Friday, July 19, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
City officials in West Palm Beach, Florida have been playing an endless loop of the songs "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos" to drive away a group of homeless people who'd been camping on the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"Starting in April, it took 18 workers 25 days to install more than 250 priceless pieces in 'The Life of Animals in Japanese Art,' the National Gallery of Art's summer exhibition that has de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"The audit, conducted by SC&H Group and dated July 15, … suggests that the arts group is in such grave financial straits that neither the legislated cash infusion from the state nor th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"A study of apes watching videos suggests human social bonding may have deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought. … Researchers said they found that the animals approached their p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]A new court filing in the lawsuit by former student Andrew Lipian against the countertenor and the University of Michigan (where he is tenured faculty) "cites a handful of witnesses who spok…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"It's not just, or maybe even primarily, the size of the company that is giving people the shakes. It's the fact that a single film corporation now seems to own everything worth having " at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Randi Hutter Epstein: "Nothing in science is 100 percent certain. Scientists talk in probabilities. That's why doctors never say 'guarantee.' They say things like 'chances are.' … How do I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"[She] danced her first Swan Lake on her 15th birthday, … went on to be the first western ballerina to perform with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in 1957 and became director of the London Festiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"As mobile phones have replaced landlines, call quality has, strangely, gone down. The general connectivity of the world " including the ease of international video calls and the use of fore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]In George Brant's solo play Tender Age, actor Carlo Albán (whose parents brought him from Ecuador to the U.S. as a child) plays a Latino Texan who takes a job as a guard in a Brownsville …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"[The 77-year-old ex-Beatle] will write music and lyrics for the project. Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot and screenwriter for the recent Elton John biopic Rocketman, is also writing lyrics…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Nancy Wozny: "We used to be able to tell a dancer's ancestry " be it Graham, Cunningham or Balanchine " by their movement." No more: "I've always felt my gift to the field is being able to p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]In the Russian Federation's Sakha Republic " whose capital, Yakutsk, is considered the coldest big city on Earth " locally-made movies, many in the local Yakut language, often outsell intern…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]"It is thought that having visible cameras that are clearly recording situations will help staff feel more empowered, and reports from West End trials found that aggressive individuals had b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]It's really no more difficult than moving any other painting its size, but even so, the process involves careful scheduling and a dry run with a dummy painting. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]New Yorker Comma Queen Mary Norris welcomes a new book about the semicolon and gives a quick overview of the mark's history (which goes back to 1494) and looks to some of the uses to which i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]"Why would anybody want to go? It's inarguably among the most prestigious collections of stage actors in the world and yet membership comes with no formal minimum participation requirement. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"At its most comical, the Florida Man phenomenon encapsulates the wildness of both America and the Internet. At its most salacious, it's a social-media update on the true-crime TV of America…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]"Titled the Museum Frieder Burda, the space [in Baden-Baden] has displayed works by artists Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Richter, and Pablo Picasso. The museum was als…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Six full-time employees out of 27 are having their positions eliminated as a result of a reorganization, said Dominic Willsdon, executive director of the ICA. … The non-collecting contemp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The freelance orchestra, based at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs, was founded in 1983 and performed two to three dozen concerts a year. The announcement said that the orchestra would nee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Designed by the Dutch architectural firm Mecanoo, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Kaohsiung is a city of nearly 3 million at the southern end of Taiwan) opened last fall and incl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
"In a comedy club, you can go nuts and go off and be funny, but you can't really get emotional, you know? The crowd is there to get in a rhythm of set-ups-and-jokes with you. They don't real…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Adam Gopnik: "The aphorism, in the course of history, can be taken as the epitome of the rational or the epitome of the irrational. It can be compressed and self-contained wisdom, or it can …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]And here's the dynamic she means not to recreate: "In my whole 30 years in New York City Ballet, I rarely interacted with my boss except on the stage. I never knew where I was in his eyes or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]"What we have here, in other words, is the painful and all-too-familiar story of two creative dynamos in the same house, only one of whom was allowed to give full rein to their artistic impu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]"Last month, the ATHAR Project published an important report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open " on Facebook. … The report, 'Facebook's Black …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Sony and HarperCollins Publishers said on Monday that they would finance a yet-to-be-named venture run by the executive, Elizabeth Gabler, who is considered Hollywood's foremost bridge to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"[The worrisome development is] the recent decision of leading Scottish newspapers and magazines to slash their coverage of the festival in half. Coupled with the dwindling size of the annua…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"His many management credits included production stage manager at Chicago Lyric Opera, where his colleagues included William Mason, later the company's general director; general manager of t…
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