Friday, June 21, 2019
Writing in the house magazine of Local 802 (the New York City chapter) of the American Federation of Musicians, Shea Scruggs and Weston Sprott both suggest ways to change the mindset around …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]With categories like The Suits, The Legends, The Auteurs, The Breakouts, The Dynamic Duos, The Arena Fillers, and The Advocates (that's for the agents and managers), "The Hollywood Reporter …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]"I had never done an opera with five protagonists before. I had to figure out how to do that. I was fascinated by group singing. Then I began thinking about that period in time, Take 6 and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]"24 major Hollywood figures peer into the future, including: Ava DuVernay (on audiences), Jason Blum (on producing), Octavia Spencer (on acting), Kumail Nanjiani (on comedy), Lena Waithe (on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]The little town of Andermatt had been in decline because of the gradual closure of an army base. But an Egyptian developer who fell in love with the area has begun creating a large ski resor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Roberto Alvim announced last week that he was closing his São Paulo troupe because he was the target of criticism and boycotts for his conservative political views. President Bolsonaro pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in north London, where it was based, … said it had planned to close the centre in 2020 as part of a wider plan to concentrate specialist services i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Despite the praise that critics (try to) give John Malkovich in the horndog-movie-mogul role, their verdicts are clear. "Bitter Wheat is a bitter disappointment." "Mamet's monstrous misfire.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"As part of a broad central government initiative, thousands of museums have been built across the country over the past decade, with a staggering 451 being opened in 2012 alone. … [But] t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"I'm a design curator, so sometimes the most simple, economical, and elegant way to do something is the most effective," says Michelle Millar Fisher of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Relatives and former students of the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo have dismissed claims that a recently discovered recording could be the only surviving trace of her voice." " The Guardi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]The researchers found, based on comparing figures for the original star of a production and the first replacement, that casting a theatre star helps ticket sales but casting a movie star or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"According to the first POWarts Salary Survey, a report on wages and various sectors of the art industry conducted by the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts, … the median sala…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
"[Puppeteer Sarah] Nolen wanted a new challenge: save Judy from centuries of unfair abuse and repurpose her story as an empowering allegory for audiences of all ages." Roxanna Myhrum, artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]As a young man, he got a graduate degree from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before coming home to make his career on stage and screen. He appeared in almost 100 films (Bollywood blockbusters an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Movable type was an 11th-century Chinese invention, refined in Korea in 1230, before meeting conditions in Europe that would allow it to flourish " in Europe, in Gutenberg's time." " Litera…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]When he became CEO of the city's natural history museum in 2012, it was in enough financial trouble that its debt was on the verge of being downgraded. Then there was the "cringeworthy" Nati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo " a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation " often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she's not self-consciously tryin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"56 percent of the works Cincinnati Ballet commissioned for the 2019-2020 season are created by women. Female choreographers will be featured in 71 percent of Cincinnati Ballet's programs. […
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"[Here's what makes] The Crossing one of the country's most exciting vocal ensembles: an embrace of the new, a social conscience and fearless technique, brought together in a marriage that t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"The [six-episode miniseries] is a black comedy about an angel (Michael Sheen) and demon (David Tennant) who conspire to sabotage the End Times after the Antichrist is born in a small Britis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]That sounds unlikely enough, but the creative team for Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise is even more unlikely: choreographer Akram Khan, director-producer Chen Shi-Zheng (The Peony Pavilion, Monke…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"[Sean Dorsey] is an openly transgender choreographer and activist with a professional dance company that has been thriving for 15 years. His company is more in demand than ever. … His mis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"Less than a tenth of the hundreds of millions promised has been donated, the French culture ministry said Friday. Only €80 million of the €850 million pledged has been handed ov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]One day after "allegations that he sexually harassed singers, pianists and conductors all over the country and used his position and prestige to silence them" were reported, Lord stepped dow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]More than a year after the 2018 Best Actress Oscar winner called for her colleagues to demand a rider to their contracts obligating producers and studios to diversify their crews, "it is har…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Nurmuhammad Tohti was imprisoned in one of the camps, which are estimated to be holding up to one million ethnic Uighurs from China's Xinjiang Province, from last November to this past March…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]The last-minute interventions were revealed as part of a (none-too-favorable) independent review of Creative Scotland's operations and processes that followed a major controversy over fundin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]"The intricate work to clean and restore its extraordinary windows, statues and other features is being carried out under the strictest security measures to avoid any repeat of the fire that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]We've all seen museums do a lot of odd things in recent years in attempts to draw people into their galleries " cat video contests, crowdsourcing curatorial decisions, and so on. Some may ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AM[SHARE]With less than two weeks' notice, the Whitney Museum has announced that Donna De Salvo "has decided to leave" the museum where she served with great distinction for the past 15 years, in ord…
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