packet for the month is said to be nearly £200 more than for the average female worker " both on and off-stage. The disparity is despite the research finding that women are "do…
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