Thursday, May 2, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2019
"Provost Persis Drell told the Faculty Senate Thursday that the university was ending that funding. She cited a tight budget ahead, due to a smaller than anticipated payout coming from the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Australian theatre artist David Finnigan's first piece on the subject was, perhaps imprudently, titled Kill Climate Deniers. (It was about an attack by, er, highly motivated environmental ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"We asked five people who cover pop culture for The Times " Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, chief film critics; Wesley Morris, critic at large; Kyle Buchanan, pop culture reporter; and Aisha …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Last summer, Broadway Break Thru, a theatre education outfit in Chicago, held its first College Break Thru, designed to prepare high school students for the process of auditioning for compet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]The process to gain 501(c)(3) status takes a lot of time and resources, even more in California than elsewhere, and most grantmaking bodies won't consider any entity that doesn't have it. So…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"[Othella] Dallas is one of the few founding members of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company still alive " and the only one still teaching, primarily through a dance school she opened in Basel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]"The former first couple signed a deal with the streaming platform in 2018 to produce a string of shows and films under their production company Higher Ground. … The [initial] seven projec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"Ms. Pusey was … a painter and printmaker who drew on inspirations as varied as sunsets and scenes of urban demolition to create striking abstract works full of geometric forms." " The New…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]"The number of users willing to pay for the [music streaming] service soared 32% in the first three months of 2019 compared with a year earlier, Spotify said on Monday." " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The former tenor founded San Antonio Pocket Opera in 1995, and over 16 years he developed the company into what is now San Antonio Opera, presenting full main-stage works. He left that compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]The municipal program, launched last summer, allows anyone in the five boroughs with a library card to reserve a limited number of free passes to various museums (including the biggies) in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]In January, as advance readers were getting a look at Amélie Wen Zhao's first novel, Blood Heir, she received some furious attacks on social media saying that the depiction of slavery in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]"The 1973 video Consumer Art, by prominent artist Natalia LL, showing a young woman eating a banana with great pleasure, was removed from the National Museum in Warsaw last week after the ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko, a work about the poisoning of the former FSB agent and dissident Russian emigré in London in 2008, with music by Anthony Bolton and text by Kit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]In 2015-16, just as new leaders were taking charge, the newspaper/website lost £57 million; three years later, operations are £8000,000 in the black " even as management has resisted i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]"A new generation of concerned citizens and entrepreneurs is taking … combining grassroots activism with socially sensitive, sustainable initiatives to save their island home" " from manag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]As I grow older, I find that my personal definition of what it means to be beautiful is becoming far more encompassing. What no longer catches my eye, however, is youthful prettiness. It is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM[SHARE]For a second video interview for my Presenting the Performing Arts class, I talked with Mark Nerenhausen, President/CEO of Hennepin Theatre Trust in Minneapolis, who shared the many moving p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM[SHARE]Is the fundamental topic of Porgy and Bess a black Carolina subculture ca. 1920? If so, does that validate the Gershwin Estate's insistence that only blacks sing it? " Joe Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
New York Times classical critic Anthony Tommasini found he didn't entirely agree with the choice of winners at this year's finals. So he called National Council Auditions executive director …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Baldwin has captured his own early lifetime of shame and filtered it through the alembic of [narrator] David's own cave-journey. It is a solid shame, thick, heavy, cold, enveloping like a d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Eddie Adams didn't have the money to buy college textbooks this semester, so he had to rely on his classmates at George Mason University to loan him theirs. He is the principal cellist in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Warren Carlyle: "Kiss Me, Kate " really more than anything I've ever done " has really, really tested my range. It was an interesting challenge for me in that each and every single number ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]As a current BFI exhibition shows and his family attests, he was meticulous, determined, and thorough, but "no more obsessive than anyone else who lives by working on something they love to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The subscription service, which launched in Turkey in 2014 and also operates in the U.K., Canada, and Australia, tried to capture customers fleeing MoviePass last fall with an unlimited-film…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"The unfinished manuscript of [an essay collection titled] The Clockwork Condition was written by Burgess in 1972 and 1973, after Kubrick's 1971 adaptation of A Clockwork Orange was accused …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"[He] was the first African American and the youngest-ever Academy Award nominee for best director [for Boyz N the Hood]. He wrote [that film's] screenplay, which was also an Oscar contender…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"But the nominations were notable not only for those they honored, but for those they ignored. To Kill a Mockingbird and Network, two costly dramas that have been big hits at the box office,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"The award recognizes the influence TheatreWorks has had on the art form locally and nationwide, as an incubator for scores of artists, developing and premiering countless new works, many of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The Dunard Centre, with a 1,000-seat main auditorium and a 200-seat chamber hall/recording studio, will be the home venue for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and an additional performance spa…
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