Thursday, June 6, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]The New York City subway is not, on any given day, the place to hear the music you need. It's public in the extreme " in one of the world's most public cities. And yet that's where music amb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Richard Eyre, a former director of the National Theatre in London, criticized a recent RSC production of Timon of Athens in which Lord Timon became Lady Timon " and, therefore, the line "I l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]"What if belief in the supernatural is window dressing on what really matters " elaborate rituals that foster group cohesion, creating personal bonds that people are willing to die for." " N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Vice versa, argues Joseph Henrich. "He contends that moralizing gods spurred societal complexity because belief in moralizing gods leads to success in intergroup competition. It increased tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]"YouTube is taking additional steps to restrict the possibility that children will be targeted by predators on the video platform " including banning young kids from live-streaming with[out]…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"YouTube never set out to serve users with sexual interests in children " but in the end, … its automated system managed to keep them watching with recommendations that [are] 'disturbingly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Along with other postmodern architects of international repute, among them the late Philip Johnson and Michael Graves, Tigerman in the 1970s and 1980s broke the mold of modernist, steel-and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Paris prosecutors … said Tuesday that there was not evidence to back up the allegations made by a young actress who accused Depardieu of assaulting her last August." " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]NPR reporter Kat Chow grew up near Vuong, and the two attended the same high school (though they never met each other there). She joins the poet-novelist on a road trip to Glastonbury, CT. "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Hong Kong once churned out a broad range of books focused on China's modern history and Communist Party politics, from thinly sourced potboilers churned out under pen names to respected wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The Berlin State Opera, where the 76-year-old conductor is general music director, has extended his contract for five additional years to 2027. Some doubts about Barenboim's future there aro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Philanthropist Dede Wilsey, an heir to the Dow chemical fortune and widow of a Bay Area real estate magnate, is departing after 21 years. "Her generosity to the Fine Arts Museums, among many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"At stake is whether the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) can use state money for travel costs and continue to provide grants for individual artists " longtime recipients of the agency's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Last Friday, museum workers began contributing to a Google Spreadsheet documenting their place of employment, salary rates, and demographic details like race and gender. … Those who contr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Oktay Ä°nce, a longtime video activist fighting to retrieve an archive worth 20 years of his work, was held in police custody and accused of terrorist propaganda after he chained himself …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]"With LPO Plus, points can be earned each time an order is placed for eligible items including tickets, … gift vouchers, CDs, merchandise and programme book vouchers. Points can then be re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]In 1980, Kylián traveled to the Northern Territory to see the largest-ever gathering of Australian Aboriginal tribes; they all spoke different languages, so they communicated with dance. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]Henry Hitchings and Fiona Mountford had been contract freelancers at the London Evening Standard, he for 10 years and she for 17. Their redundancy is part of what Standard ownership calls "n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]Ever tried to get a date by saying, "Hey, wanna go see Chunky in Heat? It's an opera about a girl and her swimming pool. And it's got six composers." " David Patrick Stearns
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12AM[SHARE]This year's Ojai Festival was programmed by soprano Barbara Hannigan and features, among other performers, new-music stars the JACK Quartet. The other day I spoke to Jay Campbell, the group'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
The 74-year-old conductor, who withdrew from one weekend of concerts last month due to illness, said in a statement, "'On the advice of my doctors, I need to undergo this procedure at this t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PM[SHARE]"We are being deliberately vague about the term 'literary' here: there are traditional fiction and lit-crit magazines listed, but we've also included a sci-fi publication and a psychogeograp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"Billops is best known for documentary works like Finding Christa (1991), a 55-minute film that recounts why she gave up her four-year-old daughter and how they reconnected more than two dec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]"Culture programs are budgeted at $235 million this year, down from nearly $295 million last year, including cutting 'arts sector support' from $18.5 million to $6.5 million. Additionally, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]"The plan is to have monthly rotating chief editors, who will help curate the content " slated to comprise around 15 pieces a month " with the help of ongoing editors Michelle Tse (one of St…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]"'I've always been attracted to those ballet steps, and using them as a framework, or form, but then changing stuff within that,' she says. Nevertheless, breaking into the ballet world wasn'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]"[Emilie] Skinner launched DNCB in 2011 after dancing with Contemporary Ballet Dallas and carved out a niche re-staging groundbreaking examples of early modernist ballet, particularly pieces…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]As a Change.org petition (with about 3,000 signatures so far) puts it, "We [pro-choice people in Georgia] now share the burden of condemnation for actions we fought from the beginning " with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Lynch, Studi, and Wertmüller will receive honorary Academy Awards for lifetime achievement, while Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work toward g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Despite high praise for Jackson's performance, reviews for the show have been ambivalent at best, and initially robust sales have slowed considerably. The final performance, originally sched…
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