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Monday, April 1, 2019

No worries by Artsjournal1

Yes, my recent car crash scared me terribly, and yes, I know how very lucky I was to escape without a scratch. Even so, that seems to have been the end of it. I haven't had any flashbacks, o…

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David Friesen, Bassist And Pianist by Artsjournal1

David Friesen, My Faith, My Life (Origin)Friesen's virtuosity brought him to prominence as a bassist nearly fifty years ago. This two-CD album presents him on the first disc playing his comp…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]
Friday, March 29, 2019

Did Hilma Af Klint Invent Abstract Art? Not Really by Artsjournal1

Susan Tallman: "The claim for af Klint as an inventor of abstract art runs into two serious problems. The first is that it doesn't seem to match how she thought the work should function. The…

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Choreographer Ann Carlson Makes Her First 'Dancey-Dance' In Ages by Artsjournal1

"Ann Carlson is not the type of a choreographer who makes what are known as dancey-dances. Steps aren't really her thing. She works with everyday movement, text and props. She has choreograp…

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Can We At Least Try To Make Ballet As Diverse As Contemporary Art? by Artsjournal1

Peter Boal of Pacific Northwest Ballet writes about his January trip around the US to audition dancers " and about how what he saw in the museums and galleries he visited made him think abou…

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Let's Just Dump The Whole Idea Of Composer-As-Genius, Shall We? by Artsjournal1

Evan Williams: "The persistence of this label is unnecessary to appreciate music by these individuals, and that it is a dangerous myth that great art can only be the product of genius. Such …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Anne Midgette Explains Bel Canto by Artsjournal1

"I could tell you that bel canto operas tend to have dated plots, filled with romance-novel-ish retellings of history, and heroines who keep going mad at inopportune moments. Or I could tell…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]

Man Ray's Tomb In Paris Desecrated And Damaged by Artsjournal1

"A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the apparent desecration of surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, a municipal official said. An AFP photogr…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]

Luis Biava, Longtime Philadelphia Orchestra Violinist (And Stand-In Conductor And All-Around Savior), Dead At 85 by Artsjournal1

"Luis Biava joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1968 as a violinist and ended up staying more than three decades, but he never had a title that fully captured everything he meant to the ens…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]

With New Curator, New York's Museo Del Barrio Tries To Make Peace With Activists Who Say It Has Abandoned Its Nuyorican Roots by Artsjournal1

The East Harlem museum was founded 50 years ago by local artists and teachers who felt that the existing museums and institutions in New York had shut them out. Since then, the museum has ex…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]

Now That Sackler Money Has Become Radioactive, Campaigners Are Looking At Cultural Donations By Big Tobacco by Artsjournal1

One of the biggest corporate donors to the arts in the US is the tobacco conglomerate Altria (formerly Philip Morris): among the major recipients of Altria support in 2018 alone were Alvin A…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

A Generation Of Women Conductors Is Finally Breaking Glass Ceilings by Artsjournal1

In England, the US, and elsewhere, a big group of orchestras and opera houses is looking for music directors or chief conductors " and, for the first time, there's a sizable group of female …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]

30 Years On, Looking Back At The Fights Over The Louvre's Pyramid by Artsjournal1

I.M. Pei's glass structure may be a beloved icon now, but from the time the design was revealed to opening day, the resistance was ferocious. "A foreign body, showing such disregard for hist…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]

Paris Sees Blackface Controversy As Students Protest Aeschylus Staging At Sorbonne by Artsjournal1

Denouncing the staging (which no one had yet seen) as "Afrophobic, colonialist and racist," protesters forced the Sorbonne to cancel a performance of The Suppliants at the university's annua…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]

Poland's Rightist Government Accused Of Trying To Hijack Museum About Anti-Communist Solidarity Movement by Artsjournal1

"Poland's current Minister of Culture, Piotr GliÅ„ski, a leading member of the rightwing governing Law and Justice party (PiS), is accused of attempting to take control of the [European S…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]

New Canadian Film Shot In Indigenous Language With Only 20 Speakers Left by Artsjournal1

