Thursday, May 23, 2019
The gift from the Knight Foundation will be used to expand NewsHour's Canvas program online and over the air. " ARTnews
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The "culprit" was Aslan Sagutdinov, a blogger in the city of Uralsk. In a video taken of his arrest, he said, "I want to show that the idiocy in our country has gotten so strong that the pol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]A federal court in Sydney ordered that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. must pay the Oscar winner A$1.98 million (US$1.36 million) compensation for economic loss on top of the A$850,000 (US$584,0…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]The objects are called tabots, they're plaques meant to respresent the Ark of the Covenant, and their presence is what makes an Ethiopian church a sacred space. The British Museum has 11 of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu is casting works to be displayed in the empty niches this fall, while Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman is creating large-scale site-specific paintings f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"[She] first gained acclaim in the 1970s, when she appeared in New York nightclubs as a bluesy singer with a powerful voice and presence. She dropped out of show business for a decade before…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Yes, that billboard in London was a piece of viral marketing. One day after it set social media atwitter (ahem), HarperCollins revealed that it will release The Mirror and the Light in March…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Rifftides reader Orsolya Bene writes, "Listening to jazz on the radio after finishing chores. "North Of The Sunset," by Thelonious Monk was just playing. Now, it's the Denny Zeitlin trio. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
It was the Web, and especially V Kontakte (Russia's Facebook), that made it possible, and, as always in such cases, the old fogeys in charge didn't catch on until it was too late to stop or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Director Paula Garfield, mother of two deaf children and deaf herself, created Horrible Histories: Dreadful Deaf "just as much for hearing parents as for their deaf children. It's a chance f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]"With her latest work, Fame Notions, [choreographer Gillian Walsh] seeks to understand what she calls the 'fundamentally pessimistic or alienating pursuit' of being a dancer." Walsh explains…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]"A mechanical engineer at the University of Versailles has modelled the engineering of the structure and shown that the walls of Nôtre-Dame could collapse under the pressure of wind speed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Opera Theatre of Saint Louis did some research to find out what could get new people in the door " and, just as importantly, what doesn't work. " American Theatre
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"When the children's television show Arthur made headlines last week for an episode in which the beloved teacher Mr. Ratburn marries his male aardvark partner, Alabama viewers saw only a rer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"Ever worry about getting paid, getting laid or finding love? Does social anxiety prickle your palms? Do you despair of a world slipping its moorings? Restoration drama may speak to you." Da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]The obvious explanation would be that the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre is upcoming (June 4). "When Wikipedia's official account tweeted that the reasons for the total bl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"For an artwork that's making strides around the world, On Display places remarkable value on motionlessness. 'It's a lot of stillness,' creator-choreographer Heidi Latsky says of the piece,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"It's weird to play a character who lived, more weird if he's still alive " because he's producing more information every day " and extraordinarily rare that he is behind the camera saying, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]And "deepest" doesn't mean Tashkent, Samarkand, or the other Silk Road cities visited by tourists; this is in far-off Nukus, near the now-dead Aral Sea. Yet this distance from Soviet power c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"One of the first high-profile Kenyans to openly declare he was gay, … he won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the world for his satirical essay 'How t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"In a court filing on Monday, the personal representative of Ms. Franklin's estate disclosed that three handwritten documents had been discovered just weeks ago at Ms. Franklin's home " one …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies. Alharthi … shares the [£50,000…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"On Tuesday (21st May), Waterstones Piccadilly sparked excitement online when it tweeted out a prominent sign, said to be spotted in London's Leicester Square, which appeared to hint at news…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Following in the footsteps of workers at MoMA and the New Museum, employees of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) have signed a formal petition to join United Auto Workers Local 2110. "Whil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Another subject that ought to be in the book I've imagined, one about the history of US orchestras from the 1980s to the present: structural deficits. " Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
"She wished she could talk about it, she said in her barrel-aged voice. She likes to read actors' interviews, scouring them for details of life and craft. … She wanted to be cooperative. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]"TV and film star David Niven griped in 1955 that 'the laugh track is the greatest single affront to public intelligence I know of.' … But consider for a moment the unheralded achievements…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"They're finding strength in numbers that have swelled in the wake of new role models, mounting recurring group shows with names like Kutti Gang and Brown Privilege in New York, and Desi Com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"Just a few years ago, Le Vele " a sprawling housing estate in Scampia, on the outskirts of Naples " was both the fictional location for the hit crime film and Italian TV series Gomorrah and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Uzma Hameed, who developed Woolf Works and Obsidian Tear with Wayne McGregor and Victoria with Cathy Marston, "defines her role as dramaturg " the definition of which is often a vexed questi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]"The piece, called Sun & Sea (Marina) (2019), was created by a trio of highly creative women: filmmaker and theater director RugilÄ— BarzdžiukaitÄ—; writer, poet, and playwright…
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