Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The English city of Hull has a lively theatre scene for a town its size, but the local newspaper published only two theatre reviews in the whole of 2018, and the national critics rarely make…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Do we share musicality with other animals on account of the 'common physiological nature of [our] nervous systems,' as Darwin suspected? To understand the evolution of music and musicality,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Arcadia's business turns the traditional publishing model on its head. Big New York publishers are looking for the next blockbuster to sell 2 million copies across the English-speaking worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]Nan van Houte: "This is not an attempt to discredit cultural democracy; I am convinced that access to the arts and the stimulus towards personal creativity are basic human rights and needs. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Two years ago, the actors of the Powszechny Theater in Warsaw had to barricade themselves inside their building against conservative Catholic protesters angry about their production The Curs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Just since the beginning of this year, Spotify has bought podcast producer-distributor Gimlet Media for $230 million and a $100 million startup called Luminary is developing a paid-subscript…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]Adam Sternbergh: "When you first heard about podcasts, do you remember how excited you weren't? Do you recall the first person who said, 'Did you know you can now download audio files of peo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]The daughter of a Harvard Sanskrit professor, Ingalls settled in England as a young adult "and began to publish short stories; her editor at Faber's, Charles Monteith, said she was 'a genius…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Francis Spufford, who won a Costa Book Award and an Ondaatje Prize for his 2016 book Golden Hill, has spent 3½ years working on a Narnia prequel he's titled The Stone Table. "After finish…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]As negotiations over a new contract drag on and concerts get cancelled, members of Chicago's acting community have joined musicians on the picket line, both candidates for mayor in the city'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]The "Statue of Unity," which is actually of independence leader Vallabhbhai Patel and is currently the world's tallest statue, was completed last fall, and more are on the way: a statue of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"While the government's priorities shifted a bit in the immediate aftermath of [Hurricane Maria], as the island works to rebuild, tourism, particularly arts-fueled tourism, is playing a sign…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"In a career stretching back to the 1950s and continuing into his 90s, Dr. Nketia wrote hundreds of articles and books in English and Twi, a Ghanaian language, on topics ranging from music t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
"So-called 'virtues of the mind', such as open-mindedness, thoroughness, and intellectual humility, have been extensively discussed by philosophers. Arrogance, imperviousness to evidence and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]I recently had the opportunity to engage with Lyz Crane of ArtPlace America in a discussion about creative placemaking and community engagement. In the course of that discussion she shared s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]Having heard Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice, expound on Tintoretto's "values" during yesterday's livestream of the National Gallery of Art's press preview for the Venetian artist's first fu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? … Perhaps we should take the idea of 'the human' as a rights-bearer and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Last fall, Swiss researchers exposed nine wheels of Emmentaler in an aging cellar to various types of music: classical (Mozart's Magic Flute), rock (Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"), tec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]Catherine Brown: "At the risk of taking too-seriously an award of which the keynote is not seriousness, there are several problems involved in this that are worth considering. One is the imp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Nataki Garrett, currently serving as acting artistic director for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, will take the reins in August … The announcement ends a nearly yearlong search…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Sandra Newman looks at the 126 Shakespeare sonnets (out of a total of 154) addressed to the Fair Youth, at other sonnets and love poetry of the time and place, and at what Shakespeare's cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"In the space of a few short years, the Boston-born, Southern California transplant (born Richard Anthony Monsour) had merged the laid-back, sun-blasted lifestyle of the surf scene with a bl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]"Across the country, scores of artistic directors, most of them white men who have served as community tastemakers for years, are leaving their jobs via retirements, ousters, and an industry…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]At a holiday party in 2017 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, an inebriated Michael Rohana allegedly broke off and pocketed the thumb of one of the 2,000-year-old Chinese terracotta …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]As part of the City's agreement to let the Met charge non-New Yorkers a mandatory admission fee, the museum is to give the City a portion of the new revenues for grants to other organization…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Arcadian Broad, who has a national following as Orlando Ballet's best-known dancer, will depart the company next month. The ballet company declined to renew his contract, as well as that of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]"For the third time in as many years, the White House has proposed a federal budget that would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Audiences at the opera are increasingly booing the 'baddies', not for a perceived poor performance but because of their characters, in a change that has been attributed to the enthusiasm of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The mirthful character actor who stood out on the big screen in The Men, Cry Danger and Stalag 17 and then on the sitcom Community … excelled at playing soldiers, sailors, wisecracking si…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"London's National Portrait Gallery has decided against accepting a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust, following growing controversy over the damaging medical impact of OxyContin, a drug p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The Teatro alla Scala in Milan on Monday decided to return more than three million euros in funding to Saudi Arabia, amid growing criticism that Italy's premier temple of music should not a…
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