Tuesday, May 7, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]"Soros Arts Fellowship [is] an initiative to support innovative mid-career artists using art and public space to advance 'pluralistic, democratic, and just societies.' The eight fellows rece…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The ousted chief of the chain, Demos Parneros, sued over his dismissal (as one does if one is a CEO), so B&N decided to countersue, demanding to claw back some of the CEO's compensation …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Orbital Reflector, sculptor Trevor Paglen's 100-foot-long, titanium oxide-coated, $1.5 million diamond-shaped Mylar balloon, was launched into orbit in December and was meant to be visible f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Since 2004, Ã’ran Mór in Scotland's largest city has been presenting A Play, a Pie and a Pint, which is exactly what it says: a meat pie and a pint of ale for lunch, along with an hour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"These recordings " half-erotica, half-radio play " have long flourished on Reddit communities like GoneWildAudio or PillowTalkAudio. Now, entrepreneurs bet it can go mainstream " and make m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"The idea behind the app" " PoemPortraits " "which was jointly conceived by artist and stage designer Es Devlin and the creative technologist Ross Goodwin, is for users to 'donate' a single …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"They come in all shapes and sizes, from Nintendo's Pokémon Sword and Shield, which riffs on the architecture of Oxbridge and London, to PanicBarn's anti-Brexit polemic Not Tonight. Most be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"For a woman who, on arriving in New York, had worked as a housekeeper for $1 a day " and a woman who had taught herself English with the help of romance novels ('because I always wanted to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a black population in Spain, mostly brought over from the Latin American colonies, and they did take part in the development of flamenco. "[But] as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[She] was the youngest recruit and last survivor of the original Lindy Hoppers, the all-black Herbert White troupe that broke in at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom and popularized the Lindy Hop in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Beyond the humorous, ironic façade of these performances is a sincere craft that has exploded in popularity over the past couple of decades." Ethnomusicologist Byrd McDaniel explains how…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]"During restoration work [on Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window], conservators discovered, to their surprise, that the naked figure " which dominates the upper right section of the pict…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]A friend sent this photo of Marcus Bowcott's Trans Am Totem, which stands amid the traffic in Vancouver. For me the sculpture brings to mind Heathcote Williams's 1991 chapbook Autogeddon. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]Some anecdotes from the backstage front lines (so to speak) of opera in the US in the 1980s. " Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]Had you told me in 1963 " or 1985 " that I would live to see a fully mobile phone in every person's pocket, I would have laughed in your face. And it's easy to forget that as late as 1940, 4…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]The municipal council of Perth and Kinross, alarmed by poor attendance and financial performance at the Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall, warned the nonprofit which operates the twin ven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]Mind you, the operating surplus was only just over $342,000 (in local dollars), but even that isn't bad for such a money-losing art form. But several million dollars in bequests came in last…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2019
Adam Roberts: "Over five years ago, Gail Dalrymple, Robert Pierson, and I sat down to conceive of a performance company that would celebrate the creative work of adult actors with disabiliti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy 'Duke'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Vu Le: "'Solutions Privilege' [is] the privilege of expecting easy and instant solutions that would align with one's worldview and not challenge one's privilege. It manifests in the followin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, argues that the most important thing that grant makers can do is make sure the nonprofits they fund can attract good staff …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Reporter John-John Williams IV profiles Soulful Symphony, a racially and culturally diverse orchestra which begins a three-year residency at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
Among the questions: whether Oklahoma! choreographer John Heginbotham was snubbed, why Casey Nicholaw (The Prom) was nominated for Best Director but not Best Choreography, the wonderfulness …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"If YouTubers represent the epitome of the uphill battle to create stable employment and meaningful connection all in one place, they may also offer clues to an alternative approach to work …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]The Oscar winner and third generation of a four-generation movie dynasty (so far) speaks very plainly about her complicated relations with her family members and romantic partners (i.e., Jac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]As Sarah Malley discovered while working at an independent bookshop, some routine practices legally qualified at least in her state) as wage theft. And it's far more common for indie booksto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Bret Easton Ellis grants that almost no house would publish American Psycho today (he wouldn't even want to write it today), and it's hard to imagine any American publisher releasing Lolita …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Empowering the female lead may be a celebratory hook for selling a show, particularly given that women buy the bulk of Broadway tickets. But on closer inspection, it is rarely the women tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]"ALL " a physical poem of protest … explores what [Mia] Habib refers to as 'the protesting body.' It can be performed for up to 12 hours, though the New York iteration will clock in at a b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]Stagecoach South East, a bus company that offers service to the host city of this year's prize exhibition (the seaside town of Margate), has for a chairman Sir Brian Souter, who spent heavil…
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