Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Michael Pastreich served as CEO of the Tampa Bay-based Florida Orchestra, the state's largest, for 11 years. He steps in at the Washington Ballet for outgoing executive director Michael Mael…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"[1,169] leading conservators, curators, academics, architects and engineers" " among them former Met Museum director Philippe de Montebello and Delphine Christophe, chief conservator at Fra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"Dozens of works of art from the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be lent over the next three years to a network of … eight regional museums, from Allentown to Erie, in an initiative art of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]"One of Australia's most successful and renowned contemporary poets, Murray's career spanned more than 40 years. He published close to 30 books. … In 2016, he was named by The Atlantic as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]In the lead-up to India's current elections, a recent Modi biopic, a film about a 2016 military raid against Pakistan, and a high-profile trip of two dozen stars to take selfies with the PM …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins: two artists whose choreography is tightly locked into the DNA of the silver-plated shows they helped create. New choreography for those shows? It's about ever m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2019
"Morris has lived many lives, and it is impossible to separate who she is now from who she was before. … She is impatient with questions about transgender politics, possibly because she ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]The iconic Philly convenience store/sandwich chain, writes Inga Saffron, "is on a relentless march through central Philadelphia, where it picks off architectural trophies, runs them through …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"[The Italian capital is] a city in a perennial state of disrepair, from its rubbish-strewn streets, potholes, scrappy parks and medieval buildings marred by graffiti to closed metro station…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"Influential medieval thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Erasmus, John Calvin, several popes and many other intellectual luminaries studied or taught [at the cathedral's schoo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"This special issue … looks at theatre and performance in the Land of the Rising Sun, from its foundational traditions to its most up-to-date innovations, and considers its place within co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Robert Alter, who finished a new three-volume translation of the text last year, offers thou-shalts and thou-shalt-nots. For example: "4. Thou shalt not multiply for thyself synonyms where t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]An outcry over the quality of translation in the subtitles of Roma has received a frustrated response from top professional subtitlers. Yes, they say, subtitling is getting worse " because t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Recent reporting about the proposal to bar movies produced by and for streaming services from Oscar contention has tended to portray Spielberg as a reactionary arch-enemy of Netflix. But in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]Last week, someone brought forward two now-embarrassing songs about black people that Smith recorded in the 1930s (we'll spare you the titles), and teams in New York and Philadelphia that ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The 51-year-old director behind films including Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice and 2 Fast 2 Furious was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. last week after falling ill afte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"Since the Metropolitan Opera began broadcasting live to movie theaters, in 2006, companies from the Bolshoi to the Komische Oper Berlin have seen digital distribution as crucial to position…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies. He found his greatest success with Children of a Lesser God, the tale of a troubled love affair between a speech teacher and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Heritage experts warn that restoring Notre-Dame de Paris after the devastating fire of 15 April will be so complex that it could take a decade or more, despite President Emmanuel Macron's v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Since it was set up in the (now-removed) refugee camp in the Channel port in 2015, Good Chance Theatre's dome has become a pop-up playhouse, setting up in several locations around Paris and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The suspects were caught red-handed when [anti-smuggling police in Diyarbakır province] raided a property in Bismil district. where [sale of the volume] was supposed to take place. Writt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]"She commissioned more than 70 works from composers, including William Bolcom and Jean Langlais … and shaped generations of organists over a record-breaking 67 years on the faculty at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
Wesley Morris: "Romantic comedy is the only genre committed to letting relatively ordinary people figure out how to deal meaningfully with another human being. … This is moviemaking that e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Guitarist Frisell and bassist Morgan are captivating in their exploration of pieces whose variety extends from the harmonic challenges of Thelonious Monk to the deceptive simplicity of "Red …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Very often, they are simple statements of fact, with minimal humorous adornment. James Corden mentions that Google will soon allow you to store your driver's license on your phone. 'You hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Writer Amanda Petrusich recounts the story of trumpeter Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers, a band that played for officers and the Red Cross at Theresienstadt and, for a time, Auschwitz. Vo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"No place on earth rivals Berlin for the volume and variety of opera on offer, from Georg Frideric Handel to Hans Werner Henze. The city has three world-class companies, which this season ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The brilliant hard-boiled lyricism of Sandy Grady, in 1964, as he watches a crowd of Phillies fans after a home loss: 'They hit the sidewalk with tight mouths, like people who had seen a tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]"They are the talk of the theater world: a generation of black playwrights whose fiercely political and formally inventive works are challenging audiences, critics and the culture at large t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:37AM[SHARE]"I can't remember a more electrifying run of new, innovative plays during my 25-year tenure as a New York theater critic than the heady spate of works by African-American playwrights that ha…
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