Wednesday, June 12, 2019
"The death of [Mary] Max, 52, in the home she shared with Mr. Max, 81, comes in the midst of continued infighting in recent years regarding her husband's legacy. In May, The New York Times w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"The banning of Rocketman, a biographic film about the life of musician Elton John, in Samoa has prompted criticism by human rights activists of 'selective morality' in a country where trans…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Some props haul their own metaphors on stage with them. " David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]The first two new productions in Garsington Opera's 30th anniversary season both feature wild parties with lots of on-stage dancing. " Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]David Lang's music is too pleasurable to be called experimental " it's the message, not the music, that may make some listeners uncomfortable. " David Patrick Stearns
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
"After more than a year and a half of being without a permanent director, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam said that the veteran museum leader Rein Wolfs has been picked to fill the positio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]The hedge fund that bought the beleaguered Barnes & Noble last week also owns Waterstones, the UK's leading bookstore chain, which had been suffering from similar troubles. So the new ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"'We had several options, and this was the one that was viable … because he had that incredible imagination and powerful talent that a lot of people don't have,' said Carol Karotkin, chair…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"Less than an hour after Watkins Glen International speedway announced it was no longer hosting Woodstock 50 on Monday (June 10), in separate announcements the event's producer CID Entertain…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]The whereabouts of the world's most expensive artwork " which may or may not actually have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci " have been a mystery for months. But Artnet columnist Kenny Scha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]In support of what's arguably a good idea (giving media companies an antitrust exemption so they can band together and bargain for revenue sharing with Google and Facebook), the News Industr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Heir to a tobacco fortune who made another fortune as an investment banker, Cullman gave away hundreds of millions to, among many other organizations, the New York Public Library, the Museum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"On College Bowl, two teams of four college students answered questions on science, history, philosophy, music, literature and other subjects. It combined elements of a team sport, high-spee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Or, at least, in Manhattan. The once-wildly-popular 1990s electronic game can still be played at arcades in Times Square and Chinatown, where there is a devoted following. " The New York Tim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]On pretending to be a bogus Israeli anti-terrorism expert for his film Who Is America?: "The character creation is a reverse character creation. You have to think, Okay, we got Dick Cheney, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"Women hold half of the leadership positions at the major film animation companies, new research has found. And, of the top 120 animated films over the last dozen years, nearly four in 10 ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]"Actually, our growth curve as a company parallels almost exactly the growth of Silicon Valley as a thing. And I credit our success and durability as a company with the fact that we were in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM[SHARE]Lily Tung Crystal began her career as a news journalist who did stage acting on the side. She now says that "theater is the hobby that became a job" " in 2010, she co-founded the Bay Area As…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Alsop, who is currently music director of the Baltimore Symphony and begins as chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony this fall, steps down from Brazil's leading orchestra at the end o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]"Among the changes [to the "Rouanet Law"] due to come into effect next year is the reduction of the annual funding cap per project from 60m reais ($15.44m) to 1m reais ($257,000), but museum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]"After nearly a yearlong legal wrangle, a court in St. Petersburg has ruled in favour of the State Russian Museum staff who have been fighting against plans for a $17m overhaul of the Mikhai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2019
Kelly Lamb Pollock: "My organization, COCA"Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, is expanding with a 50,000 square foot addition. … In planning for our expansion, we have done more than ou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"At the Latino Theater Company's landmark 'Encuentro 2014: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival' " the largest of the sort in over twenty-five years " theatremakers, scholars, and advocates …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"As part of the Courtroom Artist Residency, artists may sit among the friends and family members of defendants waiting to be tried at Cook County's Criminal Court and witness the brisk flow …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Vu Le: "I've been thinking a lot about the differences between conservatives and progressives (see "10 things progressive funders must learn from conservative ones or we are all screwed"). L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"The paid, three-month apprenticeship programme will allow refugees aged 17 to 24 to gain experience across different aspects of theatremaking, including writing, directing, producing and fu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2019
"The words 'Trump' and 'opera' occurring in the same sentence might seem far-fetched, but for composer Anthony Davis, whose latest work, The Central Park Five, has its world premiere at Long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]"The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show [at the Minneapolis Institute of Art], by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]"Women in opera need to be not only acknowledged for their work, their passion and dedication to the artform, but placed front and centre, asked for their opinion, introduced as a driving fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2019
"A quarterly that began publishing in the spring of 1999, [Tin House] quickly set itself apart, injecting the staid world of literary magazines with humor, adventurous design and an expansiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Back in 1992, the drag queen Joan Jett Blakk ran a campaign ("Putting in the camp, taking out the pain") for president on the Queer Nation Party line. Now Tina Landau and playwright Tarell A…
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