Tuesday, July 23, 2019
With public libraries open to the entire public, librarians in recent years have been seeing needs for services that their MLS programs didn't train them to provide " from aiding job seekers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"On the day before the California premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over, a play about the harsh realities facing black men in America, Echo [Theater Company] staff on July 12 sent an ema…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Merz was the lone woman among a loose coterie of men who came to be grouped in late-1960s Italy under the banner of Arte Povera " 'poor art' " a term [denoting use of] humble, raw materials…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"CONTINUOUS Network, originally a partnership between Siobhan Davies Dance in London and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead," and now expanding to include two more dance companies…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"[His] erudite, acerbic and elegantly crafted writing about dance and classical music filled the pages of The Chronicle and countless other local and national periodicals for more than 40 ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The initiative, artistic director Jen Zeyl explained, is about more than the standard theater problem of getting 'butts in seats.' (Though, of course, there's that.) It's about getting the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The investors filed lawsuits this week in federal court in Manhattan claiming incomplete and misleading disclosures about … the planned $2.7 billion purchase of the auction house by Frenc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The inquiry follows a long-term decline in lottery ticket sales as well as a report that the company which operates the Lottery diverted £39 million that was supposed to go to the arts an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]"The Louvre Museum has partnered with French luxury cruise company Ponant to organize two culture cruises in 2020: one across the Persian Gulf, and one of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]I'm a longtime Rossini skeptic, but his rock-star status during his lifetime couldn't have been a fluke. Could the key to making his operas (beyond the two or three popular comedies) appeali…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Williams's stage direction describes it as a canvas hammock, but in Rae Smith's design it is all rope " knotted, unstable, full of holes, an anchorite's flail, a nest and a cage. Williams's …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2019
"Last year, The Spark Arts for Children launched Vital Spark, a four-year programme with an ambitious aim: to address the lack of diversity in the children's arts sector. … At that point, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"As a sanitised version of The Magic Flute opens in Glyndebourne, Rebecca Franks asks its creative team if this modern reworking is worth it." " The Times (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"About five years ago, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art determined that only 11 percent of the artists with works in its collection " those identified by name, as opposed to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Modern classical and electronic music is still dominated by stars who are largely 'pale, male and stale', leading industry figures have warned, after learning of a major new compilation alb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"The question of how to stage gendered violence ethically and responsibly is not new, but it is newly urgent as we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century. The contributions to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Backlash against the Sackler Trust's donations to global arts institutions has raised questions over how organisations should respond to gifts from ethically dubious sources." " European CEO
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"We work at StageSource, which represents both the individual theatre artists and the theatrical organizations of New England. Part of our mission is to provide resources to empower our comm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Howard Sherman: "While New York stages increasingly showcase the talents of queer, trans, non-binary, and intersex artists " I recently saw a gender-identity diverse cast in a reading of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Born during the AIDS crisis to raise money for dancers, the festival turns 25, mixing celebration with sorrow." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Bob Sheppard, The Fine Line (Challenge)The veteran saxophonist/flutist's career as a collaborator and L.A. film and TV musicians may account for his not having achieved greater fan recogniti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Faust, Father and Son, Mother and Son) set up the Primer Intonatsii (Example of Intonation) foundation in 2013 to aid young Russian filmmakers. But the organi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]Other institutions have said they'll stop accepting Sackler money, but none have said they'll drop the name from any existing buildings. "That is because removing a name, even one that has b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"In a lawsuit filed this week in New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan collector Stuart Pivar, a one-time friend of Andy Warhol, says he was swindled out of a 1920 cast of the sculpture [M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"She had been due to star in the ENO's Orpheus and Eurydice, which is choreographer Wayne McGregor's opera directing debut, this October. Alice Coote will step in to play the role of Orpheus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Ilya Vidrin was a competitive ballroom dancer until the day he fractured his back while partnering. "In the years since, the incident has led him into a deep exploration of the less tangible…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Trapeze, an Orion/Hachette imprint, is starting to do just that. David Barnett observes that almost 60 people were involved in the publication of his new novel: "the editors, the marketing a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"At issue is a controversial nominee for state laureate, private negotiations with a governor who says he's 'not a poetry expert,' and a bit of verse that an elected official described to me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tristan Baker and Oliver Royds first became business partners in 2015, when they designed and built the pop-up theatre in London that housed Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare trilogy a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Luisi, music director of the Zurich Opera House and former principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, only took up the post (one created for him) at the Tuscan music festival-cum-opera h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Zohra, a 35-member orchestra, performed at a concert on July 13 at the Pohoda Festival in the [Slovakian] town of Trencin … Four members went missing from their hotel on July 14, police s…
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