Friday, April 5, 2019
On conducting with his whole body: "My model in this is really Leonard Bernstein because he also [conveyed] how every bone of the body should express music while on the podium. Why just limi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Being able to touch, explore the shape, feel the weight and even smell the replica of an artefact has the potential to transform cultural heritage experiences. In reality, these connections…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]Before World War II, the Attucks Theater was the center of Norfolk's thriving historically black business district. Like many such buildings, it fell on hard times in the late 20th century, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"When Michou" " né Michel Catty " "first set foot in Montmartre in the 1950s, it was a cheap bohemian area, home to artists, writers and performers, as well as beggars and an ethnically mix…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The Women's Prize for Fiction has said it is working on a policy around gender fluid, transgender and transgender non-binary writers after featuring non-binary author Akwaeke Emezi on its l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]Not just any book, mind you. "Traditionally, a well-known Dutch author writes a special novel " the book week gift or Boekenweekgeschenk " which is given out for free to people who buy books…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The building's most prominent feature will be a helical roof that connects to the ground via a spectacular open-air spiral staircase. Snøhetta has designed this to resemble an unfolding …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
"Throughout the second half of his life, Dalà had a curious side-project … illustrating the Western canon: Don Quixote and Macbeth in 1946; The Divine Comedy between 1951 and 1964; the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World" at the University of Washington "is not dedicated to teaching students that Fox News promotes 'fake news or that National Enquirer headl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"U.S. District Judge Charles B. Goodwin ruled that the Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act violates the U.S. Constitution because it is more restrictive than a federal law with the sam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]The New Yorker's Mary Norris on the American Copy Editors Society annual conference: "But the centerpiece of the weekend is the session at which the A.P. announces changes to its annual styl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Four years ago, the news that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival had commissioned modern English 'translations' of all of Shakespeare's plays drew headlines, and no small alarm, from purists w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"[Rod] Serling, riding off the success of his most well-received teleplay to date, felt compelled write a teleplay around the racism that led to Till's murder. But the censorship that follow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"Tuttle, who considered himself a social pioneer, was celebrated for pushing tattoos toward mainstream acceptance, especially for women. He left his indelible mark on stars such as Janis Jop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]The Anaïs Mitchell/Rachel Chavkin musical about two Greek myths " Persephone's abduction by Hades and Orpheus's (failed) rescue of Euridice " traveled a long road that went from Vermont a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company [starts] its two-year EVE Project, commemorating the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the power to vote. Included are two…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]Scribd, a subscription service for e-books and audiobooks with over 1 million paying subscribers, is launching Scribd Originals, which will "focus on 'the space between a magazine article an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"Erina Yashima has been appointed the orchestra's assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados conducting fellow. Both are 32 years old, both trained as pianists as well as conductors, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The 150 or so thermopolia, or snack bars, dotted across the city were mostly used by the poorer residents, who rarely had cooking facilities in their home, to grab a snack or drink. Typical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]The London company has held its highest ticket price at £125 and cut its lowest to £10 and is expanding its free-balcony-seats-for-under-18s from Saturdays to Fridays and opening night…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Freeports were created as duty-free facilities for temporary storage of art and valuables in transit. But with the EU having eliminated banking secrecy, art has become an asset class " and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The crime would be punishable by three years in prison and a fine of 10.5 million Australian dollars ($7.5 million), or 10% of the platform's annual turnover, whichever is larger. Abhorrent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Rubén Olmo, a 39-year-old dancer and choreographer from Seville who performed with the company from 1998-2002, will succeed Antonio Najarro as of September 1. Olmo's plans include increased…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2019
The key is that you don't read them to young kids: wait until they're at least 10, then give them a good edition of Grimm to read for themselves. Why? Because, as we tend to forget, these we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Charles Ives's Symphony No. 2 are twin American cultural landmarks, comparable in method and achievement. They both transform a hallowed Old W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]Just as Life of Brian was about to start shooting, the chairman of EMI read the script and killed the project. So Eric Idle called Harrison, the richest person he knew " and thus was born Ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"'Worlds Within: Mimbres Pottery of the Ancient Southwest' … was slated to open May 26 in Regenstein Gallery, the museum's primary space for temporary exhibitions. But [director] James Ron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"An extraordinary new talent convergence is riveting the contemporary American stage. … All in their early 20s to mid-30s, [these playwrights] are newly asserting their ownership of an ong…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]For its young people's training program, Minnesota Opera has commissioned an adaptation of Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang's The Song Poet. Hmong-American playwright/performer composer …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Henry Danton danced in London and Paris (including for Roland Petit's company); toured in Europe, Australia, and South America; and taught in Colombia, Venezuela, New York, and Miami before …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The term ['community engagement'], and more importantly the idea, is something that funders and other decision makers are looking for " and we know it. … With the increased use of this te…
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