Friday, May 3, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]In 2016, the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson that were erected in the 1920s. (It was this vote that the notorious 2017 Unite the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"To improve their chances of winning a grant, foundation officers and professional grant writers say charities should avoid making the following mistakes in grant proposals and applications.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The Cerruti Collection, worth more than €500 million and housed in a villa near Turin specially built for it by collector Francesco Federico Cerruti, "includes Medieval and Baroque mas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Well, since this is the UK, it's 50p. Citizens Theatre in Glasgow offers 100 tickets at that price for every production, writes artistic director Dominic Hill " and there are also £2 tick…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"A sketch of a bearded man lost in thought, preserved for 500 years among the papers of Leonardo da Vinci, has now been identified as a rare portrait of the Renaissance master himself." " Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"No definitive answer is possible," writes Peter Dobrin about the 270-seat venue at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "because it is in a way not a single hall, but many." " The Phi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Among participants in the program, called SinfonÃa por el Perú and founded by tenor Juan Diego Flórez in 2011, "[there has been] a 75% decrease in unwanted pregnancies, another 51% …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]The self-portrait of Gentileschi as St. Catherine of Alexandria, purchased by the UK's National Gallery last year, is currently in a GP's office in East Yorkshire; before that, it was at Gla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2019 award winners. Among them are Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh, and Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Big Band. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]I had a range of thoughts about Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins's opera p r i s m, which won the Pulitzer Prize. And it made me long for the days, decades ago, when artistic music-t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]Here's some history of a 1980s funding coup pulled off by opera companies, theater companies, and Broadway producers " one that made a huge difference for some great artists who had been cau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]CultureGrrl takes in Reich Richter Pärt; Trisha Donnelly's untitled, unexplained, and almost unlit installation; and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy. " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2019
No, it's not because they want to launder money. "While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]"His films, usually relatively short, did not have stars or plots in any conventional sense; he was after something more cerebral." Said one colleague, "Phil considered the film frame as a p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]"We asked Mary Norris, The New Yorker's 'comma queen,' and … Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House, … about their love of editing, the mistakes people make, and whether or not this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Just this year so far, she's made high-profile work for the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor companies, New York City Ballet, and Ballet Across America at the Kennedy Center " and her own compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Actress Vicky McClure got the idea to form the choir after seeing how much her ailing grandmother was helped by singing together. A BBC crew watches the choir rehearse, perform, and take par…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Ink, a London transfer, starring Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller and directed by Rupert Goold, about Rupert Murdoch's transformation of Britain's The Sun into the notorious tabloid it is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"For some contestants, winning might usher in 15 minutes of fame and a small, unexpected windfall." And then there's Ken Jennings, who launched a couple of new careers as a result. Reporter …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Liu Xiaobo was in prison when he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and ever since then, his wife, Liu Xia, had been under house arrest. After he died, still in custody, in 2017, she was suicid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Britain's highest-profile art prize is getting heavy criticism for taking as a lead sponsor the bus company Stagecoach: its chairman, Brian Souter, was a leading opponent of extending marria…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Very carefully, of course. As for how, specifically, you go about it, reporter Ted Loos looked in on the handlers and shippers of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's La Jeunesse de Bacchus (1884) a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The ever-controversial writer and social critic has been teaching at Philadelphia's University of the Arts for 30 years and is one of the few faculty members there with tenure. Now, a petiti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"[Stage plays] once entertained the tired businessman, and also somehow managed to stir hearts and minds with piercing social critique. Eugene O'Neill made the cover of Time four times in hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"Condé Nast wants Madison Avenue to believe that its video programming represents a 'new primetime' for reaching coveted audiences that are abandoning TV. … All told, [the media company] …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The once-enormous market for popular crime novels in India's most widely spoken language began falling off a cliff in the 1990s. Then Minakshi Thakur, an executive at HarperCollins India too…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]South Korea's flagship orchestra has been without a music director since Myung-Whun Chung resigned at the end of 2015, toward the end of an astoundingly tumultuous period at the ensemble. V…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]"The government-owned Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid acquired hundreds of artworks, including the Pissarro, from the [eponymous] baron in 1993 for $350 million. The U.S. court r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Linda May Han Oh, Aventurine (Biophilia)There's plenty of adventure here in the bassist-composer's instrumentation, textures and rhythmic values. The name was suggested, however, by a certai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AM[SHARE]This post responds to three things I've read recently that have me stewing (again) about the future of big- (and medium-) box nonprofit arts organizations, the ones that bear the DNA of the …
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