Thursday, March 14, 2019
The service's parent company revealed in its third-quarter financial report "that the money-losing subscription service has fewer subscribers than previously disclosed, causing the firm to r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"The hypocrites in charge, not a one of whom I know, say they are doing this to 'honor' me. What they are doing is trying to drown me in their own bad taste, and are embarrassing me beyond e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"In that time, the Smithsonian " 19 museums including the Cooper Hewitt design museum in New York and the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and National Museum of African American History and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]"The bona fide version of The Crucifixion, donated to Santa Maria Maddalena church in the small Ligurian town of Castelnuovo Magra more than a century ago, was safely stored away last month …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Birmingham Opera Company has traditionally cast its chorus from local volunteers. Now it's extending a welcome to people fleeing countries such as Sudan. In the past decade, the company has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]Authorities who accepted street art just a couple of years ago are now whitewashing murals, harassing artists, and having them turned out of their studios. Yet they keep on, painting on ever…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"'It's a disgrace that the Netherlands is only now turning its attention to the return of the colonial heritage', Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbets [said]. 'We should have done it earlier an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"Jewish theatre artists have been central but often unidentified." (Harold Pinter, Janet Suzman, Antony Sher, David Lan, Tracy Ann Oberman, Nicholas Hytner, …) "Is this an immigrant people…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The TSO is calling this and future concerts of this type "Relaxed Performances," the term already in use for similar events in the UK. With specially designed changes to the concert format, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]Chrysanthe Tan, the autistic violinist who wrote last week's open letter to other musicians: "Today, I present you with … an organized, actionable reference guide to help you enact a perma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:09PM[SHARE]The Nobel laureate talks about politics, law, race/ethnic relations, and corruption in both his erstwhile adopted country (the U.S.) and his native land (Nigeria); about what went wrong in S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]The Rinzai Zen master IkkyÅ« Sojun (1394-1481) was a poet, musician, artist, and rebel. He led a life of whoring and drinking. His poems " "often erotic, argumentative, contradictory, judg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]Chucho Valdés, Jazz Batá 2 (Mack Avenue)Valdés's Jazz Batá was considered a departure into the avant-garde when he made it in 1972. Nearly half a century later, the follow-up finds h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"Despite praise in his lifetime from Langston Hughes, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, as well as " in later years " John Waters and Jonathan Franzen, Purdy … cast out by the US lit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]"For dancers with a strictly concert background, making the transition into TV and film can feel like stepping into the unknown. The heightened speed of the rehearsals, ever-changing structu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Last year, Lukas Dhont's debut feature won four prizes at Cannes and a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign film; Netflix bought the US rights. Then came the backlash " not only were a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]She had had quite a life even before she became the first superstar virtuoso of an electronic instrument: she was a child prodigy on the violin who toured with her pianist sister until injur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"On December 4, 1950, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot stood behind a lectern in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y and read some of his best wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, [Canadian researchers] report how 15 method actors, mainly theatre students, were trained to take on a Shakespeare role " either Romeo or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, built in 1829, gets hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. "Talking about the site's history didn't seem like enough for Sean Kelley, se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"We are being forced out because of lack of funding," said Linda Andrews, the company's artistic director, citing the withdrawal of crucial grants by the Jerome Foundation and the philanthro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]While music directors usually stay silent about orchestras' labor-management disputes, Muti said to the assembled media, "I am here with my musicians. … We try to get a better situation fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"About six months ahead of expiration of the current labor contract between the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and its players, the two sides have reached an agreement on a pact that kee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"Seeking to raise its visibility and welcome more visitors, the Hirshhorn Museum plans to redesign its sunken sculpture garden to create an expanded entrance on the Mall and directly connect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Each of them " in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Brighton " really is called The Choir With No Name, and they're all for people who have struggled with homelessness, addiction, and/or me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"Scattered throughout the four levels of Terminal 2 of Mumbai's international airport are more than 5,500 pieces of Indian art and handicrafts, including tribal totem poles and a 3-D map of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"BECTU and Equity and professional associations for stage managers and lighting and sound practitioners have argued that 'excessively long working hours' are leading to 'burnout and serious …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]The embargo was instated by Pakistan's Association of Film Exhibitors following last month's flare-up of armed conflict in and around Kashmir. It may seem a patriotic gesture, but there's a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
"Music was really profitable for convents: it brought in money from the community, donating to hear mass on their behalf, while a great musical reputation brought in girls of higher status a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Aaron Shulman's collective biography of the Spanish Panero family, The Age of Disenchanments " just out from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins " has a cast of dramatic characters that is not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:58PM[SHARE]Daniel Szabo, Visionary (Fuzzy Music)Szabo's work reflects influences of jazz, classical and modern European music. But more striking is that the music has coherence and " for lack of a more…
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