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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Powers's 'Overstory', Stewart's 'The New Negro', Blight's Frederick Douglass Bio, Griswold's 'Amity And Prosperity' Win Literary P by Artsjournal1

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for freestanding books went to The Overstory by Richard Powers (fiction), Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (general n…

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Monday, April 15, 2019

Catastrophic Fire Rages At Notre-Dame Cathedral In Paris by Artsjournal1

The blaze in the great medieval cathedral broke out before 7 pm local time. While no human casualties have been reported, the church's spire and most of its roof have collapsed, smoke is pou…

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Yeast Never Dies by Artsjournal1

Yeast isn't a food; it plays on food, like a conductor, or a cook. So when you realize that yeast floats in the air and lives almost forever, you may have more respect for its governance, it…

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Joyful music by Artsjournal1

Cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih play music by bigtime male composers, and by women they loved. " Greg Sandow

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Coltrane '58 by Artsjournal1

John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)Every few years, curators of the great saxophonist John Coltrane's extensive body of recordings come up with yet another retrospec…

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Audio-video jazz improv: Mn'Jam Experiment, w/teens by Artsjournal1

What's new in improvisational music? Where else can innovation go? Mn'JAM Experiment " singer Melissa Oliveira and her visual/electronics/turntablist partner JAM " will show you. " Howard Ma…

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Friday, April 12, 2019

The Woman Who Single-Handedly Created An Indian Style Of Opera Constructed On Indian Classical Music by Artsjournal1

Shanno Khurana first became a star performing in Punjabi folk operas in 1950s Delhi, but she was a fully classically trained singer who wanted to do serious classical work. So she devised an…

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15 Ways Of Looking At What America Will Be Like In 2024 by Artsjournal1

"We asked 15 playwrights to imagine America five years into the future" " among them Lynn Nottage, Terrence McNally, Jeremy O. Harris, Adam Rapp, Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Nassim …

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Ballet Memphis's New Choreographers' Residency Aims To Create Uniquely Memphis Dance by Artsjournal1

During the company's two-week New American Dance Residency, which starts up for the first time next week, "the dancemakers will visit important Memphis cultural sites … and meet with local…

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Who Gave Us A Critical Theory Of Binge-Watching? Theodor Adorno (Who Died In 1969) by Artsjournal1

The German-born sociologist/philosopher first examined the mechanisms that producers use to get us to binge-watch streaming series " which are really no different than the ones used for deca…

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Bob Fosse's Trademark Moves: An Analysis Of The Only Dance He And Gwen Verdon Ever Filmed Together by Artsjournal1

"If you've seen dancers flare their fingers in the flexed position often mockingly called 'jazz hands,' then you've seen Fosse, especially if those dancers were also sitting into one hip and…

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America's Most Famous Constitutional Scholar Meets The Creator/Star Of 'What The Constitution Means To Me' by Artsjournal1

Laurence Tribe, who's taught at Harvard Law School for 50 years and is familiar to many a public TV and radio listener, went to see Heidi Schreck's hit theater piece in its pre-Broadway run …

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'The Jungle' " Dramatizing A Crucial Period In The Life Of The Notorious Calais Refugee Camp by Artsjournal1

The play, written by two young Englishmen (Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson) who went to live for several months in the camp and set up a makeshift-but-busy performing arts center there, shows w…

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Baritone Lucia Lucas Becomes First Transwoman To Sing Lead Opera Role In U.S. by Artsjournal1

Lucas, who is based in Germany and has her career largely in Europe, began rehearsals this week for the title role in Don Giovanni at Tulsa Opera. And this is not her first time playing Moza…

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This Director Made A Film About Young Lesbians In Kenya, And Her International Career Is Soaring. At Home, She Gets Death Threats. by Artsjournal1

Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki won raves at Cannes and beyond, and she's now become the first African woman to get a major Hollywood studio deal. In Kenya, "Kahiu has been trolled on social media, th…

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These Depression-Era Murals About George Washington Feature Some, Er, Fraught Imagery. Should They Be Removed? by Artsjournal1

