Wednesday, May 29, 2019
"An array of Chinese artists and writers, performers and filmmakers " all up to no good by the standards of Beijing's morality police " [are] hungrily taking in the many crazy, dissolute sub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"On Monday evening, the French Senate approved the government's Notre-Dame restoration bill " but added a clause that it must be restored to the state it was before the blaze, striking a blo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Though he won a Pulitzer in 1995 reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the conditions of facing low-wage workers, he was best known for his books combining personal travel and history, of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]This decade has been pretty rough for the company, which lost its home to mold, cycled through executive directors at an alarming rate, and nearly closed for good in 2015. Now Orlando Ballet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]She had plenty of experience in that theatre as an actor, but taking over the artistic directorship after the contentious departure of Emma Rice was quite a challenge: "The big learning curv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The company's chief content officer said in a statement, "Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we'll continue to film there, while also supporting partners and artists who cho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Says Yuval Sharon, who's directing a revival of ATLAS for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "It's a big deal to me, and it's a very big deal to Meredith. It's a huge risk on one hand, but I feel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The elephants-not-in-the-room at this morning's press conference celebrating the appointment of Lonnie Bunch III as the Smithsonian Institution's new secretary were the man currently occupyi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Kathryn Scanlan found the journal in a bin of unsold items at an estate sale; it covered the years 1968-72. "Over the years, Scanlan 'edited, arranged, and rearranged' the contents, the prod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]She began her career in the Bay Area in the 1970s; adopting the masculine pseudonym was one of her first Conceptual works. She never revealed any personal info and almost never explained her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]When Barbara Walters launched the show in 1997, it was seen as mildly scandalous that someone with her journalistic prestige would go to daytime TV; when President Barack Obama appeared on i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"The Sud Culture Solidaires trade union said in a statement that the Louvre was 'suffocating' and staff were being overwhelmed by the number of visitors. … 'More than 10 million people vis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]The stated idea behind the tours is to attract Parisians who avoid the museum because of the massive crowds of tourists. If that's the case, though, why are the tours being offered through A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Batsheva Dance Company's Ohad Naharin told Army Radio, "BDS is against the occupation, something I sympathize with. I've always said that if protesting and boycotting my performances would i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Louisville, Kentucky has gotten used to the fact that the maestro rides his bike to concerts. No limo, no tux for him. At 32, Teddy Abrams is the youngest conductor of a major orchestra in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]The Dutch National Ballet tried it two years ago with a new piece for its junior company, and it worked. English National Opera and Music Theatre Wales have projects they hope to try the tac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"[The expert engaged for the project] has 22 months to identify potential risks to the world-famous museum, such as fires, theft or terrorist attacks, and to come up with 'a massive evacuati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Ben Lewis, who wrote a recent book on the history of Salvator Mundi, says curators at the Louvre don't believe the $450 million painting is entirely Leonardo's work and wouldn't exhibit it a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Some 20,000 unionized musicians across the country will soon see 'painful' reductions in their pension benefits in order to keep the American Federation of Musicians' $1.8 billion multi-emp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sarah Kaufman: "The subtlety, intelligence and beauty of Federer's play can pull us into a direct and instant involvement with grace. We experience a dimension of humanness that feels perfec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Christine M. Daly: "There's a spray that we use [on the puppets], but there's not a lot you can do about it. You cannot wash their insides. That's the hard part. We are probably the biggest …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]He had been highly regarded for his multi-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book of which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer, when he shook up the literary and political wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an editor on the Norton Shakespeare edition, wasn't worried about profaning the Bard's texts; he thought the playwrights were being told to stick too close to the ori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Figures indicate that the number of books checked out at college libraries accross the U.S. has fallen by as much as two-thirds over the last decade, even as use of the library buildings has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Chicagoans watched Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and other heroes of the blues on videos at the the fifth Digging Our Roots: Chicago's Greatest Hits "listening session"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36AM[SHARE]If only they were still with us, two major artists would be celebrating their birthdays this weekend. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2019
"The Free Spirit singer announced the launch of The Great Khalid Foundation in El Paso on May 10th: a music and fine arts organization that aims to help underserved communities. The website …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"[Latyra] Blake and her collaborators made the artworks as part of Women in Reentry, a project of the People's Paper Co-op. Together, they've spent months learning to make paper from their o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"The Sphinx Organization, a US non-profit organization dedicated to the development of young American Black and Latin classical musicians, has today announced the 16 recipients of the 2019 M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"A [dance instruction] programme in Stockton-on-Tees has helped young people excluded from mainstream schools learn new skills, develop self-worth and show others what they can achieve." " A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Memorial Day is notoriously one of Chicago's bloodiest weekends. Last year, 36 people were shot and seven died that weekend. In 2017 and 2016, the number of shootings was even higher. When …
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