Thursday, April 25, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wesley Morris: "Occasionally, a play ends and nobody really knows what to do, because it just took an audience to outer space, to the center of the earth, to this new electric zone that know…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Oftentimes, the most outrageous of plot twists are what make that happen," say Ben Brantley and Jesse Green. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]"Under Iowa's law, inmates no longer have access to mainstream publications such as National Geographic, says the lawyer Nathan Mundy, who represents Michael Lindgren, a tattoo artist challe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]Organizations such as Artists of Color Alliance, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Charlotte Street Foundation, KC StartUp Village and Foundation, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance are helping …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"In deciding to advocate for these two dancers, AGMA has not only sided with alleged offenders in multiple serious cases of degradation and sexual harassment, but has also sent a clear messa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The long-running row between the Cannes film festival and Netflix has taken an unexpected turn as the Directors' Fortnight, one of the key strands of the festival that runs in parallel to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]"[She] was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2004, forcing her to undergo two emergency lung transplants needed to save her life. Despite her illness Tillemann-Dick pursued a renowned…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Megastar Fan Bingbing has appeared in public for the first time in almost a year, after a mysterious disappearance from the public eye believed to be linked to charges of tax evasion. [She]…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]According to director Richard Armstrong, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, part of the emirate's Saadiyat Island complex of museums, is expected to open in 2022. "The Frank Gehry-designed museum, wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Lebanese author Hoda Barakat has won the $50,000 (£39,000) International prize for Arabic fiction (IPAF) for her novel, The Night Mail, which tells the stories of people in exile through…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]While he tended to keep his performing career fairly close to home (especially in his later years), Demus became widely known through his more than 100 recordings. He's especially remembered…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
"Dancers will forego eating to take classes," says Yvonne Chow. So, once a month, DanceMart, operated by H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory in New York City, will cook and serve a dinner, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]A Grammy award winner, Samuels was best known for more than three decades as a member of the crossover jazz-fusion band Spyro Gyra. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]Two short excerpts taken from Char's WWII writings. One concerns a walnut tree; the other speaks about the phantoms of our "empirical souls." Why post them? And why now? Read them. " Jan Her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:53PM[SHARE]"Hnath is a master of Socratic dialogue … In a Hnath play, you repeatedly find yourself agreeing with a pointed speech, then agreeing with its rebuttal. … Many playwrights promote the be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PM[SHARE]"National Disability Theatre has announced a partnership with La Jolla Playhouse and Goodman Theatre to commission two new works written, directed, and designed by artists with disabilities …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"In the current political environment, name-checking the writing of James Joyce may not seem like the canniest move. It's a dog whistle, meant to appeal to refined impulses, to élite rather…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]The debate has arisen a lot over the past few years: BP, the Koch brothers, the Sacklers, that board member at the Whitney, Notre-Dame. Bob Garfield talks about the issue with Anand Giridhar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]If it had happened in a radio or television studio, it might have gone well. But having an audience turns out to have been a bad idea. (And some ill-advised moves by either Gay or her manage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"Devon Van Houten Maldonado asks artists and curators to imagine the changes and trends that will influence the art world in the next two decades." " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:21AM[SHARE]Emily Yahr: "After all, we're in an era where television is more fractured than ever. Big TV events are increasingly rare, and it's refreshing to have one topic to discuss around the virtual…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]In 2014, in a parking lot following a solo recital, the Milwaukee Symphony's concertmaster got zaped with a Taser and had his violin ripped from his hands. (The culprit, it turned out, was a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]"The Modern Library will launch a new trade paperback series, Modern Library Torchbearers, this May. The series, the publisher said, will 'honor a more inclusive vision of classic books' by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AM[SHARE]The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film" " including one produced by Netflix or Amazon " "can be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]Kathy LeMay: "The problem with [the complaints] is this: they do not help fundraisers unlock donor giving. … Imagine if after giving to help a family in need, articles were written about y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Pascal Quoirin, a specialist who restored the Notre Dame organ in 2017, … said 'after two hours spent examining the instrumental part, I did not notice any damage that could have been cau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]The primary beneficiary of Bloch's largesse has been Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: he spent three years as its board chairman, he and his wife are the name donors on the museum'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Last week a court of appeals in Paris handed septuagenarian U.S. businessman Gary Snell a suspended prison sentence of one year and Parisian art dealer Robert Crouzet a four-month suspended …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:49AM[SHARE]The Story of Yanxi Palace and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace smashed viewing records for the streaming services that showed them. Then the journal Theory Weekly (a title only a Communist bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Well, she's pretty sure she found herself " more specifically, an essay she wrote about herself and her twin sister " but the novel's author differs. And the author of another book claims sh…
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