Friday, June 7, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"Small-town radio is fizzling nationwide, as stations struggle to attract advertisement dollars. And as station owners are forced to sell, media conglomerates snap up rural frequencies for r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Mind you, this wasn't in Williamsburg or Park Slope; it happened at the library branch in the somewhat remote neighborhood of Gerritsen Beach. Even so, about 40 people protesting the reading…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"In 2010, Kate Wallich was a 22-year-old choreographer in Seattle, … [who] had started her own dance company, Studio Kate Wallich, but hated how insular the contemporary dance world felt (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Howard Sherman (who was one of the readers): "It certainly was a performance: the airing of a document with the use of theatrical tools to illuminate a text for others. … If journalism is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]"The donation, by a couple wishing to remain anonymous, places $50 million into the orchestra's endowment plus $5 million for general operating costs." " The Philadelphia Inquirer
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Officials from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the entity that manages the site, announced the selection of three architectural firms that will develop separate proposals …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Yes, "the Nation's T. rex" still has pride of place in the hall at the National Museum of Natural History. "But there's much more here than one awe-inspiring dinosaur. The hall, restored to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]A self-taught cook who was discovered by Craig Claiborne when he ate at her husband's Miami Beach restaurant in the 1970s, she wrote or co-wrote more than 20 cookbooks, the most recent of wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"A delegation from the festivals has this week met with Caroline Nokes, the Minister of State for Immigration, in a bid to ease the apparent clampdown on visiting artists to the UK … [that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Terrence S. Orr … will retire next June after the ballet company concludes its 50th anniversary season. Under his leadership, Mr. Orr expanded the the company's repertory with more than 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"The string players sat in concentric semicircles, with odd-looking tangles of wires running between the players' feet. … As the lights dimmed, long drifting skeins of sound emerged, which…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"[Malcolm John] Rebennack, in his younger years, was gangsta to a degree that would likely shock Lil Wayne. But over the course of a remarkable life and career, he evolved. From addiction to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thirteen out of 34 members of the board of directors, including chairman John Svoboda, resigned this week following a disagreement with Roosevelt University, which owns the building, over th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Notwithstanding Dede Wilsey's megadonor status and her 21-year tenure in the board's top spot, her future value to FAMSF could be compromised by an eyebrow-raising opinion piece published Tu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
Lucy Wallace, who has degrees in dance and psychology, brings her Dance to Be Free program of classes and workshops to 13 prisons in eight states " on a budget of $100,000 a year.- The Chron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Before Thomas W. Morris became artistic director in 2004, the Southern California contemporary music event was respected but somewhat, as Zachary Woolfe puts it, "insular and Eurocentric ……
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"As the baby boom was hitting its peak and Sputnik was prompting much hand-wringing about the state of American education, a vigorous debate over literacy was beginning to take shape, and [T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Leila Jancovich: "When managing the [2002] Commonwealth Games cultural programme in Manchester, both myself and our independent evaluator were asked to remove learning points from our report…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]Gov. Jay Pritzker's infrastructure spending bill, the state's first major public works program in more than ten years, just passed the state legislature, and it includes over $60 million in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"[The company] said content that alleges a group is superior in order to justify discrimination on characteristics like age, race, caste, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran sta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]In addition to a five-decade career an an actor, director, producer, and teacher (among her students at Circle in the Square were Kevin Bacon, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Lady Gaga), she crea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"The 2019 programme … includes 3,841 shows, up from 3,548 in 2018, and 59,600 performances, up from 56,796. The programme has a record 63 countries represented, and more than 700 free show…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Indications are everywhere that this is a turning point for black artists. Collectors and museums are taking note, and prices are up. Every week brings news of black scholars being appointe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]No, the answer isn't merely "white" " for one thing, there are many whites to chose from (just go to Home Depot and check the paint chips) " and for some purposes, various shades of blue, gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]In late May, the Hong Kong Philharmonic's management dismissed Lam Fung, a local composer who took the position in 2017 and had received a good performance review as recently as March. "[The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Kelly Tweeddale, who trained as a dancer when young, has spent the past five seasons as president of the Vancouver Symphony; before that, she was for 12 years executive director of Seattle O…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Founded in 2002, Teatr.doc assembles scripts from documents and participant testimony from important incidents in contemporary Russia. Writer Verity Healey reports on the company's latest pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]"Over the course of a six-decade career that cut across artistic movements and unflinchingly addressed issues of racism and inequality, Overstreet established himself not only as one of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]"Jones's portrait of a young African-American's wrongful incarceration and its devastating impact on his marriage … [won over] last year's Booker winner, Anna Burns's Milkman, and former B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]During the month of daytime fasting, families and friends often gather around the TV during and after the evening meal, and Egyptian networks prepare their biggest programming events for the…
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