Thursday, June 20, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Richard Florida looks at a study of shrinking American cities and breaks down a couple of myths about them, and about why some cities remain vibrant even as they lose population while others…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"These days, the question driving the debate is whether publishers should sell ebooks to libraries at a higher price for a perpetual license, or at a lower price for a license that needs to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"In Russia, that most macho of societies, male ballet has never been a sniggering joke about guys in tights. There is no finer expression of manly patriotism than to dance, especially for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"[He] was best known for his oversized sculptures of chairs and tables that he produced at larger-than-life, room-filling scale. In doing so, everyday pieces of furniture seem unreal, and vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Longtime Boston Ballet star Misa Kuranaga will be joining the company as a principal dancer for the 2019-20 season, while Dutch National Ballet principal Sasha Mukhamedov will join as a sol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"[Sam] Peckinpah's notion that mercy and virtue may be outmoded ideas in the hectic, grabby sprawl of the 20th century has ossified into prophecy as we've rolled into the 21st. … His work …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"At least three of the fathers of the American Method " Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, and Elia Kazan " had reputations for treating men and women differently, as well as for treating both …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"After years of financial crises, shifting leadership and painful internal debate about its future, the National Academy closed its museum, separated from its school and began selling off it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes talks to the conductor and his wife, Aaltje, about how their son Benjamin, now 29 and able to speak Dutch and English, was uncommunicative until they found a way t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"Women made up nearly a third of the directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors, and though they were still outnumbered by men two to one, the new figures represen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]For five years now, a collective called The Kilroys has been releasing an annual list of recommended new plays, as yet unproduced or "under-produced," by female, transgender, and non-binary …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Two Dubai-resident Sudanese who met at a poetry event in Abu Dhabi (because there was no such thing in Dubai) have joined forces to open Blank Space, where they've basically created a spoken…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Italian media are reporting that the mayor of Milan, who is ex officio chair of La Scala's board, said after a meeting that Meyer was the choice; for now, English-language outlets report tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Elizabeth Acevedo, a Dominican-American who got her literary start at poetry slams, won the 2019 Carnegie Medal for her verse novel The Poet X. Jackie Morris won the Kate Greenaway Medal for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]"The chief executive of the Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned on Tuesday after a newspaper investigation revealed she had connections to a cybersecurity firm whose technology has bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]The young Scandinavians of the Eka Trio combine the relaxed sensuosity of trends in Nordic music with their underlying commitment to the adventurousness that goes to the heart of jazz. " Dou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]This flight from public accountability will deal a knockout blow to whatever transparency remains in "willing buyer-willing seller" auction transactions. Adieu, fair market value. " Lee Rose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]At the CircuitWest Showcase in Perth, Australia, I discussed with artists, producers, and presenters the issues around community engagement in a state (Western Australia) where, outside the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]As she posted on Facebook, "Nearly ten years to the day of my aorta exploding, I woke up in Calgary on the day I was meant to fly home to Nova Scotia" " for her father's funeral, no less " "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]In May, The Song Company suddenly announced that it was ceasing business and beginning the bankruptcy process called in Australia Voluntary Administration. Then, in early June, the ensemble'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
"The after-school program at the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet in South Miami … provides ballet, reading, math and etiquette classes along with access to mental health professionals. The prog…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]There are Welsh-language songs and TV series racking up remarkable streaming numbers, the number of speakers has increased by 20% over the last decade, and people who've never been to Wales …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"An erotic revue conceived by the English theater critic Kenneth Tynan, Oh! Calcutta! took it all off at the Eden Theater, a former pornographic cinema that had been renovated by the show's …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"The traditional historical photo of [Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis] shows a man whose skin is nearly as light as his crisp white dress shirt. … Machado was known to be the descendant of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"Reich was a popular Yale University professor whose students included both Bill and Hillary Clinton and a respected legal scholar when a 39,000-word excerpt from The Greening of America ran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"Theatre collective" may seem a surprising way to describe the Comédie-Française (est. 1680), but it's accurate: the company is owned and controlled by its actors and other members. Repo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]He told Italy's Corriere della sera, "Men must get up and rediscover the force to assume responsibility, whether they are gay or straight, and not become lazy. If women start to think that t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"ITV will no longer commission comedy shows with all-male writers' rooms, the broadcaster's head of comedy has said. Saskia Schuster said she realised last year that 'an awful lot of my come…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Pressure had been mounting against the director, Peter Schäfer, over what critics said was an inappropriately political stance for the head of a cultural institution tasked with explaining…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Sunday's decision by the orchestra's board of trustees locking out the players was not unexpected. Despite the picketers carrying signs reading 'I Make Less Than I Did a Decade Ago,' the le…
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