Friday, May 17, 2019
The dismissal and subsequent reinstatement of dancer Amar Ramasar at New York City Ballet is the most high-profile of several recent cases where a performer was fired after a credible compla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"It seemed like a good idea at the time. Bringing hundreds of Australian artists together in [an inland, non-state-capital] city for a large arts festival could turbo-charge Ballarat's creat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Jane Howard: "I frame this as a serious question: what is the use of investment in the arts if climate change is continually ignored? … Or, to put it another way, if politicians won't even…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]When an early photo of this animal's perpetual scowl appeared online and promptly went viral, her human, a Phoenix-area waitress named Tabatha Bundesen, was soon able to quit her job. Grumpy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Founded in 1995 as one of the first internet-only general-interest newsmagazines, Salon has been losing money for its entire history, and the company warned that it may have to be liquidated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Song Company, a chamber group that has been performing repertoire from the medieval to the brand-new for 35 years, abruptly announced that it is entering (as it's called in Australia) Vo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]The Met's now-defunct Sackler Enclave " a 600-square-foot office and storage space on the museum's premises, named for the oldest brother, Arthur (who died before OxyContin was developed), r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]The exact date is uncertain, but we know who was with Hubbard in this L.A. all-star band. They play "Ride With The Wind." " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
"In a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Romance Studies, Gerard Cheshire, a research associate at the University of Bristol, argues the manuscript is … a type of therapeutic ref…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"A physical form of prayer and symbol of protection, a daily exercise, and a moment of intense concentration and meditation, drawing kolam is an important household ritual that has a lot mor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]"In Latin America, it's said that Chile produces poets, Argentina produces short story writers, Mexico produces novelists, and Uruguay produces 'los raros' " the strange ones." And, writes h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"Artistic director Ãngel Corella has … add[ed] demi-soloist and first soloist levels to the mix. PAB now joins a handful of other U.S. companies, including Miami City Ballet, Houston Ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Imagine Macbeth, but with a five-person cast that includes an inebriated actor in the title role. Add a prop dildo, an interpretive dance break and the president's rousing speech from Indep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Bulldozers are already scraping clear millions of tonnes of earth in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town about 3,800 metres above sea level that is the gateway to the Sacred Valley." Says on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Basically, as one executive put it, "there are two Philadelphia brands the Chinese respect " the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the Philadelphia Orchestra." Classical music …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Over the years, rumors of possible successors have surfaced and vanished, as [the now-98-year-old] Ms. Alonso, at least partially blind since the 1940s, talked of living to 200. But her gri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sold for $91.1 million, "Rabbit, a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of [Christie's] spring sale and overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hoc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"In a bankruptcy filing on Tuesday, lawyers for the studio … said it was burning through what little cash it had left. … The Weinstein Company has been negotiating for more than a year w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Brandon Keith Brown took up his position as conductor of the Brown University Orchestra in September of 2017; within six weeks, and shortly before his first scheduled concert leading the gro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"A former mayor of Olomouc, [minister AntonÃn] StanÄ›k made headlines several weeks back when he fired the director of the National Gallery in Prague, Jiřà Fajt, and the head of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"A prolific actress who appeared in plays, television series and more than 80 films, … she was among Japan's earliest on-screen sex symbols, known for playing elegant and assertive princes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Given the gravity of recent events," said the CEO of the ITV network in a statement, "we have decided to end production of The Jeremy Kyle Show." The grave recent event was the death of a 6…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]In 2006, weary of the endless political battles over the NEA and worried about the cuts to its funding, the Ford, Prudential, Rockefeller, and Rasmuson Foundations joined forces to create a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Journalist and playwright Farai Mabeza gives a survey of the sector and the ways its artists have been opening windows on the society's social and political problems despite a severe lack of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Two recent theater pieces take a hard look at one of the cultural rootstocks of the United States. " David Patrick Stearns
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Among the many anecdotes in Christine Smallwood's profile: "She never dabbled in the drugs and alcohol that were omnipresent on film sets. Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols once pulled her aside …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"There is a line in The Scarlet Letter: 'She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.' I hadn't known the weight of transposing myself into other people's bodies until I no long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Critic Alex Rosenfeld writes about A Fierce Kind of Love, a devised play about the intellectual disability rights movement, and how everything about the production, from the integration of p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Camp, an agent of nonsense, resists this exercise. Or actually, like a child, kind of ignores it and wanders elsewhere." J. Bryan Lowder takes it as a basic principle that camp is, or ought…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Just as the lights were going down at the State Theatre in Melbourne for the start of Opera Australia's Rigoletto, George Dreyfus stood up and started yelling through a megaphone about the f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Ward Stare, who in 2014 at age 32 became the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's youngest-ever music director following one of its most turbulent periods, will leave the job at the end of th…
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