Thursday, May 9, 2019
"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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Polish police say Elżbieta Podlesna put up posters of the revered Black Madonna that showed the Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbows from the LGBT flag as the halos. Now she could face tw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"For years, Mr. Kinder led the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became renowned for his generosity as a teacher and as a [party] host" as well as for a huge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Emily Carrico was diagnosed with slippage of the vertebrae when she was still a toddler; she had two lower vertebrae fused with the sacrum. Then she spent months in a cast, a year in rehab, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Although Renaissance and Baroque repertoire remains his lodestar, [Liam] Byrne has taken the music " and audiences " to surprising places. In 2015, he squeezed into the belly of a plaster s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]For years it's been known that the makers of top video games would make employees work 90-hour weeks or more, with no extra pay, at the crunch time before a title's release. But now crunch t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tom Carson: "Most of the Americans entranced by the fib that everything after high school is a fall from grace undoubtedly have no idea where it originated, but the Clearasil staining Mark T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Trump on Show, which ran for four days last month at the city's last commercial Cantonese opera theater, "tells a story of Mr. Trump's long-lost twin, Chuan Pu, who was raised in China and w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]The co-founder and recently retired director of DC's famed theatre company reports from this year's Golden Mask Festival, where selected companies from all over the vast country meet to show…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Five key high-level staffers of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority didn't renew their contracts and are leaving between now and the fall. And one much-anticipated venue in the WKCD…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]"Steven McMahon, 34, was named Artistic Director on Tuesday, taking over half the role occupied by company founder Dorothy Gunther Pugh since 1986. While Pugh will stay on as C.E.O., McMahon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2019
The attorneys for Woodstock 50 co-founder Michael Lang have shared a furious letter he has written to Dentsu, the Japan-based international ad agency that had been lead investor for this sum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]Amy Brandt, who danced in Farrell's company in Washington, DC, talks with Farrell about her return to the troupe where she became a star, and watches her coach Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Many programs focus exclusively on craft and artistry, but rarely " if ever " address the nitty-gritty topics such as finding work, money management, or entrepreneurship, although these are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]In Chicago, where Bellow spent his life, playwright David Auburn (who won the Pulitzer for Proof) has reshaped the hefty novel into a single-evening play with 13 actors portraying 40 charact…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Way back in 1985-86, Anne Hamburger started up En Garde Arts in place of writing a master's thesis at the Yale School of Drama. ("At the time, no one knew what that was; audiences identified…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM[SHARE]That's how Tate Modern director Frances Morris describes the 1989 Paris show Magiciens de la Terre. As The Economist's anonymous-as-usual correspondent writes, "The exhibition was in some wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM[SHARE]"The full findings from the annual Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society report into author earnings … [reveal that,] while the average professional writer earns £10,000 a year, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Over the past seven years, a pair of amateur archaeologists has discovered hundreds of large petroglyphs, estimated to be 10,000 to 40,000 years old, etched into rock in a rural area roughly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Almost 50,000 people took part in the BBC Arts Great British Creativity Test. It suggested that being creative can help avoid stress, free up mind space and improve self-development, which …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"The Metropolitan Opera has named Lisette Oropesa the 2019 recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, just one month after the young soprano was announced as this year's Richard Tucker Awa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"[She] was among Brazil's most celebrated singers, with a husky alto voice that soundtracked dances, street parties and the earsplitting, eye-widening Carnival festival … [She] filled socc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]While things will proceed as planned for the rest of this year, from 2020 onward, the Lucerne Festival will redirect focus and resources to its flagship late-summer event and its in-house or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Despite running a ballet company " and his many commissions for ballet companies " Mr. Cherkaoui is still largely seen as a contemporary dance-maker … [and he] seem[s] half-amused, half-p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The online-shopping juggernaut is reportedly in talks with those three outlets (and possibly others) "about deals that would reward them for expanding their international presence, specifica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Known for his incisive, off-kilter and sometimes controversial approach to joking about race, family and relationships, Chappelle has influenced a generation of younger comedians since beco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The streaming series, a spinoff of the old broadcast series The Good Wife, is known for its satirical Schoolhouse Rock-style cartoons called Good Fight Shorts. Last week, in place of the Sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]A particularly lovely passage in François Matarasso's recent book, A Restless Art: How participation won and why it matters, describes the opportunity of art-making for children, which Ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AM[SHARE]Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive (Onyx)Paying concentrated attention to all of the new releases that arrive at Rifftides is out of the question. Some, however, simply …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Jonah Bokaer says that working with Team USA ice dancers Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter has been one of the most rewarding projects of his life. " Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The Vent Haven Museum, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky, houses nearly 1,000 dummies, some 150 years old. Most of them, especially those that are or used to be famo…
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