Friday, June 28, 2019
"In just the past few years, [SEIU] has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country." " Sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"First brought against the Met in 2016, the suit alleged that Picasso's The Actor (1904-05) was subject to restitution laws and should therefore be returned to the family of its original own…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]In the opening scene of the Restoration tragedy Venice Preserved at the RSC, a rebel recruits a desperate friend to the cause. His indignation is scorching hot, so of course he pulls out a l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2019
It wasn't just Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In the 1930s and '40s, André Breton, Leonora Carrington, JoseÌ and Kati Horna, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, and others flocked to Mex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"In cities including Savannah and Charleston, … for years, tours of historic homes would focus on their architecture and fine furniture, but not on how the wealth so clearly displayed depe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Marianne Preger-Simon recounts how she saw the great choreographer perform in the French capital in 1949, and how she contrived to meet him " ultimately to become his first student and then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"Working largely in steel, made massive geometric forms that often seemed to defy gravity " giant squares or slabs appearing to float in the air or balance precariously on a point. His works…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]"Mr. Brown began his career producing advertising for television before branching out as a freelance writer, playwright and, for several years, the co-creator of a syndicated comic strip. A …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Women in medieval Japan were discouraged from studying kanji " characters modelled on written Chinese which represent individual words " and began using kana, which transcribe words phoneti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune begins with noisy sex in the dark, then the lights come up on the actors getting out of bed naked. It's always been a delicate scen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"The new structure, which will add 60,000 square feet of space, reflects how much New York's small, scrappy New Museum has changed since it opened on the Bowery in 2007, increasing its annua…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]On doctors' orders, the 76-year-old chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, formerly music director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, has wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]In five years as executive director of the Walnut Creek-based orchestra, Aubrey Bergauer used a data- and diversity-driven approach to turn a languishing institution around, with ticket sale…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The online database says that it's not outing anyone; it's simply listing the names of actors as they were at the time they appeared in a given production. SAG-AFTRA, joined by a number of L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The New York Times Book Review has finally covered Never a Lovely So Real, Colin Asher's Algren biography, and Susan Jacoby's honest, well-reported review sets a judicious standard. " Jan He…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]Following the recent Rifftides review of her new album, we thought you'd enjoy Ms. Matassa and friends in a Gershwin medley. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]What struck me watching Zamira Aminova in Bukhara was that, although her movements were not as complex as others I've seen, she never stopped seeming to float like a leaf on the wind. That t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2019
It's a 140-ton, 100-foot crane that used to lift freight at the docks in Bristol. Now " decked out with multiple speakers that shoot flames into the air, all powered by a generator that runs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"Breakdancing moved a step closer to the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and now organizers can look to book a street venue in Paris. Called breaking in Olympic circles, its medal debut was last O…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]As the desire for an authoritative dictionary of American English developed in the first half of the 19th century, there was a serious battle between the partisans of Noah Webster " who was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]A Q&A with two curators at the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design about the issues of provenance, law, and diplomacy around the future return of the museum's 18th-century sculpt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Liberal Democrat peer Patrick Boyle started the debate, in which he asked the government what 'assessment they have made of the operation of the theatre market in London' and what steps it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Judith and Holofernes, which was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse, was snapped up by a foreign buyer, the auction house selling it said on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The novel, which has already won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has received the first-ever Orwell Prize for political fiction. The more-established Orwell …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"With original drawings lost and no digital records, photographs of the historic clock were the only clue experts had about how they might rebuild it. Then French clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Robert Smith: "She subverted both sides of the high-low equation, ridiculing and exaggerating Abstract Expressionist technique while imbuing popular culture characters with raw, uncontrollab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Haredim " a Hebrew word meaning 'those who tremble at the word of God' that encompasses a multiplicity of ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects " tend to isolate themselves from secular society, whic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra owed its vendors $2.1 million as of late April … That's almost an 81% increase over the $1.2 million the orchestra owed to merchants as of Sept. 25, 2017.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"A stalwart at New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, [he] was celebrated for his acting ability. His voice was modestly scaled, but he used it cannily, always finding ways for voic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"As anti-Semitic rhetoric and hate crimes resurge, is it still funny for us to be our own punching bags? Is it safe? In joking about money, neuroses, and the demasculinized Jewish man, are w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Shannon Paulus discovered them in college and found them a sort of miracle cure for pre-performance anxiety, just as so many performers have. Then she learned the hard way about the dangers …
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