Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, … intends to visit Washington 'to recover 5,500 artefacts from the Hobby Lobby company and 10,000 clay figurines …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Leathers is best known to the global jazz audience for his affiliations with pianist Aaron Diehl and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. He won two Grammy awards backing Salvant, as a member of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Museum management said in a statement that "this auction allows us to deaccession a number of works in areas where we have significant breadth and depth and the proceeds will return to the A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Two of the country's four major chains have raised the price of a standard ticket from Â¥1,800 ($16.50) to Â¥1,900 ($17.50), citing the costs of new IMAX and 4D equipment as well as "ant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]The dramaturg at the Kaaitheater, a Flemish company in Brussels, has written an open letter arguing hard against a merger between the Kaai and Rosas, the company of choreographer Anne Teresa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]"About 50 people packed the inside of the Children's Book Cellar, where is was shoulder to shoulder, like a rainbow mosh pit. Ophelia, a drag queen from Topsham, read from two books about in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]The creators of Sun and Sea (Marina) at the Lithuanian pavilion say they had never really expected more than 15 visitors at a time and certainly never expected to win the Golden Lion or draw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]New York Notes finds Broadbent leading a trio, the setting that brought him to the attention of audiences and critics early in his career. His associations with Woody Herman, John Klemmer an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AM[SHARE]This is the second in a series of posts by guest blogger Milton Moore, a longtime music critic who has covered a wide array of genres. " Scott Timberg
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AM[SHARE]There's barely a scrap of frivolity in the Rutherford home. The seat of a Tyneside manufacturing family in the 1910s, it's imposing, substantial, stuffed to the gunwales with heavy furniture…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2019
"Through Aladdin and other remakes, the studio has tried to fix its problematic legacy. But its efforts should be focused on original stories." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"Exploring nature is not some obscure topic in children's literature. Quite the contrary, children's literature has a considerable focus on the natural world " on plants and bugs, woods and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]"A recent episode of the CBS drama The Red Line featured a gay romance involving a Muslim character. Fawzia Mirza, the episode's writer, discusses how it came to be." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2019
"Despite not being staged while [composer Scott] Joplin was still alive, Treemonisha has had a lasting legacy. It was first performed in its entirety in the 1970s, and in 1977 Joplin posthum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"A powerful painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, depicting the torturing of Saint Catherine, is touring Britain. What did the women of Send Prison make of the chilling work?" " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The New York Philharmonic's "Music of Conscience" series features Corigliano's Symphony No. 1, partially inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the first large-scale response to the HIV cri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2019
"I never thought he was abusive that way at all. I think everybody he was with was completely willing to be with him. I never perceived him as using a part as being manipulative. And I'll te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"In this series, a variety of disabled theatre artists: managers, designers, producers, and dramaturgs, will share how they do their work, as well as their vision for an accessible future in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The site, The Mumble, is contacting artists appearing at this year's festival to offer 'a digitally sophisticated Skyflyer', comprising a review and interview, for £50. Opting for just a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Remaining residents, particularly those in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like San Francisco's Mission District, don't see a huge distinction between a well-intentioned arts funder and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"There have only been a few filmmakers who have gone into an old genre and created a new universe out of it. … But those Italian guys " Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Duccio Tessari and Fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Six years ago, the company moved into a newly-rehabbed 11,000-square-foot space with rent and expenses of $15,000 a month " expensive, though below market for the size and location. But the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's Blue is about a black police officer whose son is shot by a white colleague. Jazz trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]On Tuesday, Netflix issued a cautious statement of concern; on Wednesday, Disney warned a bit more strongly. By late Thursday, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, and AMC Networks had made their disa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]KuÅŸ dili ("bird language"), used to communicate over long distances in a mountainous farming area near Turkey's Black Sea coast, renders the entire Turkish language into variously pitched…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"Glenstone is a 21st-century version of the Frick, the Phillips Collection or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. And it's the equivalent, among its contemporaries, of such celebrated art s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"Every month [students learning Tongva] gather, practicing pronunciation, mastering the use of particles, singing songs and playing word games under the guidance of Pam Munro, a linguist fro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The rowdy, messy, laddish types who flock to the city for the hashish and the red-light district have been joined by hordes of selfie-seeking Instagram addicts, and Amsterdam is becoming eve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"The State Hermitage Museum [in St. Petersburg] has held talks with Saudi officials to explore the possibility of opening a satellite in the Gulf state. The meeting took place earlier this y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The musicians have been playing without a contract since mid-January, and the main issue in negotiations has been whether to shorten the orchestra's annual season to 40 weeks from 52, which …
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