Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Milton Moore, who has been reviewing music, classical and otherwise, since the '70s, today starts in this space a more-or-less monthly column about contemporary and "alternative" classical m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2019
Los Angeles Music and Art School (LAMusArt), the only multidisciplinary arts school in east Los Angeles, has offered discounted and tuition-free arts programs to youth for over 70 years. Jas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Manuel Prieto, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Music and Art School: "As I look to my past to see what my task as an arts leader is for the future, I cannot help but think of cultural …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]"Esteban Montejo was over 100 before the world knew his story. Born a slave in Cuba in 1860, he escaped and lived for years in the jungle until slavery was abolished on the island in 1886. H…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Most organizations are hyper aware of creating a well-balanced board, representing increasingly diverse communities. While we continue to actively address (and we must) race and gender diver…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Jennifer Dautermann, director of the Classical:NEXT festival in Berlin: "Exactly this " listening to and learning from each other, is what I and my team are trying to help the art music worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2019
One Second, set during the Cultural Revolution, is said by people who've seen it to be Zhang's best movie in years and a sure bet to take a prize in Berlin or Cannes. Yet, even though the co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM[SHARE]"This Memorial Day weekend, Boston's hometown ballet company is joining a lineup of major music stars for Boston Calling, a festival dubbed by some an 'East Coast Coachella.' It's the first …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"The suit revolves around a 2013 law designed to help creative workers by offering authors, composers and artists in Rhode Island a sales tax exemption. But in a bizarre twist, state tax off…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Lithgow: "Look, I read the script and I wanted to be in it, but my immediate anxiety was, 'What were these two people going to think?' Because I admire them, I know them, I care about them."…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"With their Matisse-like color schemes and Miro-esque organic forms, Nozkowski's works recalled places or things their creator had glimpsed in the world. He described his paintings as memory…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The Italian bank UniCredit has announced plans to sell off its art collection " one of the largest corporate holdings in the world " to help finance social initiatives across Europe. … Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal) and book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (the chief creative officer for all Archie Comics properties) "have departed the productio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Two defendants, aged 17 and 15, were convicted of attacking violinist Yun-Ting Lee, pistol-whipping his husband, forcing their way into the couple's house, and stealing some electronics and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"After years of buildup, a debate about the nature of humor that verged on the metaphysical and the specter of a trial featuring testimony from Patton Oswalt and Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The art collector and real-estate investor Neil Wallace, who with his brother Monte are thought to be the sellers of a $100 million Impressionist art collection at Christie's London in Febr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"He was charged by a herd of 200 elephants, escaping only with the help of a flatbed truck, and was once knocked unconscious by a surly chimpanzee named Mr. Moke who punched him 'square betw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Having just lost $230,000 in corporate sponsorship (due to changing corporate priorities), the SPCO has announced "that it would no longer sponsor the boundary-bending music series beyond th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"More than any other composer, his music reflects his life, his situation, his country and his times. … I've always felt this very personal connection. It's hard to explain but when it pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Reporter Mathew Olson: "I interviewed thirteen Patreon users to get a sense how they feel about the platform and the state of crowdfunding more generally. I tried to speak with users across …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"In the space of barely a year, the very foundations of museums " the money that sustains them, the art that fills them, the decision makers that run them " have been called into question. A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Says one, who worked on Mortal Kombat 11 all through last year and came out of it with a PTSD diagnosis, "I'd have these extremely graphic dreams, very violent. I kind of just stopped wantin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Camp: Notes on Fashion begins promisingly with a deep dive into the early history of camp, including the derivation of that designation as an aesthetic category (first known usage: Molière)…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]We have been meaning to call to your attention to an instance in which " unlike, say, the trade talks between the US and China " international cooperation works beautifully. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]There should be a book about all the changes orchestras went through in the last few decades. I'll be doing posts on some of the things I think should be in this book, often things that aren…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
Yes, there are some literary stars here whose books come to U.S. readers in translation " Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stieg Larsson, Elena Ferrante " but the number of books published in English th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]"[She] drew whimsical but thoughtful cartoons: an office worker sitting in what is actually one of his desk's drawers; a lumberjack peering at a heart pierced by an arrow carved inside the r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]"Before each performance Carol Isaac climbs into her little box from the orchestra pit and raises her seat just enough to be seen by the singers but not the audience." It's tight quarters in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]"An array of rapidly developing technologies offer thrilling potential for the future of motion pictures " such as the rise of AR (augmented reality), AI (artificial intelligence) and the ev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM[SHARE]The culprit was one Robert Phillips, an Englishman who had been a worker on a project to repair and stabilize one of the large stone arches at the site in 1958. He took a cylindrical core th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"The Philadelphia Cultural Pass will provide free tickets to any of the roughly 40,000 Penn Medicine and 6,800 Drexel [University] employees working full-time or more than half-time. … At …
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