Thursday, April 11, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:19AM[SHARE]"Titled 'No More All-White Seasons,' the [open letter on Facebook] praises the [Philadelphia Theatre Company's] current 2018-19 season for its diversity " then condemns a lack of it in the t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"The Libro de los EpÃtomes manuscript … contains more than 2,000 pages and summaries from the library of Hernando Colón, … who made it his life's work to create the biggest library…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The "Santa Cecilia" violin " so named because it was developed in the instrument-making program at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome " makes its debut on Thursday at a confere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"[The] Oscar-winning actor … has been awarded $850,000 [Aus] in damages and will receive further damages for economic loss after he won his defamation case against Sydney tabloid The Daily…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The ballet academy at Vienna's renowned State Opera was hit Wednesday by allegations of serious physical and mental abuse against its students, as well as sexual assault. The weekly Falter …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's art crime team is seeking help to return thousands of objects, works of art and Native American human remains that it seized in 2014 in Waldron, Indian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The European Council yesterday adopted new rules to clamp down on the illicit trafficking in cultural goods, including a requirement for import licences on artefacts more than 250 years old…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Centered on Karan (Arjun Mathur) and Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala), two friends who run a wedding-planning business, [Made in Heaven] takes on a wide array of issues that a burgeoning generation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"When German book wholesaler and distributor Koch, Neff and Volckmar (KNV) filed for bankruptcy in February, Europe's largest book market was deeply shaken. Coming hot on the heels of a cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
"For the last year or so, the Theatre Royal [in the English city of York] has not only been asking its audience what they think of their shows " it has invited them to make programming decis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM[SHARE]"On this episode of Women in Charge, Allison Benedikt talks to Virginia Johnson, artistic director and founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem. They talk about how she shifted from princi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:47PM[SHARE]Of the six authors and six translators up for this year's £50,000 award, only one author (Juan Gabriel Vásquez of Colombia) is male. Arguably the most prominent name on the list is Pol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31PM[SHARE]"Laboulaye's creative work has been eclipsed by his political career" " a judge during France's Second Empire, he was committed to women's rights and the end of slavery " "but in his day he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:16PM[SHARE]Chip Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, in a New York Times Op-Ed: "Repatriation can turn museums from places of colonialism into mediating s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Which is to say that, like Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, it was eagerly anticipated, took decades to get done, got stopped immediately before a premiere screening by a lawsuit, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]"It is a very peculiar revolution because, in order to succeed at all, it has to have as its aim the reestablishment of the Union. And a great, radical shift in American mores, in the Americ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]"The Hungarian State Opera has asked the nearly all-white cast … to sign a statement declaring that 'African-American origin and identity is an inseparable part of my identity' and made be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:17PM[SHARE]The Fusion Arena, a $50 million, 65,000-square-foot venue dedicated to esports, is set to open in 2021 in Philadelphia's sports district. Primarily, "[it] will host home games for the Philad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! all-star and an alum of Brigham Young University's quiz bowl team (and a fine writer), gives a look inside what's become quite a youth subculture: "Quiz bowl: molding…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:46PM[SHARE]Not exactly, no, but Silent Lines is about "the internal environment of the body" and very much draws on his training in Rolfing, the deep-tissue massage technique, and in other forms of bod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PM[SHARE]The culprit was one of three air conditioning units on the ground floor of the two-century-old building. The machines weren't installed according to manufacturer's recommendations for ground…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]"Germany might have more orchestras [than other countries], but it also has more musicians (including those flooding in from abroad) looking to fill positions in them. The audition procedure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:01PM[SHARE]The municipal theater in Duisburg, a city in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, saw 80,000 liters of water pour over the stage, the floors, and crucial building infrastructure following a mis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:46AM[SHARE]Philadelphia's Historical Society Of Pennsylvania Lays Off 30% Of Staff "Citing operating deficits and a lack of financial stability, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania announced Monday …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:17AM[SHARE]For more than 200 appearances over five decades, "[he] played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums, frequently collaborating with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
"If the field is not investing in the artistic and cultural traditions of every aspect of their community, then we are not fulfilling our purpose. … The historically inequitable distributi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15PM[SHARE]"With a libretto by Tazewell Thompson and music by Jeanine Tesori, Blue complicates the narrative by making the teen's father " played by local bass Kenneth Kellogg " a police officer himsel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Mr. Robbins, whose creations adorned millions of American homes in their heyday, was a self-described 'right guy at the right time in the right place.' The time was the prosperous lull afte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]One professional musician who has long been passionate about connecting with communities is shocked by an insight about most performing arts marketing " and that shock isn't really surprisin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]It is remarkably little known that the non-Western genre that has most influenced Western composers is not African or Chinese or Indian " it's Indonesian. " Joe Horowitz
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