"In the debate over the 13 murals that make up The Life of Washington, at George Washington High School [in San Francisco], one side, which includes art historians and school alumni, sees an…

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Folger Shakespeare Library Plans Underground Expansion by Artsjournal1

"Inside the new space, the North Hall would feature a vault for the library's 82 Shakespeare first folios, the first collections of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623. In addition, four i…

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Guggenheim Museum Faces Complicated Questions About Conceptual And Minimalist Art " And Even 'Decommissions' Some Works by Artsjournal1

"For nine years, [the museum] has been foraging for answers to some of the most confounding questions raised by Minimalist and conceptual art from the 1960s and '70s: What makes a work genui…

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Why Geoffrey Rush Won His Defamation Lawsuit Against A Sydney Tabloid by Artsjournal1

Here's a selection of quotes from the Australian federal judge's decision against The Daily Telegraph that explain why the allegations, published by the tabloid, of "inappropriate behaviour"…

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Charles Van Doren, Center Of 1950s Quiz Show Scandal, Dead At 93 by Artsjournal1

A tall, handsome Columbia University professor with advanced degrees in both English and mathematics, Van Doren became a genuine TV star with a months-long winning streak on the prime-time q…

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4,000-Year-Old Circle Of Standing Stones Vandalized by Artsjournal1

Sometime last weekend, someone carved graffiti into one of the 36 surviving stones in the Ring of Brodgar, part of a UNESCO Neolithic World Heritage Site, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. …

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Germany Recovers Huge Trove Of Antique Books Lost In World War II by Artsjournal1

The works, which had belonged to the University and Regional Library of Bonn and "which were thought to have been irretrievably lost, included rare medieval manuscripts, early 15th-century p…

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Thursday, April 11, 2019

It's A Brave Choreographer Who'll Replace Jerome Robbins's Dances For 'West Side Story' by Artsjournal1

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker is creating new steps for Ivo van Hove's Broadway production in December, and Justin Peck is doing the same for Steven Spielberg's movie version. But arriving befo…

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Why Is this Museum Exhibition So Troubling? by Artsjournal1

Several weeks ago, I visited the Dallas Museum of Art to see an exhibition of works by Jonas Wood. His paintings, mostly, are striking. They have wall power. They are easy to like. But the w…

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Music that sends cats hunting by Artsjournal1

This headline is not kidding. To judge from the playlist for pets Yannick Nézet-Séguin created, his three cats are mostly Romantics. But the tastes of David Patrick Stearns's four cats run…

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Dressed To Kill: A Brief History Of Judith Beheading Holofernes In Art by Artsjournal1

Angelica Frey surveys the subject from the 12th century to the 21st, looking at how the bloody Biblical tale has been used to symbolize "womanly virtue" and modesty, defeating a larger and m…

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Keeping Endangered Mexican Languages Alive On A California Radio Station by Artsjournal1

"Radio Indígena (indígena means indigenous in Spanish) is one of the first indigenous Mexican radio stations in the United States. The community-run station [in Oxnard] boasts 40 hours…

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What I Learned Teaching Art In Georgia State Prison by Artsjournal1

"Must we change our lives? Honestly, I don't know. I am certainly changed by this work, call it art or god or"what we care about at Common Good"dignity. But I'm not much convinced by this po…

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After 40 Eventful Years, Gay Men's Chorus Of Los Angeles Tries To Fight Off Bankruptcy by Artsjournal1

"Fiscal mismanagement, as well as recent sexual misconduct allegations leveled at former board chairman and former West Hollywood Mayor John Duran (accusations that Duran denies), have left …

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Sculptor Claude Lalanne Dead At 93 by Artsjournal1

"Her imaginative [metal] sculptures sometimes carried a Surrealist touch, such as Pomme d'Hiver (2008), a large-scale bronze apple, Choupatte Géante (2016), a cabbage with chicken feet, and…

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Hip-Hop Playwrights Turn Their Keyboards Toward Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Justin Bieber, And 'Pygmalion' by Artsjournal1

A Q&A with Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, author of P.Y.G., or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle (two black rappers are Henry Higgins to Bieber figure's Eliza Doolittle), and Psalmayene 2…

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