Friday, April 19, 2019
"The solo show for the Swedish artist, which has been widely praised by critics, has drawn in over 600,000 visitors. That influx of foot traffic has been accompanied by a 34 percent increase…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"[The move is] a potentially crucial step toward resolving a contentious labor dispute" " the musicians have been playing without a contract since January " "and allowing the organization to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]Estelle Rubens, who died in January of 2018, was a popular guide at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for about 15 years, and she had told officials there that she'd leave the museum and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]Charlotte Arrowsmith, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company last year to play Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida, stepped in for a colleague last week and played Vincentia in the RSC produ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Says Negin Khpelwak, the 22-year-old leader of the Zohra Orchestra, "We can bring freedom, peace and honor to Afghanistan. Women can't go back to the dark days " they can break our instrumen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:50AM[SHARE]"A source at RAI said the plan was about repositioning programmes to better target male and female audiences, rather than gender segregation, but the potential move has been lambasted by opp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
"Last week, in the historic (and historically black) Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, the city's African American Museum officially opened its doors to the public after a six-year closure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM[SHARE]If you've been to any leadership development or organizational change workshop lately, you've heard about complexity quite a bit. But I've slowly (slowly) started to realize that I, and many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]The Stephen Petronio Company at NYU Skirball Center on April 12, 2019. " Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]On "chemo brain": "It was not merely that the chemo left me fully thoughtless so that as time went on I could not even read; the effect of the drug darkened the mind or filled it with someth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PM[SHARE]That would be John Heginbotham, a Mark Morris alumnus who now has his own company. The show is director Daniel Fish's revisionist Oklahoma! Gia Kourlas talks with the choreographer about wha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"Modern dance companies dedicated to a single choreographer generally have audiences ready to invest in the artist " even when not successful " as much as the art," but it's not so simple fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]"The public doesn't really know the extent of censorship in prison libraries, and it seems that prisons don't want us to know." But Christina Cerio took a stab at figuring it out. " Melville…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]Theman who said that was in a rural hamlet in the mountains of New York state, and Sue Halpern had just been dragooned by the town board to set up a lending library with a total of $15,000. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:31AM[SHARE]Peter Marks recounts such difficulties as having a seat mate (an aging comedy star, no less) unable to contain his enthusiasm, having another seat mate unable to contain his dinner, and havi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]The musical revue, known for its campy local humor and stupendously extravagant hats, will have its last performance on New Year's Eve " and the reason is not financial. " San Francisco Chro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:49AM[SHARE]Joseph Young, a former assistant conductor at the Atlanta Symphony and currently Director of Ensembles at the Peabody Institute, was called in as a last-minute substitute for a Berkeley Symp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]What's a #SlatePitch? In keeping with the site's original ambition to be anti-conventional wisdom, Slate has published an essay by writer and translator Bérengère Viennot (she's the one wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Huge pledges from superrich individuals and multinational corporations such as LVMH, L'Oreal, and (subsequent to this story's publication) Disney have been pouring in since news of the confl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]"A fire alarm first wailed inside the Notre Dame Cathedral at 6:20 p.m. Monday, but for 23 critical minutes cathedral staff searched for a blaze, unable to find the cause. It wasn't until a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]Yes, it's a strange bit of synchronicity. Thank heaven (as it were), the damage at Al-Aqsa is minor and the fire was put out in seven minutes. " ArchDaily
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:17AM[SHARE]On a frigid December day in 1857, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (now the site of the Hermitage museum) caught fire; in less than two days, the building was completely gutted. As with N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:02AM[SHARE]The daring stage director Milo Rau and his Belgian theater comany have adapted the Aeschylus trilogy to the Iraqi city that was occupied and devastated by, then liberated from, ISIS. Said on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:46AM[SHARE]The legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament gives the reason for the ban as "the negative effects caused by some electronic games on the health, culture, and security of Iraqi society, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Tita Anntares writes about two recent productions " one depicting a U.S. immigrant's deportation hearings, another the monologue of the ghost of a young Black Panther shot by Chicago police …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]The Met is presenting a free "informal program" about Notre-Dame this coming Monday, but the list of speakers seems unusually high-powered for an informal educational event on a weekday afte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]The two great African-American writers happened to run into each other on the street in Mobile, Alabama on a summer day in 1927, and she invited him to ride along with her to Tuskegee and be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]The St. Petersburg museum will add a 20,000-square-foot extension to house educational and community events and elaborate digital facilities, including virtual reality tech along the lines b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]A young shoe salesman from Delaware, who now has no idea what he was thinking at the time, did the deed at an Ugly Sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 2017. He was tri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"A district court in Zurich upheld Israeli verdicts in the case last week, ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city could be opened and their contents shipped to Israel's Nat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]"The two unknown poems were found tucked underneath a photo of a young Du Maurier in a swimming costume standing on rocks, which was part of an archive of more than 40 years of correspondenc…
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