"With subtitles, audiences will be able to understand a feature film titled SGaawaay K'uuna, translated as Edge of the Knife, which has its UK premiere in April. It is in two dialects of the…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]

Theatre Company Goes Into Welsh Schools To Teach Students About Drug-Dealer Dangers by Artsjournal1

Long-distance drug-dealing gangs known as "county lines" have hit North Wales hard, with all the attendant violence and human misery. Theatr Clwyd, a professional company in the region, is t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]

Literary Prize Runners Denounce 'False Hierarchy' Of Prizes, Then Revise Their Own Prize Accordingly by Artsjournal1

Said the organizers of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, devoted to books from publishers with five or fewer employees, "While the competitive dynamic of prizes points readers towards 'th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Staging The Stories Of The Women Who Faithfully Visit Their Loved Ones In Prison by Artsjournal1

Liza Jessie Peterson, playwright and star of The Peculiar Patriot: "I came to Columbus Circle [in Manhattan] at midnight and found a whole fleet of buses. All these women, children and even …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Recent Listening: Logan Strosahl, 'Sure' by Artsjournal1

Logan Strosahl, Sure (Sunnyside)Piping at the high end of the flute's range, guttural near the tenor sax's low end, sliding, slurring and sometimes punching notes on alto saxophone, Strosahl…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Hawai'i's Last Monarch Was Also Its Most Important Composer by Artsjournal1

Queen Lili'uokalani steered her people through the difficult period of annexation and prevented a war " and she was also a highly trained musician who wrote some 200 songs (the most famous o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]

The Literary Agency That's Made A Business Out Of Trump Administration Tell-All Memoirs by Artsjournal1

Ever since Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer persuaded James Comey to write what became A Higher Loyalty, edited the manuscript, and worked a skillful media campaign around it, their agency, Jav…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]

'Heathers', The Movie That Upended The Teen-Comedy Genre by Artsjournal1

"It wasn't exactly that Heathers contained no [John] Hughesian influence. The types and tropes were all there " mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive pare…

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Maybe The Oddest Dance Competition Ever: 40+ Choreographers Tried To Read Agnes De Mille's Mind by Artsjournal1

In 1963, de Mille sent a sealed envelope to her union, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, with a handwritten note saying not to open it because it had the "eminently stealable" …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]

Downtown Theater Finds Itself On Broadway (And Finds That It's Not All That Different) by Artsjournal1

Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, Anais Mitchell's Hadestown, Daniel Fish's very revisi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]

Modernism, Interracial Relations, Cultural Appropriation, And Katherine Dunham Meet (Or Collide) In A 1933 Ballet In Chicago by Artsjournal1

Liesl Olson investigates the strange and stirring history of La Guiablesse, an almost entirely lost 18-minute dance work based on French Caribbean folklore, with a white choreographer/star (…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]

Poet Linda Gregg Dead At 76 by Artsjournal1

"[She] did not publish her first collection, Too Bright to See (1981), until she was almost 40. But once she did, she drew quick attention in poetry circles. … {and she] taught poetry at C…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]

What It's Like To Sing Wagner's 'Ring' With The Met's Mammoth 'Machine' by Artsjournal1

Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and Greer Grimsley (Wotan) talk about working on, with, and around director Robert Lepage's big, complicated contraption " and how it's been changed in the six…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]

For Reading To Young Children, Hard-Copy Books Are Better Than E-Books: Study by Artsjournal1

University of Michigan researchers found that "reading print books together generated more verbalizations about the story from parents and from toddlers, more back and forth 'dialogic' colla…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]

CalArts Students Fight Skyrocketing Tuition From Two Different Angles by Artsjournal1

"Like their peers all over the US, students at California Institute of the Arts … face increasingly high tuition bills each year, and they're reaching a breaking point. Students have both …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]

'An Astonishing Creation' " Jean Nouvel's National Museum Of Qatar Opens by Artsjournal1

"In its sprawling nearly mile-long loop of galleries, the museum tells the story of how this tiny nation of nomadic Bedouins and pearl divers became, with the discovery of natural gas, the m…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]

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