Thursday, March 28, 2019
"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]"Performing arts exports to Europe … are worth £360 million to the UK, but that and numerous jobs are under threat from a disorderly departure from the EU. Mark Shenton talks to senior …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"One of [its] first acts will be to introduce a scheme for theatregoers to buy extra tickets for those who cannot afford them. … The theatre will also offer 10,000 €10 tickets a year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Fan Bingbing's place atop China's movie pantheon is hard to describe to Westerners; she's sort of a combination Jennifer Lawrence-Nicole Kidman-Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock. (In the West, sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Filial piety may be the paramount Confucian value, and flouting it is still rare in Chinese real life, let alone on state-controlled television. This is likely why All Is Well, broadcast onl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
"Richard Burbage was the go-to leading actor for the greatest playwrights of the 17th century. RSC artistic director Gregory Doran assesses the legacy of the first man to play Hamlet and Lea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Marko Remec's 2018 piece Vertebrate Progression (Field Totem), commissioned for the grounds of a Long Island art museum, has already been damaged by visitors sitting on parts of it. One take…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"Japan's largest airline, All Nippon Airways, has taken that literally, with actual kabuki performers in its newest in-flight safety video. … Kabuki actors stow their elegantly lacquered b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"He persuaded architects, developers and public officials to let him immortalize their buildings and monuments on film in altitudinous detail. He would scale precarious perches with construc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]Protests against the Israeli government's policies toward the West Bank and Gaza have become almost routine outside (and occasionally inside) Batsheva's performances abroad. "But why target …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]When a huge earthquake killed 140,000 people in Japan in 1923, written and radio reports could get around the world quickly, but film footage couldn't. That didn't stop the makers of newsree…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]"To hear more about [Madeline] Hollander's role in the film's production, ARTnews spoke with the artist, whose background in ballet helped her supply the Nutcracker-inspired choreography in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The struggle is over how the talent agencies negotiate pay for the writers they represent and whether there's a conflict of interest. As David Simon (The Wire, Tremé, The Deuce) put it to a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Sebastian Lang-Lessing will finish up a successful, admired (if sometimes difficult) ten-year tenure at the end of next season. But he says he means to stay involved with the orchestra in hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The ruling came just over a year after the Met fired Mr. Levine, who had been its music director for four decades and who had recently assumed an emeritus position … Mr. Levine, who has d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]When conservators at the Tate Britain removed the frame on The Oise at Auvers, a corner of the canvas that hadn't faded from exposure to light revealed what color van Gogh meant that sky to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"A curator who accused MoMA PS 1 of gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination has settled the claim she brought against the museum saying it had rescinded a job offer upon learning she …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Infuriating Chicago's mayor and police chief, prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday after the Empire actor accused of faking a racist, anti-gay attack …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"The British Museum has lost its crown as the UK's most popular visitor attraction for the first time in a decade, overtaken by Tate Modern. Almost 5.9 million people visited the Tate Modern…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]More than 6,000 staffers at Waterstones have signed a petition for the chain's in-store staff to be paid a starting wage of £9 per hour (£10.55 in metro London), and 1,340 authors have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Fears are growing over Hong Kong's artistic freedom, including instances of self-censorship, as China rolls out its Greater Bay Area integration scheme. The controversial plan aims to merge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"This year's [EIF] will explore gender politics, racism, masculinity and homophobia in a response to political challenges around the world. The festival's director, Fergus Linehan, said many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Oboist Ashley Ertz started the group 5th Wave Collective especially to perform and promote music written by women. "Since April 2018, the volunteer-based group of more than 115 musicians has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:05PM[SHARE]"How does our work reflect on, and respond to, the challenges brought on by a warming climate? How can we participate in the global conversation about what the future should look like, and d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:55PM[SHARE]"The Recovery Orchestra was set up by Bristol Drugs Project (BDP) to help individuals using their services. It encourages people to take up an instrument or use the skills they already had i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45PM[SHARE]"Yet the mechanisms required … " loan agreements, insurance, packing, couriering, shipping, handling, installation " are delicate, expensive and complex. Behind every exhibition is an intr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Earlier this month I highlighted three factors fueling a growing international interest in community engagement and the arts: economics, demographics, and funders' demands for much broader c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]The jazz bands of the United States military services have long histories of impressive achievement. Let's see and hear the veteran Los Angeles trombonist Andy Martin with the US Air Force's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]She co-wrote the famous documentary Ordinary Fascism, which was seen by millions of ordinary Soviet citizens (and got past the censors because it was, on the surface, about the Nazis), but s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"It is not composed simply of a single distortion, but rather a slew of mischaracterizations bent on representing one's opponents in the worst light. … In deploying the burning man fallacy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]There were the NATO jets overflying the filming location. The prostate infection that took out the lead actor. The woman who claimed she could get financing from the deposed president of Tun…
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