Sunday, May 26, 2019
"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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"There is growing presence, visibility and representation of [Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic] artists, as well as a vision that they should be part of the mainstream. … However, we now …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]"Despite museums' well-meaning (but not always successful) efforts to adjust their tones and practices to 21st-century standards, auction houses continue to present African artifacts through…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2019
As one of her projects as artist-in-residence at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Kirsha Kaechele has created a cookbook called (yes) Eat the Problem, full of recipes that turn Aus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]"What if all ballet dancers had agents and ballet companies had scouts? What if once a year there was a ballet combine, at which pre-professional dancers and 'free agents' could showcase the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Suddenly the worst thing that can happen to a creative person has happened to me. … Somehow I became respectable. I don't know how " the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"The program," called San Francisco Museums for All and involving 15 institutions, "will run June 1 to September 2, with no limit to the number of institutions or times eligible participants…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]It took David J. Peterson about six weeks to create Dothraki and a summer in a subsequent year to create Valyrian " and, as with Elvish and Klingon before them, those languages have taken on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The artist/architect, whose parents survived the Holocaust (though more than a dozen aunts, uncles and cousins did not), talks to Tim Teeman about Through the Lens of Faith: Auschwitz, an in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"I was in hair and makeup next to a [Nurse Jackie] castmate, British actress Eve Best, and I told her I couldn't get out of my mind a news story I had just heard: that a kid in Baltimore, my…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"Laundry literacy programs have recently sprung up all over the country, … and thousands of children have benefited from the chance to hone their early-literacy skills in an everyday setti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Michigan Opera Theatre has issued a Request For Proposals to developers for a tower up to 480 feet high that "may include mixed use, corporate, residential, restaurants, retail, etc." " Crai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Starting in January 2018, Rebecca Brill started sending out short excerpts from Sontag's published diaries on Twitter every day. And what happens when one does this? "You will start talking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure, American Dharma) actually directed a few commercials for Theranos several years ago, before the company's frau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]"For some, commemorating slavery is a vital part of addressing contemporary injustices. For others, it is a distraction [from those injustices]" and other pressing problems. The debate is pl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]He joined the company in 1983 and grew to become one of its stars, and in 2001 he became the boss. When he departs in 2020, McAllister will have been the longest-serving artistic director in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]"The analysis of content aired and published by Radio and Television MartÃ, a sister agency to the better-known Voice of America, was launched by the broadcasters' parent organization." I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]When the Swiss conductor, now 61, steps down, he'll have been at the orchestra's helm for 13 years. The end of his contract term coincides with that of the musicians' labor agreement. " The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]"The musical has canceled its [preview] engagement at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre, which was supposed to start this November. … Magic Mike: The Musical's writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]"The evening Impressionist/Modern and Contemporary sales at Christie's this month felt like a bit of a throwback to the old days when more museum-quality works graced the sale catalogues." "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]The staff gauged the rate at which the postwoman is depositing new releases in the Rifftides mailbox and decided that we should pick up the pace of telling you about some of them. " Doug Ram…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2019
Justin Davidson: "In 2003, [Frank] Gehry gave the Los Angeles Philharmonic its new home and showed that, every once in a while, a work of architecture can transform all it touches " in this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Gia Kourlas got Tharp and Sara Rudner, who danced in the work's 1979 premiere, together with Misty Copeland and Isabella Boylston, who are performing in ABT's upcoming revival. "It was livel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]"Michigan ranks 47th in the nation for its ratio of students to certified librarians " it's also in the bottom five in literacy. The two statistics have legislators like State Rep. Darrin Ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]"Dance Magazine spoke to 33 people from all corners of the industry" " among them Paloma Herrera, Judith Jamison, Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Meredith Monk, Donald Byrd, and Trey McIntyre " "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Netflix has already done small-screen versions of Springsteen on Broadway and American Son, and they're now working on feature versions of Broadway's (recent) The Boys in the Band and (curre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]That would be the New England theatre troupe, not the Paris bookstore. "Every year since 1982, Shakespeare & Company has sent young performers on the road from early winter through late …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"The 2019-20 season will be Alan Gilbert's first with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg. On paper, a German radio orchestra, with the system's long tradition of advocacy for new r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 33, begins his 10-weeks-a-year, five-year contract term at the start of the 2021-22 season. He is also chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony (which is the officia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Georgia's recent passage of a highly restrictive abortion law has turned its once cozy relationship with Tinsel Town into a fraught one, and put Hollywood's liberal politics on a collision …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The gift from the Knight Foundation will be used to expand NewsHour's Canvas program online and over the air. " ARTnews
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