Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Campaigners have hailed a 'seismic shift' in US children's publishing after statistics showed that the number of kids' books featuring African-American characters has more than doubled over…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Charlotte Arrowsmith, who's played Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida, Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew, and Audrey in As You Like It, writes about integrating sign language into her perform…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]This season, the Washington Wizards introduced the Wizdom, a 20-member squad, all women 50 and older, who dance during timeouts. The crowd loves them. And a dozen other teams in the league h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Philip Kennicott: "What matters is that sometimes lightning strikes, and there is hell to pay, and suddenly a name is blackened forever. That kind of justice may be terrifying and swift and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]Mark Lawson: "What would count as an acceptable way of having become rich enough to have some spare to dish out to the arts? Sponsorship by BP and Nestlé has been questioned because of envi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]Arthur Brand, a/k/a "the Indiana Jones of the art world," has recovered Buste de femme (Dora Maar), a 1938 painting which was stolen from a Saudi sheikh's yacht on the French Riviera in 1999…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"I know, because I teach at an elite American university " one of the oldest and best-known … In this setting, where teaching quality is at a premium and students expect faculty to give th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]Veach, who founded CDT in 1998, quietly stepped down in October, and he told the press in January that the reason was health-related. In fact, he was accused of "improper behavior" with two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Several minutes of footage were edited out of the film, including scenes of two men kissing and the word 'gay'. There has been significant reaction to the film's release online. … Though …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]He was the first in Britain to stage operas for mass audiences in arenas, and his Sunday concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (though they irked critics) drew many newcomers to classical music.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Mike Fox, a 56-year-old comedy promoter in London, was fined a total of £500 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service for shoving one of the actors in a 36-seat-theatre production o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]"Rather than fading deferentially into the terrain that surrounds them, the houses that best exemplify the new Chilean architecture are, like Neruda's impure poetry, emphatically man-made " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
"The daughter of a diplomat, born in Copenhagen in 1949 and raised in Buenos Aires, de Guébriant was introduced in 1975 to the artist's daughter and archivist, Marguerite Duthuit, and becam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"Last September, after nearly 30 years as the company's artistic director, [Naharin] handed the reins to Gili Navot, a former dancer with the company, while he assumed the position of house …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Peter Brook posited that any empty space in which one actor walks as someone else watched could be a theatre. The next year, Samuel Beckett wrote a play with no actors. And onward the idea h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"Chaucer was able to transform English poetry the way he did precisely because of his internationalism, not his nationalism. Like all educated men of his day, he was multilingual. He devoure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Justin Peters: "Listening to the show is sort of like crashing an intense, intimate dinner party in which the only courses are whiskey and weed. … The Joe Rogan Experience has become one o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]The little Bach-bot "promises to take any two-bar melody you type in and turn it into a Bach, or Bachlike, chorale in four parts, played by charming little music-box figures of bewigged 18th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"The Cultural Infrastructure Plan sets out … why it's important to support the capital's venues and studios; how they are at risk; what can be done to protect them; and what resources the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"I'm not creative all the time, I'm just not. Each role depletes me in some way, and I know that I do my best work when I've had time to remain fallow." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"In the early 1920s, a secret file scandalized white women reformers in the United States. It was known as the Secret Dance File, its contents too shocking (and titillating) to print or even…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The first tribunal devoted exclusively to art disputes, the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA), will open for business 1 April in the Hague. … Instead of judges unfamiliar with evaluatin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Oluwaseyi Omooba, who had been cast as Celie, a queer character, in the revival by the Curve Theatre in Leicester and the Birmingham Hippodrome in England, wrote on the social media site fiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wilkins, the BSO's conductor for young people's and family concerts, makes his subscription-season debut this weekend with a program of music by Florence Price, Adolphus Hailstork, Roberto S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Just a couple of days after the National Portrait Gallery in London announced that it was turning down £1 million from the family whose company makes OxyContin, the Tate announced that, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"Matthew Feargrieve, 42, was accused at Westminster Magistrates Court of repeatedly punching Ulrich Engler on the shoulder in the performance of Wagner's Siegfried at the world-famous [Royal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]There's the tuk-tuk bookmobile toodling around Jakarta schools. "There is the Perahu Pustaka, a library boat that sails around West Sulawesi. There are libraries on the back of vegetable car…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]"Make Online has been created by [Talawa] Theatre Company for artists across the UK, and is described as an online community that will give black British artists 'ownership and agency of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
As a dancer with hemiplegia cerebral palsy, Jerron Herman has never been far from the physical therapy room " or an occupational therapist or some kind of medical interventionist. 'I'm almos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Great Shakespeare plays take the color of their surroundings " if the production is doing its job " and Broadway' new King Lear is accomplishing that. But how could any alert, modern Lear pr…
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